Alex Turner is the name of:
- Alex Turner (slave), Virginian slave, who escaped at the beginning of the American Civil War and fought in the Union army
- Alex Turner (director) (born 1971), film director
- Alex Turner (musician) (born 1986), singer, songwriter and guitarist for the Arctic Monkeys and The Last Shadow Puppets
- Alexander Buller Turner (1893–1915), British soldier in World War I
Famous quotes containing the words alex and/or turner:
“My smiling child
Named for a noble ancestor
Great hunter or warrior
You will be one day.
Which will give your papa pride
But always I will remember you thus.”
—African Lullaby. As quoted in Roots, by Alex Haley (1976)
“O shining Popocatapetl, It was thy magic hour:
The houses, people, traffic seemed
Thin fading dreams by day;
Chimborazo, Cotopaxi
They had stolen my soul away!”
—Walter James Turner (1889–1946)