Alphonse (given name)

Alphonse is the French variant of the given name Alfonso.[1] People called Alphonse include:

In arts, entertainment, and media

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

Plastic arts

Writing and journalism

In business and finance

In engineering and industrial design

In government, law, military, and politics

Africa

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 Koyamba (1941–1998), Central African economist and politician
  • Alphonse Kotiga, 20th century Chadian military officer and politician

Europe

France

Other European countries

  • 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

Canada

United States

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

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

Life sciences and medicine

Other disciplines

In sport

Football (soccer)

Winter sports

Other sports

In other fields

Fictional characters

See also

References

  1. ^ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). A Dictionary of First Names. Oxford paperback reference. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1. OCLC 67869278. Retrieved 21 November 2024.