Alfred


Gender:
Origin: English
5649 famous people named Alfred found on Wikipedia.
241876 male, 1292 female in US.
Most recent ranking: 872-th in year 2018
Best ranking: 32-th in year 1882
Used in: Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish

Meanings

A male given name: from the Old English words meaning “elf” and “counsel.”.

Alfred is an English given name, one of the few Anglo-Saxon names which saw continued use until modern times. Its Old English form is Ælfræd (Old English pronunciation: [ˈælfˌræːd]), composed of the elements ælf "elf" and ræd "counsel". It is also related to the name Alf of Old Norse.
Its most famous bearer was Alfred the Great, the 9th-century English king. Due to the lasting fame of King Alfred, the name remained in use throughout the medieval period. It had, however, become rare by the early modern period, and its popularity was revived in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Famous modern people called Alfred include Alfred Lord Tennyson, Alfred Nobel and Alfred Hitchcock.

Masc. proper name, Old English Ælfræd, literally "elf-counsel," from ælf (see elf) + ræd "counsel" (from PIE root *re- "to reason, count"). Alfred the Great was king of the West Saxons 871-899. Related: Alfredian (1814).

Derived from the Old English name Aelfraed, combine of aelf (elf) and raed (counsel).

Famous People: 5649 found on Wikipedia.
Popularity Name Birth Year Description
1 Alfred the Great 0849 King of Wessex
2 Alfred Hitchcock 1899 British filmmaker
3 Alfred Enoch 1988 British actor
4 Alfred Nobel 1833 Swedish chemist, engineer, innovator, and armaments manufacturer
5 Alfred Molina 1953 British actor
6 Alfred Pennyworth Fictional character throughout the DC Universe
7 Alfred Wegener 1880 German meteorologist, geologist and astronomer
8 Alfred Russel Wallace 1823 British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist
9 Alfred Kinsey 1894 American scientist
10 Alfred Jodl 1890 German general
11 Alfred Adler 1870 Medical Doctor, Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, Personality Theorist
12 Alfred Rosenberg 1893 German architect and politician
13 Alfred Stieglitz 1864 American photographer
14 Alfred Thayer Mahan 1840 United States Navy admiral and historian
15 Alfred Dreyfus 1859 French artillery officer
16 Alfred North Whitehead 1861 English mathematician and philosopher
17 Alfred Morris 1988 American football player
18 Alfred Marshall 1842 British economist
19 Alfred Binet 1857 French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test
20 Alfred Steele 1901 Soft drinks businessman
21 Alfred Lennon 1912 Father of English musician John Lennon
22 Alfred Newman 1901 American composer
23 Alfred Sisley 1839 French painter
24 Alfred Denning, Baron Denning 1899 British judge
25 Alfred von Tirpitz 1849 German Admiral and Secretary of State of the German Imperial Naval Office
26 Alfred P. Sloan 1875 American businessman
27 Alfred Schnittke 1934 Soviet composer
28 Alfred Tarski 1901 Polish-American logician
29 Alfred Eisenstaedt 1898 American photojournalist
30 Alfred Korzybski 1879 Polish scientist and philosopher
31 Alfred Deakin 1856 Second Prime Minister of Australia
32 Alfred N'Diaye 1990 Footballer
33 Alfred Blalock 1899 American surgeon
34 Alfred Munnings 1878 British artist
35 Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt I 1877 American businessman
36 Alfred Jarry 1873 French writer
37 Alfred Krupp 1812 German promyshlenniki and inventor
38 Alfred Dunhill 1872 English tobacconist
39 Alfred de Musset 1810 French writer
40 Alfred Worden 1932 American astronaut
41 Alfred Brendel 1931 Austrian pianist, poet, and author
42 Alfred C. Haynes 1932 American airline pilot
43 Alfred Blue 1991 American gridiron football player
44 Alfred Gough 1967 American screenwriter and producer
45 Alfred Ford 1950 American Hare Krishna
46 Alfred von Schlieffen 1833 German field marshal and strategist
47 Alfred Vail 1807 American inventor
48 Alfred de Rothschild 1842 British banker
