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Alex Hales
Alex Hales (born 1989, Hillingdon) is an English retired international cricketer, first English T20I centurion (116), 2016 ODI record 171, 2022 T20 World Cup winner, now a global T20 franchise batter.
Alex Haley
Alex Haley (1921–1992), American author of Roots and co-author of The Autobiography of Malcolm X; first Playboy interviewer; won a special Pulitzer Prize; later faced plagiarism suits and accuracy disputes.
Alex Haley's Queen
Alex Haley's Queen: 1993 six-hour CBS miniseries and posthumous novel about Haley's paternal grandmother Queen Haley, daughter of a slave and a plantation owner's son, starring Halle Berry.
Alex Hall (climate scientist)
Alex Hall is a climate scientist and professor at UCLA who directs the Center for Climate Science and is known for pioneering emergent constraints in climate modeling.
Alex Harkey
Alex Harkey (born 2001, Austin, Texas) is an NFL offensive lineman for the Los Angeles Chargers, drafted 206th overall in 2026 after playing at Tyler JC, Colorado, Texas State, and Oregon.
Alex Harvey (musician)
Alex Harvey (1935-1982), Scottish rock singer from Glasgow's Gorbals, led The Sensational Alex Harvey Band (formed 1972 with Tear Gas members), known for theatrical glam-hard rock shows, the 1975 UK Top 10 hit Delilah, and The Faith Healer.
Alex Higgins
Alex 'Hurricane' Higgins (1949-2010), Northern Irish snooker player, two-time world champion (1972, 1982), known for fast attacking play and the 1982 69 clearance, unlike Steve Davis, his methodical rival.
Alex Hill
Alex Hill (Alexander Hill, born 1993, Berri, South Australia) is an Australian rower of the Adelaide Rowing Club: Olympic gold Tokyo 2020 and silver Rio 2016 in the men's coxless four, world champion 2017 and 2018, three-time Olympian.
Alex Hirsch
Alex Hirsch (Alexander Robert Hirsch), American animator and voice actor from Piedmont, California; CalArts 2007 graduate; creator of Gravity Falls (2012–2016), voice of Grunkle Stan and Soos; not the Burlington, Vermont journalist of the same name.
Alex Honnold
Alex Honnold, American free solo rock climber famous for the first ropeless ascent of El Capitan's Freerider (June 3, 2017, 3h56m), subject of the Oscar-winning film Free Solo, and founder of the Honnold Foundation.
Alex Hoppe
Alex Hoppe (Alex Kevin Hoppe, born 1998, Davenport, Iowa) is an MLB right-handed relief pitcher for the Baltimore Orioles; drafted by Boston in 2022, debuted with Seattle April 27, 2026.
Alex Horne
Alex Horne is a British comedian, author and podcaster, creator and co-host of Taskmaster (Dave, then Channel 4 from 2020) and frontman of The Horne Section, a six-piece musical comedy band with its own Channel 4 sitcom.
Alex Hrdlicka
Aleš Hrdlička (1869–1943) was a Bohemian-born American physical anthropologist who led the Smithsonian's physical anthropology division for forty years and founded the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.
Alex Hyde-White
Alex Hyde-White (born 1959, London), English-born American actor and son of Wilfrid Hyde-White; first film Reed Richards in the 1994 unreleased Roger Corman Fantastic Four; also Pretty Woman, Landman, audiobooks.
Alex Inkeles
Alex Inkeles (1920–2010) was an American sociologist at Harvard and Stanford, a National Academy of Sciences member known for his six-country study of modern attitudes, Becoming Modern.
Alex Iwobi
Alex Iwobi (born 1996, Lagos) is a Nigerian midfielder for Fulham and the Super Eagles; ex-Arsenal academy and Everton player, 300+ Premier League appearances, 2018 World Cup, nephew of Jay-Jay Okocha.
Alex J. van der Eb
Alex J. van der Eb (born 1934) is a Dutch molecular biologist at Leiden University whose laboratory produced the widely used HEK 293 cell line.
Alex James (musician)
Alex James (Steven Alexander James, born 1968, Bournemouth) is Blur's bass guitarist, a Cotswolds farmer, cheesemaker (Blue Monday), Britpop wine producer, Big Feastival host, author, and leader of the Britpop Classical orchestral tour.
Alex Janvier
Alex Janvier (1935–2024) was a Denesuline and Saulteaux painter from the Cold Lake First Nations in Alberta, known as a pioneer of Indigenous modernist art in Canada.
Alex Jany
Alex Jany (Alexandre Charles Sixte Jany, 1929–2001), French freestyle swimmer and water polo player; double Olympic 4x200 m relay bronze medalist (1948, 1952), European 100/400 m champion 1947 and 1950, holder of seven world records.
Alex Jennings
Alex Jennings (born 1957, Essex) is an English stage and screen actor, Bristol Old Vic-trained, three-time Olivier Award winner, known for The Queen, The Lady in the Van, The Crown, and Victoria. Distinct from the New Orleans novelist Alex Jennings.
Alex Johnston (rugby league)
Alex Johnston (AJ), born 1995, is a South Sydney Rabbitohs winger and the all-time leading try scorer in Australian premiership history, breaking Ken Irvine's 212-try record with his 213th try in March 2026.
Alex Jones
Alex Jones (born 1974), Austin-based far-right conspiracy theorist, founded Infowars and Free Speech Systems, sold supplements, was deplatformed in 2018, and owes over $1 billion in Sandy Hook defamation judgments amid ongoing bankruptcy.
Alex Jones (business executive)
Alex Jones is an American business executive, co-founder and CEO of Hallow, a Catholic prayer app that became the first faith-based app to top Apple's App Store in 2024.
Alex Jones (Welsh presenter)
Alex Jones (Charlotte Alexandra Jones, born 1977) is a Welsh BBC presenter, co-host of The One Show since 2010, distinct from the American Infowars conspiracy theorist of the same name.
Alex Jordan
Alex Jordan is a British actor and voice actor known for Asher Forrester in Telltale's Game of Thrones, Mr. Hands in Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, and voicing Jan Dolski plus all 11 Alters in The Alters.
Alex K. Shalek
Alex K. Shalek is a chemist who directs the Institute for Medical Engineering & Science at MIT and develops single-cell genomics technologies to study human immunity and disease.
Alex K.‐Y. Jen
Alex K.-Y. Jen (Jen Kwan-yue) is a materials scientist and chemist at City University of Hong Kong, formerly Provost there and chair of materials science at the University of Washington.
Alex Kapranos
Alex Kapranos (Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley, born 1972) is the Scottish singer-guitarist and frontman of Franz Ferdinand, known for 'Take Me Out', the 2004 Mercury Prize, FFS with Sparks, and the 2025 album The Human Fear.
Alex Karev
Alex Karev is a fictional surgeon on Grey's Anatomy, played by Justin Chambers from 2005 to 2020 across 16 seasons. Added after test audiences wanted a bad boy, he evolved from abrasive intern to pediatric surgeon, married Jo Wilson, and exited off-screen to reunite with Izzie Stevens in Kansas.