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Aleksandr Yakushev
Aleksandr Yakushev (Александр Сергеевич Якушев), born 1947, Soviet/Russian ice hockey forward for Spartak Moskva; led USSR scoring at the 1972 Summit Series, two Olympic golds, seven world titles, Hockey Hall of Fame 2018.
Aleksandr Yegorov
Aleksandr Yegorov (Александр Ильич Егоров) was a Soviet military leader, Marshal of the Soviet Union from 1935, executed in Stalin's purges in 1939.
Aleksandr Yelizarov
Aleksandr Matveyevich Yelizarov (Александр Матвеевич Елизаров), Soviet biathlete born 1952 in Penza Oblast; 1976 Innsbruck Olympic relay gold and 20 km individual bronze, 1977 world relay champion.
Aleksandr Yermilov
Aleksandr Yermilov (Александр Ермилов), born 1954 in Ivanovo, Soviet volleyball attacker with Avtomobilist Leningrad; Olympic gold 1980, silver 1976, world champion 1978, three-time European champion; distinct from the 1960-born Soviet kayaker of the same name.
Aleksandr Zaytsev
Aleksandr Zaytsev (Александр Геннадьевич Зайцев), born 1952, Soviet pair skater; with wife Irina Rodnina won Olympic pairs gold in 1976 and 1980, six World and seven European titles; distinct from other Olympians named Zaytsev.
Aleksandra Chudina
Aleksandra Chudina (Александра Георгиевна Чудина; 1923–1990) was a Soviet athlete who won three Olympic medals in track and field at Helsinki 1952 and three volleyball world championships.
Aleksandra Deverinskaya
Aleksandra Deverinskaya (Александра Деверинская, born 1960) is a Soviet race walker who set the first ratified world record for the women's 5000 m track walk, 22:50.0, in Leningrad in 1981.
Aleksandra Isaeva
Aleksandra Isaeva (Олександра Ісаєва), born 2004, is a Ukrainian Latin dancer, multiple Ukrainian National Latin Champion ranked in the world's top 21 Latin dancers, based in Italy with partner Cristian Priori, who joined Strictly Come Dancing as a 2026 professional dancer.
Aleksandra Ivosev
Aleksandra Ivošev (Александра Ивошев), Serbian sport shooter born 1974 in Novi Sad; 1996 Atlanta Olympic gold in 50 m rifle three positions (Olympic record 686.1) and bronze in 10 m air rifle; competed at three Games.
Aleksandra Mirosław
Aleksandra Mirosław (Ola), Polish speed climber born 1994 in Lublin; first Olympic champion in women's speed climbing (Paris 2024, 6.10 s), 11-time world record holder (6.03 s), world champion 2018, 2019, 2025; retired after 2026 season.
Aleksandra Owca
Aleksandra Katarzyna Owca, Polish lawyer and co-chair of Partia Razem, Kraków city councillor since 2024, and Razem's candidate for Mayor of Kraków in the early 2026 election, winning 6.91% in the first round.
Aleksandra Patskevich
Aleksandra Patskevich (Александра Вячеславовна Пацкевич), born 1988 in Moscow, Russian artistic swimmer; three straight Olympic team golds (2012, 2016, 2020) and 13 world championship titles, retired December 2021.
Aleksandra Rađenović
Aleksandra Radenovic is a Swiss and Croatian biophysicist, full professor of bioengineering at EPFL, known for introducing molybdenum disulfide nanopores into nanofluidics and single-molecule sensing.
Aleksandra Timoshenko
Aleksandra Timoshenko (Олександра Тимошенко), born 1972 in Bohuslav, Ukrainian rhythmic gymnast; 1992 Barcelona Olympic all-around champion for the Unified Team, 1988 Seoul bronze medalist, 1989 world champion.
Aleksandra Zabelina
Aleksandra Zabelina (Александра Ивановна Забелина, 1937–2022) was a Soviet foil fencer for Dynamo Moscow who won team gold at three Olympics and the 1957 individual world title.
