Alphonse (given name)
Alphonse, also spelled Alfonse, is the French variant of the given name Alfonso. People called Alphonse or Alfonse include:
In arts, entertainment, and media
Film, television, and theatre
- Alphonse Beni, Cameroonian actor and movie director
- Alphonse Boudard, French novelist and playwright
- Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian television pioneer and president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation from 1958 to 1967
- Alphonse Royer, French author, dramatist and theatre manager
Music
- Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin, American accordionist
- Alphonse Duvernoy, French pianist and composer
- Alphonse Hasselmans, Belgian-born French harpist, composer and pedagogue
- Alphonse Joseph (composer), Indian film score composer
- Alphonse Martin, Canadian organist, pianist and music educator
- Alphonse Mouzon, American jazz fusion drummer and percussionist
- Alphonse Picou, American early jazz clarinetist
- Alphonse Trent, American jazz pianist and territory band leader
- Alphonse Varney, French conductor
Plastic arts
- Alphonse Révillon d'Apreval, French botanical illustrator and lithographer
- Alphonse Balat, Belgian architect
- Alfonse Borysewicz, American painter
- Alphonse Colas, French painter
- Alphonse de Cailleux, French painter, connoisseur, arts administrator and director of the Musée du Louvre
- Alphonse de Neuville, French Academic painter
- Alphonse Giroux, French painter
- Alphonse Kann, prominent French art collector of Jewish heritage
- Alphonse Lami, French sculptor
- Alphonse Laverrière, Swiss architect
- Alphonse Legros, French painter, etcher and sculptor
- Alphonse Mucha, Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist
- Alphonse Osbert, French Symbolist painter
Writing and journalism
- Alphonse Allais, French writer and humorist
- Alphonse Boudard, French novelist and playwright
- Alphonse Daudet, French novelist
- Alphonse de Châteaubriant, French writer
- Alphonse de Lamartine, French writer, poet and politician
- Alphonse Lemerre, French editor and publisher
- Alphonse Rabbe, French writer, historian, critic and journalist
- Alphonse Royer, French author, dramatist and theatre manager
- Alphonse Tavan, French Provençal poet
- Alphonse Toussenel, French writer and journalist
In business and finance
- Alphonse Bertrand, merchant and political figure in New Brunswick
- Alphonse James de Rothschild, French financier, vineyard owner, art collector, philanthropist and racehorse owner and breeder
- Alphonse Desjardins (co-operator), founder of Mouvement Desjardins credit unions
- Alphonse Raymond, Quebec businessman, financier and public official
In engineering and industrial design
- Alphonse Chapanis, American pioneer in the field of industrial design
- Alphonse Loubat, French inventor who developed improvements in tram and rail equipment
- Alphonse Munchen, Luxembourgish engineer and politician
- Alphonse Pénaud, French pioneer of aviation
- Alphonse Poitevin, French chemist, photographer and civil engineer
- Alphonse Sagebien, French hydrological engineer
In government, law, military, and politics
Africa
Congo
- Alphonse Massamba-Débat, political figure of the Republic of the Congo who led the country from 1963 until 1968
- Alphonse Poaty-Souchlaty, politician of the Republic of the Congo
Other African countries
- Alphonse Alley, Beninese army officer and political figure
- Alphonse Barancira, former minister for Human Rights, Constitutional Reform and Relations with the National Assembly of Burundi
- Alphonse Koyamba, Central African economist and politician
- Alphonse Kotiga, 20th century Chadian military officer and politician
- Alfonse Owiny-Dollo, Ugandan lawyer, judge and Chief Justice of Uganda
Europe
France
- Alphonse, Count of Poitiers
- Alphonse Joseph Georges, French army officer
- Alphonse Henri d'Hautpoul, French army general and Prime Minister of France during the French Second Republic
- Alphonse Juin, Marshal of France
- Alphonse de Lamartine, French writer, poet and politician
- Alphonse de Tonty, Baron de Paludy
Other European countries
- Alphonse Berns, Luxembourgish diplomat and current Ambassador to Belgium and Permanent Representative to NATO
- Alphonse de Tonty, Italian officer who served under the French explorer Cadillac
- Alphonse Munchen ), Luxembourgish engineer and politician
North America
Canada
- Alphonse Bernier, Canadian lawyer, judge and provincial politician
- Alphonse Bertrand, merchant and political figure in New Brunswick
- Alphonse Desjardins (politician), mayor of Montreal and Canadian cabinet minister
- Alphonse Fournier, Canadian politician
- Alphonse Alfred Clément Larivière, Canadian politician and journalist
- Alphonse Raymond, Quebec businessman, financier and public official
- Alphonse George Tisdelle, Canadian politician
- Alphonse Verville, Canadian politician and trade unionist
United States
