Alexander Gordon

Alexander Gordon may refer to:

  • Alexander Gordon, 1st Earl of Huntly (died 1470), Scottish magnate
  • Alexander Gordon, 3rd Earl of Huntly (died 1524), Scottish nobleman
  • Alexander Gordon (bishop of Aberdeen) (died 1518), Precentor of Moray and Bishop-elect of Aberdeen
  • Alexander Gordon (archbishop of Glasgow) (died 1575), Bishop of Galloway
  • Alexander Gordon (antiquary) (c. 1692–1755), antiquary and singer
  • Alexander Gordon (general) (1669–1752), Laird of Auchintoul, Scottish general of the Russian army and Jacobite, son-in-law of Patrick Gordon
  • Alexander Gordon (pioneer) (1635–1697), Scottish settler in New England
  • Alexander Gordon, 2nd Duke of Gordon (c. 1678–1728), Scottish peer
  • Alexander Gordon, Lord Rockville (1739–1792), Scottish judge
  • Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon (1743–1827), Scottish nobleman
  • Alexander Gordon (British cavalry officer) (1781–1873), British Army officer during the Napoleonic Wars
  • Sir Alexander Gordon (British staff officer) (1786–1815), British Army officer who was killed at the Battle of Waterloo
  • Alexander Gordon (Unitarian) (1841–1931), English Unitarian minister and religious historian
  • Alexander Theodore Gordon (1881–1919), Scottish politician
  • Sir Alexander Gordon (politician) (1882–1967), Northern Irish politician
  • Alexander Gordon Smith (born 1979), British author
  • Alexander Gordon, 7th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair (born 1955), British peer

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    “I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me—I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)