Alvin Evans (October 4, 1845 – June 19, 1906) was an American lawyer and Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Educated in local public schools and the Iron City Business College in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Alvin Evins obtained a job in lumbering at the age of sixteen when his father's business failed due to the financial crash of 1857.

[4][5][6] In 1862, Alvin Evans enlisted with a volunteer military unit,[7] which was mobilized in response to the potential invasion of Pennsylvania by the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

[11] Elected as a Republican to the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth Congresses,[12] he did not seek renomination in 1904,[13][14] but instead returned to the practice of law.

[15] A member of the board of trustees of the First Congregational Church of Ebensburg, he was also active in the Grand Army of the Republic's Captain John M. Jones Post and the Free and Accepted Masons' Summit Lodge, No.