Alexander Anderson is the name of:
- Alexander Anderson (mathematician) (c. 1580–1620), Scottish mathematician
- Alexander Anderson (illustrator) (1775–1870), American illustrator
- Alexander O. Anderson (1794–1869), Tennessee senator
- Alexander Anderson (Royal Marines officer) (1807–1877), British army general
- Alexander Caulfield Anderson (1814–1884), Canadian explorer and fur trader
- Alexander Anderson (poet) (1845–1909), Scottish poet
- Alexander Anderson (botanist) (18th-century–1811), Scottish surgeon and botanist
- Alexander Anderson (physicist) (1858–1936), Irish physicist and university president
- Alexander Anderson (English socialist) (1878–1926), British socialist who helped found the Socialist Party of Great Britain
- Alexander Anderson (Scottish politician) (1888–1954), Labour MP for Motherwell 1945–1954
- Alexander Anderson (Hellsing), a fictional character in Hellsing
- Alex Anderson (cartoonist) (1920–2010), creator of "Rocky the Flying Squirrel"
- Alex Anderson (footballer) (1921–1999), Scottish footballer who played as a full-back
- Alexander James Anderson (1863–1946), Canadian politician, barrister, and lawyer
Famous quotes containing the words alexander and/or anderson:
“An Austrian army, awfully array’d,
Boldly by battery besiege Belgrade;
Cossack commanders cannonading come,
Deal devastation’s dire destructive doom;”
—Alaric Alexander Watts (1797–1864)
“Sometimes you’re overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment. When you get away from it, you wonder, did it really happen to you.”
—Marian Anderson (1902–1993)