Alphonse (given name)

Alphonse is the French variant of the given name Alfonso. People called Alphonse include:

Film, television, and theatre

 * Alphonse Beni, 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
 * Alphonse Colas (1818–1887), French painter
 * Alphonse de Cailleux (1788–1876), French painter, connoisseur, arts administrator and director of the Musée du Louvre
 * Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe 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
 * Joseph-Alphonse Esménard (1770–1811), French poet
 * Henri-François-Alphonse Esquiros (1812–1876), French writer
 * Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade (1740–1814), French aristocrat, revolutionary, politician and writer famous for his libertine sexuality and lifestyle
 * Auguste Joseph Alphonse Gratry (1805–1872), French author and theologian
 * Victor-Alphonse Huard (1853–1929), French-Canadian churchman, naturalist, writer and editor
 * Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr (1808–1890), French critic, journalist and novelist
 * Alphonse Lemerre (1838–1912), French editor and publisher
 * Alphonse-Télesphore Lépine (1855–1943), journalist, printer and political figure in Quebec
 * Jean-Baptiste-Alphonse Lusignan (1843–1893), French-Canadian writer
 * Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel (1852–1909), Canadian lawyer, journalist, author, newspaper owner and politician
 * 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
 * Louis-Alphonse Boyer (1839–1916), Quebec merchant and political figure
 * Alphonse-Arthur Miville Déchêne (1848–1902), lumber merchant and political figure in Quebec
 * 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
 * Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild (1868–1949), French financier
 * 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
 * Camille Alphonse Faure (1840–1898), French chemical engineer
 * Alphonse Loubat (1799–1866), French inventor who developed improvements in tram and rail equipment
 * Alphonse Munchen (1850–1917), Luxembourgian 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

Congo

 * Alphonse Massamba-Débat (1921–1977), political figure of the Republic of the Congo who led the country from 1963 until 1968
 * Claude Alphonse Nsilou (born 1954), Congolese politician
 * Alphonse Poaty-Souchlaty (born 1941), politician of the Republic of the Congo

Other African countries

 * 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-Marie Kadege, vice-President of Burundi from 30 April 2003 to 11 November 2004
 * Alphonse Kotiga (contemporary), Chadian military officer and politician

France

 * Alphonse, Count of Poitiers (1220–1271)
 * Alphonse de Lamartine (1790–1869), French writer, poet and politician
 * Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade (1740–1814), French aristocrat, revolutionary, politician and writer famous for his libertine sexuality and lifestyle
 * Alphonse Joseph Georges (1875–1951), French army officer
 * Ferdinand-Alphonse Hamelin (1796–1864), French admiral
 * Alphonse Henri, comte d'Hautpoul (1789–1865), Prime Minister of France from 31 October 1849 to 10 April 1851 during the French Second Republic
 * Alphonse Juin (1888–1967), Marshal of France
 * Camille Alphonse Trézel (1780–1860), French général de division, Minister for War and peer of France during the July Monarchy

Other European countries

 * Alphonse Berns (born 1952), Luxembourgian 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)), Luxembourgian engineer and politician

Canada

 * Alphonse Bernier (1861–1944), Canadian lawyer, judge and provincial politician
 * Alphonse Bertrand (1846–1926), merchant and political figure in New Brunswick
 * Louis-Alphonse Boyer (1839–1916), Quebec merchant and political figure
 * Cuthbert-Alphonse Chênevert (1859–1920), lawyer and political figure in Quebec
 * Alphonse-Arthur Miville Déchêne (1848–1902), lumber merchant and political figure in Quebec
 * Alphonse Desjardins (politician) (1841–1912), mayor of Montreal and Canadian cabinet minister
 * Alphonse Fournier (1893–1961), Canadian politician
 * Christophe-Alphonse Geoffrion (1843–1899), Canadian lawyer, professor and politician
 * Joseph-Alphonse-Anaclet Habel (1895–1979), Canadian politician
 * Alphonse Alfred Clément Larivière (1842–1925), Canadian politician and journalist
 * Alphonse-Télesphore Lépine (1855–1943), journalist, printer and political figure in Quebec
 * Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel (1852–1909), Canadian lawyer, journalist, author, newspaper owner and politician
 * Charles Alphonse Pantaléon Pelletier (1837–1911), Canadian lawyer, militia officer, politician, publisher, judge and the ninth Lieutenant Governor of Quebec
 * Alphonse Raymond (1884–1958), Quebec businessman, financier and public official
 * William Ferdinand Alphonse Turgeon (1877–1969), Canadian politician, judge and diplomat
 * Alphonse Verville (1864–1921), Canadian politician and trade unionist

