List of Famous people named Alexander

Name Alexander is among the most common names in Russia, Germany, England, Austria. Often it's a shorthand for Aleksandr. Similar names: Aleksandr, Aleksander. Here are some famous Alexanders:

Alexander Brudno

First Name Alexander

Last Name Brudno

Born on January 10, 1918

Died on December 1, 2009 (aged 91)

Alexander L'vovich Brudno was a Russian computer scientist, best known for fully describing the alpha-beta pruning algorithm. From 1991 until his death he lived in Israel.

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Alexander Bari

First Name Alexander

Last Name Bari

Born on May 6, 1847

Died on April 6, 1913 (aged 65)

Born in Russia

Alexander Veniaminovich Bari was a Russian and American engineer, entrepreneur and social activist, founder of the first Russian engineering company. Bari was a close friend of Vladimir Shukhov, Leo Tolstoy, Dmitri Mendeleev, Nikolay Zhukovsky, Fyodor Schechtel, Ivan Rerberg.

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Alexander Petrovich Artari

First Name Alexander

Last Name Artari

Died on April 7, 1919

Born in Russia

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Alexander von Senger

First Name Alexander

Last Name Senger

Born on May 7, 1880

Died on June 30, 1968 (aged 88)

Born in Switzerland, Canton of Geneva

Alexander von Senger, was a Swiss architect and architectural theorist.

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Alexander Butlerov

First Name Alexander

Last Name Butlerov

Born on August 25, 1828

Died on August 5, 1886 (aged 57)

Born in Russia, Republic of Tatarstan

Alexander Mikhaylovich Butlerov was a Russian chemist, one of the principal creators of the theory of chemical structure (1857–1861), the first to incorporate double bonds into structural formulas, the discoverer of hexamine (1859), the discoverer of formaldehyde (1859) and the discoverer of the formose reaction (1861). He first proposed the idea of possible tetrahedral arrangement of valence bonds in carbon compounds in 1862.

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