- Alfred The Great
Alfred (also "Ælfred" from the Old English: "Ælfrēd" //) (c. 849 - 26 October 899) was king of the southern Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex from 871 to 899. Alfred is noted for his defence of the kingdom against the Danish Vikings, becoming the only English King to be awarded the epithet 'the Great' (although not English, Canute the Great was another "King of England" given this title by the Danes). - Alfred of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Alfred Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Alfred Ernest Albert; 6 August, 1844 - 30 July, 1900) was the third Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha reigning between 1893 and 1900. He was also a member of the British Royal Family, the second son and fourth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. He was created Duke of Edinburgh, Earl of Kent and Earl of Ulster in the peerage of the United Kingdom on 24 May 1866. - Michael Alfred
Michael "Mike" Shaughnessy Alfred, born on June 21, 1981, is an American born entrepreneur and wealth manager. Mr. Alfred attended Stanford University and graduated with a BA in 2003. Since 2003, he has owned or been closely involved with a number of start-up ventures in San Diego County including The Firehouse Brewing Company and A&R Entertainment, LLC. He is currently the Co-Founder and CEO of Simple Living Records and Founding Partner of The Alfred Group. - Shondell Alfred
Shondell Alfred (born 1 January 1981) is a professional boxer from Guyana. She is one of the first women's boxing participants from that country. 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". Alfred is a considered by many to be a candidate to become Guyana's first women's boxing world champion. She holds the WIBA Iberian-American Bantamweight title. - Jean Alfred
Jean Alfred,PH.D (born March 10, 1940) was a Haitian-born former politician in Quebec, Canada. He was a member of the National Assembly of Quebec as a member of the Parti Quebecois from 1976 to 1981. Alfred made his college studies and some university courses at Port-au-Prince before moving to Ottawa where he obtained a degree in philosophy from the University of Ottawa. He also received a master's degree in psycho-pedagogy as well as a PH.D in education. - Jerry Alfred
Jerry Alfred (born 1955) is a Northern Tutchone musician living in Pelly Crossing, Yukon. He was named "Keeper of the Songs" at birth, an honorary title which he has made into a career, updating traditional Tutchone music by adding twentieth century Western influences. Alfred was born in the community of Mayo, Yukon in September of 1955 into traditional life and speaking the Northern Tutchone language, … - Pamela Alfred
Pamela Alfred (b. 28 September, 1978) in St Lucia. She is a West Indies who has played four women's one-day internationals for West Indies in 2003. - Brian Alfred
Brian Alfred (b. 2nd December 1974, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a painter in Brooklyn, New York, who specialises in depictions of banal, urban spaces. Alfred is represented by the Mary Boone Gallery, Haunch of Venison London/Zurich/Berlin, Studio La Citta Verona, and SCAI the Bathhouse Tokyo. His work consists of collages, paintings, and digital animations. - John Holmes
John Holmes (March 14, 1773-July 7, 1843) was an American politician. Holmes, a National Republican, served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts and was one of the first two U.S. Senators from Maine. Holmes was noted for his involvement in the Treaty of Ghent. Holmes was born in Kingston, Massachusetts. He attended public schools in Kingston and in 1796 graduated from Rhode Island College (now Brown University) in Providence, Rhode Island. - James Thomson
James Thomson (11 September 1700 - 27 August 1748) was a Scottish poet and playwright. He was born at Ednam in Roxburghshire, and educated at the University of Edinburgh. It was while a student there that he first published some of his poems, their subject matter mainly being the Jed Valley where he had been brought up. He had been intended for a career in the church, but gave up his divinity course because his sermons were criticised as being too flowery. - Alan Napier
Alan Napier (born Alan Napier-Clavering, January 7, 1903 in Birmingham, England, died August 8, 1988 in Santa Monica, California) was an English character actor. He is best known for playing Alfred in the 1960s live-action "Batman" television series. Napier was a cousin of Neville Chamberlain, Britain's prime minister from 1937 to 1940 and the great-great grandson of author Charles Dickens. - William Richards
William Henry Matthews 'Dicky' Richards (born March 26, 1862, Grahamstown, Cape Colony, died January 4, 1903, Wynberg, Cape Province) was a South African cricketer who played in one Test in 1889. The match was the second in the 1888-89 series against the team led by Sir C. Aubrey Smith, and called at the time "C. A. Smith's XI", but retrospectively accorded the status of a full MCC tour. In fact, in the game at Newlands, Cape Town played by Richards, … - William Price
William Harry Price (born 4 December 1859; date of death unknown) was an English cricketer who played two first-class matches for Liverpool and District in 1889. He was born in Ruddington, Nottinghamshire. Both his games were at Aigburth in Liverpool. In the first, against Yorkshire, he made 26* and 1* and took 3-52 (including the wicket of George Ulyett) in an innings defeat. In the second, against Nottinghamshire, he made only 0 and 1 with the bat, … - Karl Mannheim
Karl Mannheim (Mannheim Károly the original writting of his name March 27, 1893, Budapest – January 9, 1947, London) was a Jewish Hungarian-born sociologist, influential in the first half of the 20th century and one of the founding fathers of classical sociology. Mannheim rates as a founder of the sociology of knowledge. He studied in Budapest, Berlin—in 1914 he attended lectures by Georg Simmel—, Paris and Heidelberg. - Ethelfleda