Aleksandre Topuria (ალექსანდრე თოფურია)
Aleksandre Topuria (ალექსანდრე თოფურია), "El Conquistador", Georgian-Spanish UFC bantamweight, older brother of champion Ilia Topuria; 7-1 record, UFC debut win over Colby Thicknesse at UFC 312, 2025 decision over Bekzat Almakhan.
Aleksandrovo tumulus
Aleksandrovo tumulus (Александровска гробница), a Thracian burial mound near Haskovo, Bulgaria, covering a domed 4th-century BC tomb with frescoed hunting scenes, discovered by Georgi Kitov in 2000 and on UNESCO's Tentative List.
Aleksandrs Čaks
Aleksandrs Čaks, real name Aleksandrs Čadarainis (1901–1950), was a Latvian poet who gave voice to ordinary people and objects of Riga street life in Mana paradīze (1932).
Aleksandrs Grīns
Aleksandrs Grīns, real name Jēkabs Grīns (1895–1941), was a Latvian writer and army captain best known for Dvēseļu putenis, executed in Soviet captivity in 1941.
Aleksandrs Muzicenko
Aleksandrs Muzicenko (Aleksandrs Muzičenko), born 1955 in Omsk, is a Latvian sailor who won Star class gold at the 1980 Moscow Olympics with Valentin Mankin.
Aleksanteri Kivimäki
Aleksanteri Kivimäki (born 1997, formerly Julius Kivimäki) is a Finnish hacker from Espoo convicted of the 2018 Vastaamo psychotherapy data breach and extortion of some 33,000 patients.
Aleksanteri Saarvala
Aleksanteri Saarvala (Ale, Aleksi, Tarzan), Finnish artistic gymnast born in Vyborg, won horizontal bar gold at Berlin 1936, Finland's first gymnastics Olympic victory, and team gold at London 1948; died Toronto 1989.
Aleksei Aksimentiev
Aleksei Aksimentiev is a Ukrainian-born biological physicist and professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign since 2005, known for the first computational study of DNA translocation through nanopores.
Aleksei Antonov
Aleksei Antonov (Алексей Иннокентьевич Антонов) was a Soviet General of the Army, chief of the Red Army General Staff from February 1945 to March 1946.
Aleksei Brusilov (Алексе́й Алексе́евич Бруси́лов)
Aleksei Alekseevich Brusilov (Алексе́й Алексе́евич Бруси́лов), 1853–1926, Russian general of cavalry; led the 1916 Brusilov Offensive, taking over 450,000 prisoners and shattering the Austro-Hungarian army, later serving the Red Army as cavalry inspector.
Aleksei Fyodorovich Fedorov
Aleksei Fyodorovich Fedorov (Алексей Фёдорович Фёдоров; 1901–1989) was a Soviet party official and partisan commander who led the Chernigov-Volhynian partisans behind German lines and was twice made a Hero of the Soviet Union.
Aleksei Kruchenykh
Aleksei Kruchenykh (Алексей Кручёных, 1886–1968) was a Russian Futurist poet, artist, and publisher, a radical experimenter of the avant-garde who co-created zaum, a transrational poetic language.
Aleksei Kuropatkin
Aleksei Kuropatkin (Алексе́й Никола́евич Куропа́ткин) was a Russian general and Minister of War from 1898 to 1904 who commanded Russian forces in the Russo-Japanese War.
Aleksei Oleinik (Алексей Алексеевич Олейник)
Aleksei Oleinik (Алексей Алексеевич Олейник), "The Boa Constrictor", Russian heavyweight MMA fighter born 1977 in Moscow; UFC 2014-2022 (9-8), record holder for ezekiel choke wins, retired July 2026.
Aleksei Pankin
Aleksei Pankin, also printed as Alexander Pankin, is a Russian diplomat serving as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, representing Russia at APEC, the CSTO, and the United Nations.