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Alexandros Stamatakis
Alexandros Stamatakis is a computer scientist and evolutionary bioinformatician known for developing RAxML, and holder of an ERA Chair at FORTH in Crete since 2023.
Alexandros Zaimis
Alexandros Zaimis (Αλέξανδρος Ζαΐμης, 1855–1936) was a Greek statesman who served several times as Prime Minister, as High Commissioner of Crete, and as the last President of the Second Hellenic Republic.
Alexandrou Parembole
Alexandrou Parembole (Ἀλεξάνδρου παρεμβολή), an ancient Egyptian town near Qara Oasis, Matruh; Greek for Alexander's camp, per Ptolemy; Barrington Atlas 73 D4, Pleiades 716518, modern Gara/Umm el-Sughaiyar?
Alexandroupolis FSRU
The Alexandroupolis FSRU is a floating storage and regasification unit in the Thracian Sea off Alexandroupolis, Greece, which began commercial operation in October 2024 as the country's second LNG import terminal.
Alexandrov Ensemble
The Alexandrov Ensemble, also known as the Red Army Choir, is the Russian Army's academic song and dance ensemble founded in 1928 by Alexander Alexandrov, with a male choir, orchestra, and dance group.
Alexandrovskoe-Anzhero-Sudzhensk Oil Pipeline
The Alexandrovskoe-Anzhero-Sudzhensk Oil Pipeline is an operating trunk crude oil pipeline in western Siberia, built from 1970 to 1972 as the first in world practice to use 1220 mm pipe.
Alexandru Averescu
Alexandru Averescu (1859–1938) was a Romanian marshal who commanded the Second Army to victories at Mărăști and Oituz in 1917 and served three times as prime minister.
Alexandru Balaban
Alexandru T. Balaban is a Romanian organic and mathematical chemist who introduced the Balaban index in 1982 and served as Vice President of the Romanian Academy.
Alexandru Borza Botanical Garden
Alexandru Borza Botanical Garden (Grădina Botanică „Alexandru Borza") is Babeș-Bolyai University's botanic garden in Cluj-Napoca, Romania: founded 1920, opened 1925, 14 hectares, about 10,000 taxa, Romania's largest herbarium (750,000 sheets), Japanese and Roman gardens, six-compartment greenhouses.
Alexandru Buia Botanical Garden
Alexandru Buia Botanical Garden (Grădina Botanică „Alexandru Buia”), Craiova, Romania: university botanical garden founded 1952 by Prof. Alexandru Buia, about 12.8 ha, 6,000 taxa, 400,000-sheet herbarium, IABG member since 1974.
Alexandru Cernat
Alexandru Cernat (1828–1893) was a Romanian divisional general and politician who served as minister of war and commander of the Army of Operations in the 1877–1878 War of Independence.
Alexandru Dimitrie Ghica
Alexandru Dimitrie Ghica (1796–1862) was Prince of Wallachia from 1834 to 1842, the first ruler under the Organic Regulation, and later caimacam supporting union with Moldavia.
Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol
Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol (1847–1920) was a Romanian historian and philosopher of history, author of the six-volume Istoria românilor din Dacia Traiană, known for his theory of historical series and standing in French academic circles.
Alexandru Ioan Cuza
Alexandru Ioan Cuza was the domn who united Moldavia and Wallachia as Romania, ruling from 1859 to 1866 and carrying out foundational reforms before his forced abdication.
Alexandru Marghiloman
Alexandru Marghiloman (1854–1925) was a Romanian conservative politician and jurist who led the Conservative Party from 1914 and served as Prime Minister of Romania in 1918.
Alexandru Nazare
Alexandru Nazare is a Romanian politician of the National Liberal Party who serves as Minister of Finance, having previously held the post in the Cîtu government from 2020.
Alexandru Odobescu
Alexandru Odobescu (1834–1895) was a Romanian writer and archaeologist, a founder of Romanian archaeology and author of the historical novellas Mihnea Vodă cel Rău and Doamna Chiajna.
Alexandru Papiu Ilarian
Alexandru Papiu Ilarian, born Alexandru Pop (1827–1877), was a Romanian jurist and historian who led the Transylvanian revolution of 1848 and later served as Romania's minister of justice.
Alexandru Rusu
Alexandru Rusu was a Romanian Greek-Catholic hierarch, bishop of Maramureș and elected metropolitan of Blaj, who died in prison in 1963 and was beatified as a martyr bishop in 2019.
Alexandru Șafran
Alexandru Șafran, also Alexander or Alexandre, was a Romanian-born rabbi who served as chief rabbi of Romania from 1940 to 1947 and then of Geneva from 1948.
Alexandru Vaida-Voevod
Alexandru Vaida-Voevod (1872–1950) was a Romanian physician and politician who served four times as prime minister and led the 1918 union of Transylvania with Romania.
Alexandru Vlad
Alexandru Vlad is a Belgian-based chemist and professor of chemistry at UCLouvain in Louvain-la-Neuve, known for organic electrode materials and electrically conducting coordination polymers for lithium-ion and post-lithium batteries.
Alexandru Vlahuță
Alexandru Vlahuță (1858–1919) was a Romanian poet, prose writer, and publicist, best known for the travel volume România pitorească (1901) and a monograph on painter Nicolae Grigorescu.
Alexei A. Efros
Alexei Efros is a Russian-born computer scientist working in computer vision and graphics, a UC Berkeley professor known for data-driven methods and the 2016 ACM Prize in Computing.
Alexei A. Onushchenko
Alexei A. Onushchenko (Aleksey Arkadievich Onushchenko) is a Russian physicist who, as a PhD mentee of Alexei Ekimov at the Vavilov State Optical Institute in Leningrad, co-authored the first papers on quantum dots.
Alexei Abrikosov (theoretical physicist)
Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov was a Soviet-born American theoretical physicist at Argonne National Laboratory who shared the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on superconductors and superfluids.
Alexei Antropov
Alexei Petrovich Antropov (Алексей Антропов; 1716–1795) was an early Russian portrait painter and church decorator, best known for court portraits of Empress Elizabeth and Peter III.
Alexei Arakcheyev
Alexei Arakcheyev (Алексей Аракчеев) was a Russian artillery officer and statesman who reorganized the artillery, served as war minister from 1808 to 1810, and headed the military settlements.
Alexei Bestuzhev-Ryumin
Alexei Bestuzhev-Ryumin (Алексей Бестужев-Рюмин), 1693 to 1766, was a Russian diplomat and statesman, vice-chancellor from 1741 and chancellor from 1744 to 1758, born in Moscow.
Alexei Chirikov
Alexei Chirikov (Алексей Ильич Чириков) was a Russian naval officer who, as Vitus Bering's deputy, first reached the northwest coast of North America in 1741.