List of Famous people named Alexander

Alexander Fraser, 11th Lord Saltoun, was a Scottish peer and the 10th Laird of Philorth.

Alexander Nikolayevich Vyssotsky was a Russian-American astronomer. Vyssotsky was born in Moscow, Imperial Russia, and received his master's degree from Moscow State University.

Alexander Borisovich Zamolodchikov is a Russian physicist, known for his contributions to condensed matter physics, two-dimensional conformal field theory, and string theory, and is currently the C.N. Yang/Wei Deng Endowed Chair of Physics at Stony Brook University.

Alexander Leonidovich Knyazhinsky was a Soviet and Russian cinematographer, noted for his work on Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker. People's Artist of Russia (1992).

Vice-Admiral Alexander Colville, 7th Lord Colville of Culross, served as the Commodore and Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Ships and Vessels in North America from 1757 to 1762. Colville wrote a well-preserved series of detailed, well-written letters to various other military leaders, his family, the King, and other influential people. These letters have provided more historical information about that time period than many other sources available. His writing was so prolific that many of his letters still surface in antique shops from London, to Halifax to New York City. He is a poorly remembered, but important, contributor to the UK control of the North American seas and the battles of the Seven Years' War of 1756–1763.

Alexander Arbuthnot, Snr (1654–1705) of Knox, Kincardineshire was a Scottish politician.