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Alexander B. Khanikaev
Alexander B. Khanikaev is a physicist in topological photonics and metamaterials, known for introducing photonic topological insulators in 2012 and, since 2024, a professor at CREOL, University of Central Florida.
Alexander Babu
Alexander Babu is an Indian stand-up comedian from Chennai whose musical comedy blends stand-up with live singing; his special Alex in Wonderland streamed on Amazon Prime in 2019.
Alexander Bain (inventor)
Alexander Bain (October 1810 to 1877) was a Scottish clockmaker and inventor whose 1843 patent for transmitting images by electricity is now recognized as the ancestor of the fax machine.
Alexander Baryatinsky
Alexander Baryatinsky (Александр Иванович Барятинский) was a Russian prince and field marshal who, as viceroy of the Caucasus, captured Imam Shamil at Gunib in 1859.
Alexander Baumgartner
Alexander Baumgartner (1841–1910) was a Swiss Jesuit priest, poet, and literary historian known for a three-volume Goethe biography and an unfinished six-volume history of world literature.
Alexander Bedward
Alexander Bedward was an African-Jamaican preacher and healer who led the Jamaica Native Baptist Free Church from 1891 and founded the mass movement Bedwardism.
Alexander Beglov
Alexander Beglov is a Russian politician and United Russia member serving as Governor of Saint Petersburg, who won the 2024 election with 59.80% of the vote.
Alexander Beilinson
Alexander Beilinson, born in Moscow in 1957, is a Russian-born mathematician at the University of Chicago known for the Beilinson conjectures, Beilinson–Bernstein localization, and the Wolf and Shaw prizes.
Alexander Berkman (Александр Беркман)
Alexander Berkman, known as Sasha Berkman, was a Russian-born American anarchist writer, lifelong comrade of Emma Goldman, who shot industrialist Henry Clay Frick during the 1892 Homestead strike.
Alexander Bertrand
Alexander Bertrand (born 1990) is an Australian actor known for Les Norton, Australian Gangster, and Pitbull in The Surfer (2024, Cannes); former Australian Army member, raised in Manly, Sydney.
Alexander Bestuzhev-Marlinsky
Alexander Bestuzhev-Marlinsky (Александр Бестужев; 1797–1837) was a Russian Romantic prose writer, poet, and critic, a Decembrist exiled to Siberia who wrote under the pseudonym Marlinsky.
Alexander Betts (refugee studies scholar)
Alexander Betts is a professor of forced migration at Oxford who led the Refugee Studies Centre and directs the refugee economies program, whose research shaped the 2016 Jordan Compact.
Alexander Bezborodko
Alexander Bezborodko (Александр Андреевич Безбородко) was a Russian statesman and diplomat who directed Catherine II's foreign policy, concluding the treaties of Värälä and Jassy before serving as chancellor under Paul I.
Alexander Blok
Alexander Blok (Александр Блок), 1880–1921, Russian Symbolist poet and playwright of the Silver Age; author of Verses About the Beautiful Lady and the revolutionary long poem The Twelve; died in Petrograd of heart failure from malnutrition.
Alexander Bogdanov (Александр Малиновский)
Alexander Bogdanov (Aleksandr Malinovsky, 1873-1928), Russian physician-philosopher, Bolshevik co-founder with Lenin, author of Empiriomonism and Tektology, Proletkult founder, died 1928 after a blood transfusion experiment.
Alexander Bogomolets
Alexander Bogomolets was a Soviet and Ukrainian pathophysiologist who founded the Ukrainian school of pathological physiology and served as president of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR.
Alexander Bogoridi
Alexander Bogoridi (Александър Богориди, Greek: Alexandros Vogoridis) was a Bulgarian-born statesman of the Ottoman Empire who served as first Governor-General of Eastern Rumelia from 1879 to 1884.
Alexander Boksenberg
Alexander Boksenberg, born 1936, is a British physicist and astronomer known for inventing the Image Photon Counting System and directing the Royal Greenwich Observatory from 1981 to 1996.
Alexander Bolshunov
Alexander Bolshunov is a Russian cross-country skier, three-time Olympic champion with nine medals at PyeongChang 2018 and Beijing 2022 and overall World Cup winner in 2020 and 2021.
Alexander Borodai (Александр Юрьевич Бородай)
Alexander Borodai (Александр Юрьевич Бородай), born 1972 in Moscow, is a Russian State Duma deputy (United Russia) and former self-styled prime minister of the separatist Donetsk People's Republic in 2014, who handled the MH17 black boxes handover and is EU-sanctioned and sentenced in absentia by Ukraine.
Alexander Borodin (Александр Порфирьевич Бородин)
Alexander Borodin (Александр Порфирьевич Бородин, 1833–1887), Russian composer-chemist of the Mighty Handful (The Five); wrote Prince Igor with the Polovtsian Dances, the Bogatyr Second Symphony, In the Steppes of Central Asia, and two string quartets while professor of chemistry in St. Petersburg.
Alexander Bortnikov (Александр Васильевич Бортников)
Alexander Vasilyevich Bortnikov (Александр Васильевич Бортников), born 1951 in Perm, is a Russian security official and General of the Army who has directed the FSB since 2008 and chairs the National Anti-Terrorism Committee; he is sanctioned by the US, EU, and UK.
Alexander Braun
Alexander Braun (1805–1877) was a German botanist, professor at the University of Berlin from 1851, remembered as a founder of the mathematical study of phyllotaxis.
Alexander brothers (sex offenders)
Alexander brothers: Alon, Oren, and Tal Alexander, luxury real estate brokers convicted March 2026 in Manhattan federal court of sex trafficking for drugging and raping dozens of women; prosecutors seek life sentences.
Alexander Bublik
Alexander Bublik (Александр Бублик), born 1997 in Gatchina, Russia, is a Kazakhstani tennis player, nine-time ATP titlist (Halle 2023, 2025), former Russia junior, career-high No. 10, first Kazakh in the ATP top 10, known for underarm serves and drop shots.
Alexander Buchan
Alexander Buchan (1829–1907) was a Scottish meteorologist and oceanographer who ran the Scottish Meteorological Society for 47 years, founded the Ben Nevis observatory, and gave his name to the Buchan spells.
Alexander Buchstab
Alexander Buchstab (Александр Бухштаб; 1905–1990) was a Soviet number theorist at Moscow State University, known for Buchstab's function, which describes integers with no small prime factors.
Alexander Bustamante
Sir Alexander Bustamante (William Alexander Clarke, 1884–1977), Jamaican labor leader, founder of the BITU and the Jamaica Labour Party, first Chief Minister and first Prime Minister of independent Jamaica (1962–1967), National Hero.
Alexander Butterfield
Alexander P. Butterfield (1926–2026), Nixon deputy assistant and FAA administrator, revealed the secret White House taping system to the Senate Watergate Committee in July 1973, leading to Nixon's 1974 resignation.
Alexander Büttner
Alexander Büttner (born 1989, Doetinchem) is a Dutch left-back, Vitesse captain and 2012-13 Premier League winner with Manchester United; three Vitesse spells, later Dynamo Moscow, Anderlecht, New England, no senior Netherlands caps.