Alfred Ernest Shepherd (6 January 1901 – 12 September 1958) was an Australian politician.

He was an Australian Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for the electorates of Sunshine (1945–1955), Ascot Vale (1955–1958), and Footscray (1958).

He was a pattern-maker by trade, beginning as an apprentice at the Newport Railway Workshops at 17 and remaining there until his election to parliament in 1945, by which time he had risen to the role of sub-foreman.

[1] His Sunshine electorate was abolished in a redistribution at the 1955 election, and he switched to the new seat of Ascot Vale.

[8][1] Shepherd was promoted to deputy leader after Labor's 1955 defeat, at which his predecessor had lost his seat.