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Wilfred (given name)
Wilfred, Wilfrid, Wilfrith, Wifred| Gender | Male |
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| Word/name | (germanic) wil (will) and frið (peace) in Old English |
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| Meaning | "He who wants peace" |
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| Related names | Wilfried, Wilfrid, Wilf |
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Wilfred is a masculine given name derived from Germanic roots meaning "will" and "peace" (like Old English wil and frið). The name was popular in the United Kingdom in the early twentieth century.[citation needed] 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 Arthur (1919–2000), Australian fighter ace
- Wilfred Baddeley (1872–1929), British tennis player
- Wilfred Benítez (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), Australian journalist
- Wilfred de Soysa (1884–1968), Sri Lankan entrepreneur, landed proprietor, and philanthropist
- Wilfred Edwards (disambiguation), multiple people
- Wilfred Greatorex (1922–2002), English television and film writer, script editor and producer
- Wilfred Grenfell (1865–1940), British medical missionary to Newfoundland and Labrador
- Wilfred Johnson (1935–1988), FBI informant against the Gambino organized crime family
- Wilfred Kitching (1893–1977), British, seventh General of the Salvation Army
- Wilfred Lau, Hong Kong singer and actor
- Wilfred Ndidi (born 1996), Nigerian football player
- Wilfred Iván Ojeda (1955–2011), Venezuelan journalist and politician
- Wilfred Owen (1893–1918), British poet and soldier
- Wilfred Pickles (1904–1978), English actor and radio presenter
- Wilfred Potter (1910–1994), English cricketer
- Wilfred A. Ratwatte, Sri Lankan Member of Parliament for Haputale
- Wilfred Rhodes (1877–1973), English cricketer
- Wilfred Rose (1922–2008), Trinidad and Tobago diplomat and politician
- Wilfred Hamilton-Shimmen, British executive director based in Singapore
- Wilfred Skinner (1934-2003), Singaporean athlete who represented Singapore in football and hockey
- Wilfred Cantwell Smith (1916–2000), Canadian professor of comparative religion
- Wilfred Stokes (1860–1927), British 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 Steven Uytengsu, Filipino businessman
- 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), Anglo-Saxon saint and Bishop of York
- Wilfrid II (bishop of York) or Saint Wilfrid the Younger (d. either 745 or 746), also an Anglo-Saxon saint and Bishop of York
- Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840-1922), English poet, anti-imperialist and horse-breeder
- Wilfrid Brambell (1912–1985), Irish actor
- Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (1878–1962), British poet
- Wilfrid de Glehn (1870–1951), British Impressionist painter
- Wilfrid Hall (1892–1965), British entomologist
- 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 (disambiguation), 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
- Wilfred Martin Rajapakse (1864-19??), Sri Lankan lawyer and politician
- Wilfrid Schroder (1946–2013), Associate Justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court
- Wilfrid Sellars (1912–1989), American philosopher
- Wilfred Senanayake (1918-2008), Sri Lankan Trotskyist MP for Homagama
- Wilfrid Michael Voynich (1865–1930), Polish revolutionary, antiquarian and bibliophile
- Wilfrid Wood (1888–1976), English artist
People named Wilfrith
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, grandfather to Donna Noble, a companion to the Tenth Doctor in the TV show Doctor Who
See also
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