Wilfred (given name)
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Wilfred and Wifred are masculine given names derived from Germanic
roots meaning "will" and "peace" (like Old English wil and frið) . Wilfred was popular in the United Kingdom
in the early twentieth century. Wilfried and its English spelling, Wilfrid, are closely related to Wilfred, with the same roots (Will and Frieden in German).
Germanic languages
The Germanic languages constitute a sub-branch of the Indo-European language family. The common ancestor of all of the languages in this branch is called Proto-Germanic , which was spoken in approximately the mid-1st millennium BC in Iron Age northern Europe...
roots meaning "will" and "peace" (like Old English wil and frið) . Wilfred was popular in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
in the early twentieth century. Wilfried and its English spelling, Wilfrid, are closely related to Wilfred, with the same roots (Will and Frieden in German).
People named Wilfred
- Wilfred the HairyWilfred the HairyWilfred or Wifred, called the Hairy, was Count of Urgell , Cerdanya , Barcelona , Girona , Besalú , and Ausona ....
(died 897), a count in what is now Spain - Wilfred BaddeleyWilfred BaddeleyWilfred Baddeley was a British male tennis player and the elder of the Baddeley twins. His brother Herbert died on 20 July 1931 in Cannes, France.- Career :...
(1872-1929), British tennis player - Wilfred BenitezWilfred BenitezWilfred Benítez , is a Puerto Rican boxer. He is remembered best as a skilled and aggressive fighter with exceptional defensive abilities who won world championships in three separate weight divisions, and was the youngest world champion in boxing history at the age of 17...
(born 1958), Puerto Rican boxer - Wilfred Gordon Bigelow (1913-2005), Canadian heart surgeon
- Wilfred BionWilfred BionWilfred Ruprecht Bion DSO was an influential British psychoanalyst, who became president of the British Psychoanalytical Society from 1962 to 1965....
(1897-1979), British psychoanalyst - Wilfred BoumaWilfred BoumaWilfred Bouma is a Dutch footballer who plays for PSV Eindhoven. Bouma is a technically refined left back/centre back who is known for his hard working nature, defensive positioning and tackling ability.-Early career:...
(born 1978), Dutch footballer - Wilfred BungeiWilfred BungeiWilfred Kipkemboi Bungei is a Kenyan middle distance runner, who won the 800 m gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing...
(born 1980), Kenyan middle distance runner - Wilfred BurchettWilfred BurchettWilfred Graham Burchett was an Australian journalist known for his reporting of conflicts in Asia and his Communist sympathies...
(1911-1983), controversial Australian journalist - Wilfred GreatorexWilfred GreatorexWilfred Greatorex was an English television and film writer, script editor and producer. He was creator of such series as Secret Army, 1990, Plane Makers and its sequel The Power Game, Hine, Brett, Man At The Top, Man From Haven and The Inheritors. He also wrote the screenplay for the 1969 film...
(1922-2002), English television and film writer, script editor and producer - Wilfred GrenfellWilfred GrenfellSir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, KCMG was a medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador.He was born at Parkgate, Wirral, England, the son of Algernon Grenfell, headmaster of Mostyn House School, and Jane Georgiana Hutchison and married Anne Elizabeth Caldwell MacClanahan of Chicago, Illinois, in...
(1865-1940), medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador - Wilfred JohnsonWilfred JohnsonWilfred "Willie Boy" Johnson was a United States Federal Bureau of Investigation informant from 1969 to 1985. He provided the FBI with information relating to John Gotti and other members of the Gambino family...
(1935-1988), FBI informant against the Gambino organized crime family - Wilfred KitchingWilfred KitchingWilfred Kitching, CBE was the 7th General of The Salvation Army .Born in Wood Green, London, United Kingdom to Theodore and Jane Kitching , and educated at the Friern Barnet Grammar School, he became a Salvation Army Officer at age 20 in 1914...
(1893-1977), seventh General of the Salvation Army - Wilfred OwenWilfred OwenWilfred Edward Salter Owen MC was an English poet and soldier, one of the leading poets of the First World War...
(1893-1918), British poet and soldier - Wilfred PicklesWilfred PicklesWilfred Pickles OBE was an English actor and radio presenter.Born in Halifax in the West Riding of Yorkshire, Pickles was a proud Yorkshireman, and having been selected by the BBC as an announcer for its North Regional radio service, went on to be an occasional newsreader on the BBC Home Service...
(1904-1978), English actor and radio presenter - Wilfred RhodesWilfred RhodesWilfred Rhodes was an English professional cricketer who played 58 Test matches for England between 1899 and 1930. In Tests, Rhodes took 127 wickets in and scored 2,325 runs, becoming the first Englishman to complete the double of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets in Test matches...
(1877-1973), English cricketer - Wilfred Cantwell SmithWilfred Cantwell SmithWilfred Cantwell Smith was a Canadian professor of comparative religion who from 1964-1973 was director of Harvard's Center for the Study of World Religions. The Harvard Gazette characterized him as one of the field's most influential figures of the past century...
(1916-2000), Canadian professor of comparative religion - Wilfred StokesWilfred Stokes-External links:...
(1860-1927), inventor of the Stokes mortar used in the First World War - Wilfred ThesigerWilfred ThesigerSir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger, CBE, DSO, FRAS, FRGS was a British explorer and travel writer born in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia.-Family:...
(1910-2003), British explorer and travel writer - Wilfred TrotterWilfred TrotterWilfred Batten Lewis Trotter, FRS was a British surgeon, a pioneer in neurosurgery. He was also known for his studies on social psychology, most notably for his concept of the herd instinct, which he first outlined in two published papers in 1908, and later in his famous popular work Instincts of...
