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Alexandre Iddir
Alexandre Iddir, French judoka (born 1991, Villepinte), FLAM 91 club, -100 kg half-heavyweight. Olympic mixed team gold at Tokyo 2020; =7 at Rio 2016; European bronze 2021; three Grand Prix titles.
Alexandre Kantorow
Alexandre Kantorow (born 1997, Clermont-Ferrand) is a French concert pianist, first French winner of the Tchaikovsky Competition First Prize and Grand Prix (2019), youngest Gilmore Artist Award recipient, and a BIS-exclusive recording artist.
Alexandre Kirillov
Alexandre Kirillov, born 1936, is a Russian mathematician who created the orbit method for nilpotent Lie groups and is professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania.
Alexandre Kojève (Александр Владимирович Кожевников)
Alexandre Kojève (Александр Владимирович Кожевников, 1902–1968), Russian-born French philosopher and statesman; author of Introduction à la lecture de Hegel, theorist of the end of history, and postwar architect of the EEC and GATT.
Alexandre Koyré
Alexandre Koyré (Александр Койре, 1892–1964) was a Russian-born French philosopher and historian of science who made the Scientific Revolution central to history and philosophy of science.
Alexandre Lacazette
Alexandre Lacazette, born 1991 in Lyon, French striker; two Lyon spells (201 goals in 391 games, second all-time scorer), Arsenal 2017-22 (71 goals, FA Cup 2020), now Neom SC; 16 France caps, Olympic silver 2024.
Alexandre Lazard
Alexandre Lazard was a French-born merchant and banker who co-founded Lazard Frères & Co. in New Orleans in 1848, opening the firm's New York and Paris offices.
Alexandre Lippmann
Alexandre Auguste Lippmann (1881–1960), French épée fencer and painter, grandson of Alexandre Dumas fils; won five Olympic medals, with team épée golds at London 1908 and Paris 1924.
Alexandre Loupy
Alexandre Loupy, born 1977, is a French nephrologist and biostatistician who leads the Paris Transplant Group and is known for the iBox algorithm forecasting kidney-graft survival.
Alexandre M. Tartakovsky
Alexandre M. Tartakovsky is a computational hydrologist who received the 2008 PECASE award at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and is now a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Alexandre Massura
Alexandre Massura (Alexandre Massura Neto), Brazilian backstroke and freestyle swimmer born 1975 in São Bernardo do Campo; two-time Olympian (Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000), 1995 short-course world relay champion, 1998 short-course 4x100 freestyle world record holder, 1999 Pan Am gold and silver medalist, University of Minnesota Hall of Famer.
Alexandre Mattiussi
Alexandre Mattiussi (born 1980) is the French designer, Duperré-trained, ex-Dior, Marc Jacobs, and Givenchy, who founded the AMI Paris ready-to-wear label in 2010, won ANDAM 2013, and grew it into an international house now owned by Sequoia Capital China.
Alexandre Mebazaa
Alexandre Mebazaa is a French professor of anesthesia and critical care medicine who chairs the department at Hôpital Lariboisière in Paris and leads major acute heart failure trials.
Alexandre Nero
Alexandre Nero is a Brazilian actor and singer born in 1970 in Curitiba, nationally known for telenovela villains, above all Comendador José Alfredo in Império (2014).
Alexandre O'Neill
Alexandre O'Neill (1924–1986) was a Portuguese poet, born and died in Lisbon, who co-founded the Grupo Surrealista de Lisboa in 1947 and later wrote satirical poetry marked by wordplay and irony.
Alexandre Pantoja
Alexandre Pantoja, "The Cannibal", Brazilian UFC flyweight champion from 2023 to 2025; won the belt from Brandon Moreno at UFC 290, defended four times, lost it to Joshua Van via 26-second elbow injury at UFC 323 and again by decision at UFC 331.
Alexandre Pato
Alexandre Pato (Alexandre Rodrigues da Silva, born 1989, Pato Branco), Brazilian striker; youngest scorer in FIFA competitions, AC Milan 2007-13 (150 games, 63 goals, 2011 Scudetto), later Corinthians, Chelsea, Villarreal, Tianjin, Orlando City; retired 2023.
Alexandre Pétion
Alexandre Sabès Pétion (1770–1818) was a Haitian general and statesman, president of the Republic of Haiti in the south and west of the island from 1807 to 1818.
Alexandre Pharamond
Alexandre Pharamond (Alexandre Emmanuel Pharamond, 1876-1953), French rugby union player and Paris restaurateur; won rugby gold for France at the 1900 Paris Olympics and French titles with Racing Club de France and Stade Français.
Alexandre Prot
Alexandre Prot is a French entrepreneur who co-founded Qonto, the Paris-based financial-management service for SMEs and freelancers, with Steve Anavi, and has been its chief executive since 2016.
Alexandre Rockwell
Alexandre Rockwell (born 1956, Boston) is an American independent filmmaker, grandson of animators Alexeieff and Parker, best known for In the Soup (Sundance 1992 Grand Jury Prize), Sweet Thing (2020 Crystal Bear), and The Projectionist (2026).
Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet
Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet (1797–1847) was a Swiss Protestant theologian and professor at the Academy of Lausanne, remembered for his doctrine of conscience and his advocacy of separating church and state.
Alexandre Saigh
Alexandre Saigh is a Brazilian financier who co-founded Patria Investments, a São Paulo-based alternative asset manager managing over $62 billion, and serves as its chief executive officer.
Alexandre Shvartsburg
Alexandre Shvartsburg is an analytical chemist at Wichita State University who raised the resolving power of FAIMS ion mobility spectrometry over tenfold and received the 2017 PECASE award.
Alexandre St-Jean
Alexandre St-Jean (born 1993, Quebec City) is a Canadian long track speed skater, 500m/1000m sprinter, former short tracker, 2015 Inzell World Cup 500m silver medallist, team sprint world record holder, and 11th in the 1000m at PyeongChang 2018.
Alexandre Tkatchenko
Alexandre Tkatchenko is a Luxembourg-based theoretical physicist and chemist, professor at the University of Luxembourg since 2016, known for the Tkatchenko–Scheffler and many-body dispersion methods in density-functional theory.
Alexandre Trudeau
Alexandre (Sacha) Trudeau, Canadian documentary filmmaker, journalist and author born 1973 in Ottawa; middle son of Pierre Trudeau, brother of Justin; known for Embedded in Baghdad, The New Great Game, and Barbarian Lost.
Alexandre Yazdi
Alexandre Yazdi is a French technology entrepreneur who co-founded Voodoo, the Paris-based mobile games company, with Laurent Ritter in 2013, pioneering hyper-casual games and serving as its CEO.
Alexandre Yersin
Alexandre Yersin (1863–1943), Swiss-born French bacteriologist of the Institut Pasteur; isolated Yersinia pestis in Hong Kong in 1894, founded the Nha Trang Pasteur Institute, and introduced rubber and cinchona to Vietnam.
Alexandre-Antonin Taché
Alexandre-Antonin Taché (1823–1894) was a French Canadian Oblate missionary who became the first Archbishop of St Boniface, helped shape the Manitoba Act of 1870, and led the Catholic campaign in the Manitoba school question.