Wilfred (given name)

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Gender Male Related names Wilfried, Wilfrid		Meaning "He who wants peace"
Word/name (germanic) wil (will) and frið (peace) in Old English

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 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

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

Wilfred of Ivanhoe, the hero of Sir Walter Scott's novel Ivanhoe

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 Mott, a character in the Doctor Who universe

Wilfred, title character of Wilfred (Australian TV series) and its remake, Wilfred (U.S. TV series)

References

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