49 Alfred Radcliffe-Brown 1881 British anthropologist
50 Alfred Weber 1868 German economist and sociologist
51 Alfred E. Smith IV 1951 American businessman
52 Alfred Kleiner 1849 Swiss physicist
53 Alfred Hugenberg 1865 German politician
54 Alfred Wainwright 1907 English walker and writer
55 Alfred Cortot 1877 Franco-Swiss pianist and conductor
56 Alfred S. Bloomingdale 1916 American heir
57 Alfred Noyes 1880 English poet
58 Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe 1865 British noble
59 Alfred Roberts 1892 British grocer
60 Alfred Lutter 1962 American actor
61 Alfred Williams 1968 American football player
62 Alfred L. Kroeber 1876 American anthropologist
63 Alfred Duncan 1993 Association football player from Ghana
64 Alfred Döblin 1878 German expressionist novelist
65 Alfred Lunt 1892 Actor
66 Alfred Schütz 1899 American sociologist
67 Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner 1854 British statesman and colonial administrator
68 Alfred Riedl 1949 Austrian soccer player
69 Alfred George Gardiner 1865 British journalist and writer
70 Alfred Burke 1918 English actor
71 Alfred Thomalla 1934 Polish production designer and unofficial collaborator
72 Alfred Effiong 1984 Nigerian footballer
73 Alfred Werner 1866 Swiss chemist
74 Alfred P. Southwick 1826 American dentist
75 Alfred Einstein 1880 German-American musicologist and music editor
76 Alfred Hershey 1908 American chemist
77 Alfred Robens, Baron Robens of Woldingham 1910 British politician
78 Alfred Bester Fictional character from the television series Babylon 5
79 Alfred Lee Loomis 1887 American businessman
80 Alfred Irénée du Pont 1864 American industrialist, financier, philanthropist
81 Alfred E. Mann 1925 American businessman
82 Alfred Ntombela 1972 South African actor
83 Alfred de Vigny 1797 French poet, playwright, and novelist
84 Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt II 1912 American racehorse owner and breeder
85 Alfred Vargas 1981 Filipino actor
86 Alfred Lin American businessman
87 Alfred Waterhouse 1830 British architect
88 Alfred Kubin 1877 Austrian illustrator, cartoonist and writer
89 Alfred Lynch 1931 British actor
90 Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens 1845 Lecturer on his father, Victorian-era novelist Charles Dickens
91 Alfred Meyer 1891 Nazi official
92 Alfred Cahn 1922 American musician
93 Alfred Lawson 1869 Baseball player, author, aircraft manufacturer, philosopher
94 Alfred G. Gilman 1941 American pharmacologist
95 Alfred Naujocks 1911 SS officer
96 Alfred Ellis 1941 American saxophonist
97 Alfred Beit 1853 German-born British diamond trader and art collector
98 Alfred Aho 1941 Canadian computer scientist
99 Alfred Ryder 1916 American actor
100 Alfred Uhry 1936 American screenwriter
101 Alfred Cheney Johnston 1885 Photographer
102 Alfred Hui 1988 Actor
103 Alfred Herrhausen 1930 German banker
104 Alfred Peet 1920 Dutch-American businessman
105 Alfred Sturtevant 1891 American geneticist
106 Alfred Kazin 1915 American writer
107 Alfred W. Crosby 1931 Historian, author, and professor
108 Alfred Mosher Butts 1899 American designer and architect
109 Alfred Redl 1864 Austro-Hungarian army officer
110 Alfred von Waldersee 1832 Prussian Field Marshal
111 Alfred Nganga Mutua 1970 Kenyan politician
112 Alfred Marks 1921 Actor and comedian
113 Alfred Edersheim 1825 Biblical scholar
114 Alfred Kastler 1902 French physicist
115 Alfred Drake 1914 American actor
116 Alfred Wallis 1855 English fisherman and artist
117 Alfred A. Tomatis 1920 Otolaryngologist and inventor
118 Alfred Sung 1948 Canadian fashion designer
119 Alfred Abel 1879 German actor and director
120 Alfred Reed 1921 American classical composer
121 Alfred Delp 1907 German Jesuit priest, and philosopher of the German Resistance
122 Alfred L. Cralle 1866 American businessman
123 Alfred W. McCoy 1945 American historian of Southeast Asia and of the drug trades
124 Alfred Goodwin 1923 Judge
125 Alfred "Teen" Blackburn 1842 American veteran
