Freddy (given name)

Freddy (also Freddi and Freddie) is a diminutive used by both men and women whose names contain the Germanic element -fred, notable examples of such being Frederick, Frederica, and Alfred. In rare cases, it may be used a diminutive of any name containing -fred, regardless of origin, as with Freddy Adu and Freddie Benson, both Ghanaians named Fredua.

People

In sports

Freddy (Angolan footballer) (born 1979), Angolan footballer
Freddy Adu (born 1989), American soccer player
Freddie Banks (born 1965), American basketball player
Freddie Barnes (born 1986), American football wide receiver
Freddie Beck (1904–1987), English golfer
Freddie Bishop III (born 1990), American football player
Freddie Bradley (born 1970), American football running back
Freddie Braun (born 1988), American soccer player
Freddie Brorsson (born 1997), Swedish footballer
Fred Brown (basketball) (born 1948), American former National Basketball Association player known as "Downtown Freddie Brown"
Freddie Brown (cricketer) (1910–1991), former cricketer and cricket commentator
Freddie Brown (footballer) (1878–1939), footballer for Stoke and West Bromwich Albion
Freddie Bunce (1938–1991), English footballer
Freddie Burch (1886–?), English footballer
Freddie Calthorpe (1892–1935), English cricketer
Freddie Clarke (born 1992), English rugby union player
Freddie Clayton (1873–1946), English first-class cricketer
Freddie Coleman (born 1991), Scottish cricketer
Freddie Crum (1912–1987), American basketball player
Freddie Douglas (born 1954), National Football League wide receiver
Freddie Dunkelman (1920–2010), British ice hockey player
Freddie Elizalde (born 1940), Filipino former swimmer
Freddie Eriksson (born 1981), Swedish motorcycle speedway rider
Freddie Fenton (1879–?), English footballer
Freddy Fernández (actor) (1934–1995), Mexican actor
Freddy Fernández (footballer) (born 1974), Costa Rican footballer
Brad Fittler (born 1972), Australian rugby league player nicknamed "Freddy"
Andrew Flintoff (born 1977), English cricketer nicknamed "Freddie"
Freddie Fox (footballer) (1898–1968), English football goalkeeper
Freddie Fox (jockey) (1888–1945), British horse racing jockey
Freddie Freeman (born 1989), American-Canadian baseball player
Freddie Frith (1909–1988), British Grand Prix motorcycle road racing world champion
Freddy Stephen Fuller, 1960s Canadian amateur boxing champion
Freddy García (born 1976), Venezuelan who pitched for several Major League Baseball teams
Freddie Garcia (born 1958), Mexican-American soccer player
Freddy García (infielder) (born 1972), baseball infielder
Freddy García (football manager) (born 1959), Peruvian football manager
Freddy García (footballer) (born 1977), Guatemalan footballer
Alfredo Razon Gonzalez (born 1978), Filipino football player nicknamed "Freddy"
Freddy González (born 1977), Venezuelan long-distance runner
Fredy González (born 1975), Colombian road racing cyclist
Freddie Goss, American basketball coach
Freddie Kitchens (born 1974), American football coach
Freddy Leach (1897–1981), American Major League Baseball player
Freddie Martino (born 1991), American football player
Freddie Miller (boxer) (1911–1962), American boxer
Freddie Miller (rugby league) (died 1960), British rugby league footballer of the 1940s and 1950s
Freddy Moncada (born 1973), Colombian retired road cyclist
Freddy Montaña (born 1982), Colombian road cyclist
Freddie Joe Nunn (born 1962), American former National Football League player
Freddie Pethard (born 1950), Scottish retired footballer
Freddie Roach (boxing) (born 1960), American boxing trainer and former professional boxer
Freddy Rodríguez (baseball) (1924–2009), former Major League Baseball pitcher
Freddy Rodriguez (cyclist) (born 1973), American professional road racing cyclist
Freddy Sanchez (born 1977), American retired Major League Baseball player
Freddie Solomon (1953–2012), American National Football League player
Freddie Solomon (American football, born 1972), American retired National Football League player
Freddie Spencer (born 1961), American former world champion motorcycle racer
Freddie Steele (1912–1984), American world middleweight boxing champion and actor
Freddie Steele (footballer) (1916–1976), English footballer and manager
Freddie Summers (born 1947), American National Football League player
Freddie Swain (born 1998), American football player
Freddy Vargas (born 1982), Venezuelan road cyclist
Freddie Williams (speedway rider) (1926–2013), motorcycle speedway world champion
Freddie Williams (athlete) (born 1962), Canadian track and field runner