- Al D'Amato, American attorney, lobbyist and politician
- Alphonse Girandy, United States Navy sailor
- Alphonse J. Jackson, educator and member of the Louisiana House of Representatives
- Alphonse S. Marotta, American politician in Connecticut
- Alphonse Roy, American Representative from New Hampshire
In organized crime
- Alphonse Attardi, New York mobster
- Al Capone, Italian-American gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime syndicate
- Alphonse D'Arco, New York mobster
- Alphonse Gangitano, Italian Australian organised crime identity from Templestowe, a suburb of Melbourne
- Alphonse Indelicato, powerful caporegime in New York City's Bonanno crime family
- Alphonse Malangone, New York City mobster and caporegime in the Genovese crime family
- Alphonse Persico, former acting boss of the Colombo crime family from the 1980s and 1990s
In religion and mysticism
- Alphonse Constant, birth name of Éliphas Lévi, French occult author and purported magician
- Alphonse Favier, controversial Roman Catholic Lazarite Vicar Apostolic of Northern Chi-Li, China
- Alphonse Gallegos, American Roman Catholic bishop
- Alphonse Joseph Glorieux, Belgian missionary Roman Catholic bishop
- Alphonse Magnien, superior at St. Mary's Seminary and University in Baltimore, Maryland from 1878 to 1902
- Alphonse Mingana, Assyrian theologian, historian, orientalist and former priest
- Alphonse James Schladweiler, American Roman Catholic prelate
- Alphonse John Smith, American Roman Catholic bishop
In science, medicine, and academia
Cultural sciences
- Alphonse Mingana, Assyrian theologian, historian, orientalist and former priest
- Alphonse Pinart, French explorer, philologist and ethnographer
- Alphonse Rabbe, French writer, historian, critic and journalist
- Alphonse Roque-Ferrier, French philologist and historian of the Occitan language
Geology and earth science
- Alphonse Briart, Belgian coal mine supervisor and geologist
- Alphonse Francois Renard, Belgian geologist and petrographer
Life sciences and medicine
- Alphonse Bertillon, French police officer and biometrics researcher who created the field of anthropometry
- Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, French-Swiss botanist
- Alphonse Dochez, American physician and disease researcher
- Alphonse Guérin, French surgeon
- Alphonse Hustache, French entomologist
- Alphonse Milne-Edwards, French mammalologist, ornithologist and carcinologist
Other disciplines
- Alphonse Borrelly, French astronomer
- Alphonse de Polignac, French mathematician
- Alphonse Lavallée, the founder of the École Centrale Paris
- Alphonse Magnien, the superior at St. Mary's Seminary and University in Baltimore, Maryland from 1878 to 1902
- Alphonse Poitevin, French chemist, photographer and civil engineer
In sport
Football (soccer)
- Alphonse Areola, French footballer
- Alphonse Decorte, Belgian footballer
- Alphonse Leweck, Luxembourgish footballer
- Alphonse Renier, Belgian footballer
- Alphonse Six, Belgian footballer
- Alphonse Tchami, Cameroonian retired footballer
- Alphonse Yombi, Cameroonian former footballer
Winter sports
- Alphonse Hörning, Swiss bobsledder
- Alphonse Jetté, Canadian ice hockey player
- Alphonse Lacroix, American ice hockey goaltender
Other sports
- Alphonse Antoine, French road bicycle racer
- Alphonse Burnand, American sailor
- Alphonse Castex, French rugby union player
- Alphonse Dotson, former American football player
- Alphonse Ducatillon, Belgian tug of war competitor
- Alphonse Gemuseus, Swiss Olympic equestrian
- Alphonse Halimi, French world champion bantamweight boxer
- Al Hunter (American football), American former National Football League player
- Alphonse Kirchhoffer, French fencer
- Alphonse Martin (water polo), Belgian water polo player
- Alphonse Ruckstuhl, Swiss Olympic fencer
- Alphonse Schepers, Belgian racing cyclist
- Alphonse Van Mele, Belgian gymnast
- Alphonse Yanghat, Congolese Olympic sprinter
- Phonney Martin, American baseball player
In other fields
- Alphonse Goetz, French chess master
- Alphonse Le Gastelois, a Jerseyman who became a hermit on the Écréhous islands to avoid persecution
- Alphonse James de Rothschild, French financier, vineyard owner, art collector, philanthropist and racehorse owner and breeder
Fictional characters
- a title character of Alphonse and Gaston, an American comic strip
- Alphonse, in the video game Owlboy
- Monsieur Alfonse, in the BBC sitcom Allo 'Allo!
- the title character of Monsieur Alphonse, Alexandre Dumas fils' 1873 play
- Alphonse Bearwalker, in the television comedy NTSF:SD:SUV::
- Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice, in the comic strip Dick Tracy
- Alphonse Elric, in the anime/manga series Fullmetal Alchemist
- Alphonse Huggins, in the series Titanic by Gordon Korman
- Alphonse Mephisto, in the animated television series South Park
- Alphonse, a Loch Ness Monster in The Mysterious Tadpole by Steven Kellogg