Alphons

This article is about the given name. For the American entrpreneur, painter and philanthropist, see Adarsh Alphons.

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

Alphons

Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Germanic languages
Meaning	"Noble brave"
Popularity	see popular names

It is derived from a Gothic name, or a conflation of several Gothic names; from *Aþalfuns, composed of the elements aþal "noble" and funs "eager, brave, ready", and perhaps influenced by names such as *Alafuns, *Adefuns and *Hildefuns. 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 (Spanish), Alfonso (Spanish and Italian), Alfons (Dutch, German, Catalan, Polish, Croatian and Scandinavian), Afonso (Portuguese and Galician), Alphonse, Alfonse (French and English), etc.

Alfons

• Alfons Almi (1904–1991), Finnish opera singer and administrator
• Alfons van Blaaderen (born 1963), Dutch physicist
• Alfons Geleyns (1887–1914), Belgian private
• Alfons Goppel (1905–1991), German politician
• Alfons Gorbach (1898–1972), Austrian politician
• Alfons Grotowski (1833–1922), Polish engineer
• Alfons Jēgers (1919–1999), Latvian football and hockey player
• Alfons Karpiński (1875–1961), Polish painter
• Prince Alfons of Liechtenstein (born 2001), Liechtensteiner financial analyst
• Alfons Rebane (1908–1976), Estonian military commander
• Alfons Rissberger (born 1948), German author

Alphons

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

Stage name

• Alfons, stage name of Emmanuel Peterfalvi, a French comedian

Fictional characters

• 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

See also

• Alphonso
• Afonso
• Ildefonso (disambiguation)