Alfred Bryan (September 15, 1871 – April 1, 1958) was a Canadian lyricist.
Bryan was born in Brantford, Ontario. He worked as an arranger in New York and wrote lyrics for many Broadway shows in the late 1910s and early 1920s; often collaborating with composer Jean Schwartz. In the 1920s he moved to Hollywood to write lyrics for screen musicals.
Bryan worked with several composers during his career. Among his collaborators were Henriette Blanke-Belcher, The song sold 650,000 copies during the first three months and became one of 1915's top-selling songs in the United States. Although Bryan himself was not a committed pacifist, he described the American public's anti-war sentiments in his lyrics.
- 1910 Winter (music by Albert Gumble)
- 1910 Put Your Head Upon my Shoulder (music by Henriette Blanke-Belcher)
- 1910 Come Josephine in My Flying Machine (music by Fred Fisher)
- 1911 My Irish Girl (music by Henriette Blanke-Belcher)
- 1913 Peg o' My Heart (music by Fred Fisher)
- 1913 I'm On My Way to Mandalay (music by Fred Fisher)
- 1914 Who Paid The Rent For Mrs. Rip Van Winkle? (music by Fred Fischer)
- 1914 Down in Waterloo. (m: Albert Gumble & Jack Wells)
- 1915 I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier. (m: Al. Piantadosi)
- 1917 Chimes of Normandy. (m: Jack Wells)