Debra Alden is an American actress best remembered for her role as Ruth Stockton in the 1947 film, Code of the West.

Debra Alden was born in Kansas City, Missouri as Shirley Fedderson. Her father, Tony Fedderson, had once operated a clothing store in the town of Beresford, South Dakota. On April 10, 1947, Alden's screen debut was shown at the Vogue Theatre in Beresford—the movie theater was located on the same site where her father's clothing store had once operated.