Eldred is a surname of

Old English Old English ( or , or ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. It developed from the languages brought to Great Britain by Anglo-S ...

origin. Notable people with this surname include: *

Arthur Rose Eldred Arthur Rose Eldred (August 16, 1895 – January 4, 1951) was an American agricultural and railroad industry executive, civic leader, and the first Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts of America), Eagle Scout in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). As a 16-yea ...

(1895–1951), American businessman and the first Eagle Scout *

Brad Eldred Bradley Ross Eldred (born July 12, 1980) is an American former professional baseball first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Colorado Rockies, and Detroit Tigers and in Nippon Professional Baseball for the Hi ...

(born 1980), American baseball player * Brick Eldred (1892–1976), American baseball player *

Cal Eldred Calvin John Eldred (born November 24, 1967) is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played for 14 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from to . He previously worked for the St. Louis Cardinals as a special assistant to genera ...

(born 1967), American baseball player *

Dale Eldred Dale Eldred (November 9, 1933 in Minneapolis, Minnesota – July 26, 1993 in Kansas City, Missouri) was an internationally acclaimed sculptor renowned for large-scale sculptures that emphasized both natural and generated light. Biography The ...

(1933–1993), American sculptor * Eric Eldred (born 1943), American businessman and plaintiff in the 2003 court case, ''

Eldred v. Ashcroft ''Eldred v. Ashcroft'', 537 U.S. 186 (2003), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States upholding the constitutionality of the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA). The practical result of this was to prevent a numb ...

'' * Foss O. Eldred (1884–1956), American politician and Michigan Attorney General (1946) * Janet Eldred, American professor and author *

John Eldred John Eldred (1552–1632) was an English traveller and merchant. His ''Journal of his Voyage to Tripoli and Bassora'' is reproduced in Richard Hakluyt's ''Principal Navigations'' of 1599. Early life Eldred was born in 1552 at New Buckenham in N ...

(1552–1632), English traveller and merchant * John Eldred (MP) (1629–1717), Member of the Parliament of England for Harwich in 1689 * Mike Eldred, American guitarist and luthier * Mike Eldred, American musical theater performer * Pamela Eldred (born 1948), American beauty pageant winner, Miss America 1970 *

Ted Eldred Edward Francis Eldred (16 December 1920 to August 2005) was a pioneer of scuba diving in Australia. He invented Porpoise scuba gear. Early years Eldred was born in Melbourne in 1920. As a young man he lived by the sea near Sorrento on the Morn ...

(1920–2005), Australian scuba gear designer *

Thomas Brownell Eldred Thomas Brownell Eldred (1903–1993) was an American Abstract expressionist painter and printmaker. Biography Eldred was born on February 19, 1903, in Climax, Michigan. He served for a time with the Merchant Marines. He attended the Kalamazoo ...

(1903–1993), American painter and printmaker * Thomas Eldred (1561–1624), English merchant and mariner *

William Eldred William Eldred (1563?–1646?), was an English gunner, the master gunner of Dover Castle and author of a treatise on gunnery. Life Eldred was born about 1563, and lived to an old age, signing as a freeholder of Dover the Kentish petition for th ...

(1563–1646), English gunner

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