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Alfonso Arau
Alfonso Arau Incháustegui (born 11 January 1932, Mexico City) is a Mexican actor-director whose 1992 film Como agua para chocolate, scripted by Laura Esquivel, became the highest-grossing foreign-language film in the US.
Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport
Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport, originally Palmaseca Airport, serves Cali, Colombia, from Palmira and has handled more than 6 million passengers a year since opening in 1971.
Alfonso Capecelatro
Alfonso Capecelatro (1824–1912) was an Italian Oratorian priest, ecclesiastical historian, and hagiographer who served as Archbishop of Capua from 1880 and as a cardinal from 1885.
Alfonso Carafa
Alfonso Carafa was a Neapolitan nobleman made a cardinal at sixteen by his great-uncle Pope Paul IV, imprisoned in the Carafa trial of 1560–61, and Archbishop of Naples.
Alfonso Carlos Espá y Garcés-Alvear
Alfonso Carlos Espá y Garcés-Alvear, born in 1960 in Lima, is a Peruvian lawyer, journalist, and politician serving as Minister of Foreign Affairs since July 2026.
Alfonso Caso
Alfonso Caso was a Mexican archaeologist and anthropologist who directed the Monte Albán excavations, found the Tomb 7 treasure in 1932, and deciphered the Mixtec codices.
Alfonso Cuarón
Alfonso Cuarón (Alfonso Cuarón Orozco) is a Mexican filmmaker, a four-time Oscar winner for Gravity and Roma and the first Mexican to win Best Director.
Alfonso De los Ríos
Alfonso De los Ríos (born 1998) is a Mexican entrepreneur who co-founded Nowports, a Monterrey digital freight forwarder that became Latin America's first logistics unicorn.
Alfonso de Portago
Alfonso de Portago (Alfonso Cabeza de Vaca y Leighton), Spanish marquis, Olympic bobsledder and Ferrari Formula 1 driver 1956-1957; killed 12 May 1957 in the Guidizzolo Mille Miglia crash that ended the race.
Alfonso Fanjul Jr.
Alfonso "Alfy" Fanjul Jr. (1936–2026) was a Cuban-born sugar executive who fled Castro's revolution in 1959 and led Florida Crystals and Fanjul Corp. in West Palm Beach for four decades.
Alfonso Fernández Mañueco
Alfonso Fernández Mañueco is a Spanish politician of the Partido Popular who has been President of the Junta of Castile and León since 2019, winning elections in 2019 and 2022.
Alfonso García Robles
Alfonso García Robles was a Mexican diplomat who drafted the 1967 Treaty of Tlatelolco, the first nuclear-weapon-free zone in an inhabited region, and shared the 1982 Nobel Peace Prize.
Alfonso Herrera
Alfonso Herrera (Poncho; Alfonso Herrera Rodríguez), Mexican actor and singer born 1983 in Mexico City; star of Rebelde and RBD member, later Sense8, The Exorcist, Ozark, 2021 Ariel winner for Dance of the 41, UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador.
Alfonso López Pumarejo
Alfonso López Pumarejo was a Colombian Liberal politician and banker who served two terms as president of Colombia, from 1934 to 1938 and from 1942 to 1945.
Alfonso Martínez Arias
Alfonso Martínez Arias is a Spanish developmental biologist who spent 37 years at the University of Cambridge and is now an ICREA Research Professor in Barcelona, known for gastruloids, stem-cell models of mammalian gastrulation.
Alfonso Menéndez
Alfonso Menéndez (Alfonso Menéndez Vallín), Spanish archer born 1966 in Avilés, Asturias; won men's team recurve gold at Barcelona 1992 with Holgado and Vázquez, Spain's only Olympic archery gold; individual 42nd; retired 1996 before Atlanta.
Alfonso Mondragón
Alfonso Mondragón is a structural biologist and Ethel & John Lindgren Professor at Northwestern University, known for crystal structures of DNA topoisomerases, RNase P, and spectrin.
Alfonso Muzzarelli
Alfonso Muzzarelli (1749–1813) was an Italian Jesuit theologian and count who wrote against Enlightenment philosophy, Rousseau, and Jansenism; his devotional work Il mese di Maria ran to over 100 editions.
Alfonso Reyes
Alfonso Reyes, also known as Alfonso Reyes Ochoa, was a Mexican essayist, poet, and diplomat (1889–1959) known for Visión de Anáhuac and for founding El Colegio de México.
Alfonso Ribeiro
Alfonso Ribeiro (born 1971, New York City) is an American actor, dancer, and host: Carlton Banks on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Dancing with the Stars season 19 champion, and host of America's Funniest Home Videos since 2015.
Alfonso Rueda
Alfonso Rueda Valenzuela, born 1968 in Pontevedra, is a Spanish politician of the Partido Popular serving as President of the Xunta of Galicia since 2022.
Alfonso Saiz‐Lopez
Alfonso Saiz-Lopez, born 1976, is a Spanish atmospheric chemist at CSIC in Madrid known for showing that short-lived halogens exert a measurable cooling on climate.
Alfonso Soriano
Alfonso Guilleard Soriano, Dominican MLB outfielder and second baseman (1999-2014) with the Yankees, Rangers, Nationals, and Cubs; 412 home runs, 289 steals, and the only 40-40-40 season (2006).
Alfonso Valencia
Alfonso Valencia is a Spanish computational biologist who directs the Life Sciences Department at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and leads the Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute.
Alfonso Velasco
Alfonso Velasco (1904, Irolo, Hidalgo) was a Mexican baker and businessman who co-founded Panificadora Bimbo in Mexico City in 1945, serving as Technical Director and proposing the name "Bimbo".
Alfonso VI of León and Castile
Alfonso VI of León and Castile (1030 or 1040–1109), called el Bravo, reunified his father Ferdinand I's kingdoms from 1072, took Toledo in 1085 as emperor of Spain, collected parias from the taifas, and was beaten by the Almoravids at Zalaca in 1086.
Alfonso Visconti
Alfonso Visconti (1552–1608) was an Italian Oratorian, papal diplomat, and cardinal created by Clement VIII in 1599, after missions to Portugal, the imperial court, Hungary, and Poland.
Alfonso X of Castile
Alfonso X of Castile, called el Sabio (the Learned), reigned 1252–1284, pursued the Holy Roman imperial crown, and sponsored the Siete Partidas, Alfonsine Tables, and Estoria de España in Castilian.
Alfonso XII
Alfonso XII (1857–1885), Bourbon king of Spain restored by Martínez Campos's 1874 pronunciamiento; reigned 1875–1885 under the Constitution of 1876 and Cánovas's turnismo system; succeeded by the regency of María Cristina.
Alfonso XIII
Alfonso XIII (1886-1941), King of Spain from birth and in person from 1902, patron of the WWI Oficina de la Guerra Europea, backer of Primo de Rivera's 1923 dictatorship, exiled 14 April 1931 with the Second Republic.