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Alexei Filippenko
Alexei Filippenko is an astronomer and Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who studies supernovae and black holes and helped discover the accelerating expansion of the Universe in 1998.
Alexei Fridman
Alexei Fridman, also known as Alexei Maksimovich Fridman, was a Soviet and Russian astrophysicist, 1940 to 2010, who developed hydrodynamic theories of galactic spiral structure and planetary rings.
Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov
Alexei Grigoryevich Orlov (Алексей Орлов) was a Russian general and admiral who helped Catherine the Great take the throne and won the naval Battle of Chesme in 1770.
Alexei Gruverman
Alexei Gruverman is an American-based physicist and professor at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln known for pioneering piezoresponse force microscopy, a scanning probe method for imaging ferroelectric domains.
Alexei Guznov
Alexei Guznov is a Russian jurist and central banker, State Secretary and Deputy Governor of the Bank of Russia since 2022 and a Board of Directors member since 2023.
Alexei Kaledin
Alexei Kaledin (Алексей Каледин) was a Russian Don Cossack general who led the 8th Army in 1916 and resisted the Bolsheviks as Ataman of the Don Host.
Alexei Kitaev
Alexei Kitaev is a Russian-born theoretical physicist, the Linde Professor at Caltech, known for topological quantum computation, the surface codes, the honeycomb model, and the SYK model.
Alexei Kosygin (Алексей Николаевич Косыгин)
Alexei Nikolayevich Kosygin (Алексей Николаевич Косыгин), Soviet premier 1964–1980 under Brezhnev's collective leadership; textile engineer and wartime evacuation organizer; namesake of the incomplete 1965 economic reform; died 18 December 1980.
Alexei Kovalev (Алексей Вячеславович Ковалёв)
Alexei Vyacheslavovich Kovalev (Алексей Вячеславович Ковалёв), born 1973 in Tolyatti, Russian ice hockey winger; 1992 Olympic champion, 1994 Stanley Cup winner, NHL record 1,316 games among Russians; later Kunlun Red Star coach.
Alexei L. Efros
Alexei L. Efros is a theoretical physicist who formulated the Efros–Shklovskii Coulomb gap theory at the Ioffe Institute in 1975 and wrote the first theory of semiconductor quantum dots in 1982.
Alexei Leonov (Алексе́й Архи́пович Лео́нов)
Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov (Алексе́й Архи́пович Лео́нов, 1934 to 2019) was a Soviet cosmonaut who made the first spacewalk in 1965 and commanded the 1975 Apollo-Soyuz mission.
Alexei Losev
Alexei Losev (Алексей Лосев), 1893 to 1988, was a Russian philosopher and classical philologist who translated Plato and was sentenced to the gulag in 1930.
Alexei Matveyevich Olovnikov
Alexei Matveyevich Olovnikov (1936–2022) was a Russian theoretical biologist and gerontologist who in 1971 and 1973 proposed that chromosome end shortening limits cell division, work later confirmed and credited by the Nobel Committee.
Alexei Mordashov (Алексей Александрович Мордашов)
Alexei Mordashov (Алексей Мордашов), born 1965 in Cherepovets, is a Russian industrial magnate controlling the steelmaker Severstal, sanctioned by the EU and US since 2022.
Alexei Navalny (Алексей Анатольевич Навальный)
Alexei Navalny (Алексей Анатольевич Навальный), Russian opposition leader and anti-corruption campaigner; survived 2020 Novichok poisoning confirmed by OPCW; imprisoned 2021; died February 2024 in Arctic penal colony at 47.
Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia
Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia (Алексей Николаевич Романов, 1904–1918), was the only son and heir of Nicholas II. He had hemophilia inherited from Queen Victoria's line and was executed at Yekaterinburg in 1918.
Alexei Osipov
Alexei Ilyich Osipov (Алексей Ильич Осипов), born 1938, is a Russian Orthodox theologian and distinguished professor at the Moscow Theological Academy known for his lectures.
Alexei P. Sokolov
Alexei P. Sokolov is a materials scientist known for work on the glass transition and polymer dynamics who became the UT-ORNL Governor's Chair for Polymer Science in 2009.
Alexei Parshin
Alexei Nikolaevich Parshin (Алексей Николаевич Паршин, 1942–2022) was a Russian mathematician at the Steklov Institute, creator of higher-dimensional local fields and of the Parshin trick.
Alexei Peshekhonov
Alexei Peshekhonov (1867–1933) was a Russian economist, publicist, and leader of the Popular Socialist Party who served as Minister of Food Supply in 1917 and died in exile in Riga.
Alexei Petrovich, Tsarevich of Russia
Alexei Petrovich (Алексей Петрович, 1690–1718), tsarevich of Russia, eldest son and heir of Peter I and Eudoxia Lopukhina, father of Peter II, who opposed his father's reforms, fled to Habsburg refuge in 1716, and died under sentence in 1718.
Alexei Popyrin
Alexei Popyrin, Australian tennis player (born 1999, Sydney), 2017 Roland Garros junior champion, three ATP titles including 2024 Montreal Masters 1000, career-high No. 19, beat Djokovic at 2024 US Open.
Alexei Ramirez
Alexei Ramírez (Cuban Missile), born 1981 in Pinar del Río, Cuba, is a Cuban shortstop, 2004 Olympic gold medalist, and former White Sox star who set the MLB rookie record with four grand slams in 2008 and returned to Team Cuba for the 2026 World Baseball Classic at age 44.
Alexei Razumovsky (Алексей Розум)
Alexei Rozumovsky (Алексей Розум, 1709–1771), Ukrainian Cossack singer, favorite and secret husband of Empress Elizabeth of Russia, count (1744), field marshal (1756), patron of the Ukrainian hetmanate.
Alexei Remizov
Alexei Mikhailovich Remizov (Алексей Михайлович Ремизов, 1877–1957) was a Russian Silver Age prose writer known for ornate, folklore-based prose who published 83 books and left Paris after emigrating in 1921.
Alexei Rykov
Alexei Ivanovich Rykov (Алексей Иванович Рыков), Bolshevik from 1898, first Soviet interior commissar, and chairman of the USSR Council of People's Commissars 1924–30; Right opposition leader executed in the 1938 Moscow trial.
Alexei Savrasov
Alexei Savrasov (Алексей Кондратьевич Саврасов, 1830–1897) was a Russian landscape painter and teacher, born and died in Moscow, whose The Rooks Have Come Back (1871) founded the lyrical Russian landscape.
Alexei Sayle
Alexei Sayle (born 1952, Liverpool) is an English comedian, actor, and author, first compère of the Comedy Store (1979) and a founder of British alternative comedy, known for The Young Ones, Alexei Sayle's Stuff, and memoirs including Stalin Ate My Homework.
Alexei Starobinski
Alexei Starobinski (Алексей Александрович Старобинский) was a Russian theoretical physicist at the Landau Institute who published the first working model of cosmic inflation in 1980, sharing the 2014 Kavli Prize.
Alexei Yuryevich Smirnov
Alexei Yuryevich Smirnov (Алексей Юрьевич Смирнов) is a Russian neutrino physicist who, with Stanislav Mikheyev, developed the MSW effect that solved the solar neutrino problem.