Famous People with Name Alfred

Alfred Merz            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Alfred Merz: was an Austrian geographer and oceanographer.Merz Peninsula is named after him.

Alfred Hermann Traeger            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Alfred Hermann Traeger: was an Australian inventor, chiefly known for the development of the pedal radio.[1]He was instrumental in the establishment and early success of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. Traeger had an interest in radio for much of his life. During the 1920s, he was contacted by Rev John Flynn to assist in experiments which were to enable remote families access to medical treatment by using radio equipment. Since much of remote Australia had no access to electricity, the initial problem was how to provide reliable power to a radio. Traeger consequently developed a pedal generator to power a morse code wireless set.

Alfred Adler            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Alfred Adler: was an Austrian medical doctor, psychologist and founder of the school of Individual Psychology. In collaboration with Sigmund Freud and a small group of Freud's colleagues, Adler was among the co-founders of the psychoanalytic movement. He was the first major figure to break away from psychoanalysis to form an independent school of psychotherapy and personality theory. This was after Freud decided Adler's ideas were too threatening to his own efforts to tolerate coexistence and issued an ultimatum to all members of the psychoanalytic society (which he shepherded) to drop Adler or be expelled (Makari, 2008). Following this split, Adler would come to have an enormous,

Alfred Ernest (Alf) Allen            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Alfred Ernest (Alf) Allen: was a New Zealand politician of the National Party. He was the seventeenth Speaker of the House of Representatives, in 1972.He was the National Member of Parliament for Franklin from 1957 (when the veteran sitting MP John Norman Massey was deselected by t

Alfred Ludlam            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Alfred Ludlam: was a New Zealand politician and farmer from Wellington and the Hutt Valley. He was born in County Down, Ireland, and spent some time in the West Indies before coming to New Zealand. Little is known about Ludlam's activities in Ireland or the West Indies

Shondell Alfred            Origin/Culture/Country: South America

Shondell Alfred: is a professional boxer from Guyana. She is one of the first female boxers from that country.[citation needed] Much like Archie Moore and other boxers of the past, Alfred had managed to keep her age a secret, which is one of the reasons why she is nicknamed "The Mystery Lady".

Jean Alfred            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jean Alfred: is a former politician in Quebec, Canada. He was a member of the National Assembly of Quebec as a member of the Parti Québécois from 1976 to 1981. In 1975, he was elected as a councilor for the former city of Gatineau and later entered provincial politics where he was elected in Papineau as a Parti Québécois candidate. He served a full term as a PQ and Independent member but was defeated in the newly formed riding of Chapleau which portions were split from Gatineau and Papineau. He was a candidate again in 1989, but lost to the Liberal, John Kehoe. He made a brief attempt at federal politics but failed to become a Bloc Québécois prior to the 1997 elections.