Famous People with Name Lex

Lex Gold            Origin/Culture/Country: Scottish

Lex Gold: is an administrator and former footballer who currently serves as a director of Caledonian MacBrayne.Gold played professional football as a teenager, including an 18 month spell with Rangers.

Lex Tupas            Origin/Culture/Country: Philippines

Lex Tupas: is a Filipino public servant. He was born in Iloilo City on August 11, 1979. He is the youngest son of Iloilo Governor Niel Tupas (formerly a Municipal Mayor of Barotac Viejo, Iloilo; Assemblyman of Western Visayas or region VI; and was also Congressman of the 5th District of the Province of Iloilo) and former Municipal Mayor Myrna Causing Tupas of Barotac Viejo, Iloilo. In the May 2007 local elections, he was elected as the youngest City Councilor of Iloilo City at age 27 with about 73,000 votes[1].

Konrad Lex            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Konrad Lex: is a German ski mountaineer. He was born in Eggenfelden, is member of the DAV section Gangkofen and of the national team.

Ben Lexcen            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Ben Lexcen: was an Australian yachtsman and marine architect. He is famous for the winged keel design applied to Australia II which, in 1983, became the first non-American yacht to win the prestigious America's Cup in 132 years. Miller was commissioned by Alan Bond t

Anders Johan Lexell            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Anders Johan Lexell: was a Finland-Swedish-born Russian astronomer and mathematician. In Russian he is known as Andrei Ivanovich Leksel (?????? ???????? ???????). His name is also given as Anders Johann Lexell or even Johann Anders Lexell.He emigrated to Russia in 1768. He studied the motions of comets. He computed the orbit of comet D/1770 L1 (Lexell) discovered on June 14, 1770, and it is named after him although it was discovered by Charles Messier. This comet made the closest known approach to Earth by any comet in history (although asteroids have come closer), making it the first known near-Earth object; the exact distance is not known but has been estimated to have been within 3 million km. Lexell showed that the comet had had a much larger perihelion distance until an encounter with Jupiter in 1767, and he predicted that, after encountering Jupiter again at an even closer distance two revolutions later, in 1779, it would be altogether expelled from the inner solar system.

Wilhelm Lexis            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Wilhelm Lexis: was an eminent German statistician, economist, and social scientist and a founder of the interdisciplinary study of insurance.He then worked as a Gymnasium teacher, librarian, and journalist, until in 1872 he became, until 1874, extraordinary professor at