# Alphonso

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This article is about the given name. For the surname, see [Alfonso (surname)](/source/Alfonso_(surname)). For the cultivar, see [Alphonso mango](/source/Alphonso_mango).

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

## Aristocrats

### Iberia

- [Alfonso I of Aragon](/source/Alfonso_I_of_Aragon) (1104–1134), known as *el Batallador* (The Battler)
- [Alfonso I of Asturias](/source/Alfonso_I_of_Asturias) (739–757)
- [Alfonso II of Aragon](/source/Alfonso_II_of_Aragon) (1162–1196)
- [Alfonso II of Asturias](/source/Alfonso_II_of_Asturias) (791–842)
- [Alfonso II of Naples](/source/Alfonso_II_of_Naples) (1448–1495)
- [Alfonso III of Aragon](/source/Alfonso_III_of_Aragon) (1285–1291)
- [Alfonso III of León](/source/Alfonso_III_of_Le%C3%B3n) (866–910)
- [Alfonso IV of Aragon](/source/Alfonso_IV_of_Aragon) (1327–1336)
- [Alfonso IV of León](/source/Alfonso_IV_of_Le%C3%B3n) (925–931)
- [Alfonso V of Aragon](/source/Alfonso_V_of_Aragon) (1416–1458), also king of Naples and Sicily
- [Alfonso V of León](/source/Alfonso_V_of_Le%C3%B3n) (999–1028)
- [Alfonso VI of León](/source/Alfonso_VI_of_Le%C3%B3n) (1065–1109)
- [Alfonso VII of León](/source/Alfonso_VII_of_Le%C3%B3n) (1126–1157)
- [Alfonso VIII of Castile](/source/Alfonso_VIII_of_Castile) (1158–1214)
- [Alfonso IX of León](/source/Alfonso_IX_of_Le%C3%B3n) (1188–1230)
- [Alfonso X of Castile](/source/Alfonso_X_of_Castile) (1252–1284)
- [Alfonso XI of Castile](/source/Alfonso_XI_of_Castile) (1312–1350)
- [Alfonso XII of Spain](/source/Alfonso_XII_of_Spain) (1857–1885) (ordinal numbering continues from the kings of Castile)
- [Alfonso XIII](/source/Alfonso_XIII) of Spain (1886–1931)
- [Alfonso Fróilaz](/source/Alfonso_Fr%C3%B3ilaz), briefly king of the unified kingdom of Asturias, Galicia and León in 925
- [Alfonso, Prince of Asturias (1453–1468)](/source/Alfonso,_Prince_of_Asturias_(1453%E2%80%931468)), figurehead of rebelling magnates against his brother King Henry IV of Castile
- [Infante Alfonso of Spain](/source/Infante_Alfonso_of_Spain) (1941–1956), younger brother of King Juan Carlos of Spain
- [Alfonso of Spain, Prince of Asturias](/source/Alfonso_of_Spain,_Prince_of_Asturias), heir apparent of the throne of Spain

### Elsewhere

- [Alfonso I d'Este](/source/Alfonso_I_d'Este) (1476–1534), Duke of Ferrara
- [Alfonso II d'Este](/source/Alfonso_II_d'Este) (1533–1597), Duke of Ferrara
- [Alfonso II, Count of Provence](/source/Alfonso_II,_Count_of_Provence) (1180–1209), second son of Alfonso II of Aragon
- [Alfonso III d'Este](/source/Alfonso_III_d'Este) (1591–1644), Duke of Modena and Reggio
- [Alfonso of Capua](/source/Alfonso_of_Capua) (c. 1120 – 1144), Prince of Capua
- [Prince Alfonso, Count of Caserta](/source/Prince_Alfonso,_Count_of_Caserta) (1841–1934), Duke of Calabria and head of the royal house of the Two Sicilies
- [Prince Alfonso of Hohenlohe-Langenburg](/source/Prince_Alfonso_of_Hohenlohe-Langenburg) (1924–2003), Spanish playboy and businessman
- [Alfonso Jordan](/source/Alfonso_Jordan) (1103–1148), Count of Tripoli, Count of Rouergue, Count of Toulouse, Margrave of Provence and Duke of Narbonne
- [Infante Alfonso, Duke of Calabria](/source/Infante_Alfonso,_Duke_of_Calabria) (1901–1964), claimant to the title of the head of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
- [Alphonso, Earl of Chester](/source/Alphonso,_Earl_of_Chester) (1273–1284), first son of Edward I of England, heir apparent to the English throne
- [Prince Alfonso of Liechtenstein](/source/Prince_Alfonso_of_Liechtenstein) (born 2001), grandson of Hans-Adam II

