Alexander - People With The Given Name Alexander

People With The Given Name Alexander

Internationally famous people with the given name Alexander or variants include:

• Alexander Pope (1688–1744), English poet
• Alex Ferguson (born 1941), manager of Manchester United FC
• Alexander Hamilton (1755–1804), Founding Father of the United States
• Alexander Day, British 18th Century confidence trickster
• Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837), Russian writer
• Alexandre Dumas (1802–1870), French writer
• Alexander Ivanovich Levitov (1835–1877), Russian writer
• Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922), Scottish-born inventor of the first practical telephone
• Alexander Fleming (1881–1955), Scottish discoverer of penicillin
• Alexandre Lippmann (1881–1960), French 2x Olympic champion épée fencer
• Alexander Korda (1893–1956), Hungarian-born film director
• Alexander Rudolph ("Al McCoy"; 1894–1966), American world champion middleweight boxer
• Alexander Penn (1906–72), Israeli poet
• Alessandro Manzoni (1785–1873), Italian poet and novelist
• Alessandro Volta (1745–1827), Italian physicist
• Alexander Zusia Friedman (1897-1943), Polish rabbi, educator, activist, and journalist
• Alexander Levinsky (1910–90), Canadian NHL ice hockey player
• Alexander Argov (1914–95), Russian-born Israeli composer
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918–2008), Russian writer
• Alexander Dubček (1921–1992), leader of Czechoslovakia (1968–1969)
• Alexander Salkind (1921–1997), French film producer
• Alexander Haig (1924–2010), United States general and politician
• Alexander Gomelsky (1928–2005), Russian head coach of USSR basketball national team for 30 years
• Aleksandr Gorelik (born 1945), Soviet figure skater
• Alexander McCall Smith (born 1948), Scottish writer
• Alexander O'Neal (born 1953), American singer
• Alec Baldwin (born 1958), American actor
• Sandy Lyle (born 1958), Scottish golfer
• Alexander Pechtold (born 1965), Dutch politician
• Aleksandar Djordjevic (born 1967), Serbian basketball player
• Lex van Dam (Born 1968), Dutch trader and TV personality
• Alexander McQueen (1969–2010), British fashion designer
• Alexander Popov (swimmer) (born 1971) Russian swimmer
• Aleksandr Averbukh, Israeli European champion pole vaulter
• Alexander Semin (born 1984), Russian hockey player for the Washington Capitals
• Alexander Ovechkin (born 1985), Russian hockey player for the Washington Capitals
• Alexander Nikolov (born 1987), American, well known NASCAR driver
• Alexander Gustafsson (born 1987), Swedish mixed martial arts fighter
• Alexander Shatilov (born 1987), Uzbek-Israeli artistic gymnast
• Alexander Lee Eusebio (born 1988), also known as Alexander (or Xander), South Korean solo singer, ex-member of South Korean band U-KISS
• Alexander Skarsgård, Swedish actor
• Alexander Rybak, Norwegian artist and violinist