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Alphonse is the French variant of the given name Alphons.

People called Alphonse include:

  • Alphonse Allais (1854–1905), a French writer and humorist
  • Alphonse Alley (1930–1987), a Beninese army officer and political figure
  • Alphonse Antoine (1915–1999), a French professional road bicycle racer
  • Alphonse Attardi (1892–1970), a New York mobster
  • Alphonse Balat (1819–1895), a Belgian architect
  • Alphonse Barancira, a former minister for Human Rights, Constitutional Reform and Relations with the National Assembly of Burundi
  • Alphonse Beni, a Cameroonian actor and movie director
  • Alphonse Bernier (1861–1944), a Canadian lawyer, judge and provincial politician
  • Alphonse Berns (born 1952), a Luxembourgian diplomat and current Ambassador to Belgium and Permanent Representative to NATO
  • Alphonse Bertillon (1853–1914), a French police officer and biometrics researcher who created anthropometry
  • Alphonse Bertrand (1846–1926), a merchant and political figure in New Brunswick
  • Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin (1915–2007), an American accordionist
  • Alphonse Borrelly (1842–1926), a French astronomer
  • Alphonse Boudard (1925–2000), a French novelist and playwright
  • Alphonse Briart (1825–1898), a Belgian coal mines supervisor and geologist
  • Alphonse Burnand (1896–1981), an American sailor
  • Alphonse Capone (1899–1947), an Italian-American gangster who led a Prohibition-era crime syndicate
  • Alphonse Castex (1899–1969), a French rugby union player
  • Alphonse Chapanis (1917–2002), an American pioneer in the field of industrial design
  • Alphonse Colas (1818–1887), a French painter
  • Alphonse Constant (1810–1875), a French occult author and purported magician
  • Alphonse D'Arco (born 1932), a New York mobster
  • Alphonse Daudet (1840–1897), a French novelist
  • Alphonse de Cailleux (1788–1876), a French painter, connoisseur, arts administrator and director of the Musée du Louvre
  • Alphonse de Châteaubriant (1877–1951), a French writer
  • Alphonse Decorte (1909–1977), a Belgian football player
  • Alphonse de Lamartine (1790–1869), a French writer, poet and politician
  • Alphonse de Polignac (1817–1890), a French mathematician
  • Alphonse Desjardins (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Alphonse de Tonty (ca. 1659–1727), an Italian officer who served under the French explorer Cadillac
  • Alphonse Dochez (1882–1964), an American physician and disease researcher
  • Alphonse Dotson (born 1943), a former American football player
  • Alphonse Ducatillon, a Belgian tug of war competitor
  • Alphonse Duvernoy (1842-Paris), a French pianist and composer
  • Alphonse Fournier (1893–1961), a Canadian politician
  • Alphonse Gallegos (1931–1991), an American Roman Catholic bishop
  • Alphonse Gangitano (1957–1998), an Italian Australian organised crime identity from Templestowe, a suburb of Melbourne
  • Alphonse Gemuseus (1898-?), a Swiss horse rider
  • Alphonse Girandy (1868–1941), a United States Navy sailor
  • Alphonse Giroux (1775–1848), a French painter
  • Alphonse Goetz (1865–1934), a French chess master
  • Alphonse Grisel, a French athlete and gymnast
  • Alphonse Guérin (1816–1895), a French surgeon
  • Alphonse Halimi ("La Petite Terreur"; 1932–2006), a French world champion bantamweight boxer
  • Alphonse Hasselmans (1845–1912), a Belgian-born French harpist, composer and pedagogue
  • Alphonse Henri, comte d'Hautpoul (1789–1865), a Prime Minister of France from 31 October 1849 to 10 April 1851 during the French Second Republic
  • Alphonse Hörning, a Swiss bobsledder
  • Alphonse Hustache (1872–1949), a French entomologist
  • Alphonse Indelicato (1931–1981), a powerful caporegime in New York City's Bonanno crime family
  • Alphonse J. Jackson (born 1927), a retired educator and former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives
