Alcinous may refer to several people from classical myth and history:

  • Alcinous, mythological king featured prominently in Homer's Odyssey
  • Alcinous, son of Hippocoon, who with his father and brothers, expelled Icarius and Tyndareus from Lacedaemon, but was afterwards killed by Heracles
  • Alcinous (philosopher), Middle Platonist philosopher

It may also refer to:

  • 11428 Alcinoös, Jovian asteroid
  • Alcinous, a genus of sea spider and original taxonym of the Aaaaba beetle
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