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Alexander Varshavsky

Alexander Varshavsky, born 1946 in Moscow, is a Russian-born American biochemist and Caltech professor known for discovering the N-end rule pathway of ubiquitin-dependent protein degradation and winning the 2000 Lasker Award.

Alexander Vasilev (tennis)

Alexander Vasilev is a Bulgarian tennis player who reached a career-high ranking of No. 564 in 2026. He has played singles for Bulgaria in the Davis Cup with a 2–1 record.

Alexander Vasilevsky

Alexander Vasilevsky (Александр Михайлович Василевский) was a Soviet military commander and Marshal of the Soviet Union who planned the Stalingrad counteroffensive and commanded the 1945 Manchurian operation against Japan.

Alexander Vilenkin

Alexander Vilenkin is a theoretical cosmologist at Tufts University, where he directs the Institute of Cosmology, known for eternal inflation and the quantum creation of the universe from nothing.

Alexander Vindman

Alexander Vindman (born 1975), retired US Army lieutenant colonel and NSC director for Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Russia; key 2019 impeachment witness, Purple Heart recipient, author of Here, Right Matters and The Folly of Realism.

Alexander Vinogradov (geochemist)

Alexander Pavlovich Vinogradov (Александр Павлович Виноградов) was a Soviet geochemist who founded isotope geochemistry and cosmochemistry in the USSR and led the Vernadsky Institute (GEOKHI).

Alexander Vlahos

Alexander Vlahos is a Welsh actor, writer, and director, born in 1988, best known as Mordred in Merlin and Philippe in Versailles, and later seen in Sanditon and Outlander.

Alexander Volkanovski

Alexander Volkanovski (born 1988, Wollongong, Australia) is an Australian UFC featherweight champion, two-time titleholder, nicknamed The Great; beat Aldo and Holloway, lost twice to Makhachev and once to Topuria, reclaimed the belt against Diego Lopes.

Alexander Volkov (Александр Волков) (fighter)

Alexander Volkov (Александр Волков), "Drago", Russian UFC heavyweight born 1988 in Moscow, 40-11-0, former Bellator and M-1 heavyweight champion, Bauman engineering graduate, ranked No. 2.

Alexander von Benckendorff

Alexander von Benckendorff (Александр Христофорович Бенкендорф) was a Russian cavalry general and statesman who served as chief of gendarmes and head of the Third Section, the secret police, from 1826 until his death in 1844.

Alexander von Brill

Alexander Wilhelm von Brill (1842–1935) was a German mathematician who, with Max Noether, founded the algebraic-geometric theory of algebraic functions, taught Planck and Hurwitz at Munich, and held the chair at Tübingen.

Alexander von Falkenhausen

Alexander von Falkenhausen (1878-1966), German general, adviser to Chiang Kai-shek 1934-1938, and military governor of occupied Belgium and northern France 1940-1944; linked to the 20 July 1944 plot, tried in Brussels in 1951, sentenced to 12 years, released within weeks.

Alexander von Humboldt

Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), Prussian explorer and naturalist, whose 1799–1804 Latin American expedition with Aimé Bonpland founded biogeography and environmental science; author of Kosmos, namesake of the Humboldt Current.

Alexander von Humboldt's visit to New Spain

Alexander von Humboldt's visit to New Spain was a scientific survey of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, present-day Mexico, made by Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland in 1803 and 1804.

Alexander von Kluck

Alexander von Kluck (1846–1934), Prussian Generaloberst and commander of the German 1st Army in 1914, led the Schlieffen Plan's right wing through Belgium and France and was blamed by many for the Marne defeat.

Alexander von Lichtenberg

Alexander von Lichtenberg (1880–1949) was a Hungarian-born urologist who co-introduced retrograde pyelography and intravenous urography, built a leading urology department in Berlin, and ended his career in exile in Mexico.

Alexander von Schlippenbach

Alexander von Schlippenbach (born April 7, 1938, Berlin), German free jazz pianist, composer, and arranger; founder-leader of the Globe Unity Orchestra (1966) and the Schlippenbach Trio with Evan Parker and Paul Lovens; recorded Monk's Casino.

Alexander von Württemberg

Alexander von Württemberg is the name of several members of the House of Württemberg, including a ruling duke, generals in Austrian and Russian service, and a poet.

Alexander Vvedensky

Alexander Vvedensky (Александр Введенский) was a Russian religious figure who co-founded the Renovationist schism in the Russian Orthodox Church, serving as its first hierarch from 1941 to 1946.

Alexander Vyazemsky

Alexander Vyazemsky (Александр Вяземский, 1727–1793) was a Russian prince and statesman who served as procurator-general of the Senate from 1764 to 1792 under Catherine II.

Alexander Wang (designer)

Alexander Wang (王大仁), born 1983 in San Francisco, is an American fashion designer who founded his eponymous label in 2005, defined the model-off-duty look, led Balenciaga 2012–2015, collaborated with H&M in 2014, faced 2020 sexual assault allegations, and returned to NYFW in 2025.

Alexander Wetmore

Alexander Wetmore (1886–1978) was an American ornithologist and avian paleontologist, sixth Secretary of the Smithsonian from 1945 to 1952, whose bird classification became the "Wetmore order."

Alexander Whyte

Alexander Whyte (1836–1921) was a Scottish minister of the Free Church of Scotland, known for dramatic preaching at Free St George's, Edinburgh, and his Bible Characters studies.

Alexander William Williamson

Alexander William Williamson (1824–1904) was an English chemist whose 1850 ether research proved ether forms by exchanging an ethyl group for hydrogen, establishing the Williamson ether synthesis.

Alexander Wolfe (wrestler)

Alexander Wolfe is the WWE ring name of German wrestler Axel Tischer (born 1986, Dresden), a member of SAnitY and Imperium, NXT Tag Team Champion, and the first German to win a WWE title, now a wXw and PROGRESS mainstay.

Alexander Y. Panchin

Alexander Y. Panchin (Александр Панчин; born 1986 in Moscow) is a Russian biologist who researches genome evolution and writes popular science debunking pseudoscience, winning the Enlightener Prize.

Alexander Yakovlev (Александр Николаевич Яковлев)

Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev (Александр Николаевич Яковлев, 1923–2005), Soviet Politburo member and Central Committee ideology secretary, chief ideologist of perestroika and glasnost under Gorbachev, later rehabilitation-commission chair and critic of Marxism.

Alexander Yakovlev (Александр Сергеевич Яковлев) (engineer)

Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev (Александр Сергеевич Яковлев, 1906–1989) was a Soviet aircraft designer who founded the bureau producing the Yak fighters, the backbone of Soviet fighter aviation in World War II.

Alexander Ypsilantis (Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης)

Alexander Ypsilantis (Αλέξανδρος Υψηλάντης, 1792–1828), Phanariot prince, Russian major general, and leader of Filiki Eteria, opened the Greek Revolution of 1821 by crossing the Pruth and proclaiming the uprising at Iasi, Moldavia.

Alexander Zakharchenko (Александр Владимирович Захарченко)

Alexander Zakharchenko (Александр Владимирович Захарченко), born 1976 in Donetsk, headed the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic from August 2014, signed the Minsk agreements, and was killed by a bomb in Donetsk on 31 August 2018.