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Alejandro Fernández
Alejandro Fernández, known as "El Potrillo", is a Mexican singer born in 1971 who built his career on ranchera and mariachi music and is the son of Vicente Fernández.
Alejandro Fernández y Alex Fernández (festival)
Alejandro Fernández y Alex Fernández is the father-and-son concert billing of Mexican ranchera singers, which debuted at the Feria de León palenque in February 2023.
Alejandro G. Biasotti
Alejandro G. Biasotti was an Argentine researcher and physician who co-authored the 1930 studies conducted in Buenos Aires. These experiments elucidated the pituitary's role in pancreatic diabetes.
Alejandro Galán Romo
Alejandro Galán Romo (Ale Galán), Spanish padel player born 1996 in Madrid; world No. 1 with Lebrón 2020-2022, now No. 3 with Federico Chingotto, 25 Premier Padel titles, PPA president.
Alejandro Garnacho
Alejandro Garnacho (born 2004, Madrid) is an Argentine winger, ex-Atlético Madrid academy, Manchester United 2020-2025, Chelsea since August 2025 for £40m; 2024 FA Cup and Copa América winner, 2024 Puskás Award.
Alejandro Gomes Rodríguez
Alejandro Gomes Rodríguez (Alejandro Jesús Gomes Rodríguez), English forward born in Caracas 2008, Olympique Lyonnais centre forward via Southampton academy, England youth international, loaned to Annecy in Ligue 2.
Alejandro González Iñárritu
Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mexican director born 1963 in Mexico City, five-time Oscar winner; directed Amores perros, Babel, Birdman, The Revenant, Bardo, and Digger; first filmmaker in El Colegio Nacional.
Alejandro González Iñárritu filmography
Alejandro González Iñárritu filmography: eight features by the Mexican director, from Amores perros (2000) through Birdman, The Revenant, Bardo, and Digger (2026), plus Carne y Arena; two consecutive Best Director Oscars.
Alejandro Hoberman
Alejandro Hoberman is an Argentine-trained pediatrician and clinical trialist at the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC Children's Hospital, known for large randomized trials of children's ear infections.
Alejandro Iturbe
Alejandro Iturbe (Alejandro Iturbe Encabo), Spanish goalkeeper born 2003 in Madrid; Atlético de Madrid academy product, Olympic gold medalist with Spain at Paris 2024, now at Elche CF in LaLiga under contract to 2029.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Alejandro Jodorowsky, Chilean-French surrealist filmmaker (El Topo, The Holy Mountain), Panic Movement co-founder, unmade 1970s Dune, El Incal comics writer, and creator of psychomagic therapy.
Alejandro L. Briseno
Alejandro L. Briseno is an American polymer scientist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who designs stable organic semiconductors and single crystals, and received a PECASE award.
Alejandro Lerroux
Alejandro Lerroux García (1864–1949), Spanish Radical Republican Party founder, Barcelona demagogue turned Second Republic prime minister 1933–1935; felled by the 1935 estraperlo scandal, exiled to Portugal, died in Madrid.
Alejandro López Valdivieso
Alejandro López Valdivieso (1953–2024) was a Mexican mineral-processing and flotation engineer, professor at the Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, and a 2021 international member of the US National Academy of Engineering.
Alejandro Malaspina
Alejandro Malaspina, born Alessandro Malaspina, was an Italian-born Spanish naval officer who led a scientific expedition around Spanish America and the Pacific from 1789 to 1794.
Alejandro Mayorkas
Alejandro Mayorkas, born 1959 in Havana, is a Cuban-American lawyer who served as U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security 2021–2025, the first Latino and first immigrant in the role, after leading USCIS and as DHS deputy secretary; the House impeached him in 2024.
Alejandro Miguel San Martin
Alejandro Miguel San Martin is an Argentina-born NASA aerospace engineer who co-invented the Sky Crane system that landed the Curiosity rover on Mars in 2012.
Alejandro Moreno Cardenas
Alejandro Moreno Cárdenas is a Mexican politician, National President of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) since 2019 and a Senator since 2024, after serving as Governor of Campeche.
Alejandro O'Reilly
Alejandro O'Reilly was an Irish-born general in Spanish service who crushed the 1768 Louisiana revolt as its second Spanish governor, earning the nickname Bloody O'Reilly.
Alejandro Portes
Alejandro Portes, born in Havana in 1944, is a Cuban-born American sociologist at Princeton and Miami known for segmented assimilation theory, social capital, and the informal economy.
Alejandro Puerto
Alejandro Puerto (Alejandro Puerto Díaz), Cuban freestyle wrestler born 1964 in Pinar del Río; Olympic bantamweight (57 kg) gold at Barcelona 1992 and world champion in 1990 and 1994, not the Spanish or Mexican namesakes.
Alejandro Rey
Alejandro Rey (1930–1987), Argentine-born American actor and TV director, played Carlos Ramirez on The Flying Nun; Argentine film star from 1953, U.S. immigrant 1960, died of lung cancer in Los Angeles.
Alejandro Ribeiro
Alejandro Ribeiro, born 1975 in Montevideo, Uruguay, is a Uruguayan-born electrical engineer and Charp Professor at the University of Pennsylvania known for graph neural networks for wireless resource allocation.
Alejandro Rodriguez
Alejandro Rodriguez is an American physicist and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Princeton University, known for Casimir forces and inverse design in nanophotonics.
Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado
Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado is a Venezuelan-born developmental biologist who studies animal regeneration using planarian flatworms, and is President of the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City.
Alejandro Sanz
Alejandro Sanz (Alejandro Sánchez Pizarro, born 1968, Madrid) is a Spanish pop singer-songwriter fusing flamenco and pop; his 1997 album Más is Spain's best-selling record, and he has won 4 Grammys and over 20 Latin Grammys.
Alejandro Soler Mur
Alejandro Soler Mur is a Spanish Socialist Workers' Party politician, mayor of Elche from 2007 to 2011 and a member of the Congress of Deputies for Alicante.
Alejandro Sosa
Alejandro Sosa, also known as Alex Sosa, is the fictional Bolivian cocaine kingpin in the 1983 film Scarface, portrayed by Paul Shenar and inspired by Roberto Suárez Gómez.
Alejandro Valverde
Alejandro Valverde Belmonte is a Spanish former professional road racing cyclist, born in 1980 in Murcia, who won 133 races including the 2018 World Championship road race.
Alejandro Vázquez
Alejandro Vázquez (born 1988) is an Argentine entrepreneur who co-founded the e-commerce platform Nuvemshop, known as Tiendanube, in Buenos Aires in 2011 and became its president for Latin America in 2023.