Alpheus
Alpheus or Alphaeus is a masculine given name which may refer to:
Mythological, biblical and fictional figures
- Alpheus (deity), a river god in Greek mythology
- Alphaeus, father of two of the Twelve Apostles in the New Testament
- Alpheus, the World Forger, a DC Comics character
People
Ancient Greece
- Alpheus Mytilenaeus, 1st century BC Greek poet
- Alphaeus, a Spartan hoplite who fought well at the Battle of Thermopylae, according to the historian Herodotus
Modern world
- Alpheus Babcock, American piano and musical instrument maker and inventor
- Alpheus Baker, Confederate brigadier general in the American Civil War
- Alpheus Batson, American lawyer and politician
- Alpheus Michael Bowman, American politician and businessman
- Alpheus Cutler, an early leader in the Latter Day Saint movement
- Alpheus Deane, American Negro league pitcher in the 1947
- Alpheus Dimmick, American lawyer and politician
- Alpheus Ellis, American banker and philanthropist
- Alpheus Felch, American politician, fifth governor of Michigan and U.S. Senator from Michigan
- Alpheus Harding, American politician and bank president
- Alpheus F. Haymond, American lawyer, politician and justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia
- Alpheus P. Hodges, first mayor of Los Angeles, California, after its incorporation
- Alpheus Hyatt, American zoologist and palaeontologist
- Alpheus T. Mason, American legal scholar and biographer
- Alpheus C. Morse, American architect
- Alpheus Morton, British architect, surveyor and politician
- Alpheus Muheua, Namibian politician
- Alpheus ǃNaruseb, Namibian politician
- Alpheus Spring Packard Sr., American professor of ancient language and classical literature and acting president of Bowdoin College, father of Alpheus Spring Packard Jr.
- Alpheus Spring Packard Jr., American entomologist and palaeontologist
- Alpheus Potts, American lawyer, judge and politician
- Alpheus Quicy, African-American stonemason who built houses and other buildings in Connecticut
- Alpheus Sherman. American lawyer and politician
- Alpheus Henry Snow, American lawyer and scholarly investigator in the field of international law
- Alpheus Beede Stickney, first president of the Chicago Great Western Railway
- Alpheus George Barnes Stonehouse, Canadian circus owner
- A. E. Sunderland, American banker, businessman and mayor of Fresno, California
- Alpheus Todd, English-born Canadian librarian and constitutional historian
- Alpheus Hyatt Verrill, known as Hyatt Verrill, American zoologist, explorer, inventor, illustrator and writer of natural history and science fiction
- Alpheus S. Williams, American lawyer, judge, journalist, politician and Union general in the American Civil War
- Alpheus Waters Wilson, American bishop for the Methodist Episcopal Church, South
- Alpheus Field Wood, Canadian merchant and politician
- Alphaeus Zulu, South African Anglican bishop