Alphonso or Alfonso is a masculine given name and occasional nickname which may refer to:

Contents

• Aristocrats
• Iberia
• Elsewhere
• Others
• Nickname
• Fictional characters
• See also

Aristocrats

Others

• Alfonso of Valladolid (c. 1270–c. 1347), Jewish convert to Christianity, philosopher, and mathematician
• Alphonso Calhoun Avery (1835–1913), American lawyer, Confederate military officer and politician
• Alphonso Boone (1796–1850), American pioneer in what is now Oregon
• Alfonso Calderon (activist) (born 2001), Spanish-born American gun control activist
• Alfonso Calderón (poet) (1930–2009), Chilean poet and writer
• Al Campbell (born 1954), Jamaican reggae singer
• Alphonso Carreker (born 1962), American former National Football League player
• Alfonso Cuarón (born 1961), Mexican cinematographer
• Alphonso Giovanni Giuseppe Roberto D'Abruzzo, birth name of Robert Alda (1914–1986), American actor
• Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo, birth name of Alan Alda (born 1936), American actor, son of Robert Alda
• Alphonso Davies (born 2000), Ghanaian-born Canadian soccer player
• Mike Espy (born 1953), American lawyer and politician
• Alphonso Ford (1971–2004), American basketball player
• Alphonso Gerard (1916–2002), American Negro league baseball player
• Alphonso Jackson (born 1945), American politician, United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
• Alphonso Johnson (born 1951), American jazz bassist
• Buck Johnson (born 1964), American former basketball player
• Alfonso Lizarazo (born 1940), Colombian host and politician
• Alphonso Lingis (1933–2025), American philosopher, writer and translator
• Alphonso Lisk-Carew (1883–1969), Sierra Leonean photographer
• Alphonso M. Lunt (1837–1917), Union Army sergeant awarded the Medal of Honor
• Alphonso McAuley, 21st century American actor
• Alfonso Mejia-Arias (born 1961), Mexican musician, writer, social activist and politician
• Alfonso Oiterong, Palauan politician, vice president
• Alfonso Pérez (born 1972), Spanish former footballer
• Alfonso Pérez (boxer) (born 1949), Colombian former boxer
• Alfonso Quiñónez Molina (1874–1950), Salvadoran politician, physician, and president (1913–1914, 1918–1919, 1923–1927)
• Alfonso Ribeiro (born 1971), American actor and game show host
• Alphonso Theodore Roberts (1937–1996), Vincentian political activist and cricketer
• Alfonso John Romero (born 1967), American video game designer
• Alphonso Sgroia (1886–1940), New York City gangster and murderer
• Alphonso Smith (born 1985), American former National Football League player
• Alphonso C. Smith (1894–1945), Canadian politician
• C. Alphonso Smith (1864–1924), American English professor, college dean, philologist and folklorist
• Alfonso Soriano (born 1976), American Major League Baseball player
• Alphonso Sumner, African American newspaper publisher and abolitionist who opened Nashville, Tennessee's first Black school in 1833
• Alphonso Taft (1810–1891), American jurist, diplomat, and politician, United States Attorney General and Secretary of War under President Ulysses S. Grant, father of President William Howard Taft
• Alphonso Wilson (1860–1936), African-American activist
• Alphonso Wood (1810–1881), American botanist and theology instructor

Nickname

• Alphonso Cox (1908–1964), American Negro league pitcher
• Alphonso Sharland, member of the pop rock band The Hoosiers

Fictional characters

• Don Alfonso, in Mozart's opera Così fan tutte
• Alphonso, protagonist in Alfonso und Estrella , an opera by Franz Schubert
• Alphonso Ali, a minor character in the comic strip Bloom County
• Alfonzo Dominico Jones, a dog in the Australian television series SeaChange
• Al MacKenzie, a Marvel Comics character
• Alfonso "French" Sosa, a main character from The OA , an American television series

See also

• "Alfonso" (song), a 2013 song by Levante
• Alphonsus Liguori (1696–1787), Roman Catholic theologian
• Alphons

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