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Fred

Pronunciation
[Fred]
Gender
Male
Meaning
Peaceful ruler
Origin
Germanic

Variant Forms

NameMeaningGenderOrigin
Freddie Peaceful ruler Male German
Freddy Peaceful ruler Male German

Famous Dogs Named Fred

  • Fred Basset Hound dog appeared in the film Smokey and the Bandit in 1997.
  • Fred Bassett Basset Hound dog from the comic strip Fred Basset.

Famous People Named Fred

  • A. Alfred Taubman was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist known for conceptualizing the modern shopping malls.
  • Alfred Adler was a physician and psychotherapist famous for founding the school of Individual Psychology.
  • Alfred Blalock was a renowned cardiologist and was responsible in changing the fate of cardiovascular science forever.
  • Alfred Day Hershey was an American bacteriologist and geneticist who won the 1969 Noble Prize in Medicine.
  • Alfred de Musset was a French dramatist and poet, regarded as one of the first Romantic writers.
  • Alfred de Vigny was a philosophical French Romantic writer.
  • Alfred Doblin was a physician cum novelist best known for the novel ‘Berlin Alexanderplatz’.
  • Alfred Eisenstaedt was known as "the father of photojournalism".
  • Alfred Emanuel Smith was an American politician who was elected as the Governor of New York for four times.
  • Alfred Hitchcock was an English movie director, famously dubbed as the ‘The Master of Suspense’.
  • Alfred Jodl was a top German military commander during the World War II and one of the leaders in the Nazi movement.
  • Alfred Kinsey was an American sexologist who ushered in the “Sexual Revolution”.
  • Alfred Korzybski was a Polish American scholar who developed a field called general semantics.
  • Alfred L. Kroeber was an American cultural anthropologist.
  • Alfred Loisy was a famous French Roman Catholic priest.
  • Alfred Lord Tennyson was a famous English poet who also served as the poet laureate of United Kingdom.
  • Alfred Marshall was a great economist who authored ‘Principles of Economics’.
  • Alfred Newman was one of the most respected and famous music composers.
  • Alfred Nobel was the inventor of dynamite and a manufacturer of arms who left his vast fortunes to institute the Nobel Prizes.
  • Alfred North Whitehead was a British Mathematician who turned into a philosopher.