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This article is about the given name. For the American entrepreneur, painter and philanthropist, see [Adarsh Alphons](/source/Adarsh_Alphons).

**Alphons** (Latinized *Alphonsus*, *Adelphonsus*, or *Adefonsus*) is a male given name recorded from the 8th century ([Alfonso I of Asturias](/source/Alfonso_I_of_Asturias), r. 739–757) in the Christian successor states of the [Visigothic Kingdom](/source/Visigothic_Kingdom) in the [Iberian Peninsula](/source/Iberian_Peninsula). In the later medieval period it became a standard name in the [Hispanic](/source/Monarchy_of_Spain) and [Portuguese](/source/Kingdom_of_Portugal) royal families.[1]

It is derived from a [Gothic name](/source/Gothic_name), or a conflation of several Gothic names; from **Aþalfuns*, composed of the elements *[aþal](/source/A%C3%BEal)* "noble" and *funs* "eager, brave, ready", and perhaps influenced by names such as **Alafuns*, **Adefuns* and **[Hildefuns](/source/Ildefonsus)*. It is recorded as *Adefonsus* in the 9th and 10th centuries,[2] and as *Adelfonsus*, *Adelphonsus* in the 10th and 11th. The reduced form *Alfonso* is recorded in the late 9th century, and the Portuguese form *Afonso* from the early 11th[3][4] and *Anfós* in Catalan from the 12th century until the 15th.[5]

Variants of the name include: *[Alonso](/source/Alonso)* (Spanish), *[Alfonso](/source/Alfonso)* (Spanish and Italian), *Alfons* (Dutch, German, Catalan, Polish, Croatian and Scandinavian), *[Afonso](/source/Afonso)* ([Portuguese](/source/Portuguese_language) and [Galician](/source/Galician_language)), *[Alphonse](/source/Alphonse_(given_name))*, *Alfonse* (French and English), etc.

## Alfons

- [Alfons Almi](/source/Alfons_Almi) (1904–1991), Finnish opera singer and administrator
- [Alfons van Blaaderen](/source/Alfons_van_Blaaderen) (born 1963), Dutch physicist
- [Alfons Geleyns](/source/Alfons_Geleyns) (1887–1914), Belgian private
- [Alfons Goppel](/source/Alfons_Goppel) (1905–1991), German politician
- [Alfons Gorbach](/source/Alfons_Gorbach) (1898–1972), Austrian politician
- [Alfons Grotowski](/source/Alfons_Grotowski) (1833–1922), Polish engineer
- [Alfons Jēgers](/source/Alfons_J%C4%93gers) (1919–1999), Latvian football and hockey player
- [Alfons Karpiński](/source/Alfons_Karpi%C5%84ski) (1875–1961), Polish painter
- [Prince Alfons of Liechtenstein](/source/Prince_Alfons_of_Liechtenstein) (born 2001), Liechtensteiner financial analyst
- [Alfons Rebane](/source/Alfons_Rebane) (1908–1976), Estonian military commander
- [Alfons Rissberger](/source/Alfons_Rissberger) (born 1948), German author

## Alphons

- [Alphons Barb](/source/Alphons_Barb) (1901–1979), Austrian academic, archaeologist, numismatist, museum director and author
- [Alphons Bellesheim](/source/Alphons_Bellesheim) (1839–1912), German church historian nicknamed "Alphons"
- [Alphons Boosten](/source/Alphons_Boosten) (1893–1951), Dutch architect
- [Alphons Czibulka](/source/Alphons_Czibulka) (1842–1894), Austro-Hungarian military bandmaster, composer, pianist and conductor
- [Alphons Diepenbrock](/source/Alphons_Diepenbrock) (1862–1921), Dutch composer, essayist and classicist
- [Alphons Egli](/source/Alphons_Egli) (1924–2016), Swiss attorney and politician
- [Alphons Kannanthanam](/source/Alphons_Kannanthanam) (born 1953), Indian civil servant, advocate and politician
- [Alphons Koechlin](/source/Alphons_Koechlin) (1821–1893), Swiss politician and President of the Swiss Council of States
- [Alphons Leopold Mielich](/source/Alphons_Leopold_Mielich) (1863–1929), Austrian painter
- [Alphons Orie](/source/Alphons_Orie) (born 1947), Dutch jurist
- [Baron Alphons von Pawel-Rammingen](/source/Baron_Alphons_von_Pawel-Rammingen) (1843–1932), German noble
- [Alphons Maximilian Pfyffer von Altishofen](/source/Alphons_Maximilian_Pfyffer_von_Altishofen) (1834–1890), Swiss architect, hotelier and military Chief of Staff
- [Alphons Silbermann](/source/Alphons_Silbermann) (1909–2000), German Jewish sociologist, musicologist, entrepreneur and publicist
- [Alphons Stübel](/source/Alphons_St%C3%BCbel) (1835–1904), German geologist and naturalist
- [Alphons Timmerman](/source/Alphons_Timmerman) (1904–1942), Belgian World War II spy for the Germans
- [Alphons Wijnen](/source/Alphons_Wijnen) (1912–2001), Dutch officer in charge during the Rawagede massacre of Indonesian civilians

## Stage name

- Alfons, stage name of [Emmanuel Peterfalvi](/source/Emmanuel_Peterfalvi), a French comedian

## Fictional characters

- [Alfie Atkins](/source/Alfie_Atkins), known as *Alfons Åberg* in Swedish, character created by Gunilla Bergström from Sweden
- Alfons Heiderich from *[Fullmetal Alchemist the Movie: Conqueror of Shamballa](/source/Fullmetal_Alchemist_the_Movie:_Conqueror_of_Shamballa)*

## See also

- [Alphonso](/source/Alphonso)
- [Afonso](/source/Afonso)
- [Ildefonso (disambiguation)](/source/Ildefonso_(disambiguation))

## References

1. Vol. I. pp. 615–619.

1. In the genitive, *Adefonsi*.

1. José Pedro Machado, *Dicionário Onomástico Etimológico da Língua Portuguesa*

1. E. Förstemann, *Altdeutsches Namenbuch* (1856:133, 145).

1. *Diccionari d'Història de Catalunya*; 62nd ed.; Barcelona; 1998; ISBN 84-297-3521-6; p. 25.

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