List of Famous people named Alonso

Alonso Reno Edward Henry, commonly known as Alonso Edward, is a Panamanian sprinter who specialises in the 100 and 200 metres.

Alonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga was a Spanish nobleman, soldier and epic poet, born in Madrid. While in Chile (1556–63) he fought against the Araucanians (Mapuche), and there he began the epic poem La Araucana, considered one of the greatest Spanish historical poems. This heroic work in 37 cantos is divided into three parts, published in 1569, 1578, and 1589. It tells of the courageous insurrection of the Araucanians and also relates the history of Chile and of contemporary Spain.

Jesús Alonso Escoboza Lugo is a Mexican professional footballer who currently plays as a winger or left-back for Liga MX club América.

Toribio Alonso de Salazar, born in Biscay, was a Spanish navigator of Basque origin, who was the first Westerner to arrive on the Marshall Islands on August 21, 1526.

Alonso Ancira Elizondo is a Mexican businessman who is the controlling shareholder and chairman of Altos Hornos de Mexico (AHMSA). He purchased AHMSA from the Mexican Government in 1991, when the government privatized the steel industry. In March 2006, he was elected as president of the Iron and Steel Mexican Chamber (CANACERO) for the years 2006-2007.

Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda is the pseudonym of a man who wrote a sequel to Cervantes' Don Quixote. The identity of Avellaneda has been the subject of many theories, but there is no consensus on who he was. It is not clear that Cervantes knew who Avellaneda was although he knew that it was a pseudonym and that the volume's publication information was false. One theory holds that Avellaneda's work was a collaboration by friends of Lope de Vega. Another theory is that it was by Gerónimo de Passamonte, the real-life inspiration for the character Ginés de Pasamonte of Part I.

Alonso de Contreras, was a Spanish sailor, soldier, privateer, adventurer and writer, best known as the author of his autobiography; one of the very few autobiographies of Spanish soldiers under the Spanish Habsburgs and possibly one of the finest, together with the True History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Diaz del Castillo.

Alonso de Aragón or Alfonso de Aragón was Archbishop of Zaragoza, Archbishop of Valencia and Lieutenant General of Aragon. Born in Cervera, he was an illegitimate son of Ferdinand II of Aragon by a Catalan noblewoman called Aldonza Ruiz de Ivorra (1452–1516). In his youth his tutor was Antonio Geraldini, brother of the humanist scholar Alessandro Geraldini.

Alonso de Estrada was a colonial official in New Spain during the period of Hernán Cortés's government, and before the appointment of the first viceroy. He was a member of the triumvirates that governed the colony for several short periods between 1524 and 1528, in the absence of Cortés.