United States

 * Alphonse Girandy (1868–1941), United States Navy sailor
 * Alphonse J. Jackson (1927–2014), retired educator and former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives
 * Alphonse Roy (1897–1967), American Representative from New Hampshire

In organized crime

 * Alphonse Attardi (1892–1970), New York mobster
 * Alphonse "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), French occult author and purported magician
 * Pierre-Marie-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
 * Auguste Joseph Alphonse Gratry (1805–1872), French author and theologian
 * Alphonse Magnien (1837–1902), the 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
 * Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne (1814–1884), French Jesuit Catholic priest and missionary
 * Alphonse-Louis du Plessis de Richelieu (1582–1653), French Carthusian, bishop and Cardina
 * Alphonse James Schladweiler (1902–1996), American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church
 * Alphonse John Smith (1883–1935), American bishop in the Catholic Church

Cultural sciences

 * Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier (1840–1914), American archaeologist
 * 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
 * François-Alphonse Forel (1841–1912), Swiss scientist, founder of limnology
 * 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
 * Victor-Alphonse Huard (1853–1929), French-Canadian churchman, naturalist, writer and editor
 * Alphonse Hustache (1872–1949), French entomologist
 * Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (1845–1922), French physician
 * 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
 * Christophe-Alphonse Geoffrion (1843–1899), Canadian lawyer, professor and politician
 * Pierre Alphonse Laurent (1813–1854), 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

Football (soccer)

 * Alphonse Areola (born 1993), French football player
 * Alphonse Decorte (1909–1977), Belgian football player
 * Alphonse Leweck (born 1981), Luxembourgian football player
 * Alphonse Renier, Belgian football player
 * Alphonse Six (1890–1914), Belgian football player
 * Alphonse Tchami (born 1971), retired Cameroonian football player
 * Alphonse Yombi (born 1969), former Cameroonian football player

Winter sports

 * Alphonse Hörning, Swiss bobsledder
 * Alphonse Jetté (1887–?), Canadian professional ice hockey player
 * Alphonse Lacroix (1897–1973), American ice hockey goaltender

Other sports

 * Alphonse Antoine (1915–1999), French professional 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 horse rider
 * Alphonse Halimi ("La Petite Terreur"; 1932–2006), French world champion bantamweight boxer
 * 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 James de Rothschild (1827–1905), French financier, vineyard owner, art collector, philanthropist and racehorse owner and breeder
 * 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

Fictional characters

 * Alphonse and Gaston, an American comic strip by Frederick Burr Opper, featuring a bumbling pair of Frenchmen with a penchant for politeness
 * Alphonse Elric, a fictional character in the anime/manga series Fullmetal Alchemist
 * Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice, a fictional character by Chester Gould in the comic strip Dick Tracy
 * Alphonse Mephisto, fictional character in the animated television series South Park
 * Alphonse Bearwalker, a character in the television comedy NTSF:SD:SUV::
 * Alphonse Huggins, a character in the series Titanic by Gordon Korman
 * Alphonse, a fictional character in the video game Owlboy.
 * Monsieur Alfonse, character in the BBC sitcom Allo 'Allo! played by the actor Kenneth Connor