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Alex Webster
Alex Webster, American death metal bassist and co-founder of Cannibal Corpse (1988, Buffalo, New York), known for his three-finger plucking technique, the Extreme Metal Bass instructional book, and side projects Blotted Science and Conquering Dystopia.
Alex Welter
Alex Welter (Alexander Welter), Brazilian sailor born 1953 in São Paulo, won Olympic gold in the Tornado class at Moscow 1980 with Lars Björkström, Brazil's first sailing gold, ending a 24-year national gold drought; COB Hall of Fame 2026.
Alex Wilder
Alex Wilder is a Marvel Comics character created by Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona, debuting in Runaways #1 (July 2003). Son of Pride crime bosses Geoffrey and Catherine Wilder, the powerless tactical genius led and betrayed the Runaways; Rhenzy Feliz played him on Hulu.
Alex Williams (footballer, born 2005)
Alex Williams (Alexander David Williams, born 2005, Warwick) is a Welsh right-back in West Bromwich Albion's academy system, a Wales under-21 international, now on season-long loan at Hibernian after his 2025/26 senior Albion debut.
Alex Winter
Alex Winter (Alexander Ross Winter, born 1965, London) is an English-born American actor and director known as Bill S. Preston in Bill & Ted, and for documentaries Deep Web, The Panama Papers, Showbiz Kids, and Zappa via Trouper Productions.
Alex Witkoff
Alex Witkoff is an American real estate developer who has led the Witkoff Group since 2022, becoming sole CEO in 2024 when his father joined the Trump administration.
Alex Wolff
Alex Wolff (Alexander Draper Wolff, born 1997) is an American actor, musician, and director known for The Naked Brothers Band, Hereditary, Jumanji, Pig, Oppenheimer, and his directorial debut The Cat and the Moon (2019).
Alex Wright
Alex Wright (born 1975, Schwabach, Germany), "Das Wunderkind", German second-generation wrestler in 1990s WCW; Cruiserweight, TV, and Tag Team champion; later Berlyn; runs The Wright Stuff school and NEW promotion.
Alex Yang
Alex Yang (Alex Xi Yang, 杨希, born 2005 in Barcelona) is a Chinese right-back for Shanghai Port in the Chinese Super League and China; Espanyol youth product, 2026 AFC U23 Asian Cup runner-up.
Alex Yee
Alex Yee (Alexander Yee, born 1998) is a British triathlete, Paris 2024 Olympic champion and the most decorated Olympic triathlete ever with four medals, plus 2024 world champion and a 2:06:38 marathoner.
Alex Yoong
Alex Yoong (熊龍), born 1976 in Kuala Lumpur, is Malaysia's first Formula One driver, racing for Minardi in 2001-2002 with 14 starts and 0 points, later an A1GP race winner and Audi R8 LMS Cup champion.
Alex Young (studio executive)
Alex Young (Alexander Young) is an American film producer and studio executive, President of Hidden Pictures, formerly co-president of production at 20th Century Fox and Head of Feature Film at Mandeville Films, with credits including Wonder and Beauty and the Beast.
Alex Younger
Sir Alexander William Younger (Alex Younger), 1963–2026, British career MI6 officer and Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service ('C') 2014–2020, longest-serving chief in 50 years; died of pancreatic cancer.
Alex Zanardi
Alex Zanardi (Alessandro Zanardi, 1966-2026), Italian racing driver, two-time CART champion (1997, 1998) and ex-F1 driver for Jordan, Minardi, Lotus, Williams; lost both legs in the 2001 Lausitzring crash and won four Paralympic handcycling golds.
Alex Zettl
Alex Zettl is an experimental condensed matter physicist at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory known for a rotational nanomotor and a radio built from a single carbon nanotube.
Alex Zhavoronkov
Alex Zhavoronkov (Aleksandrs Zavoronkovs), Latvian-born Canadian scientist, founder and CEO of Insilico Medicine, the AI drug discovery company behind rentosertib, the first AI-discovered, AI-designed drug in human trials, listed on HKEX in December 2025.
Alex Zhou
Alex Zhou (Zhi Feng Zhou) is a managing partner at Qiming Venture Partners who invests in AI and robotics and debuted on the 2026 Forbes Midas List.
Alex Zunger
Alex Zunger is a condensed matter theorist known for first-principles materials theory and the inverse band-structure problem; he led NREL's Solid State Theory group from 1978 to 2010.
Alex Zurdo
Alex Zurdo (Alexis Vélez Alberio, born 1983 in Trujillo Alto, Puerto Rico) is a Puerto Rican singer of Christian reggaetón and rap, twice nominated for a Latin GRAMMY.
Alex, Inc.
Alex, Inc. is an ABC single-camera sitcom (2018) starring Zach Braff as radio journalist Alex Schuman, adapted loosely from Alex Blumberg's Gimlet Media podcast StartUp. Ten episodes aired March 28 to May 16, 2018; ABC canceled it after one season amid low ratings.
AleXa (알렉사)
AleXa (알렉사), born Alexandra Christine Schneiderman in 1996, is an American K-pop singer based in South Korea. She debuted with "Bomb" (2019) on ZB Label and won NBC's American Song Contest 2022 with "Wonderland" for Oklahoma; distinct from Amazon's Alexa voice assistant.
Alexa & Katie
Alexa & Katie is a Netflix multi-camera sitcom (2018-2020, 39 episodes) created by Heather Wordham, starring Paris Berelc and Isabel May as best friends navigating high school and cancer treatment.
Alexa Ann Dembek
Alexa Ann Dembek is an American polymer chemist and executive who was DuPont's Chief Technology and Sustainability Officer from 2019 to 2025 after more than 30 years at the company.
Alexa B. Kimball
Alexa B. Kimball, also published as A.B. Kimball, is an American dermatologist and Harvard Medical School professor who leads clinical trials in psoriasis and hidradenitis suppurativa.
Alexa Bliss
Alexa Bliss (Alexis Cabrera, née Kaufman, born 1991) is an American WWE wrestler on SmackDown; five-time women's world champion and first woman to hold both the Raw and SmackDown Women's Championships.
Alexa Chung
Alexa Chung (born 1983) is a British model, TV presenter, writer, and designer, scouted at 16 at Reading Festival, host of MTV's It's On and Netflix's Next in Fashion, namesake of Mulberry's Alexa bag, and founder of the Alexachung label (2017–2022).
Alexa Datt
Alexa Datt is an American sports broadcaster: MLB Network/NHL Network studio host (2018-2021), Cardinals and Blues host on Bally/FanDuel Sports Network Midwest, and since 2026 the Washington Nationals' Nationals.TV host and reporter.
Alexa Davalos
Alexa Davalos (Alexa Davalos Dunas), American actress born 1982 in Paris, known for Juliana Crain in The Man in the High Castle (2015-2019), Kyra in The Chronicles of Riddick, Andromeda in Clash of the Titans, and Kristin Gaines on FBI: Most Wanted.
Alexa Fluor
Alexa Fluor is a family of synthetic fluorescent dyes sold by Thermo Fisher Scientific, introduced in the 1990s by Molecular Probes to label proteins, nucleic acids, and other biomolecules.
Alexa Grasso
Alexa Grasso (Karen Alexa Grasso Montes), Mexican UFC women's flyweight fighter from Guadalajara; won the title at UFC 285 by submitting Valentina Shevchenko, first Mexican women's UFC champion; series 1-1-1 with Shevchenko.