Wilfred (given name)

Wilfred is a masculine given name 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).

People named Wilfred

• Wilfred the Hairy (died 897), a count in what is now Spain
• Wilfred Baddeley (1872-1929), British tennis player
• Wilfred Benitez (born 1958), Puerto Rican boxer
• Wilfred Gordon Bigelow (1913-2005), Canadian heart surgeon
• Wilfred Bion (1897-1979), British psychoanalyst
• Wilfred Bouma (born 1978), Dutch footballer
• Wilfred Bungei (born 1980), Kenyan middle distance runner
• Wilfred Burchett (1911-1983), controversial Australian journalist
• Wilfred Greatorex (1922-2002), English television and film writer, script editor and producer
• Wilfred Grenfell (1865-1940), medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador
• Wilfred Johnson (1935-1988), FBI informant against the Gambino organized crime family
• Wilfred Kitching (1893-1977), seventh General of the Salvation Army
• Wilfred Ndidi, (1996-), Nigerian football player
• Wilfred Owen (1893-1918), British poet and soldier
• Wilfred Pickles (1904-1978), English actor and radio presenter
• Wilfred Potter (1910-1994), English cricketer
• Wilfred Rhodes (1877-1973), English cricketer
• Wilfred Cantwell Smith (1916-2000), Canadian professor of comparative religion
• Wilfred Stokes (1860-1927), inventor of the Stokes mortar used in the First World War
• Wilfred Thesiger (1910-2003), British explorer and travel writer
• Wilfred Trotter (1872-1939), British surgeon, pioneer in neurosurgery and contributor to social psychology
• Wilfred Wood (1897-1982), British First World War recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Wilfred Wood (bishop) (born 1936), first black bishop in the Church of England

People named Wilfrid

• Wilfrid (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 Brambell (1912-1985), Irish actor
• Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (1878-1962), British poet
• Wilfrid de Glehn (1870-1951), British Impressionist painter
• Wilfrid Kent Hughes (1895–1970), Australian soldier, Olympian and Olympic Games organiser, author and federal and state government minister
• Wilfrid Hyde-White (1903-1991), English character actor
• Wilfrid Laurier (1841-1919), seventh Prime Minister of Canada
• Wilfrid Lawson, various baronets and one character actor
• Wilfrid Wop May (1896-1952), Canadian First World War flying ace and aviation pioneer
• Wilfrid Napier (born 1941), Roman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Durbin, South Africa
• Wilfrid Noyce (1917-1962), English mountaineer and author
• Wilfrid Pelletier (1896-1982), Canadian conductor, pianist, composer and administrator
• Wilfrid Sellars (1912-1989), American philosopher
• Wilfrid Michael Voynich (1865-1930), Polish revolutionary, antiquarian and bibliophile
• Wilfrid Wood (1888 – 1976), English artist

People named Wilfrith

• Wilfrith I (bishop of Worcester) (died c. 744)
• Wilfrith II (bishop of Worcester) (died 929)
• Wilfrith Elstob (1888-1918), English First World War recipient of the Victoria Cross

Fictional characters

• Wilfrid, one of The Bash Street Kids
• Wilfred, one of the title characters of Pip, Squeak and Wilfred, a British newspaper strip cartoon (1919-1956)
• Wilfred, title character of Wilfred (Australian TV series) and its remake, Wilfred (U.S. TV series)
• Wilfred of Ivanhoe, the hero of Sir Walter Scott's novel Ivanhoe
• Wilfred James, the protagonist of 1922
• Wilfred Mott, a character in the Doctor Who universe

See also

• Wilfred (disambiguation)
• Wilf
• Wilfried (given name)