Ethelfleda (alternative spelling Aethelfled, Æthelfleda or Æthelflæd was the eldest daughter of King Alfred the Great of Wessex and his wife Ealhswith. She was born around AD 872. She married Aethelred or Ethelred, later the ealdorman or earl of Mercia, in about 886, and had one daughter, Aelfwynn. During the 800s and early 900s the Danish Vikings overran most of the English Kingdoms such as Northumbria, Eastern Mercia, … - Egbert Of Wessex
Egbert (also "Ecgbehrt" or "Ecgbert," means roughly "The shining edge of a blade") (c. 770 — July 839) was King of Wessex from 802 until his death. Under Egbert, Wessex rose to become the most powerful of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, overthrowing the supremacy of Mercia. He was called "Bretwalda" ("Ruler of Britain"). - David Mallet
David Mallet (or Malloch) (~1705 - 1765) was a Scottish dramatist. He was educated at the University of Edinburgh, and went to London in 1723 to work as a private tutor. There he became friendly with Alexander Pope, James Thomson, and other literary figures. His best-known work was written in the same year: "William and Margaret", adapted from a traditional ballad. In 1740, he collaborated with Thomson on a masque, "Alfred", … - Alastair Duncan
Alastair Duncan is a British-Australian actor and voice actor known for providing the voice-over on the first series of the television show Australia's Most Wanted. He is also the voice of Alfred on The Batman TV series. He has made appearances in many Australian TV series including "Cop Shop", "Homicide", "Division 4", and "Rafferty's Rules". He was also the voice-over for a series of historical documentaries for SBS-TV. - Samuel Nicholas
Samuel Nicholas (1744 - August 27, 1790) was the first officer commissioned in the United States Continental Marines (now the United States Marine Corps) and by tradition is considered to be the first Commandant of the Marine Corps. - Alfred Of Malmesbury
Alfred or Aelfric (died 999), abbot of Malmesbury, England, and afterwards (in 990) bishop of Crediton, was a writer of some celebrity in the tenth century. He composed a book, titled "De Naturis Rerum", and is said to have written a history of his abbey. Some also have attributed to him a "Life of Aldhelm". - Louis Maurer
Louis Maurer (February 21, 1832 - July 19, 1932) was a German-born American lithographer. Maurer was also the last surviving artist to have been employed by Currier & Ives. Born in Biebrich, Germany, Maurer studied anatomy, mechanical drawing, and lithography in Mainz before migrating to the United States in 1851. He married Louisa Stein in 1860, and together they raised three children, Charles, Alfred, and Eugenia. - Benoit Pouliot
Benoît Pouliot is an ice hockey player. Pouliot grew up in St. Isidore, Ontario. He played for his hometown team, the St-Isidore Eagles, where he was coached by his father Sylvain. He was later promoted to the AA group regional team of Eastern Ontario Cobras. After a short stint in Junior B with Les Castors de Clarence Creek, he played for the CJHL, as had his father, Sylvain. His brothers David, is a defenceman with the St-Isidore Junior C Eagles, … - Alfréd Járai
- Battle Of Reading
The first Battle of Reading was a battle on January 4 871 near Reading in what is now the English county of Berkshire. The battle occurred when Ethelred of Wessex and his brother Alfred attacked a Danish army, which was invading Britain and was camped near Reading. Although many Danes were killed, the Saxons under Ethelred were defeated and driven from the field with great losses. - Alfred Blalock
Alfred Blalock (April 5, 1899 - September 15, 1964) was a 20th century American innovator in the field of medical science most noted for his research on the medical condition of shock and the development of the Blalock-Taussig Shunt, surgical relief of the cyanosis from Tetralogy of Fallot--known commonly as the blue baby syndrome--with his assistant Vivien Thomas and pediatric cardiologist Helen Taussig. - Alfred Des des Cloizeaux
Alfred Louis Olivier Legrand Des Cloizeaux was a French mineralogist. Des Cloizeaux was born at Beauvais, in the department of Oise. He studied with Jean-Baptiste Biot at the Collège de France. He became professor of mineralogy at the École Normale Supérieure and afterwards at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris. - Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock Kbe
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE (August 13 1899 – April 29 1980) was a highly influential British-born film director and producer who pioneered many techniques in the suspense and thriller genres. He directed more than fifty feature films in a career spanning six decades, from the silent film era, through the invention of talkies, to the colour era. Hitchcock was among the most consistently successful and publicly recognizable directors in the world during his lifetime, … - Alfred Young
Alfred Joseph Karney Young (born on August 1, 1865 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada) is a former first-class cricketer. He played one first-class match for Kent in 1890. He played in 2 innings and scoring 10 runs with a high of 6. - Alfred Mond 1st Baron Melchett
Sir Alfred Mond. "I'm sorry to have to disturb Your Majesty, but, owing to the shortage of sites—"<br /> George III. "Shortage of sights, indeed!"<br> [It is understood that a number of London statues, including that of George III in Cockspur Street, are to be removed by the Office of Works to make room for new ones.]<br /> Cartoon from Punch magazine, August 18th 1920]] Alfred Moritz Mond, 1st Baron Melchett, PC, LLD, DSc, … - Alfred Bossom Baron Bossom
Alfred Charles Bossom, Baron Bossom FRIBA (6 October 1881 - 4 September 1965) was an English architect active in the United States, and Conservative Party politician. Bossom was born in Islington, London, to Alfred Henry and Amelia Jane (Hammond) Bossom. He was educated at Charterhouse School, and studied architecture at the Regent Street Polytechnic and the Royal Academy of Arts before leaving for the United States in 1903 to work for Carnegie Steel in Pittsburgh, … - Alfred D. Chandler Jr.
