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Alexa Havins
Alexa Havins, born 1980, is an American actress known as Babe Carey on All My Children (2003–2007) and, since November 19, 2024, as Lulu Spencer on General Hospital; she is married to Justin Bruening.
Alexa Internet
Alexa Internet, also known as Alexa.com, was a San Francisco company founded in 1996 that ranked website traffic; Amazon owned it from 1999 until it shut down in 2022.
Alexa Kenin
Alexa Kenin (Alexa Jordan Kenin), American actress born 1962, New York City; died September 10, 1985, Manhattan, age 23. Known for Little Darlings (1980), Honkytonk Man (1982), and posthumously Pretty in Pink (1986), which was dedicated to her memory.
Alexa Nikolas
Alexa Nikolas (born 1992) is an American former actress, Nicole Bristow on Nickelodeon's Zoey 101, and founder of the Eat Predators movement; she protested Nickelodeon, appeared in Quiet on Set, and pursued defamation litigation.
Alexa PenaVega
Alexa PenaVega, born Alexa Ellesse Vega in 1988, is an American actress and singer famous as Carmen Cortez in the Spy Kids films, later a Hallmark movie lead married to Carlos PenaVega.
Alexa Ray Joel
Alexa Ray Joel is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist, born in New York in 1986 to Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley, who released the EP Sketches in 2006.
Alexa T. McCray
Alexa T. McCray is a biomedical informatics researcher at Harvard Medical School who led the creation of ClinicalTrials.gov and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2001.
Alexa+
Alexa+ is Amazon's large language model based revamp of its Alexa voice assistant, announced in February 2025, free for Prime members, and available to all US customers in 2026.
Alexamenos graffito
The Alexamenos graffito is a Roman wall caricature, dated about 200 CE, showing a donkey-headed figure crucified while Alexamenos worships, now in the Palatine Museum.
Alexander
Alexander (Greek Alexandros, "defending men") is a masculine given name spread by Alexander the Great; borne by about 3.9 million people, most prevalent in Russia, ranked #30 for US boys in 2025.
Alexander (2004 film)
Alexander is a 2004 historical epic directed by Oliver Stone, dramatizing the life of Alexander the Great and starring Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie, and Anthony Hopkins.
Alexander A. Balandin
Alexander A. Balandin is a materials scientist and Distinguished Professor at UCLA who is best known for the 2008 measurement of graphene's exceptionally high thermal conductivity and the optothermal Raman technique behind it.
Alexander A. Fridman
Alexander A. Fridman is a plasma physicist and chemist who directs the Nyheim Plasma Institute at Drexel University and is known as a founder of plasma medicine.
Alexander A. Khajetoorians
Alexander A. Khajetoorians is a Dutch-based physicist who leads Scanning Probe Microscopy at Radboud University, known for single-atom spin detection, the first atomic-scale all-spin logic gate, and an atomic Boltzmann machine.
Alexander A. Maximow
Alexander A. Maximow (1874–1928) was a Russian-born histologist and embryologist who proposed in 1906 that all blood cells arise from a single common precursor, the lymphocyte.
Alexander A. Migdal
Alexander Arkadyevich Migdal, born 1945 in Moscow, is a Soviet-born theoretical physicist who with Alexander Polyakov independently discovered the Higgs mechanism, later known for the Migdal–Kadanoff recursion.
Alexander Abdallah
Alexander Abdallah (born 1993, born Jihad Abdallah) is a Swedish actor, director, and screenwriter trained at Teaterhögskolan i Malmö; known for Salim in Snabba Cash (Kristallen 2021), Thunder in My Heart, Paradis City, and directing Halva halva.
Alexander Acosta
R. Alexander Acosta, American lawyer, 27th U.S. Secretary of Labor (2017-2019) under Trump and former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; known for the 2007 Jeffrey Epstein non-prosecution agreement, found poor judgment by DOJ OPR.
Alexander Agassiz Medal
The Alexander Agassiz Medal is an award of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences for original contributions to oceanography, presented every five years with a $20,000 prize.
Alexander Aitken
Alexander Aitken was a New Zealand-born mathematician who spent his career at the University of Edinburgh, introduced Aitken's Δ²-process for accelerating convergent sequences, and was a record-setting mental calculator.
Alexander Alekhine (Александр Александрович Алехин)
Alexander Alekhine (Александр Александрович Алехин), fourth World Chess Champion 1927–1935 and 1937–1946, only champion to die undefeated; beat Capablanca in 1927, lost to and regained from Euwe, namesake of the Alekhine Defense.
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is Judith Viorst's 1972 picture book, illustrated by Ray Cruz, about a boy's disastrous day and wish to move to Australia; it sold about four million copies and spawned HBO, stage, and 2014 Disney film adaptations.
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (film)
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is a 2014 American family comedy directed by Miguel Arteta, adapting Judith Viorst's 1972 children's book.
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Road Trip
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Road Trip (2025) is a Disney+ family comedy directed by Marvin Lemus, starring Eva Longoria, Jesse Garcia, Cheech Marin, and Thom Nemer, about a Mexican American family's cursed-idol road trip to Mexico City.
Alexander Andreyevich Baranov (Александр Андреевич Баранов)
Alexander Andreyevich Baranov (Александр Андреевич Баранов), also known as Alexandr Baranov, was a Russian merchant who governed Russian America and built its fur-trade empire from 1790 to 1818.
Alexander Antonov
Alexander Stepanovich Antonov (Александр Степанович Антонов) was a Russian revolutionary and former Socialist-Revolutionary who led the Tambov peasant uprising of 1920–1921 and was killed by Chekists in 1922.
Alexander Apostolov (Александър Апостолов)
Alexander Apostolov (Александър Апостолов), born 1949 in Sofia, Bulgaria, is a Bulgarian-born American power systems engineer at OMICRON, elected to the US National Academy of Engineering in 2025 for leadership in digital protection and control.
Alexander Archipelago
The Alexander Archipelago is a group of over 1,100 islands along southeastern Alaska's coast, holding 7 of the 10 largest U.S. islands, shaped by fjords, glaciation, the Tongass National Forest, and endemic wildlife.
Alexander Aris
Alexander Aris (Myint San Aung), born London 1973, elder son of Aung San Suu Kyi and Michael Aris; accepted the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize on her behalf; stripped of Myanmar citizenship in 1989; lives in England.
Alexander Armstrong
Alexander Armstrong (Alexander Henry Fenwick Armstrong), English comedian, actor, presenter and bass-baritone born 1970 in Rothbury; Armstrong and Miller duo, host of Pointless since 2009, Classic FM presenter and chart-topping vocalist.