Alfred may refer to:
- Alfred (bishop) (died 943)
- Alfred (name)
- Alfred the Great (849–899), king of Wessex
- Alfred Aetheling (died 1036), son of King Ethelred II of England
In geography:
- Lake Alfred, Florida
- Alfred, Maine
- Alfred (town), New York
- Alfred (village), New York
- Alfred, North Dakota
- Alfred, Texas
- Alfred, Ontario, Canada
- Alfred Island, Nunavut, Canada
- Alfred Town, a village in New South Wales, Australia
- Mount Alfred, British Columbia, Canada
In fiction:
- Alfred, a fictional penguin in the comic strip Zig et Puce
- Alfred J. Kwak, a Dutch animated television series
- Alfred Pennyworth, a DC comic book character who serves as Batman's butler
- Alfred Brooks, the main character in The Contender, created by Robert Lipsyte
In music:
- Alfred (Arne opera), a 1740 masque by Thomas Arne
- Alfred (Dvořák opera), an 1870 opera by Antonín Dvořák
Ships:
- HMS Alfred (1778)
- HMS King Alfred
- HMS Royal Alfred (1864)
- USS Alfred (1774)
Other:
- Alfred (racehorse), a leading competitor for the 1849 Grand National Steeplechase that finished fourth
- Alfred (software), an application launcher for Mac OS X
- Alfred Music Publishing, a sheet music publisher
- Alfred State College, New York
- Alfred University, New York
- The Alfred Hospital, a hospital in Melbourne, Australia
Famous quotes containing the word alfred:
“Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)