Freddy (given name)
Freddy 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), Angolan footballer
- Freddy Adu, American soccer player
- Freddie Banks, American basketball player
- Freddie Barnes, American football wide receiver
- Freddie Beck, English golfer
- Freddie Bishop, American football player
- Freddie Bradley, American football running back
- Freddie Braun, American soccer player
- Freddie Brorsson, Swedish footballer
- Fred Brown (basketball), American former National Basketball Association player known as "Downtown Freddie Brown"
- Freddie Brown (cricketer), former cricketer and cricket commentator
- Freddie Brown (footballer), footballer for Stoke and West Bromwich Albion
- Freddie Bunce, English footballer
- Freddie Burch, English footballer
- Freddie Calthorpe, English cricketer
- Freddie Clarke, English rugby union player
- Freddie Clayton, English first-class cricketer
- Freddie Coleman, Scottish cricketer
- Freddie Crum, American basketball player
- Freddie Douglas, National Football League wide receiver
- Freddie Dunkelman, British ice hockey player
- Freddie Elizalde, Filipino former swimmer
- Freddie Eriksson, Swedish motorcycle speedway rider
- Freddie Fenton, English footballer
- Freddy Fernández (actor), Mexican actor
- Freddy Fernández (footballer), Costa Rican footballer
- Brad Fittler, Australian rugby league player nicknamed "Freddy"
- Andrew Flintoff, English cricketer nicknamed "Freddie"
- Freddie Fox (footballer), English football goalkeeper
- Freddie Fox (jockey), British horse racing jockey
- Freddie Freeman, American-Canadian baseball player
- Freddie Frith, British Grand Prix motorcycle road racing world champion
- Freddy Stephen Fuller, 1960s Canadian amateur boxing champion
- Freddy García, Venezuelan who pitched for several Major League Baseball teams
- Freddie Garcia, Mexican-American soccer player
- Freddy García (infielder), baseball infielder
- Freddy García (football manager), Peruvian football manager
- Freddy García (footballer), Guatemalan footballer
- Alfredo Razon Gonzalez, Filipino football player nicknamed "Freddy"
- Freddy González, Venezuelan long-distance runner
- Fredy González, Colombian road racing cyclist
- Freddie Goss, American basketball coach
- Freddie Hubalde, Filipino retired basketball player
- Freddie Kitchens, American football coach
- Freddy Leach, American Major League Baseball player
- Freddie Lish, Thai-American basketball player
- Freddie Martino, American football player
- Freddie Miller (boxer), American boxer
- Freddie Miller (rugby league), British rugby league footballer of the 1940s and 1950s
- Freddy Moncada, Colombian retired road cyclist
- Freddy Montaña, Colombian road cyclist
- Freddy Murray, Irish tennis player
- Freddie Joe Nunn, American former National Football League player
- Freddie Pethard, Scottish retired footballer
- Freddie Roach (boxing), American boxing trainer and former professional boxer
- Freddy Rodríguez (baseball), former Major League Baseball pitcher
- Freddy Rodriguez (cyclist), American professional road racing cyclist
- Freddy Sanchez, American retired Major League Baseball player
- Freddie Solomon, American National Football League player
- Freddie Solomon (American football, born 1972), American retired National Football League player
- Freddie Spencer, American former world champion motorcycle racer
- Freddie Steele, American world middleweight boxing champion and actor
- Freddie Steele (footballer), English footballer and manager
- Freddie Summers, American National Football League player
- Freddie Swain, American football player
- Freddy Vargas, Venezuelan road cyclist
- Freddy Zamora, American baseball player
- Freddie Williams (speedway rider), motorcycle speedway world champion
- Freddie Williams (athlete), Canadian track and field runner
Artists and entertainers
- Freddie Aguilar, Filipino singer-songwriter and musician
- Freddie Bell, American musician, founder of the vocal group Freddie Bell and the Bellboys
- Freddy Beras-Goico, Dominican comedian, TV presenter, writer and media personality
- Freddie Brown (musician), American musician
- Freddy Cannon, American rock and roll singer
- Freddy Cole, American jazz singer and pianist, brother of Nat King Cole
- Freddie Colloca, Argentine-American Christian musician, pianist, and worship leader
- Freddie Crump, drummer from the United States
- Freddie Fisher (musician), American musician
- Freddie Burke Frederick, American child actor
- Freddie Fox (actor), English actor
- Freddie Garrity, British singer and actor, frontman of the pop band Freddie and the Dreamers
- Freddie Gibbs, American rapper and songwriter
- Freddie Green, American swing jazz guitarist
- Freddie Hart, stage name of Frederick Segrest, American country musician and songwriter
- Freddie Hubbard, American jazz trumpeter
- Freddie King, American blues guitarist and singer
- Freddie A. Lerche, Danish painter
- Freddy Martin, American bandleader and tenor saxophonist
- Freddie Mercury, Zanzibarian-born musician, lead singer of the British rock band Queen
- Freddie Miller (broadcaster), broadcaster and television personality in Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Freddie Prinze, American actor and stand-up comedian
- Freddie Prinze Jr., American actor, son of the above
- Freddy Quinn or simply "Freddy", Austrian singer and actor
- Freddie Roach (organist), American soul jazz musician
- Freddy Rodriguez (actor), American actor
- Freddy Rodríguez (artist), Dominican Republic artist in the United States
- Freddie Smith, American actor
- Freddie Starr, English comedian, impressionist, singer and actor born Frederick Leslie Fowell
- Freddie Stone, 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, American producer, songwriter and entrepreneur
- Freddie Williams II, comics artist
- Freddie Young, British cinematographer
- Freddie (singer), alias of Gábor Alfréd Fehérvári, Hungarian singer
- Freddie Anderson, Irish writer, playwright, author, poet and socialist
- Freddie Brocksieper, German jazz-musician, drummer, and bandleader
- Freddie Bruno, American Christian hip hop musician
- Daddy Freddy, Jamaican ragga vocalist
Politicians and businesspeople
- Freddy de Ruiter, Norwegian politician
- Freddie M. Garcia, Filipino business executive
- Freddy Heineken, Dutch businessman, chairman of the board and CEO of the Heineken brewing company
- Freddy Huayta, Bolivian politician
- Freddy Numberi, Indonesian politician
- Freddie Rodriguez, American politician
Others
- Freddie Carpenter, Archdeacon of the Isle of Wight
- Freddy Deeb, Lebanese-born American professional poker player
- Freddie Figgers, computer programmer, inventor, and entrepreneur
- Alfredo Cantu Gonzalez, United States Marine Corps sergeant awarded the Medal of Honor, nicknamed "Freddy"
- Freddie Oversteegen, Dutch assassin during World War II
- Freddy Rouhani, Iranian-born American professional poker player
- Frederic Calland Williams, English engineer sometimes known as Freddie Williams
- Freddie Williams (businessman), 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.