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Alexander Nevsky (Александр Невский) (1938 film)
Alexander Nevsky (Александр Невский), 1938 Mosfilm historical epic by Sergei Eisenstein and Dmitri Vasilyev, his first sound film, with Prokofiev's score; premiered 1 December 1938, withdrawn after the 1939 pact, revived in 1941.
Alexander Nevsky (Александр Ярославич Невский)
Alexander Nevsky, also known as Alexander Yaroslavich, was a prince of Novgorod and Grand Prince of Vladimir (1252–1263), venerated by the Russian Orthodox Church as a saint.
Alexander Nevsky Lavra
Alexander Nevsky Lavra is a working Russian Orthodox monastery in Saint Petersburg, founded by Peter the Great in 1713 and raised to lavra rank in 1797.
Alexander Newley
Alexander Newley (Sacha Newley, born 1965) is a British portrait painter, writer and teacher, son of Joan Collins and Anthony Newley, known for portraits of Gore Vidal, Christopher Reeve and Judi Dench held by the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.
Alexander Nix
Alexander Nix is a British data-analytics executive who led Cambridge Analytica, the political consulting firm that collapsed in 2018 after the Facebook data harvesting scandal.
Alexander Novak
Alexander Novak, born in 1971 in Ukraine, is a Russian politician serving as Deputy Prime Minister since 2020 and previously Minister of Energy from 2012.
Alexander Nübel
Alexander Nübel (born 1996, Paderborn) is a German goalkeeper for Beşiktaş Istanbul and Germany. Schalke, Bayern Munich, loans at Monaco and VfB Stuttgart; Champions League and DFB-Pokal winner.
Alexander Nylander
Alexander Nylander, also known as Alex Nylander, is a Swedish professional ice hockey left wing selected eighth overall by the Buffalo Sabres in the 2016 NHL Draft.
Alexander O. Govorov
Alexander O. Govorov is a Russian-born theoretical physicist and Distinguished Professor at Ohio University who studies quantum dots and nanocrystals, and whose papers established the theoretical foundations of chiral plasmonics.
Alexander O'Neal
Alexander O'Neal (born 1953, Natchez, Mississippi) is an American soul/R&B singer, ex-Flyte Tyme and The Time frontman, known for Hearsay (1987), "Criticize", "Fake", and duets with Cherrelle.
Alexander of Alexandria
Alexander of Alexandria (Ἀλέξανδρος Ἀλεξανδρείας) was the nineteenth patriarch of Alexandria from 312 until his death, whose condemnation of his presbyter Arius led to the Council of Nicaea in 325.
Alexander of Greece
Alexander I of Greece (Αλέξανδρος Α΄, 1893–1920), king 1917–1920, second son of Constantine I, installed by the Entente; died at 27 from necrotizing myositis after a Barbary macaque bite, enabling his father's restoration.
Alexander of Hales
Alexander of Hales (c. 1185–1245) was an English scholastic theologian, the first Franciscan to hold a theology chair at Paris, and director of the Summa Halensis.
Alexander Onassis
Alexander Onassis (1948–1973), son of Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis and Athina Livanos, was president of Olympic Aviation before dying in a plane crash in Athens.
Alexander Oparin
Alexander Ivanovich Oparin was a Soviet biochemist who proposed in 1924 that life arose by gradual chemical evolution in a primitive atmosphere, founding the origin-of-life research program.
Alexander Orlov (Александр Михайлович Орлов) (Soviet defector)
Alexander Orlov (Александр Михайлович Орлов), born Leiba Feldbin, 1895-1973, was an NKVD officer, Soviet spy chief in Republican Spain and 1938 defector to the U.S., author of The Secret History of Stalin's Crimes.
Alexander Ostrovsky
Alexander Ostrovsky (Александр Островский), 1823 to 1886, was a Russian dramatist credited with creating the national Russian repertory theater and often called the father of Russian drama.
Alexander Ostrowski
Alexander Ostrowski, also known as Alexander Markowitsch Ostrowski, was a Russian-born mathematician (1893 to 1986) who developed valuation theory and Ostrowski's theorem while holding the Basel chair from 1927 to 1958.
Alexander Ovechkin (Александр Михайлович Овечкин)
Alexander Ovechkin (Александр Михайлович Овечкин), Russian NHL left wing for the Washington Capitals since 2005; broke Wayne Gretzky's record with his 895th goal in April 2025, reached 929 goals, won the 2018 Stanley Cup, and announced 2026-27 as his final season.
Alexander Palace (Александровский дворец)
The Alexander Palace (Александровский дворец) is a neoclassical imperial residence at Tsarskoe Selo, south of Saint Petersburg, built 1792–1796 by Giacomo Quarenghi as a wedding gift for the future Alexander I.
Alexander Payne
Alexander Payne (Constantine Alexander Payne, b. 1961, Omaha) is an American film director and screenwriter of Election, Sideways, The Descendants, Nebraska, and The Holdovers, and a two-time Oscar winner for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Alexander Pearce
Alexander Pearce (c. 1790–1824), Irish convict transported for stealing six pairs of shoes, twice escaped Macquarie Harbour penal settlement in Van Diemen's Land; sole survivor of the 1822 escape party and executed in 1824 for murdering fellow escapee Thomas Cox after confessed cannibalism.
Alexander Pechersky
Alexander Pechersky (Александр Печерский), 1909–1990, Soviet Red Army officer and Sobibor prisoner who planned and led the 14 October 1943 Sobibor extermination camp uprising and mass escape, later a partisan and memoirist in Rostov-on-Don.
Alexander Petrunkevitch
Alexander Petrunkevitch (1875–1964) was a Russian-born American arachnologist and Yale professor, called the world's foremost authority on spiders, known for classifying spiders by internal anatomy and monographs on Baltic amber spiders.
Alexander Pfeifer
Alexander Pfeifer is a German pharmacologist who has directed the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Bonn since 2006, studying brown fat and obesity.
Alexander Pichushkin (Александр Юрьевич Пичушкин)
Alexander Yuryevich Pichushkin, the Chessboard Killer or Bitsevsky Maniac, is a Russian serial killer convicted in 2007 of 48 murders and three attempted murders near Moscow's Bitsevsky Park, sentenced to life imprisonment.
Alexander Pines
Alexander Pines (1945–2024) was an Israeli-born American chemical physicist, Glenn T. Seaborg Professor at UC Berkeley, widely considered the father of high-resolution solid-state NMR spectroscopy.
Alexander Ploss
Alexander Ploss, born 1976 in Hamburg, Germany, is a virology professor at Princeton University known for identifying the hepatitis C virus entry factor occludin and building humanized mice.
Alexander polynomial
The Alexander polynomial is a polynomial invariant of knots and links in three-dimensional space, introduced by James Waddell Alexander II in 1923 and the only known polynomial knot invariant until 1984.
Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) was an English poet and satirist, master of the heroic couplet, known for The Rape of the Lock, An Essay on Man, and The Dunciad.