Fred Lind Alles (August 2, 1851 – March 7, 1945) was a businessman and civic leader in Los Angeles, California, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, serving as secretary or other officer for various committees and for the National Irrigation Congress.

In 1887, to recover his health, he made a trip to Alaska, accompanied by Senators George Graham Vest of Missouri, Charles B. Farwell of Illinois and J. Donald Cameron of Pennsylvania, and returned "weighing fourteen pounds more than when I started.

One of his proudest possessions [in 1941] is a letter from Gen. Harrison Gray Otis thanking him for his efforts, "without which it would have been necessary for The Times to temporarily suspend publication.

[1][5][6][7] Alles was honored in January 1941 for his life's work when a portrait of him by artist Arthur Cahill was unveiled in Los Angeles's prestigious California Club.

Southern California, and all were anxious to obtain some reliable information about our soil, our climate, our resources and our future prospects.

[15][16][17][18] Lind was born August 2, 1851, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Henry Alles or Alois and Elizabeth Kaufman.

In his later years, he recalled that he once sat on a streetcar seat next to former president Martin Van Buren, who died in 1862, when Alles was about seven.