Alphonse, also spelled Alfonse, is the French variant of the given name Alfonso. People called Alphonse or Alfonse include:
Contents
In arts, entertainment, and media
Film, television, and theatre
Alphonse Beni (1946-2023), Cameroonian actor and movie director
Alphonse Boudard (1925–2000), French novelist and playwright
Alphonse Ouimet (1908–1988), Canadian television pioneer and president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation from 1958 to 1967
Alphonse Royer (1803–1875), French author, dramatist and theatre manager
Music
Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin (1915–2007), American accordionist
Alphonse Duvernoy (1842–1907), French pianist and composer
Alphonse Hasselmans (1845–1912), Belgian-born French harpist, composer and pedagogue
Alphonse Joseph (composer), Indian film score composer
Alphonse Martin (1884–1947), Canadian organist, pianist and music educator
Alphonse Mouzon (1948–2016), American jazz fusion drummer and percussionist
Alphonse Picou (1878–1961), American early jazz clarinetist
Alphonse Trent (1905–1959), American jazz pianist and territory band leader
Alphonse Varney (1811–1879), French conductor
Plastic arts
Alphonse Révillon d'Apreval (1851–1915), French botanical illustrator and lithographer
Alphonse Balat (1819–1895), Belgian architect
Alfonse Borysewicz (born 1957), American painter
Alphonse Colas (1818–1887), French painter
Alphonse de Cailleux (1788–1876), French painter, connoisseur, arts administrator and director of the Musée du Louvre
Alphonse de Neuville (1835–1885), French Academic painter
Alphonse Giroux (1775–1848), French painter
Alphonse Kann (1870–1948), prominent French art collector of Jewish heritage
Alphonse Lami (1822–1867), French sculptor
Alphonse Laverrière (1872–1954), Swiss architect
Alphonse Legros (1837–1911), French painter, etcher and sculptor
Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939), Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist
Alphonse Osbert (1857–1939), French Symbolist painter
Writing and journalism
Alphonse Allais (1854–1905), French writer and humorist
Alphonse Boudard (1925–2000), French novelist and playwright
Alphonse Daudet (1840–1897), French novelist
Alphonse de Châteaubriant (1877–1951), French writer
Alphonse de Lamartine (1790–1869), French writer, poet and politician
Alphonse Lemerre (1838–1912), French editor and publisher
Alphonse Rabbe (1784–1829), French writer, historian, critic and journalist
Alphonse Royer (1803–1875), French author, dramatist and theatre manager
Alphonse Tavan (1833–1905), French Provençal poet
Alphonse Toussenel (1803–1885), French writer and journalist
In business and finance
Alphonse Bertrand (1846–1926), merchant and political figure in New Brunswick
Alphonse James de Rothschild (1827–1905), French financier, vineyard owner, art collector, philanthropist and racehorse owner and breeder
Alphonse Desjardins (co-operator) (1854–1920), founder of Mouvement Desjardins credit unions
Alphonse Raymond (1884–1958), Quebec businessman, financier and public official
In engineering and industrial design
Alphonse Chapanis (1917–2002), American pioneer in the field of industrial design
Alphonse Loubat (1799–1866), French inventor who developed improvements in tram and rail equipment
Alphonse Munchen (1850–1917), Luxembourgish engineer and politician
Alphonse Pénaud (1850–1880), French pioneer of aviation
Alphonse Poitevin (1819–1882), French chemist, photographer and civil engineer
Alphonse Sagebien (1807–1892), French hydrological engineer
In government, law, military, and politics
Africa
Alphonse Massamba-Débat (1921–1977), political figure of the Republic of the Congo who led the country from 1963 until 1968
Alphonse Poaty-Souchlaty (1941–2024), politician of the Republic of the Congo
Alphonse Alley (1930–1987), 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 (1941–1998), Central African economist and politician
Alphonse Kotiga, 20th century Chadian military officer and politician
Alfonse Owiny-Dollo (born 1956), Ugandan lawyer, judge and Chief Justice of Uganda
Alphonse Yokadouma, Central African politician and clerk
Europe
Alphonse, Count of Poitiers (1220–1271)
Alphonse Joseph Georges (1875–1951), French army officer
Alphonse Henri d'Hautpoul (1789–1865), French army general and Prime Minister of France during the French Second Republic
Alphonse Juin (1888–1967), Marshal of France
Alphonse de Lamartine (1790–1869), French writer, poet and politician
Alphonse de Tonty, Baron de Paludy (c. 1659–1727)
Alphonse Berns (born 1952), Luxembourgish diplomat and current Ambassador to Belgium and Permanent Representative to NATO
Alphonse de Tonty (ca. 1659–1727), Italian officer who served under the French explorer Cadillac
Alphonse Munchen (1850–1917)), Luxembourgish engineer and politician
North America
Alphonse Bernier (1861–1944), Canadian lawyer, judge and provincial politician
Alphonse Bertrand (1846–1926), merchant and political figure in New Brunswick
Alphonse Desjardins (politician) (1841–1912), mayor of Montreal and Canadian cabinet minister
