Writers and philosophers
- Alfred Bester, American science fiction author
- Alfred de Musset (1810–1857), French romantic poet and playwright
- Alfred de Vigny (1797–1863), French romantic poet
- Alfred Jarry, French writer and founder of 'pataphysics
- Alfred Rosenberg (1893–1946), German Nazi theorist
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), British poet
- Alfred North Whitehead, English analytic philosopher and mathematician, co-author of Principia Mathematica
