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Alexandra Reeve Givens
Alexandra Reeve Givens, also known as Alex Givens, is an American technology policy lawyer and CEO of the Center for Democracy & Technology since May 2020, formerly Georgetown Law institute director, Senate Judiciary chief counsel, and daughter of Christopher Reeve.
Alexandra Roach
Alexandra Roach (born 1987) is a Welsh actress from Ammanford, also credited as Alex Roach, known for the young Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady, Becky in Utopia, DS Joy Freers in No Offence, and Nightsleeper's Abby Aysgarth.
Alexandra Shipp
Alexandra Shipp (born 1991, Phoenix, Arizona) is an American actress and singer known as Storm in X-Men: Apocalypse and Dark Phoenix, as Aaliyah in the 2014 Lifetime biopic, and as Barbie in the 2023 film Barbie.
Alexandra Simons de Ridder
Alexandra Simons de Ridder, German dressage rider born 1963 in Cologne; won Olympic team gold at Sydney 2000 and European team gold 1999 on Chacomo; married to trainer Ton de Ridder.
Alexandra Stan
Alexandra Stan (Alexandra Ioana Stan, born 1989, Constanța) is a Romanian Eurodance singer whose 2011 hit "Mr. Saxobeat" topped Romania's chart for eight weeks, hit UK number 3, and has over 700 million Spotify streams; six albums include Saxobeats and Energia Ta.
Alexandra Stevenson
Alexandra Stevenson (born 1980, La Jolla, California), American tennis player, daughter of Julius Erving; first woman qualifier to reach the Wimbledon semifinals (1999), career-high No. 18 in 2002, later an ESPN analyst.
Alexandra Taylor (actress)
Alexandra Taylor (born 1997) is a British-Irish model and actress, former Miss Ireland, working in Bengali (Tollywood), Hindi, and Telugu cinema; debut Ogo Bideshini (2022), later Bagha Jatin, Babu Shona, Annapurna, and Bigg Boss Bangla 3 contestant. Distinct from other actresses named Alexandra Taylor on IMDb.
Alexandra Tolstoy
Alexandra Tolstoy (born 1974), British equestrian adventurer and BBC presenter of Horse People, daughter of Count Nikolai Tolstoy; made a 5,000-mile Silk Road trek by horse and camel in 1999.
Alexandra Trusova
Alexandra Trusova (Alexandra Ignatova), Russian figure skater born 2004 in Ryazan; 2022 Olympic silver medalist and first woman to land quad Lutz, flip, and toe loop in competition; returned in 2026 after childbirth.
Alexandra von Fürstenberg
Alexandra von Fürstenberg, born Alexandra Natasha Miller in 1972, is an American designer of acrylic furniture and accessories and founder of the brand AVF HOME.
Alexandra Zhernakova
Alexandra Zhernakova (Александра Жернакова) is a Dutch-based microbiome and immunology researcher, full professor at University Medical Center Groningen since 2020, known for her 2016 Science study of 1,135 gut microbiomes.
Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg
Alexandra, Countess of Frederiksborg, is a member of the extended Danish royal family who was Princess of Denmark from 1995 until her 2007 remarriage as Prince Joachim's first wife.
Alexandre Aja
Alexandre Aja (Alexandre Jouan Arcady, born 1978, Paris) is a French horror director of High Tension, The Hills Have Eyes, Piranha 3D, Crawl, Oxygen, and Never Let Go, a Splat Pack member.
Alexandre Antonelli
Alexandre Antonelli is a Brazilian-born evolutionary biologist and biodiversity scientist who studies the origins and conservation of tropical biodiversity, and has led science at Kew since 2019.
Alexandre Avril
Alexandre Avril (born 1992) is a French politician, philosopher, and mayor of Salbris (Loir-et-Cher) since 2020, re-elected 2026 with 70.87%; also president of Sologne des Rivières, UDR vice-president allied with the RN, and a figure described by national media as rising on the identitarian far right.
Alexandre Behring
Alexandre Behring, known as Alex Behring, is a Brazilian investor who co-founded 3G Capital in 2004 and led deals including Burger King, Heinz, and Kraft Heinz.
Alexandre Benois
Alexandre Benois (Александр Николаевич Бенуа, 1870–1960) was a Russian painter, stage designer, and art historian who co-founded the Mir Iskusstva movement and helped create the Ballets Russes.
Alexandre Besredka
Alexandre Besredka (Безредка Олександр Михайлович; 27 March 1870, Odessa – 28 February 1940, Paris) was a Ukrainian-born French immunologist at the Pasteur Institute who conceived local immunity and devised the 'antivirus' treatment.
Alexandre Cabanel
Alexandre Cabanel (1823–1889) was a French academic painter and leading figure of official 19th-century French art, best known for The Birth of Venus (1863) and his society portraits.
Alexandre Chorin
Alexandre Chorin, born 1938 in Warsaw, is a Polish-born American applied mathematician, University Professor Emeritus at UC Berkeley, known for the projection and random vortex methods in fluid computation.
Alexandre Costa
Alexandre Costa, known as Alê Costa, is a Brazilian entrepreneur born in 1971 in São Paulo who founded Cacau Show in 1988 with a $500 loan and still holds 98.5% of it.
Alexandre de Lesseps
Alexandre de Lesseps is an investor and co-owner of Geneva's BlueOrchard Finance, an early private backer of commercial microfinance, and a great-great-grandson of Ferdinand de Lesseps.
Alexandre Desplat
Alexandre Desplat, born 1961 in Paris, is a French film composer and conductor, two-time Oscar winner (The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Shape of Water) with eleven nominations and nearly 150 scores.
Alexandre Dufour
Alexandre Dufour, full name Alexandre Eugène Dufour, was a French physicist and professor of physics at the Faculté des sciences de Paris who invented a cathode-ray oscillograph.
Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas (1802-1870), Dumas père, French author of The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo; son of General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, interred in the Panthéon in 2002.
Alexandre Dumas fils
Alexandre Dumas fils (1824–1895), French novelist and dramatist, natural son of Dumas père; author of La Dame aux camélias (novel, 1852 play, Verdi's La traviata), theorist of the théâtre utile, Académie française 1874.
Alexandre Edmond Becquerel
Alexandre Edmond Becquerel (1820–1891) was a French physicist who in 1839 discovered the photovoltaic effect, the basis of solar power, and made the first color photographs.
Alexandre Exquemelin
Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin (c. 1645–1707), also John Esquemeling, French barber-surgeon and buccaneer chronicler; wrote De Americaensche Zee-Rovers (1678), The Buccaneers of America, the key eyewitness source on Caribbean piracy and Henry Morgan.
Alexandre Giraud Jacques Antoine Mérignhac
Alexandre Giraud Jacques Antoine Mérignhac (1857–1927) was a French jurist and professor of international law at the University of Toulouse, known for his 1895 treatise on international arbitration and studies of the Hague Peace Conferences.
Alexandre Herculano
Alexandre Herculano de Carvalho e Araújo (1810–1877) was a Portuguese poet, novelist, and historian who, with Almeida Garrett, introduced Romanticism and is considered the father of modern Portuguese historiography.