Alfred DuPont Chandler, Jr. (September 15 1918 -May 9 2007). Born in Guyencourt, Delaware, Chandler was a professor of business history at Harvard Business School, wrote extensively about the scale and the management structures of modern corporations. Professor Chandler graduated from Harvard College in 1940. After wartime service in navy he returned to Harvard to get his Ph.D. in History. - Alfred H. Barr Jr.
Alfred Hamilton Barr, Jr. (January 2, 1902 - August 15, 1981), known as Alfred H. Barr, Jr., was an art historian and the first director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. From that position, he was one of the most influential forces in the development of popular attitudes toward modern art; for example, by arranging the blockbuster Van Gogh exhibition of 1935, … - Alfred Lawrence 1st Baron Trevethin
Alfred Tristram Lawrence, 1st Baron Trevethin PC (24 November 1843–3 August 1936) was a British lawyer and judge. He served as Lord Chief Justice of England from 1921 to 1922. Lawrence was the eldest son of David Lawrence, a surgeon, of Pontypool, Monmouthshire, and Elizabeth, daughter of Charles Morgan Williams. He was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and was called to the Bar, Middle Temple, in 1869. - Sir Alfred Rawlinson 3rd Baronet
Sir Alfred Rawlinson, 3rd Baronet (born January 17, 1867 - died June 1, 1934) was a British polo player in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Foxhunters Hurlingham polo team which won the gold medal. - Alfred Douglas-Hamilton 13th Duke of Hamilton
Lieutenant RN Alfred Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 13th Duke of Hamilton and 10th Duke of Brandon, TD, DL (Lanarkshire) (6th March 1862-16th March 1940) was a Scottish nobleman and sailor. - Alfred Fitzroy 8th Duke of Grafton
Alfred William Maitland FitzRoy, 8th Duke of Grafton (March 3 1850-January 10 1930), styled Lord Alfred FitzRoy between 1882 and 1912 and Earl of Euston between 1912 and 1918, was the son of the 7th Duke of Grafton and his wife, the former Anna Balfour. He married, firstly, Margaret Rose Smith (1855-1913), on 27 April 1875 and had three children: *Lillian Rose FitzRoy (1876-1960), married Charles Robertson; no issue. - Alfred Robens Baron Robens of Woldingham
Alfred (Alf) Robens, Baron Robens of Woldingham (18 December 1910 - 27 June 1999) was a British Labour politician and, later, chaired the National Coal Board. Robens was an official in the Union of Distributive and Allied Workers from 1935. He served as a councillor on Manchester City Council 1942-47. He was elected Member of Parliament in 1945 to represent the mining constituency of Wansbeck in Northumberland, moving to the adjacent seat of Blyth, … - Alfred Conkling Coxe Sr.
Albert Conkling Coxe, Sr. (May 20, 1847 - April 15, 1923) was longtime a federal judge in New York. Coxe was born in Auburn, New York. His legal career began with private practice in Utica from 1868 to 1882. He also served as manager of a state hospital in Utica 1880 to 1882. In 1882, President Chester A. Arthur nominated Coxe as judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York. - Alfred Tennyson 1st Baron Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom and is one of the most popular English poets. Much of his verse was based on classical mythological themes, although "In Memoriam" was written to commemorate his best friend Arthur Hallam, a fellow poet and classmate at Trinity College, Cambridge who was engaged to Tennyson's sister but died from a cerebral hæmorrhage. - Alfred M. Gray Jr.
General Alfred M. Gray, Jr. (born June 22, 1928) was the twenty-ninth Commandant of the Marine Corps.
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