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Alexander Mackay

Alexander Murdoch Mackay (1849–1890) was a Scottish engineer and pioneer Church Missionary Society missionary in Uganda for nearly fourteen years, called Muzungu-wa Kazi, "white man of work".

Alexander MacLachlan

Alexander MacLachlan is an American chemical engineer who served as DuPont's Chief Technical Officer until 1993 and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1992.

Alexander MacNicoll

Alexander Ian MacNicoll (Alex MacNicoll), American actor and producer born 1989 in Hunterdon, New Jersey; known for Luke in The Society, Colton in Transparent, and Dr. Van Markus in Brilliant Minds.

Alexander Mahone is a fictional FBI agent in Prison Break, played by William Fichtner, created by Paul Scheuring, main character in seasons 2-4, hunter then ally of Michael Scofield, absent from the 2017 revival.

Alexander Majorov

Alexander Alexandrovich Majorov, known as Sasha Majorov, is a Swedish retired figure skater, the first Swede to medal at the World Junior Championships, taking bronze in 2011.

Alexander Marinesko (Александр Иванович Маринеско)

Alexander Ivanovich Marinesko (Александр Иванович Маринеско, 1913–1963), Soviet submarine captain of S-13, sank the Wilhelm Gustloff and General von Steuben in 1945, leading Soviet submariners in tonnage sunk; posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union, 1990.

Sep 20, 2026

Alexander Marson

Alexander Marson is an immunologist and geneticist who is Professor of Medicine at UCSF and directs the Gladstone-UCSF Institute of Genomic Immunology, developing CRISPR tools for human T cells.

Alexander Mathis

Alexander Mathis is a Swiss-based computational neuroscientist and machine learning researcher, an associate professor at EPFL's Brain Mind Institute since 2020, known for DeepLabCut and for theories of proprioception and motor control.

Oct 21, 2026

Alexander Maunder

Alexander Elsdon Maunder (1861-1932), British trap shooter; won team gold and individual bronze at London 1908 and team silver at Stockholm 1912, and won the Clay Pigeon Shooting Association championship three times.

Alexander Mazo

Alexander Mazo is a Russian-born molecular biologist and professor of biochemistry at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia who studies how gene-expression patterns survive DNA replication and cell division.

Alexander McCall Smith

Alexander McCall Smith, Zimbabwean-born Edinburgh emeritus professor of medical law and author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (1998), the 44 Scotland Street serial, and other gentle crime series.

Alexander McPherson

Alexander McPherson is an American macromolecular crystallographer and professor emeritus at UC Irvine, a leading authority on protein crystallization who grew protein crystals aboard the Space Shuttle and International Space Station.

Alexander McQueen

Alexander McQueen (Lee Alexander McQueen, 1969–2010), British fashion designer and founder of the 1992 London label, Savile Row-trained, Givenchy head designer from 1996, creator of the bumster trouser and Highland Rape, subject of Savage Beauty.

Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty

Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty was a retrospective exhibition of the designer's 1992-2010 work at the Met (2011, record 661,509 visitors) and the V&A (2015, over 480,000 tickets, its most popular show ever).

Sep 20, 2026

Alexander Meissner

Alexander Meissner is a German epigeneticist known for mapping DNA methylation who directs the Department of Genome Regulation at the Max Planck Institute in Berlin.

Alexander Meissner (Austrian engineer and physicist)

Alexander Meissner (Alexander Meißner, 1883–1958) was an Austrian engineer and physicist who developed the Meissner oscillator, a feedback circuit for continuous radio waves, at Telefunken in 1913.

Alexander Menshikov (Russian admiral and statesman)

Alexander Menshikov (Александр Сергеевич Меншиков; 1787–1869) was a Russian prince, admiral, and statesman who served as chief of the Main Naval Staff, governor-general of Finland, and navy minister.

Alexander Menshikov (Russian statesman under Peter I)

Alexander Menshikov (Александр Данилович Меншиков) was a Russian statesman and field marshal, Peter I's closest associate, who effectively ruled Russia from 1725 to 1727 before being exiled to Siberia.

Alexander Mikhailovich of Tver

Alexander Mikhailovich of Tver (Александр Михайлович Тверской) was grand prince of Vladimir in 1326–1327 who led the anti-Horde uprising of 1327 and was executed in the Golden Horde in 1339.

Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev

Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev (Александр Зайцев; 1841–1910) was a Russian organic chemist at Kazan University known for Zaytsev's rule, which predicts elimination reactions favor the more stable alkene.

Alexander Mogilny

Alexander Mogilny, Soviet defector and Russian NHL star, first Soviet player to defect to the NHL (1989), 473 goals, 76-goal 1992-93 record, 2000 Stanley Cup, Hockey Hall of Fame Class of 2025.

Alexander Moisés Chédiak

Alexander Moisés Chédiak (1903–1993) was a Cuban physician and serologist who directed Havana's Calixto García hospital laboratory and described the white blood cell inclusions behind the name Chédiak–Higashi syndrome.

Alexander Mosaic

Alexander Mosaic, a c. 100 BCE Roman floor mosaic from Pompeii's House of the Faun depicting Alexander the Great and Darius III (Battle of Issus), now in Naples, under restoration since 2021.

Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke

Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke, born Prince Alexander Albert of Battenberg, was a grandson of Queen Victoria who served in the Royal Navy and Grenadier Guards.

Alexander Murdoch Mackay

Alexander Murdoch Mackay (1849–1890) was a Scottish Presbyterian engineer and Church Missionary Society missionary who spent nearly fourteen years in East Africa without leaving the continent.

Alexander Murray MacBeath

Alexander Murray MacBeath, known as Murray MacBeath, was a British mathematician who classified Hurwitz groups, gave his name to Macbeath regions, and held chairs at Dundee, Birmingham, and Pittsburgh.

Alexander N. Glazer

Alexander N. Glazer (1935–2021) was a Polish-born American biochemist who spent his career at the University of California, known for working out the biochemistry of phycobilisomes and for fluorescence-based DNA detection reagents.

Alexander N. Krot

Alexander N. Krot is a cosmochemist and meteoriticist at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, known for dating the oldest solids in the Solar System.

Alexander Natalis

Alexander Natalis, the Latin name of Noël Alexandre (1639–1724), was a French Dominican theologian and ecclesiastical historian whose multi-volume church history was condemned by Rome for its Gallicanism.