List of Famous people named Alexander

Alexander Petrovich Mezhirov was a Soviet and Russian poet, translator and critic.

Alexander Kerst was an Austrian television actor.

Alexander Ivanovich Herzen was a Russian writer and thinker known as the "father of Russian socialism" and one of the main fathers of agrarian populism. With his writings, many composed while exiled in London, he attempted to influence the situation in Russia, contributing to a political climate that led to the emancipation of the serfs in 1861. He published the important social novel Who is to Blame? (1845–46). His autobiography, My Past and Thoughts, is often considered one of the best examples of that genre in Russian literature.

Aleksander Kogan is а Russian singer, songwriter and film actor. Winner of the Golden Gramophone, RU.TV (2015) and Song of the Year Awards.

Aleksandr Gerasimov was a Soviet ice hockey player. He won a gold medal at the 1984 Winter Olympics.

Alexander Mikhailovich Kadakin was a Russian diplomat and the Russian Ambassador to India from 2009 until his death in 2017. He had earlier served as the ambassador to India between 1999 and 2004.He is noted Indophile. He died from heart failure while in service in New Delhi in 2017.He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2018.

Alexander Davidovich Goldfarb is a Russian-American microbiologist, activist, and author. He emigrated from the USSR in 1975 and studied in Israel and Germany before settling permanently in New York in 1982. Goldfarb is a naturalized American citizen. He has combined a scientific career as a microbiologist with political and public activities focused on civil liberties and human rights in Russia, in the course of which he has been associated with Andrei Sakharov, George Soros, Boris Berezovsky, and Alexander Litvinenko. He has not visited Russia since 2000.

Alexander Valentinovich Titov is a Russian rock musician, known for his role as bassist of the band Aquarium, a position previously held by Fan. He has also performed with the bands Avgust, Pop-Mekhanika, and Kino. He was born in Leningrad. Alexander Titov is married to singer-songwriter, musician, lead singer of Rina Green, and British Linguist Elena Titov. They have two children, Anna Titov (27) and Catherine Titov (16).

Alexander Mikhailovich Prokhorov was an Australian-born Soviet-Russian physicist known for his pioneering research on lasers and masers in the Soviet Union for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1964 with Charles Hard Townes and Nikolay Basov.

Aleksandr Nikolayevich Mikhailov was a Russian politician, who served as governor of Kursk Oblast and a member of the State Duma (1993–2000).