Alexander Hood

Alexander Hood may refer to:

  • Admiral Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport (1726–1814)
  • Alexander Hood (Royal Navy officer) (1758–1798)
  • General Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport (British Army officer) (1814–1904)
  • Alexander Hood (Governor of Bermuda) (1888–1980), army medical officer and Governor of Bermuda
  • Alexander Hood, 4th Viscount Bridport (born 1948), British investment banker
  • Alexander Fuller-Acland-Hood, 1st Baron St Audries (1853–1917), MP for Wellington
  • Alex Hood (folklorist) (born 1935), Australian folklorist
  • Alex Hood (born 1990), Canadian actor

Famous quotes containing the words alexander and/or hood:

    “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)

    “She stood breast high amid the corn,
    Clasp’d by the golden light of morn,”
    —Thomas Hood (1799–1845)