  • Alphonse Jetté (1887-?), a Canadian professional ice hockey player
  • Alphonse Juin (1888–1967), a Marshal of France
  • Alphonse Kann (1870–1948), a prominent French art collector of Jewish heritage
  • Alphonse Kirchhoffer (1873–1913), a French fencer
  • Alphonse Kotiga (contemporary), a Chadian military officer and politician
  • Alphonse Lacroix (1897–1973), an American ice hockey goaltender
  • Alphonse Lami (1822–1867), a French sculptor
  • Alphonse Lavallée (1791–1873), the founder of the École Centrale Paris
  • Alphonse Laverrière (1872–1954), a Swiss architect
  • Alphonse Le Gastelois (1914–2012), a Jerseyman who became a hermit on the Écréhous to avoid persecution
  • Alphonse Legros (1837–1911), a French painter, etcher and sculptor
  • Alphonse Lemerre (1838–1912), a French editor and publisher
  • Alphonse Leweck (born 1981), a Luxembourgian football player
  • Alphonse Loubat (1799–1866), a French inventor who developed improvements in tram and rail equipment
  • Alphonse Magnien (1837–1902), the superior at St. Mary's Seminary and University in Baltimore, Maryland from 1878 to 1902
  • Alphonse Malangone (born 1936), a New York City mobster and caporegime in the Genovese crime family
  • Alphonse Martin (1884–1947), a Canadian organist, pianist and music educator
  • Alphonse Massamba-Débat (1921–1977), a political figure of the Republic of the Congo who led the country from 1963 until 1968
  • Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835–1900), a French mammalologist, ornithologist and carcinologist
  • Alphonse Mingana (1878–1937), an Assyrian theologian, historian, orientalist and former priest
  • Alphonse Mouzon (born 1948), an American jazz-fusion drummer and percussionist
  • Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939), a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist
  • Alphonse Munchen (1850–1917)), a Luxembourgian engineer and politician
  • Alphonse Osbert (1857–1939), a French Symbolist painter
  • Alphonse Ouimet (1908–1988), a Canadian television pioneer and president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation from 1958 to 1967
  • Alphonse Pénaud (1850–1880), a French pioneer of aviation
  • Alphonse Persico, a former acting boss of the Colombo crime family from the 1980s and 1990s
  • Alphonse Picou (1878–1961), an American early jazz clarinetist
  • Alphonse Pinart (1852–1911), a French explorer, philologist and ethnographer
  • Alphonse Poaty-Souchlaty (born 1941), a politician of the Republic of the Congo
  • Alphonse Poitevin (1819–1882), a French chemist, photographer and civil engineer
  • Alphonse Rabbe (1784–1829), a French writer, historian, critic and journalist
  • Alphonse Raymond (1884–1958), a Quebec businessman, financier and public official
  • Alphonse Renier, a Belgian football player
  • Alphonse Roque-Ferrier (1844-1907), French philologist and historian of the occitan language.
  • Alphonse Roy (1897–1967), an American Representative from New Hampshire
  • Alphonse Royer (1803–1875), a French author, dramatist and theatre manager
  • Alphonse Ruckstuhl (1901-?), a Swiss Olympic fencer
  • Alphonse Sagebien (1807–1892), a French hydrological engineer
  • Alphonse Schepers (1907–1984), a Belgian racing cyclist
  • Alphonse Six (1890–1914), a Belgian football player
  • Alphonse Tavan (1833-1905), French Provençal poet.
  • Alphonse Tchami (born 1971), a retired Cameroonian football player
  • Alphonse Toussenel (1803–1885), a French writer and journalist
  • Alphonse Trent (1905–1959), an American jazz pianist and territory band leader
  • Alphonse Van Mele (1891–1972), a Belgian gymnast
  • Alphonse Varney (1811–1879), a French conductor
  • Alphonse Verville (1864–1921), a Canadian politician and trade unionist
  • Alphonse Yanghat (born 1957), Congolese Olympic sprinter
  • Alphonse Yombi (born 1969), a former Cameroonian football player

