List of Famous people named Fred

Fred Wesley is an American trombonist who worked with James Brown in the 1960s and 1970s and Parliament-Funkadelic in the second half of the 1970s.

Fred V. Murphy II A.S.C. is a New York-based cinematographer who has worked on over 50 movies, among them such films as Hoosiers, The Dead, Secret Window, Auto Focus and The Mothman Prophecies. In 2006 he shot the US boxoffice hit RV, starring Robin Williams, and in 2007 the indie thriller Anamorph with Willem Dafoe. He worked as a gaffer for commercials before becoming a cinematographer.

Fred Spencer was an American animator who worked at Walt Disney Productions. He was considered an authority on Donald Duck and wrote an influential analysis of the character.

Fred Hersch is an American jazz pianist, educator and HIV/AIDS activist. He was the first person to play weeklong engagements as a solo pianist at the Village Vanguard in New York City. He has recorded more than 70 of his jazz compositions. Hersch has been nominated for several Grammy Awards, and, as of December 2014, had been on the Jazz Studies faculty of the New England Conservatory since 1980.

Fred Dekker is an American screenwriter and film director best known for his cult classic horror comedy films Night of the Creeps and The Monster Squad. He contributed the story ideas for House (1986) and Ricochet (1991), and also directed and co-wrote RoboCop 3 with Frank Miller.

Fred Kohlmar was a New York City-born film producer. The former agent worked as an executive assistant to Samuel Goldwyn before becoming a producer in the 1930s. He worked for 20th Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, and Columbia Pictures. Lee Kohlmar was his father.