Alfred Cleveland Weed was an American ichthyologist, known for expeditions to the Arctic, where he catalogued the region's fish.

[1][2] Weed was born in North Rose, New York, and earned his bachelor's degree at Cornell University.

[1] He was hired as assistant curator of the Field Museum of Natural History in 1921.

[2] By his retirement, in 1942, he was serving as full curator of the Fishery department.

[3] He made multiple scientific field trips to Labrador and Greenland in the 1920s and 1930s.