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Alexander Dobrindt

Alexander Dobrindt, born 1970 in Peißenberg, is a German CSU politician serving as Federal Minister of the Interior and representing the Weilheim constituency in the Bundestag since 2002.

Alexander Doniphan Wallace

Alexander Doniphan Wallace (1905–1985) was an American mathematician who founded the theory of compact topological semigroups and is credited with founding topological algebra as a field.

Alexander Dovzhenko

Alexander Dovzhenko, born Oleksandr Petrovych Dovzhenko, was a Ukrainian film director whose silent trilogy Zvenyhora, Arsenal, and Earth founded Ukrainian poetic cinema; Earth is his best-known film.

Alexander Drilon

Alexander Drilon is a thoracic medical oncologist and Chief of Early Drug Development at Memorial Sloan Kettering, known for trials of targeted lung cancer drugs.

Alexander Druzhinin

Alexander Druzhinin (1824–1864) was a Russian literary critic and writer who led the aesthetic criticism school, defending "art for art's sake" against Chernyshevsky's utilitarian criticism.

Alexander Dubček

Alexander Dubček (1921–1992), Slovak communist politician, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia 1968–69, leader of the Prague Spring reforms under "Socialism with a Human Face", ousted after the August 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion, later Chairman of the Federal Assembly.

Alexander Dutov

Alexander Dutov (Александр Дутов) was a Russian Cossack lieutenant general and ataman of the Orenburg Cossack Host, killed by Bolshevik agents in China in 1921.

Alexander Dzhaburiya

Alexander Dzhaburiya, also known as Oleksandr Dzhaburiya, is a Ukrainian breaststroke swimmer who set a 27.61-second world best in the 50 m breaststroke and competed at the 1996 Olympics.

Alexander Efros

Alexander Efros, also known as Alexander Lvovich Efros, is a Russian-born theoretical physicist at the United States Naval Research Laboratory who co-discovered semiconductor nanocrystals in the early 1980s.

Alexander Elchaninov

Alexander Elchaninov (Александр Ельчанинов) was a Russian Orthodox priest, pedagogue, and spiritual writer who directed a gymnasium in Tiflis, emigrated in 1921, and served in Nice and Paris until his death in 1934.

Alexander Emanuel Agassiz

Alexander Emanuel Agassiz was a Swiss-born American marine zoologist and oceanographer who directed Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology and financed deep-sea exploration from his copper-mining fortune.

Alexander Emelianenko

Alexander Emelianenko (Александр Емельяненко), "The Grim Reaper", Russian heavyweight MMA fighter born 1981 in Stary Oskol, younger brother of Fedor; 29-9-1 record, PRIDE 2003-2006, 2024 comeback win, 2025 spinal surgery.

Alexander Esenin-Volpin

Alexander Esenin-Volpin (Александр Есенин-Вольпин) was a Soviet and American mathematician, philosopher, and dissident who pioneered ultrafinitism and the legalist strategy of the Soviet rights movement.

Alexander Evseevich Braunstein

Alexander Evseevich Braunstein (1902–1986) was a Soviet biochemist who, with M. G. Kritzmann, discovered enzymatic transamination in 1937 and formulated the theory of pyridoxal catalysis.

Alexander Exarch

Alexander Exarch (Александър Екзарх, c. 1810 to 1891), born Alexander Stoilov Boev, was a Bulgarian physician, journalist, and diplomat who edited Tsarigradski vestnik and campaigned for Bulgarian church independence.

Alexander Eychmüller

Alexander Eychmüller, born 1958 in Stuttgart, is a German physical chemist known for colloidal nanoparticles, quantum dots, and noble-metal aerogels, and a TU Dresden professor from 2005 to 2025.

Alexander F. Giacco

Alexander F. Giacco (died 2013) was an American chemical-industry executive who led Hercules Inc. for a decade and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1987.

Alexander F. Goncharov

Alexander F. Goncharov is an experimental geophysicist at the Carnegie Institution for Science who studies how matter behaves under the extreme pressures and temperatures deep inside planets.

Alexander Fadeyev

Alexander Fadeyev (Александр Фадеев; 1901 to 1956) was a Soviet writer known for The Rout and The Young Guard, and headed the Union of Soviet Writers from 1946 to 1954.

Alexander family murders

Alexander family murders: August 31, 1984 execution-style shootings of four relatives of Kermit Alexander in South-Central Los Angeles, a mistaken-identity gang attack; Horace Burns convicted in 1985, codefendants Cox and Williams also charged.

Alexander Fanjul

Alexander Fanjul, born in 1950, is an American sugar executive of the Fanjul family, serving as a vice president of Fanjul Corp. and Florida Crystals.

Alexander Feiner

Alexander Feiner (1928–2014) was an Austrian-born American switching engineer at AT&T Bell Labs who proposed the ferreed switch in 1959 and led development of digital PBXs.

Alexander Fersman

Alexander Fersman, also known as Alexander Evgenievich Fersman (Александр Евгеньевич Ферсман), was a Russian and Soviet mineralogist and geochemist who co-founded geochemistry in Russia with Vladimir Vernadsky.

Alexander Figner

Alexander Samoylovich Figner (Александр Фигнер, 1787–1813) was a Russian colonel and partisan leader who spied in occupied Moscow, fought in 1813 Germany, and drowned crossing the Elbe.

Alexander Fleming

Alexander Fleming (1881–1955), Scottish bacteriologist at St Mary's Hospital, London, discovered penicillin in 1928 and lysozyme in 1921; he shared the 1945 Nobel Prize with Florey and Chain and warned of antibiotic resistance.

Alexander Flügel

Alexander Flügel (born 1965) is a German neuroimmunologist and professor who directs the Institute for Neuroimmunology and Multiple Sclerosis Research at University Medical Center Göttingen.

Alexander Föhlisch

Alexander Föhlisch is a physicist in resonant and ultrafast X-ray science, professor at the University of Potsdam and director at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin since 2009, known for attosecond measurements of electron transfer in Nature.

Alexander Forbes (neurophysiologist)

Alexander Forbes (1882–1965) was an American neurophysiologist at Harvard Medical School, a leader in early American electrophysiology who established the all-or-none law of nerve conduction and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1936.

Alexander Forse

Alexander C. Forse is a British materials chemist and Professor of Materials Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, known for NMR studies of supercapacitors and batteries.

Alexander Francis Kirkpatrick

Alexander Francis Kirkpatrick (1849–1940) was an Anglican Hebraist and Old Testament scholar, Regius Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge and Dean of Ely from 1906 to 1936.