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Freddy (given name)

Freddy (also Freddi and Freddie) is a unisex given name. It is often used by both men and women whose names contain the Germanic element -fred, such as Frederick, Frederica, and Alfred. 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 (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 Hubalde (born 1953), Filipino retired basketball player
  • Freddie Kitchens (born 1974), American football coach
  • Freddy Leach (1897–1981), American Major League Baseball player
  • Freddie Lish (born 1988), Thai-American basketball 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
  • Freddy Murray (born 2003), Irish tennis player
  • 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 (1947–1994), American National Football League player
  • Freddie Swain (born 1998), American football player
  • Freddy Vargas (born 1982), Venezuelan road cyclist
  • Freddy Zamora (born 1998), American baseball player
  • 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 (1931–2020), 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 Gibbs (born 1982), American rapper and songwriter
  • 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) (1945–2022), 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
  • Freddie M. Garcia (born 1944), Filipino business executive
  • Freddy Heineken (1923–2002), Dutch businessman, chairman of the board and CEO of the Heineken brewing company
  • Freddy Huayta (born 1968), Bolivian politician
  • Freddy Numberi (born 1947), Indonesian politician
  • Freddie Rodriguez (born 1965), American politician

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

Fictional characters

  • Freddy Auratus, a golden hamster from The Golden Hamster Saga, written by Dietlof Reiche
  • Freddie Benson, from iCarly
  • Freddie Falcon, official mascot of the National Football League's Atlanta Falcons
  • Freddie and Frieda Falcon, mascots of Bowling Green State University
  • Freddy Fazbear, a character in the horror game Five Nights at Freddy's by Scott Cawthon
  • 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
  • Freddy Newandyke, from the film Reservoir Dogs
  • Freddy Riley, a survivor in the video game Identity V
  • 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
  • Fat Freddy Freekowtski, one of the main Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers.

References

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