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:
“Take the serious side of Disney, the Confucian side of Disney. It’s in having taken an ethos ... where you have the values of courage and tenderness asserted in a way that everybody can understand. You have got an absolute genius there. You have got a greater correlation of nature than you have had since the time of Alexander the Great.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
“A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.”
—Ian Anderson (b. 1947)