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.

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 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 (1947–1994), 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 (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
 * 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.