Fred
- Pronunciation
- [Fred]
- Gender
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Male
- Meaning
- Peaceful ruler
- Origin
- Germanic
Variant Forms
| Name | Meaning | Gender | Origin |
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Freddie
|
Peaceful ruler |
Male |
German |
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Freddy
|
Peaceful ruler |
Male |
German |
Famous Dogs Named Fred
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Fred
Basset Hound dog appeared in the film Smokey and the Bandit in 1997.
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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.