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:

    “When Alexander Pope strolled in the city
    Strict was the glint of pearl and gold sedans.
    Ladies leaned out more out of fear than pity
    For Pope’s tight back was rather a goat’s than man’s.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

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