Fred Jones

Frederick Herman "Fred" Jones is one of the tritagonists of the Scooby-Doo franchise., and is usually portrayed as the leader of the amateur crime-solving group, Mystery Inc. He is shown to have blond hair, and wearing a white shirt, blue jeans, and his signature orange ascot. He also drives the Mystery Machine.

Very inventive, he is the one that rigs up the Rube Goldberg traps to catch villains, despite Shaggy and Scooby usually setting them off. He is also the strongest person in the group. It is speculated by fans that he and Daphne both have crushes on each other, but this is not expicitly shown until ''Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated''. He is also shown to have an interest in various sports throughout the series.

His teenaged version has been voiced by Frank Welker since the first episode of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, to the present, and was voiced by Carl Stevens in his pre-teen years in A Pup Named Scooby-Doo.