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Alexander Kolchak (Александр Васильевич Колчак)

Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak (Александр Васильевич Колчак), 1874–1920, Russian admiral, polar explorer with Toll's 1900–1902 expedition, Black Sea Fleet commander, and Supreme Ruler of White Russia 1918–1920, executed at Irkutsk.

Alexander Korda

Alexander Korda (Sándor László Kellner, 1893–1956), Hungarian-born British film producer-director, founder of London Films and Denham Studios; made The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) and The Third Man; first British producer knighted.

Sep 27, 2026

Alexander Kozlov

Alexander Kozlov (born 1981) is a Russian politician who has served as Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology since 2020, after leading the Far East ministry.

Alexander Krivoshein

Alexander Krivoshein (Александр Васильевич Кривошеин) was a Russian statesman, chief administrator of land management and agriculture from 1908 to 1915 and Stolypin's closest collaborator in the agrarian reform.

Alexander Kuhn

Alexander Kuhn is a French-based electrochemist and full professor at ENSCBP in Bordeaux, known for bipolar electrochemistry, Janus particles, and chiral electrosynthesis; he received the CNRS Silver Medal in 2023.

Oct 22, 2026

Alexander Kuprin

Alexander Kuprin (Александр Куприн, 1870–1938) was a Russian writer of the early twentieth century, best known for the novels The Duel and The Pit and the story The Garnet Bracelet.

Alexander Kurakin

Alexander Kurakin (Александр Борисович Куракин) was a Russian statesman and diplomat who served as vice-chancellor, ambassador to Vienna and Paris, and negotiator of the Peace of Tilsit.

Alexander Kutepov

Alexander Pavlovich Kutepov (Александр Павлович Кутепов) was a Russian general of the White movement in the Russian Civil War, abducted by Soviet agents in Paris in 1930.

Alexander Kuzmich

Alexander Kuzmich is an American-based physicist at the University of Michigan known for experiments with laser-cooled atomic ensembles as quantum memories, including the first matter-to-light quantum state transfer.

Alexander L. Gerbes

Alexander L. Gerbes is a German hepatologist and professor at LMU Munich, known for a 2000 New England Journal of Medicine trial of paracentesis versus TIPS in cirrhosis.

Alexander L. Kielland (platform)

Alexander L. Kielland was a Norwegian accommodation platform that capsized in the North Sea on 27 March 1980, killing 123 of the 212 men on board.

Oct 10, 2026

Alexander Lamb Cullen

Alexander Lamb Cullen (1920–2013) was a British electrical engineer who devised the first absolute methods for measuring microwave power, by mechanical force rather than heat.

Alexander Laskin

Alexander Laskin is an environmental and atmospheric chemist, professor of chemistry at Purdue University since 2017, known for work on brown carbon and aerosol chemical imaging.

Sep 20, 2026

Alexander Leaf

Alexander Leaf, born Alexander Livshiz, was an American physician and clinical researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard known for kidney physiology and omega-3 fatty acid research.

Alexander Lebedev (Александр Евгеньевич Лебедев)

Alexander Lebedev (Александр Лебедев) is a Russian businessman, former KGB officer, and politician who built the National Reserve Bank and bought the Evening Standard and The Independent.

Oct 10, 2026

Alexander Leopold Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst

Alexander Leopold Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst (1794–1849) was a German prince and Catholic priest who became Europe's most discussed faith healer, credited with curing over 100 people in Würzburg in 1821.

Alexander Levitzki

Alexander Levitzki, born in Jerusalem in 1940, is an Israeli biochemist and Wolfson Professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, known for coining signal transduction therapy and pioneering tyrosine kinase inhibitors against cancer.

Sep 19, 2026

Alexander Levy

Alexander Levy is a University of Toronto alumnus who co-founded Atomwise, an AI drug discovery company in San Francisco, in 2012, and is now CEO of Atmo.

Alexander Lindsay (computational scientist)

Alexander Lindsay is an American computational scientist at Idaho National Laboratory known for contributions to the open-source MOOSE multiphysics framework, honored with a 2025 Presidential Early Career Award.

Alexander Lipschütz

Alexander Lipschütz (Alejandro Lipschütz Friedmann, 1883–1980) was a Latvian-born experimental endocrinologist who spent most of his career in Chile, known for inducing uterine fibroids in animals with sex hormones.

Alexander Litvinenko (Александр Вальтерович Литвиненко)

Alexander Litvinenko (Александр Вальтерович Литвиненко), ex-KGB and FSB officer who defected to Britain, died in London on 23 November 2006 after ingesting polonium 210; the 2016 Owen inquiry and 2021 ECHR Carter v. Russia ruling blamed Lugovoy, Kovtun, and the Russian state.

Alexander Lobanov-Rostovsky

Alexander Lobanov-Rostovsky, born Prince Alexey Borisovich Lobanov-Rostovsky (Алексей Борисович Лобанов-Ростовский), was a Russian diplomat of the nineteenth century who served as foreign minister from 1895 until his death in 1896, securing the 1896 Russo-Chinese alliance treaty.

Alexander Ludwig

Alexander Richard Ludwig, born 1992 in Vancouver, is a Canadian actor and country singer known for Cato in The Hunger Games (2012) and Bjorn Ironside in Vikings.

Alexander Lukashenko (Аляксандр Рыгоравіч Лукашэнка)

Alexander Lukashenko (Аляксандр Рыгоравіч Лукашэнка), born 1954, has ruled Belarus since 1994 as its authoritarian president; his disputed 2020 sixth-term win (80.1% official) triggered mass protests, Western sanctions, and deeper alignment with Russia.