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Alexander Stewart Herschel
Alexander Stewart Herschel (1836–1907) was a British astronomer, son of John and grandson of William Herschel, who showed that the Andromedid meteors were connected with Biela's Comet.
Alexander Stubb
Alexander Stubb (born 1968) is Finland's 13th president, in office since 1 March 2024, elected with 51.6% over Pekka Haavisto; former Finnish prime, foreign, finance, and Europe minister, MEP, EIB vice-president, and National Coalition Party chairman.
Alexander Sumarokov
Alexander Petrovich Sumarokov (Александр Петрович Сумароков) was a Russian poet, dramatist, and journalist who founded Russia's first professional theater in 1756 and published the first private literary journal.
Alexander Suvorov
Alexander Suvorov (Александр Васильевич Суворов), 1729/30-1800, Russian generalissimo who never lost a battle; victor of Rymnik, Izmail, and Novi; author of The Science of Victory; led the 1799 Alpine crossing. Not the pen name of writer Viktor Suvorov.
Alexander Szameit
Alexander Szameit is a German experimental physicist who leads the Chair for Experimental Solid-State Optics at the University of Rostock, known for demonstrating the photonic topological Anderson insulator in 2018.
Alexander Szelig
Alexander Szelig (Kai Alexander Szelig, born 1966, Werdau) is a German bobsledder who competed at four Winter Olympics (1988 GDR, 1992-98 Germany) and won four-man gold at Lillehammer 1994 with Harald Czudaj, Karsten Brannasch, and Olaf Hampel.
Alexander T. Radosevich
Alexander T. Radosevich is a professor of chemistry at MIT since 2016, known for organophosphorus redox catalysts and named a 2026 Arthur C. Cope Scholar.
Alexander Tarakhovsky
Alexander Tarakhovsky is a Soviet-trained immunologist who studies epigenetic control of immunity, heads a laboratory at The Rockefeller University, and became a Max Planck Fellow in 2023.
Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great (356–323 BCE), Macedonian king, son of Philip II, defeated Darius III and conquered the Achaemenid Empire from Granicus to the Hydaspes; died in Babylon 11 June 323.
Alexander Theroux
Alexander Louis Theroux (born 1939, Medford, Massachusetts) is an American novelist, poet, and essayist, older brother of Paul Theroux, best known for the 704-page maximalist novel Darconville's Cat (1981), which Anthony Burgess named among the 99 best English novels since 1939.
Alexander Thiele
Alexander Thiele is a cognitive neuroscientist and Professor of Visual Neuroscience at Newcastle University who studies how acetylcholine and other neuromodulators shape visual attention in primate cortex.
Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath
Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath (1932-2020), eccentric owner of Longleat House and its safari park in Wiltshire; known for his 'wifelets', Kama Sutra murals, Wessex Regionalist politics, and Liberal Democrat hereditary peerage 1992-1999.
Alexander Tomasz
Alexander Tomasz (1930–2024) was a Hungarian-born American microbiologist at Rockefeller University who showed how bacteria become resistant to antibiotics and in 1965 furnished the first evidence of quorum sensing.
Alexander Tormasov
Alexander Tormasov (Александр Петрович Тормасов) was a Russian general of cavalry and count who fought in the war of 1812 and ended his career as Moscow's military governor-general.
Alexander Tschirch
Alexander Tschirch (1856–1939) was a pharmacist and botanist who held the chair of pharmacy and pharmacognosy at the University of Bern from 1890 to 1932 and is regarded as the founder of modern pharmacognosy.
Alexander Tselikov
Alexander Ivanovich Tselikov was a Soviet metallurgist and designer of rolling mills who founded VNIIMETMASH and became a full member of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1964.
Alexander Tsoi
Alexander Tsoi (Aleksandr Tsoi, also Molchanov), born 1985 in Leningrad, only son of Kino frontman Viktor Tsoi; Russian musician, producer, and rights holder behind Ronin, Sasha Tsoi, and the Kino 2020 reunion.
Alexander Tsybulsky
Alexander Tsybulsky (Александр Цыбульский) is a Russian politician who has served as Governor of Arkhangelsk Region since 2020 and chairs the State Council Commission on International Cooperation and Export.
Alexander Turchin
Alexander Turchin, also known as Aleksandr Turchin, is a Belarusian politician serving as Prime Minister of Belarus, appointed by President Aleksandr Lukashenko after serving as governor of Minsk Oblast.
Alexander Turnbull
Alexander Thomas Turnbull (1872 or 1883–1956), Canadian lacrosse player nicknamed "Dad", New Westminster Salmonbellies star 1897–1909, six national titles, and 1908 London Olympic gold with Canada, top scorer of the tournament.
Alexander Turney Stewart
Alexander Turney Stewart (1803–1876) was an Irish-born New York merchant who built the city's largest dry-goods store and is credited with originating the American department store.
Alexander Tvardovsky
Alexander Tvardovsky (1910–1971) was a Soviet poet and journalist best known for the folk-epic war poem Vasily Tyorkin and for editing the journal Novy Mir.
Alexander Tzagoloff
Alexander Tzagoloff was a Columbia University biochemist and mitochondrial geneticist who first sequenced the complete set of mitochondrial genes and defined the nuclear PET genes required for respiration in yeast.
Alexander V of Imereti
Alexander V (ალექსანდრე V) was a Bagrationi king of Imereti in western Georgia, reigning in three stretches between 1720 and 1752 amid feuding nobles and Ottoman pressure.
Alexander V. Balatsky
Alexander V. Balatsky, also published as A. V. Balatsky, is a theoretical condensed-matter physicist known for work on impurity effects in superconductors, spin-current theory of magnetoelectric effects, and Dirac materials.
Alexander V. Chervonsky
Alexander V. Chervonsky is a professor of pathology and medicine at the University of Chicago who studies type 1 diabetes, the death receptor Fas, and how intestinal microbiota and diet influence diabetes development.
Alexander V. Kabanov
Alexander V. Kabanov is a drug delivery and nanomedicine scientist who directs nanomedicine centers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he has taught since 2012.
Alexander Van der Bellen
Alexander Van der Bellen (born 1944, Vienna) is Austria's Federal President since 2017, reelected 2022 with 56.7%; former University of Vienna economics professor and Greens leader 1997–2008.
Alexander van Geen
Alexander van Geen, known professionally as Lex van Geen, is an American geochemist at Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory known for research on arsenic in groundwater in Asia.
Alexander van Oudenaarden
Alexander van Oudenaarden (born 1970) is a Dutch physicist-turned-biologist who directed the Hubrecht Institute and is known for single-cell transcriptomics, lineage tracing, and pioneering single-cell RNA sequencing.