Fred (first name)
Fred is a short form of the male Old High German first name Manfred (man = man; fridu = peace - the man of peace). Likewise from the names Alfred and Friedrich or in its variant Frederick .
variants
Well-known namesake
First name
- Fred Astaire (1899–1987), American singer, dancer and actor
- Fred Bertelmann (1925-2014), German pop singer
- Fred Breinersdorfer (* 1946), German screenwriter and lawyer
- Fred Buljo (* 1988), Norwegian-Sami musician and politician
- Fred Delmare (1922–2009), German actor
- Fred Durst (born 1970), American rock singer
- Fred Gérard (1924–2012), French trumpeter
- Fred Hall (1898–1954), American musician and conductor
- Fred Hume (1892–1967), Canadian lacrosse player, entrepreneur, politician, as well as football, lacrosse and ice hockey official
- Fred Kogel (* 1960), German media manager
- Fred Merkel (* 1962), American motorcycle racer
- Fred Metzler (1929-2010), German radio presenter and actor
- Fred Nardin (* 1987), French jazz musician
- Fred Norman (1990–1993), American jazz trombonist and arranger
- Fred Perry (1909–1995), British tennis player and fashion designer
- Fred Radig (1965–2019), German handball player
- Fred Rauch (1909–1997), Austrian lyricist, cabaret artist and singer
- Fred Rutten (* 1962), Dutch football player and coach
- Fred Schreiber (* 1970), Austrian television and radio presenter
- Fred Sharp (1922-2005), American jazz guitarist
- Fred Sinowatz (1929–2008), former Austrian Chancellor
- Fred Thieler (1916–1999), German painter
- Fred Wah (* 1939), Canadian poet, writer and former university professor
- Fred Wander (1917-2006), Austrian writer
- Fred Wesley (* 1943), American trombonist
- Fred Willamowski (1935–2003), German motorcycle racer
- Fred White (* 1955), American musician
- Fred Zinnemann (1907–1997), American film director
family name
- Dominique Fred (* 1992), Vanuatu football player
- Gunnel Fred (* 1955), Swedish film actress
- Nelson Fred (* 1984), Seychelles football referee
Artist / player name
- Fred (soccer player, 1979) ( Helbert Frederico Carreiro da Silva ; * 1979), Brazilian soccer player
- Fred (soccer player, 1983) ( Frederico Chaves Guedes ; * 1983), Brazilian soccer player (World Cup participant 2006 and 2014, including Olympique Lyon)
- Fred (soccer player, 1993) ( Frederico Rodrigues de Paula Santos ; * 1993), Brazilian soccer player (including Shakhtar Donetsk)
- Fred Othon Aristidès (1931–2013), French comic artist
- Fred Vargas (* 1957), French crime novelist and medieval archaeologist
- Fred the Godson (1985-2020), American rapper
Fictional characters
- Fred Flintstone , cartoon character
- Freder Fredersen , character from the German silent film Metropolis
- Fred Jones , cartoon character from the Scooby Doo series
- Fred Kruepelmann from the movie Where's Fred?
- Fred Weasley from the Harry Potter novels
- Fred Figglehorn , a character on YouTube
- Fred vom Jupiter , extraterrestrial in the song of the same name by the Neue Deutsche Welle
Popular culture
- Ginger and Fred , directed by Federico Fellini (1986)
- Elsa & Fred (2005) , directed by Marcos Carnevale (2005)
- Elsa & Fred (2014) , directed by Michael Radford (2014)
- Where is Fred? , Film by Anno Saul (2006)
- Fred vom Jupiter , song by Andreas Dorau (1981)