Alphonse Fournier (1893–1961), Canadian politician
Alphonse Alfred Clément Larivière (1842–1925), Canadian politician and journalist
Alphonse Raymond (1884–1958), Quebec businessman, financier and public official
Alphonse George Tisdelle, Canadian politician
Alphonse Verville (1864–1921), Canadian politician and trade unionist
Al D'Amato (born 1937), American attorney, lobbyist and politician
Alphonse Girandy (1868–1941), United States Navy sailor
Alphonse J. Jackson (1927–2014), educator and member of the Louisiana House of Representatives
Alphonse S. Marotta (1934–2024), American politician in Connecticut
Alphonse Roy (1897–1967), American Representative from New Hampshire
In organized crime
Alphonse Attardi (1892–1970), New York mobster
Al Capone (1899–1947), Italian-American gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime syndicate
Alphonse D'Arco (1932–2019), New York mobster
Alphonse Gangitano (1957–1998), Italian Australian organised crime identity from Templestowe, a suburb of Melbourne
Alphonse Indelicato (1931–1981), powerful caporegime in New York City's Bonanno crime family
Alphonse Malangone (born 1936), 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 (1810–1875), birth name of Éliphas Lévi, French occult author and purported magician
Alphonse Favier (1837–1905), controversial Roman Catholic Lazarite Vicar Apostolic of Northern Chi-Li, China
Alphonse Gallegos (1931–1991), American Roman Catholic bishop
Alphonse Joseph Glorieux (1844–1917), Belgian missionary Roman Catholic bishop
Alphonse Magnien (1837–1902), superior at St. Mary's Seminary and University in Baltimore, Maryland from 1878 to 1902
Alphonse Mingana (1878–1937), Assyrian theologian, historian, orientalist and former priest
Alphonse James Schladweiler (1902–1996), American Roman Catholic prelate
Alphonse John Smith (1883–1935), American Roman Catholic bishop
In science, medicine, and academia
Cultural sciences
Alphonse Mingana (1878–1937), Assyrian theologian, historian, orientalist and former priest
Alphonse Pinart (1852–1911), French explorer, philologist and ethnographer
Alphonse Rabbe (1784–1829), French writer, historian, critic and journalist
Alphonse Roque-Ferrier (1844–1907), French philologist and historian of the Occitan language
Geology and earth science
Alphonse Briart (1825–1898), Belgian coal mine supervisor and geologist
Alphonse Francois Renard (1842–1903), Belgian geologist and petrographer
Life sciences and medicine
Alphonse Bertillon (1853–1914), French police officer and biometrics researcher who created the field of anthropometry
Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle (1806–1893), French-Swiss botanist
Alphonse Dochez (1882–1964), American physician and disease researcher
Alphonse Guérin (1816–1895), French surgeon
Alphonse Hustache (1872–1949), French entomologist
Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835–1900), French mammalologist, ornithologist and carcinologist
Other disciplines
Alphonse Borrelly (1842–1926), French astronomer
Alphonse de Polignac (1817–1890), French mathematician
Alphonse Lavallée (1791–1873), the founder of the École Centrale Paris
Alphonse Magnien (1837–1902), the superior at St. Mary's Seminary and University in Baltimore, Maryland from 1878 to 1902
Alphonse Poitevin (1819–1882), French chemist, photographer and civil engineer
In sport
Football (soccer)
Alphonse Areola (born 1993), French footballer
Alphonse Decorte (1909–1977), Belgian footballer
Alphonse Leweck (born 1981), Luxembourgish footballer
Alphonse Renier, Belgian footballer
Alphonse Six (1890–1914), Belgian footballer
Alphonse Tchami (born 1971), Cameroonian retired footballer
Alphonse Yombi (born 1969), Cameroonian former footballer
Winter sports
Alphonse Hörning, Swiss bobsledder
Alphonse Jetté (1887–?), Canadian ice hockey player
Alphonse Lacroix (1897–1973), American ice hockey goaltender
Other sports
Alphonse Antoine (1915–1999), French road bicycle racer
Alphonse Burnand (1896–1981), American sailor
Alphonse Castex (1899–1969), French rugby union player
Alphonse Dotson (born 1943), former American football player
Alphonse Ducatillon, Belgian tug of war competitor
Alphonse Gemuseus (1898–?), Swiss Olympic equestrian
Alphonse Halimi (1932–2006), French world champion bantamweight boxer
Al Hunter (American football) (born 1955), American former National Football League player
Alphonse Kirchhoffer (1873–1913), French fencer
Alphonse Martin (water polo) (born 1930), Belgian water polo player
Alphonse Ruckstuhl (1901–?), Swiss Olympic fencer
Alphonse Schepers (1907–1984), Belgian racing cyclist
Alphonse Van Mele (1891–1972), Belgian gymnast
Alphonse Yanghat (1947–2018), Congolese Olympic sprinter
Phonney Martin (1845–1943), American baseball player
In other fields
Alphonse Goetz (1865–1934), French chess master
Alphonse Le Gastelois (1914–2012), a Jerseyman who became a hermit on the Écréhous islands to avoid persecution
Alphonse James de Rothschild (1827–1905), 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 1990 film 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