Alcide Explained

Alcide is the French and Italian version of "Alcides", another name for Heracles.

Alcide may also refer to:

Art, entertainment, and media

• Alcide (Bortniansky), a 1778 opera by Dmitry Bortniansky
• Alcide (Marais), a 1693 opera by Marin Marais and Louis Lully
• Alcide Herveaux, a fictional character from The Southern Vampire Mysteries / Sookie Stackhouse Novels by Charlaine Harris
• Alcide, a fictional policeman in the French TV series The Returned
• Alcide Nikopol, the main character of the Nikopol Trilogy novels by French cartoonist Enki Bilal
• Alcide Jolivet, a fictional journalist in the novel Michael Strogoff: The Courier of the Czar by Jules Verne

Ships

• French ship Alcide (1743)
• French ship Alcide (1782)
• HMS Alcide, a list of ships with this name

Other uses

• Alcide (horse) (1955–1973), a British Thoroughbred racehorse
• 8549 Alcide, a main belt asteroid
• Cyclone Alcide, in 2018