126 Alfred Escher 1819 Swiss politician and railroad entrepreneur
127 Alfred Moisiu 1929 Albanian politician
128 Alfred Trzebinski 1902 SS-physician at the Auschwitz, Majdanek and Neuengamme concentration camps in Nazi Germany
129 Alfred Bulltop Stormalong
130 Alfred Gusenbauer 1960 Austrian chancellor
131 Alfred Deller 1912 Countertenor singer
132 Alfred Müller 1926 German actor
133 Alfred Stevens 1823 Belgian painter
134 Alfred Pleasonton 1824 Union Army general
135 Alfred Winslow Jones 1900 Australian-American sociologist, author, and financial journalist
136 Alfred Draxler 1953 German journalist
137 Alfred Becker 1899 German military engineer
138 Alfred Neven DuMont 1927 German publisher and newspaper editor
139 Alfred Ploetz 1860 German physician
140 Alfred Bader 1924 Canadian businessman
141 Alfred Carlton Gilbert 1884 American inventor and pole vaulter
142 Alfred Terry 1827 Union Army general
143 Alfred Gell 1945 British anthropologist
144 Alfred Aboya 1985 Basketball player
145 Alfred Rücker 1945 German actor
146 Alfred Böhm 1920 Austrian actor
147 Alfred Hermann Fried 1864 Austrian Jewish pacifist, publicist, journalist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
148 Alfred Pongratz 1900 German actor
149 Alfred Charles Hobbs 1812 19th century American locksmith
150 Alfred Douglas-Hamilton, 13th Duke of Hamilton 1862 Scottish nobleman and sailor
151 Alfred Ely Beach 1826 American businessman
152 Alfred J. Gross 1918 American inventor
153 Alfred Komarek 1945 Austrian writer
154 Alfred Wintle 1897 Recipient of the Military Cross
155 Alfred Mond, 1st Baron Melchett 1868 British politician
156 Alfred Taylor 1862 British soldier
157 Alfred Gomis 1993 Senegalian-Italian goalkeeper
158 Alfred Austin 1835 British writer and poet
159 Alfred Teves 1868
160 Alfred Gruenther 1899 United States Army general
161 Alfred van den Heuvel 1953 Dutch actor
162 Alfred Šramek 1951 Austrian opera singer
163 Alfred Aetheling Son of English king Ethelred II and his second wife Emma of Normandy; brother of Edward the Confessor
164 Alfred J. Lotka 1880 American mathematician
165 Alfred Matthew Hubbard 1901 Psychedelic drug researcher
166 Alfred Lion 1908 American record executive born in Germany
167 Alfred Watkins 1855 English author, archaeologist, antiquarian and businessman
168 Alfred Wünnenberg 1891 SS General
169 Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. 1918 American historian
170 Alfred P. Murrah 1904 Attorney and judge
171 Alfred Jacob Miller 1810 Painter
172 Alfred Sim 1981 Singaporean singer and athletics coach
173 Alfred Y. Cho 1937 Chinese electrical engineer
174 Alfred V. Rascon 1945 Medal of Honor recipient
175 Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz 1787 Austrian marshall
176 Alfred Diete-Spiff 1942 Nigerian politician
177 Alfred E. Kahn 1917 American economist
178 Alfred Duraiappah 1926 Sri Lankan politician
179 Alfred Lecki 1938
180 Alfred Mittermeier 1964 German film actor
181 Alfred Rouse 1894 British murderer
182 Alfred George Hinds 1917 British criminal
183 Alfred Kerr 1867 German writer
184 Alfred Wolfenstein 1883 German translator and writer
185 Alfred H. Colquitt 1824 Confederate Army general
186 Alfred Minchin British merchant seaman and Nazi collaborator
187 Alfred Schmidt 1931 German philosopher
188 Alfred Victor du Pont 1798 American chemist and industrialist
189 Alfred Mendes 1897 Trinidad and Tobago writer
190 Alfred R. Kahn 1947 Retired American executive
191 Alfred J. Marrow 1905 American psychologists
192 Alfred B. Mullett 1834 American architect
193 Alfred Chester Beatty 1875 Irish-American mining businessman, naturalised British, and honorary citizen of Ireland
194 Alfred Gilbert 1854 British artist
195 Alfred Vogel 1902 Swiss writer
196 Alfred Engleder 1920
197 Alfred Simanjuntak 1920
198 Alfred J. Billes 1902 Canadian businessman
199 Alfred Shout 1882 New Zealand-born Australian Victoria Cross recipient
200 Alfred Mouton 1829 Confederate Army general