Alfred William Rooke "Fred" Carrothers (June 1, 1924 – May 4, 1998) was a Canadian lawyer, arbitrator, and academic working in the field of law.
Born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, the son of W. A. Carrothers, a professor of economics at the University of Saskatchewan, Carrothers earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1947 and a Bachelor of Laws in 1948 as part of the first graduating class in law at the University of British Columbia.
He was called to the Bars of British Columbia in 1948, of Ontario in 1965, and of Alberta in 1969.
He started his career as an academic at the University of British Columbia, where he was a lecturer from 1948 to 1950.
Carrothers married Jane Macintosh Boyd in 1961, and they had three children, Matthew, Jonathan and Tasha.