(1872-1939), British surgeon, pioneer in neurosurgery and contributor to social psychology - Wilfred WoodWilfred WoodWilfred Wood VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....
(1897-1982), British First World War recipient of the Victoria Cross - Wilfred Wood (bishop)Wilfred Wood (bishop)Wilfred Denniston Wood, KA was Bishop of Croydon from 1985 to 2003, the first black bishop in the Church of England. He came second in the 100 Great Black Britons list in 2004.-Life:...
(born 1936), first black bishop in the Church of England
People named Wilfrid
- WilfridWilfridWilfrid was an English bishop and saint. Born a Northumbrian noble, he entered religious life as a teenager and studied at Lindisfarne, at Canterbury, in Gaul, and at Rome; he returned to Northumbria in about 660, and became the abbot of a newly founded monastery at Ripon...
(c. 634–709), originally spelled Wilfrith, Anglo-Saxon saint and Bishop of York - Wilfrid (8th century bishop) or Saint Wilfrid the Younger (d. either 745 or 746), also an Anglo-Saxon saint and Bishop of York
- Wilfrid BrambellWilfrid BrambellHenry Wilfrid Brambell was an Irish film and television actor best known for his role in the British television series Steptoe and Son. He also performed alongside The Beatles in their film A Hard Day's Night, playing Paul McCartney's fictional grandfather.- Early life :Brambell was born in Dublin...
(1912-1985), Irish actor - Wilfrid Wilson GibsonWilfrid Wilson GibsonWilfrid Wilson Gibson was a British Georgian poet, associated with World War I but also the author of much later work.-Early work:...
(1878-1962), British poet - Wilfrid de GlehnWilfrid de GlehnWilfrid Gabriel de Glehn , RA was an Impressionist British painter, elected to the Royal Academy in 1932.Wilfried Von Glehn was born in Sydenham in south-east London...
(1870-1951), British Impressionist painter - Wilfrid Kent HughesWilfrid Kent HughesSir Wilfrid Selwyn Kent Hughes KBE, MVO, MC was an Australian soldier, Olympian and Olympic Games organiser, author and federal and state government minister.Kent Hughes was born in Melbourne to an upper middle-class family...
(1895–1970), Australian soldier, Olympian and Olympic Games organiser, author and federal and state government minister - Wilfrid Hyde-WhiteWilfrid Hyde-WhiteWilfrid Hyde-White was an English character actor.-Early life and career:Wilfrid Hyde White was born at the rectory in Bourton-on-the-Water in Gloucestershire, the son of William Edward White, canon of Gloucester Cathedral, and his wife, Ethel Adelaide Drought...
(1903-1991), English character actor - Wilfrid LaurierWilfrid LaurierSir Wilfrid Laurier, GCMG, PC, KC, baptized Henri-Charles-Wilfrid Laurier was the seventh Prime Minister of Canada from 11 July 1896 to 6 October 1911....
(1841-1919), seventh Prime Minister of Canada - Wilfrid LawsonWilfrid LawsonWilfrid Lawson may refer to:* Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 1st Baronet, of Isell , MP for Cumberland 1659 and 1660 and Cockermouth 1660-1679* Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 2nd Baronet, of Isell , MP for Cockermouth 1690-1695...
, various baronets and one character actor - Wilfrid Wop MayWop MayCaptain Wilfrid Reid "Wop" May, OBE, DFC , was a First World War flying ace and a pioneering aviator who created the role of the bush pilot while working the Canadian west....
(1896-1952), Canadian First World War flying ace and aviation pioneer - Wilfrid NapierWilfrid NapierWilfrid Fox Napier, OFM is a South African cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Archbishop of Durban, South Africa.-Biography:...
(born 1941), Roman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Durbin, South Africa - Wilfrid NoyceWilfrid NoyceCuthbert Wilfrid Francis Noyce was an English mountaineer and author...
(1917-1962), English mountaineer and author - Wilfrid PelletierWilfrid PelletierJoseph Louis Wilfrid Pelletier , CC was a Canadian conductor, pianist, composer, and arts administrator. He was instrumental in establishing the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, serving as the orchestra's first artistic director and conductor from 1935-1941...
(1896-1982), Canadian conductor, pianist, composer and administrator - Wilfrid SellarsWilfrid SellarsWilfrid Stalker Sellars was an American philosopher. His father was the Canadian-American philosopher Roy Wood Sellars, a leading American philosophical naturalist in the first half of the twentieth-century...
(1912-1989), American philosopher - Wilfrid Michael VoynichWilfrid Michael VoynichWilfrid Michael Voynich , born Michał Habdank-Wojnicz, was a Polish revolutionary, British and American antiquarian and bibliophile, and the eponym of the Voynich manuscript.- Biography :...
(1865-1930), Polish revolutionary, antiquarian and bibliophile
People named Wilfrith
- Wilfrith I (bishop of Worcester) (died c. 744)
- Wilfrith II (bishop of Worcester) (died 929)
- Wilfrith ElstobWilfrith ElstobLieutenant Colonel Wilfrith Elstob VC DSO MC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....
(1888-1918), English First World War recipient of the Victoria Cross
Fictional characters
- Wilfred of Ivanhoe, the hero of Sir Walter Scott's novel Ivanhoe
- Wilfrid, one of The Bash Street KidsThe Bash Street KidsThe Bash Street Kids is an ongoing comic strip featuring in the British comic The Beano. The strip was created by Leo Baxendale under the title When the Bell Rings, and first appeared in The Beano in issue 604, dated 13 February 1954. It became The Bash Street Kids in 1956 and since then, it has...