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Alpheus Spring Packard
Alpheus Spring Packard (1839–1905) was an American entomologist and zoologist, professor of zoology and geology at Brown University, known for monographs on Geometrid and Bombycine moths.
Alphie
Alphie is an educational toy robot sold under Hasbro's Playskool brand, first introduced in 1978 and relaunched in 2010, that teaches preschool skills through insertable activity cards.
Alphons J. van der Grinten
Alphons J. van der Grinten was a German-American engineer and cartographer in Chicago who invented the van der Grinten projection, showing the whole world in a circle.
Alphonse Areola
Alphonse Areola, French goalkeeper born 1993 in Paris, PSG academy product and 2018 World Cup winner, now at West Ham United after loans to Lens, Bastia, Villarreal, Real Madrid and Fulham, with 5 France caps.
Alphonse Bertillon
Alphonse Bertillon (1853–1914), French criminologist, creator of bertillonage, the anthropometric criminal-identification system of 11 body measurements plus the mug shot, adopted worldwide from 1882 and later replaced by fingerprinting.
Alphonse Burnand
Alphonse Adolph Burnand, Jr. (1896–1981), American sailor and Stanford graduate, won 8 metres class gold at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics aboard Angelita; his only Games; later a broker and Borrego Springs developer.
Alphonse Daudet
Alphonse Daudet (1840–1897) was a French novelist, short-story writer, and dramatist known for the comic Tartarin de Tarascon novels and the Provençal tales of Lettres de mon moulin.
Alphonse Dochez
Alphonse Dochez (1882–1964) was an American bacteriologist and internist at Rockefeller, Johns Hopkins, and Columbia who developed a scarlet fever antitoxin and showed a filterable virus causes the common cold.
Alphonse Gangitano
Alphonse John Gangitano, the 'Black Prince of Lygon Street', was a Melbourne criminal and Carlton Crew figure murdered in his Templestowe home's laundry on 16 January 1998, the killing usually treated as the start of the Melbourne gangland war.
Alphonse Gemuseus
Alphonse Gemuseus (1898–1981), Swiss equestrian, Olympic individual jumping gold and team silver at Paris 1924 on the mare Lucette; eighth individually and by team at the 1928 Games.
Alphonse James de Rothschild
Alphonse James de Rothschild, also known as Alphonse de Rothschild, was a French banker who headed de Rothschild Frères in Paris from 1868 to 1905.
Alphonse Juin
Alphonse Pierre Juin (1888–1967), Marshal of France from Bône, Algeria; commanded the French Expeditionary Corps in Italy 1943–44 (Garigliano, Rome), resident general in Morocco 1947–51, NATO Central Europe commander.
Alphonse Laveran
Alphonse Laveran, full name Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, was a French physician and parasitologist who discovered the malaria parasite in 1880 and won the 1907 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Alphonse Massamba-Débat
Alphonse Massamba-Débat (1921–1977) was a Congolese teacher and statesman who served as President of the Republic of Congo from 1963 to 1968, leading the country's first post-independence government.
Alphonse Mucha
Alphonse Mucha (Alfons Maria Mucha, 1860–1939), Czech Art Nouveau painter and poster artist famous for Sarah Bernhardt posters like Gismonda, le style Mucha, and the Slav Epic.
Alphonse Persico
Alphonse Persico ('Allie Boy') names two related Colombo crime family figures: Carmine Persico's brother (1929–1989), a consigliere and acting boss imprisoned for murder and loansharking, and Carmine's son Alphonse T. 'Little Allie Boy' Persico, acting boss convicted in 2007 of the William Cutolo murder and sentenced to life.
Alphonse Puthren (ആൽഫോൻസ് പുത്രൻ)
Alphonse Puthren (ആൽഫോൻസ് പുത്രൻ), born 1984 in Aluva, Kerala, is an Indian Malayalam film director, editor, writer, and actor, director of Neram (2013), Premam (2015), and Gold (2022), now reuniting with Nivin Pauly on Vijayam.
Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle
Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle was a Swiss botanist, born in Paris in 1806, who directed the Geneva botanical gardens and wrote the 1855 Géographie botanique raisonnée.
Alphonse Voigt
Alphonse Voigt is a Brazilian entrepreneur who co-founded the cross-border payments company EBANX in Curitiba in 2012, serving as its chief executive for nearly a decade.
Alphonse, Count of Poitiers
Alphonse de Poitiers (1220–1271), Capetian prince, brother of Louis IX, Count of Poitiers, Auvergne, and Toulouse (Alphonse II). Married Jeanne de Toulouse under the 1229 Treaty of Meaux-Paris; his childless death in 1271 returned the lands to the French crown.
Alphonso Davies
Alphonso Davies, Canadian left-back for FC Bayern Munich and Canada captain, born 2000 in Buduburam refugee camp, Ghana. 2019/20 treble winner, first Canadian to win the Champions League, scored Canada's first men's World Cup goal, Bayern contract to 2030.
Alphonsus (lunar crater)
Alphonsus is a 110.54 km floor-fractured lunar crater east of Mare Nubium with eleven pyroclastic dark-halo deposits, a fractured floor, central ridge, Apollo 17 candidate status, and reported transient gas events.
Alphonsus de Guimaraens
Alphonsus de Guimaraens, pen name of Afonso Henriques da Costa Guimaraens (1870–1921), was a Brazilian Symbolist poet and judge who made the death of his fiancée his muse.
Alphonsus Liguori
Alphonsus Liguori, also known as Alfonso Maria de' Liguori, was a Neapolitan lawyer turned priest who founded the Redemptorists, served as bishop of Sant'Agata de' Goti, and was declared a Doctor of the Church.
Alphonsus Salmeron
Alphonsus Salmeron (Alfonso Salmerón, 1515–1585) was a Spanish Jesuit, one of the ten original companions of Ignatius of Loyola and a papal theologian at the Council of Trent.
Alphorn
Alphorn: long wooden Swiss Alpine natural horn (3-4 m, conical, valveless) playing only harmonic-series notes; herding and signaling instrument, revived from the 1808 Unspunnen festival into Switzerland's national instrument.
Alphys
Alphys (アルフィー, Arufī) is the Royal Scientist and a main character in Undertale, creator of Mettaton, the Amalgamates, and Flowey; Undyne's love interest, and Kris's teacher in Deltarune.
Alpidem
Alpidem (Ananxyl, SL 80.0342) is a withdrawn imidazopyridine anxiolytic related to zolpidem, acting at the ω1 GABAA receptor site; launched in France in 1991 and withdrawn in 1995 for hepatotoxicity.
Alpin Yukseloglu
Alpin Yukseloglu is a crypto venture investor who joined Paradigm as a partner in 2025 after working as a protocol engineer and product lead at the blockchain company Osmosis.
Alpina
Alpina, also known as BMW Alpina, is a German automotive brand founded in 1965 as a BMW tuner and since 2026 a standalone marque in the BMW Group.