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Wilfred and Wifred are masculine given names 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 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wilfred (given name)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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