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Alexander Sarcophagus
The Alexander Sarcophagus is a late 4th-century BC Greek-style Pentelic marble sarcophagus carved for Abdalonymos, king of Sidon, found in 1887 and displayed in the İstanbul Archaeological Museums.
Alexander Schallenberg
Alexander Schallenberg (born 1969, Bern) is an Austrian ÖVP diplomat-politician, twice foreign minister and twice chancellor of Austria (Oct–Dec 2021; caretaker Jan–Mar 2025), leaving politics in March 2025.
Alexander Scheffold
Alexander Scheffold is a German immunologist who heads the Department of Technical Immunology at TU Berlin, after directing the Institute of Immunology in Kiel from 2018 to 2025.
Alexander Schleicher GmbH & Co
Alexander Schleicher GmbH & Co is a German sailplane manufacturer in Poppenhausen (Rhön), founded by Alexander Schleicher in 1927 and one of the two world market leaders in high-performance gliders.
Alexander Schmemann (Александр Дмитриевич Шмеман)
Alexander Schmemann (Александр Шмеман) was a Russian émigré Orthodox liturgical theologian who served as dean of St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary in New York from 1962 until his death in 1983.
Alexander Schuller
Alexander Schüller (born 1997, Leipzig) is a German bobsledder, brakeman for pilot Francesco Friedrich; Olympic four-man gold 2022, two-man and four-man silver 2026, multiple world and European champion.
Alexander Schuth
Alexander Schuth is a German-trained physician and biotechnology executive who left Genentech to co-found Denali Therapeutics in 2015, serving as its Chief Operating and Financial Officer.
Alexander Scordelis
Alexander Scordelis (1923–2007) was an American structural engineer and UC Berkeley professor, a pioneer in computer analysis of long-span concrete shell roofs and prestressed bridges, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1978.
Alexander Scriabin (Александр Николаевич Скрябин)
Alexander Scriabin (Александр Николаевич Скрябин, 1871-1915), Russian composer and pianist; ten piano sonatas, Poem of Ecstasy, Prometheus with color keyboard, mystic chord, unfinished Mysterium.
Alexander Selkirk
Alexander Selkirk, born Alexander Selcraig, was a Scottish sailor left alone on the island of Más a Tierra in 1704 for four years and four months after quarreling with his captain.
Alexander Shapiro
Alexander Shapiro is a mathematician and operations researcher holding the A. Russell Chandler III Chair at Georgia Tech, awarded the 2021 John von Neumann Theory Prize for stochastic programming.
Alexander Shelepin (Александр Николаевич Шелепин)
Alexander Shelepin (Александр Николаевич Шелепин, 1918–1994), Soviet party official: Komsomol first secretary 1952–58, KGB chairman 1958–61, Central Committee secretary, and a main organizer of Khrushchev's 1964 removal, later sidelined by Brezhnev.
Alexander Shishkov
Alexander Shishkov (Александр Семёнович Шишков) was a Russian admiral, statesman, and philologist who was state secretary to Alexander I during the war of 1812 and Minister of Public Education from 1824 to 1828.
Alexander Shlyapnikov
Alexander Shlyapnikov (Александр Шляпников) was a Russian Bolshevik metalworker, the first People's Commissar of Labour and, with Alexandra Kollontai, leader of the Workers' Opposition, executed in 1937.
Alexander Shulgin
Alexander Shulgin, known as Sasha Shulgin (1925–2014), was an American chemist who synthesized hundreds of psychoactive compounds at his California lab and introduced MDMA to psychotherapists.
Alexander Siddig
Alexander Siddig (born 1965, Sudan; birth name Siddig El Tahir El Fadil...) is a British-Sudanese actor, Dr. Julian Bashir on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, later Syriana, Kingdom of Heaven, and Game of Thrones' Doran Martell.
Alexander Skarsgård
Alexander Skarsgård (born 1976, Stockholm), Swedish actor, son of Stellan Skarsgård; known for True Blood's Eric Northman, Generation Kill, Big Little Lies (Emmy/Golden Globe/SAG), Succession, and The Northman.
Alexander Smith (Scottish-American chemist)
Alexander Smith (1865–1922) was a Scottish-born chemist who led the chemistry department at Columbia University and revolutionized chemistry teaching in America through his 1906 textbook.
Alexander Smits
Alexander J. Smits is an emeritus professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University, an experimental fluid mechanician known for high-Reynolds-number wall turbulence and supersonic boundary layers.
Alexander Sobolevsky
Alexander Sobolevsky is a Columbia University structural biologist known for the first crystal structures of an ionotropic glutamate receptor and of a TRP channel, TRPV6.
Alexander Sorkin
Alexander Sorkin is a cell biologist and Richard Beatty Mellon Professor who chairs Cell Biology at the University of Pittsburgh, known for EGF receptor endocytosis and FRET imaging.
Alexander Sørloth
Alexander Sørloth, born 1995 in Trondheim, is a Norwegian striker for Atlético Madrid and Norway. Known for his 1.95 m aerial game, Turkish golden boot 2019-20, and La Liga record 3:57 hat-trick.
Alexander Soros
Alexander Soros, known as Alex Soros, is an American investor and philanthropist who chairs the Open Society Foundations, to which his father George Soros handed control in 2023.
Alexander Spirin
Alexander Sergeevich Spirin (Александр Спирин; 1931–2020) was a Russian molecular biologist who discovered informosomes, modeled the ribosome as a dynamic machine, and founded the Institute of Protein Research.
Alexander Spoehr
Alexander Spoehr was an American anthropologist who directed the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, led the East-West Center, and produced the first modern archaeological record for Micronesia.
Alexander Spotswood
Alexander Spotswood was a British army officer and Lieutenant Governor of colonial Virginia from 1710 to 1722. He led the first expedition across the Blue Ridge.
Alexander Star
Alexander Star is a chemist who has been a professor at the University of Pittsburgh since 2005, known for carbon nanotube sensors for medical diagnostics.
Alexander Stark
Alexander Stark is an Austrian bioinformatician and gene regulation researcher who leads a laboratory at the IMP in Vienna, known for developing STARR-seq, a genome-wide enhancer assay.
Alexander Stewart (singer)
Alexander Stewart (singer) names two artists: a Canadian pop singer born 1999 in Toronto (bleeding heart 2024, What If? 2025, "i wish you cheated") and a Manchester-born British jazz vocalist (All Or Nothing At All, 2011).
Alexander Stewart Fotheringham
Alexander Stewart Fotheringham is a British quantitative geographer known for co-developing geographically weighted regression and multiscale GWR, and is Krafft Professor of Spatial Data Science at Florida State University.