Alphonso Calhoun Avery (September 11, 1835 – June 13, 1913) was a lawyer, Confederate military officer, and politician in North Carolina.

During the American Civil War, he served with the rank of major on the staffs of General Daniel Harvey Hill and John Bell Hood.

[1] Another brother-in-law via marriage to a daughter of Robert Hall Morrison was Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.

[5] His papers are held by the Louis Round Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

[6] His daughter Gladys Avery Tillett was politically active in North Carolina, from suffrage to the Equal Rights Amendment, and served as a United States representative with UNESCO.