Artists and entertainers

Freddie Aguilar (born 1953), Filipino singer-songwriter and musician
Freddie Bell (1931–2008), American musician, founder of the vocal group Freddie Bell and the Bellboys
Freddy Beras-Goico (1940–2010), Dominican comedian, TV presenter, writer and media personality
Freddie Brown (musician) (1940–2002), American musician
Freddy Cannon (born 1936), American rock and roll singer
Freddy Cole (born 1931), American jazz singer and pianist, brother of Nat King Cole
Freddie Colloca (born 1975), Argentine-American Christian musician, pianist, and worship leader
Freddie Crump (died 1980), drummer from the United States
Freddie Fisher (musician) (1904–1967), American musician
Freddie Burke Frederick (1921–1986), American child actor
Freddie Fox (actor) (born 1989), English actor
Freddie Garrity (1936–2006), British singer and actor, frontman of the pop band Freddie and the Dreamers
Freddie Green (1911–1987), American swing jazz guitarist
Freddie Hart (1926–2018), stage name of Frederick Segrest, American country musician and songwriter
Freddie Hubbard (1938–2008), American jazz trumpeter
Freddie King (1934–1976), American blues guitarist and singer
Freddie A. Lerche (born 1937), Danish painter
Freddy Martin (1906–1983), American bandleader and tenor saxophonist
Freddie Mercury (1946–1991), Zanzibarian-born musician, lead singer of the British rock band Queen
Freddie Miller (broadcaster) (1929–1992), broadcaster and television personality in Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Freddie Prinze (1954–1977), American actor and stand-up comedian
Freddie Prinze Jr. (born 1976), American actor, son of the above
Freddy Quinn (born 1931) or simply "Freddy", Austrian singer and actor
Freddie Roach (organist) (1931–1980), American soul jazz musician
Freddy Rodriguez (actor) (born 1975), American actor
Freddy Rodríguez (artist) (born 1945), Dominican Republic artist in the United States
Freddie Smith (born 1988), American actor
Freddie Starr (1943–2019), English comedian, impressionist, singer and actor born Frederick Leslie Fowell
Freddie Stone (born 1947), American co-founder, guitarist, and vocalist of the band Sly and the Family Stone
Freddie Washington (bassist), jazz-influenced bass guitarist
Freddie Washington (pianist), American jazz pianist
Freddy Wexler (born 1986), American producer, songwriter and entrepreneur
Freddie Williams II (born 1977), comics artist
Freddie Young (1902–1998), British cinematographer
Freddie (singer) (born 1990), alias of Gábor Alfréd Fehérvári, Hungarian singer
Freddie Anderson (1922–2001), Irish writer, playwright, author, poet and socialist
Freddie Brocksieper (1912–1990), German jazz-musician, drummer, and bandleader
Freddie Bruno (born 1978), American Christian hip hop musician
Daddy Freddy (born 1965), Jamaican ragga vocalist

Politicians and businesspeople

Freddy de Ruiter (born 1969), Norwegian politician
Freddy Heineken (1923–2002), Dutch businessman, chairman of the board and CEO of the Heineken brewing company
Freddie M. Garcia (born 1944), Filipino business executive
Freddie Rodriguez, American politician who assumed office in 2013

Others

Freddie Carpenter (1920–2003), Archdeacon of the Isle of Wight
Freddy Deeb (born 1955), Lebanese-born American professional poker player
Freddie Figgers (born 1989), computer programmer, inventor, and entrepreneur
Alfredo Cantu Gonzalez (1946–1968), United States Marine Corps sergeant awarded the Medal of Honor, nicknamed "Freddy"
Freddie Oversteegen (1925–2018), Dutch assassin during World War II
Freddy Rouhani (born 1963 or 1964), Iranian-born American professional poker player
Frederic Calland Williams (1911–1977), English engineer sometimes known as Freddie Williams
Freddie Williams (businessman) (1942–2008), Scottish bookmaker

Characters

Freddy Auratus, a golden hamster from The Golden Hamster Saga, written by Dietlof Reiche
Freddie Benson (iCarly), from iCarly
Freddie Falcon, official mascot of the National Football League's Atlanta Falcons
Freddie and Frieda Falcon, mascots of Bowling Green State University
Freddie Fear, in his own comic strip in the UK comic The Beano
Freddy Freeman or Captain Marvel Jr., currently a DC Comics hero
Fred Jones (Scooby-Doo), in the Scooby Doo series
Freddy Krueger, a killer in the A Nightmare on Elm Street series and other films
Freddie McClair, from generation 2 of Skins
Freddie Roscoe, in the UK soap opera Hollyoaks
Freddie "Boom Boom" Washington, in the television series Welcome Back, Kotter
Freddy (weather), a cartoon weatherman in Hong Kong
Freddy the Pig, in a series of children's books written by Walter R. Brooks
Freddy Fazbear, in the game Five Nights at Freddy's by Scott Cawthon

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