and also :

  • Alphonse Alfred Clément Larivière (1842–1925), a Canadian politician and journalist
  • Alphonse-Arthur Miville Déchêne (1848–1902), a lumber merchant and political figure in Quebec
  • Alphonse Francois Renard (1842–1903), a Belgian geologist and petrographer
  • Alphonse James, a disambiguation page
  • Alphonse John Smith (1883–1935), an American bishop in the Catholic Church
  • Alphonse Joseph, a disambiguation page
  • Alphonse-Louis du Plessis de Richelieu (1582–1653), a French Carthusian, bishop and Cardina
  • Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville (1835–1885), a French Academic painter
  • Alphonse-Marie Kadege, a vice-President of Burundi from 30 April 2003 to 11 November 2004
  • Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle (1806–1893), a French-Swiss botanist
  • Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier (1840–1914), an American archaeologist
  • Auguste Joseph Alphonse Gratry (1805–1872), a French author and theologian
  • Alphonse-Télesphore Lépine (1855–1943), a journalist, printer and political figure in Quebec
  • Camille Alphonse, a disambiguation page
  • Charles Alphonse Pantaléon Pelletier (1837–1911), a Canadian lawyer, militia officer, politician, publisher, judge and the ninth Lieutenant Governor of Quebec
  • Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran (1845–1922), a French physician
  • Christophe-Alphonse Geoffrion (1843–1899), a Canadian lawyer, professor and politician
  • Claude Alphonse Nsilou (born 1954), a Congolese politician
  • Cuthbert-Alphonse Chênevert (1859–1920), a lawyer and political figure in Quebec
  • Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade (1740–1814), a French aristocrat, revolutionary, politician and writer famous for his libertine sexuality and lifestyle
  • Édouard Alphonse James de Rothschild (1868–1949), a French financier
  • Ferdinand-Alphonse Hamelin (1796–1864), a French admiral
  • François-Alphonse Forel (1841–1912), a Swiss scientist, founder of limnology
  • Guillaume-Alphonse Nantel (1852–1909), a Canadian lawyer, journalist, author, newspaper owner and politician
  • Henri-François-Alphonse Esquiros (1812–1876), a French writer
  • Jean-Baptiste-Alphonse, a disambiguation page
  • Joseph-Alphonse-Anaclet Habel (1895–1979), a Canadian politician
  • Joseph-Alphonse Esménard (1770–1811), a French poet
  • Louis-Alphonse, a disambiguation page
  • Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne (1814–1884), a French Jesuit Catholic priest and missionary
  • Pierre Alphonse Laurent (1813–1854), a French mathematician
  • Pierre-Marie-Alphonse Favier (1837–1905), a controversial Roman Catholic Lazarite Vicar Apostolic of Northern Chi-Li, China
  • Victor-Alphonse Huard (1853–1929), a French-Canadian churchman, naturalist, writer and editor
  • William Ferdinand Alphonse Turgeon (1877–1969), a Canadian politician, judge and diplomat

Usage examples of "alphonse".

Sunday afternoons now that the weather is good Alphonse takes the trolley to Ely with one of the two dimes he keeps from his pay packet.

It has taken Alphonse at least a half hour to do the sheets and so maybe they have left already.

McDermott because they will have a million questions and the man will naturally get sick and tired of answering them and then he will never ever come back for Alphonse and that will be that.

It moves through the streets like smoke, and Alphonse pretends the Germans are right around the corner and that the smoke is from the guns and the bombs.

McDermott because then she would ask a million questions, so Alphonse kept talking about how good the fish would taste in butter and after a while she stopped asking him where he got the thing.

He has on his leather jacket and the same sweater he wore when he took Alphonse fishing.

A fine mist has started and Alphonse can see it slanting in gusts under the light of the street lamp.

McDermott sits beside Alphonse and smokes a cigarette, and from time to time Alphonse sneaks a look at his face.

Maybe McDermott has a relative on a farm, Alphonse decides, and they are going visiting.

McDermott asked Alphonse if he had a sweater because it might be cold where they were headed.

Alphonse ride in silence and Alphonse watches the people getting on and off the trolley, more getting off than on as they travel farther and farther west.

McDermott has a word with the conductor and offers him a cigarette and when he turns to look back at Alphonse, he points out the window.

McDermott looks better than Alphonse does, but not as good as the people standing around drinking coffee and chatting as if they did this every day.

McDermott goes to the counter and comes back again with a white china cup that has a blue line and an airplane on it, and Alphonse takes a long drink of the hot brew and thinks that it is just about the best thing he has ever had to drink in his whole long life.

The woman in the fur coat says something to the woman beside her, and when they laugh, Alphonse imagines bits of beautiful glass falling through the air.