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Alexei Zabotkin
Alexei Zabotkin, born 1977 in Kolomna, is a Russian economist who has served as Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of Russia since June 2020, where he presents its monetary policy guidelines.
Alexej Manvelov
Alexej Manvelov, Swedish actor born 1982 in Moscow to a Russian mother and Kurdish Syrian father, is known for Akram Salim in Netflix's Dept. Q (2025), Chernobyl, Jack Ryan, and A Day and a Half.
Alexej von Jawlensky
Alexej von Jawlensky (1864–1941) was a Russian-born Expressionist painter active in Germany, where he co-founded the Neue Künstlervereinigung München in 1909 and joined Der Blaue Reiter.
Alexey A. Popov
Alexey A. Popov is a chemist who has led the Fullerenes group at the Leibniz Institute IFW Dresden, Germany, since 2010, studying endohedral metallofullerenes and single-molecule magnetism.
Alexey A. Sokol
Alexey A. Sokol is a theoretical physicist and Principal Research Associate at UCL Chemistry, known for hybrid QM/MM embedded cluster methods and the ChemShell software.
Alexey Amunts
Alexey Amunts is a structural biologist known for determining the structures of the mitochondrial ribosome and photosystem I, leading a research group at Stockholm University.
Alexey Besprozvannykh (Алексей Сергеевич Беспрозванных)
Alexey Sergeevich Besprozvannykh (Алексей Сергеевич Беспрозванных, born 1979) is a Russian official, former MTS executive, Voronezh deputy premier, and Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade (2017–2024), Governor of Kaliningrad Oblast since 2024, elected with 76.55%, under EU and US sanctions since 2023.
Alexey Brodovitch
Alexey Brodovitch (1898–1971) was a Russian-born graphic designer, photographer, and art director who transformed American magazine design as art director of Harper's Bazaar from 1934 to 1958.
Alexey Chervonenkis
Alexey Chervonenkis (Алексей Червоненкис) was a Russian mathematician who, with Vladimir Vapnik, created statistical learning theory, the VC dimension, and methods behind the Support Vector Machine.
Alexey Favorsky
Alexey Favorsky, also Alexey Yevgrafovich Favorsky, was a Russian and Soviet organic chemist at St Petersburg University who gave his name to the Favorskii rearrangement and the Favorsky acetylene reaction.
Alexey Gorshkov
Alexey V. Gorshkov is an American theoretical physicist at NIST and a Fellow of QuICS and the Joint Quantum Institute, known for quantum simulation, many-body dynamics, and a 2019 PECASE award.
Alexey Karpenkov
Alexey Karpenkov (Алексей Юрьевич Карпенков) is a Russian physicist who heads the Condensed Matter Physics Department at Tver State University, known for research on the magnetocaloric effect and magnetic refrigeration.
Alexey Khodjakov
Alexey Khodjakov is a cell biologist at the Wadsworth Center in Albany, New York, who studies the mitotic apparatus and is known for live-cell imaging of centrosomes.
Alexey Kimel
Alexey Kimel (A. V. Kimel) is a condensed-matter physicist and full professor at Radboud University in Nijmegen, known for all-optical magnetic recording with femtosecond laser pulses.
Alexey Milovidov
Alexey Milovidov (Алексей Миловидов) is the Russian engineer who created ClickHouse at Yandex Metrica, open-sourced it in 2016, and co-founded ClickHouse, Inc. in 2021, serving as its CTO from Amsterdam.
Alexey Nechayev
Alexey Nechayev is a Russian politician and chairman of New People (Novye Lyudi), a pro-business party that entered the State Duma in 2021; he led its faction there.
Alexey Nesvizhskii
Alexey Nesvizhskii (Алексей Несвижский) is a bioinformatician and Godfrey Dorr Stobbe Professor at the University of Michigan, known for the MSFragger search engine and FragPipe proteomics platform.
Alexey Overchuk
Alexey Overchuk, also known as Alexei Overchuk, is a Russian politician serving as Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation with responsibility for Eurasian economic integration.
Alexey Pajitnov (Алексей Леонидович Пажитнов)
Alexey Pajitnov (Алексей Леонидович Пажитнов), born 1955, Moscow, is the Russian computer engineer who created Tetris in June 1984 on an Elektronika 60 at the Soviet Academy of Sciences; he later co-founded The Tetris Company with Henk Rogers in 1996 and designed Microsoft's Hexic.
Alexey Pisemsky
Alexey Pisemsky (Алексей Феофилактович Писемский, 1821–1881) was a Russian realist novelist and dramatist best known for the novel A Thousand Souls (1858) and the peasant drama A Bitter Fate.
Alexey S. Kondrashov
Alexey S. Kondrashov (Алексей Кондрашов), born 1957, is an evolutionary geneticist and University of Michigan professor emeritus whose 1988 deterministic mutation hypothesis links sex to high deleterious mutation rates.
Alexey Savvateev
Alexey Savvateev (Алексей Владимирович Савватеев), born 1973 in Moscow, is a Russian mathematician and mathematical economist known for game-theoretic work on corruption and popular YouTube mathematics lectures.
Alexey Shved
Alexey Shved (Алексей Швед, born 1988), Russian shooting guard; 2008 EuroLeague champion with CSKA, NBA 2012-15, EuroLeague single-season scoring record holder (740 points, 2017-18) with Khimki, now UNICS Kazan captain.
Alexey Tolstoy (Martian crater)
Alexey Tolstoy is a 93-km impact crater on Mars in eastern Promethei Terra at 47.44°S, 125.34°E, IAU-named in 1982 for the Soviet writer Aleksey Tolstoy (1882–1945).
Alexey Tsydenov
Alexey Tsydenov is a Russian politician who has served as Head of the Republic of Buryatia since 2017, leading its government and reporting to President Putin.
Alexey V. Fedorov
Alexey V. Fedorov is an American-based climate and ocean scientist, professor at Yale University since 2004, known for research on El Niño, tropical cyclones, and Pliocene warm climates.
Alexey Voyevoda (Алексей Иванович Воевода)
Alexey Voyevoda (Алексей Иванович Воевода), born 1980, Russian arm wrestling world champion turned bobsledder; 2006 silver and 2010 bronze, two Sochi 2014 golds later disqualified in the Russian sample-switching doping scheme.
Alexi Giannoulias
Alexi Giannoulias is an American Democratic politician who was elected Illinois Secretary of State in 2022, having previously served as Illinois State Treasurer from 2007 to 2011.
Alexi Grewal
Alexi Singh Grewal, American cyclist born 1960 in Denver, won the 1984 Olympic men's road race at Mission Viejo, the first US gold in that event, beating Steve Bauer by less than a wheel.
Alexi Laiho
Alexi Laiho (Markku Uula Aleksi Laiho, 1979–2020), Finnish guitarist and vocalist who founded Children of Bodom in Espoo in 1993, recorded ten albums, won Guitar World and Total Guitar guitarist polls, and died in Helsinki in 2020.