## Others

- [Alfonso of Valladolid](/source/Alfonso_of_Valladolid) (c. 1270 – c. 1347), Jewish convert to Christianity, philosopher, and mathematician
- [Alphonso Calhoun Avery](/source/Alphonso_Calhoun_Avery) (1835–1913), American lawyer, Confederate military officer, and politician
- [Alphonso Boone](/source/Alphonso_Boone) (1796–1850), American pioneer in what is now Oregon
- [Alfonso Calderon (activist)](/source/Alfonso_Calderon_(activist)) (born 2001), Spanish-born American gun control activist
- [Alfonso Calderón (poet)](/source/Alfonso_Calder%C3%B3n_(poet)) (1930–2009), Chilean poet and writer
- [Al Campbell](/source/Al_Campbell) (born 1954), Jamaican reggae singer
- [Alphonso Carreker](/source/Alphonso_Carreker) (born 1962), American former National Football League player
- [Alfonso Cuarón](/source/Alfonso_Cuar%C3%B3n) (born 1961), Mexican cinematographer
- Alphonso Giovanni Giuseppe Roberto D'Abruzzo, birth name of [Robert Alda](/source/Robert_Alda) (1914–1986), American actor
- Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo, birth name of [Alan Alda](/source/Alan_Alda) (born 1936), American actor, son of Robert Alda
- [Alphonso Davies](/source/Alphonso_Davies) (born 2000), Ghanaian-born Canadian soccer player
- [Mike Espy](/source/Mike_Espy) (born 1953), American lawyer and politician
- [Alphonso Ford](/source/Alphonso_Ford) (1971–2004), American basketball player
- [Alphonso Gerard](/source/Alphonso_Gerard) (1916–2002), American Negro league baseball player
- [Alphonso Jackson](/source/Alphonso_Jackson) (born 1945), American politician, United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
- [Alphonso Johnson](/source/Alphonso_Johnson) (born 1951), American jazz bassist
- [Buck Johnson](/source/Buck_Johnson_(basketball)) (born 1964), American former basketball player
- [Alfonso Lizarazo](/source/Alfonso_Lizarazo) (born 1940), Colombian host and politician
- [Alphonso Lingis](/source/Alphonso_Lingis) (1933–2025), American philosopher, writer, and translator
- [Alphonso Lisk-Carew](/source/Alphonso_Lisk-Carew) (1883–1969), Sierra Leonean photographer
- [Alphonso M. Lunt](/source/Alphonso_M._Lunt) (1837–1917), Union Army sergeant awarded the Medal of Honor
- [Alphonso McAuley](/source/Alphonso_McAuley), 21st century American actor
- [Alfonso Mejia-Arias](/source/Alfonso_Mejia-Arias) (born 1961), Mexican musician, writer, social activist, and politician
- [Alfonso Oiterong](/source/Alfonso_Oiterong), Palauan politician, vice president
- [Alfonso Pérez](/source/Alfonso_P%C3%A9rez) (born 1972), Spanish former footballer
- [Alfonso Pérez (boxer)](/source/Alfonso_P%C3%A9rez_(boxer)) (born 1949), Colombian former boxer
- [Alfonso Quiñónez Molina](/source/Alfonso_Qui%C3%B1%C3%B3nez_Molina) (1874–1950), Salvadoran politician, physician, and president (1913–1914, 1918–1919, 1923–1927)
- [Alfonso Ribeiro](/source/Alfonso_Ribeiro) (born 1971), American actor and game show host
- [Alphonso Theodore Roberts](/source/Alphonso_Theodore_Roberts) (1937–1996), Vincentian political activist and cricketer
- Alfonso [John Romero](/source/John_Romero) (born 1967), American video game designer
- [Alphonso Sgroia](/source/Alphonso_Sgroia) (1886–1940), New York City gangster and murderer
- [Alphonso Smith](/source/Alphonso_Smith) (born 1985), American former National Football League player
- [Alphonso C. Smith](/source/Alphonso_C._Smith) (1894–1945), Canadian politician
- [C. Alphonso Smith](/source/C._Alphonso_Smith) (1864–1924), American English professor, college dean, philologist, and folklorist
- [Alfonso Soriano](/source/Alfonso_Soriano) (born 1976), American Major League Baseball player
- [Alphonso Sumner](/source/Alphonso_Sumner), African American newspaper publisher and abolitionist who opened the first Black school in Nashville, Tennessee in 1833
- [Alphonso Taft](/source/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](/source/Alphonso_Wilson) (1860–1936), African-American activist
- [Alphonso Wood](/source/Alphonso_Wood) (1810–1881), American botanist and theology instructor

## Nickname

- [Alphonso Cox](/source/Alphonso_Cox) (1908–1964), American Negro League pitcher
- [Alphonso Sharland](/source/Alphonso_Sharland), member of the pop-rock band The Hoosiers

## Fictional characters

- Don Alfonso, in Mozart's opera *[Così fan tutte](/source/Cos%C3%AC_fan_tutte)*
- Alphonso, protagonist in *[Alfonso und Estrella](/source/Alfonso_und_Estrella)*, an opera by Franz Schubert
- [Alphonso Ali](/source/Minor_characters_in_Bloom_County#Alphonso_Ali), a minor character in the comic strip *Bloom County*
- [Alfonzo Dominico Jones](/source/Alfonzo_Dominico_Jones), a dog in the Australian television series *SeaChange*
- [Al MacKenzie](/source/Al_MacKenzie), a Marvel Comics character
- Alfonso "French" Sosa, a main character from *[The OA](/source/The_OA)*, an American television series

## See also

- ["Alfonso" (song)](/source/Alfonso_(song)), a 2013 song by Levante
- [Alphonsus Liguori](/source/Alphonsus_Liguori) (1696–1787), Roman Catholic theologian
- [Alphons](/source/Alphons)
- [Alphonse](/source/Alphonse_(disambiguation))

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