Famous People with Name Aleksander

Aleksander Count Fredro            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Aleksander Count Fredro: (Boncza coat of arms),(June 20, 1793–July 15, 1876) was a Polish poet, playwright, and writer.Fredro was born in the village of Surochów near Jaroslaw, then a crown territory of Austria. A landowner's son, he was educated at home.

Aleksander Wat,            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Aleksander Wat,: (born Aleksander Chwat; 1900-1967) was a Polish poet, writer and art theoretician, one of the precursors of Polish futurism movement in early 1920s.

Aleksander Orlowski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Aleksander Orlowski: (1777–1832) was a Polish painter and sketch maker, pioneer of lithography in the Russian Empire.

Aleksander Ford            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Aleksander Ford: (born November 24, 1908, Kiev, Russia, now Kiev, Ukraine; died April 4, 1980, Naples,Florida, U.S.A.) was a Polish film director.

Aleksander Józef Lisowski            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Aleksander Józef Lisowski: (c. 1580 – October 11, 1616) was a Polish-Lithuanian noble (szlachcic), commander of a mercenary group that after his death adopted the name "Lisowczycy." His coat of arms was Jez (Hedgehog).

Arkadiusz Aleksander            Origin/Culture/Country: Polish

Arkadiusz Aleksander: an Polish footballer who currently plays for Odra Wodzislaw.

Åge Aleksandersen            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Åge Aleksandersen: is a Norwegian singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is one of his country's most famous singer/songwriters, musicians. Some of his most well known songs are "Lys og Varme" (Light and Warmth), "Fire Pils og en Pizza" (Four Pilseners and a Pizza) and "Rosalita". He also wrote and performed the official song of the 1997 Nordic skiing World Championship (held in Trondheim) together with two other musicians from the region, Ulf Risnes and Bjarne Brøndbo and the Nidaros Cathedral Boys' Choir. The song was called "Snørosa" (The Snowrose).

Oddny Aleksandersen            Origin/Culture/Country: Norwegian

Oddny Aleksandersen: is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. Born in Vadsø, she chaired the local party chapter in Vadsø from 1979 to 1982 and was a member of the executive committee of Vadsø municipal council from 1979 to 1983. Elected to the county council in 1983, she served as deputy county mayor for one term, and acting county mayor from May 1986 to April 1987, during the illness of county mayor Helmer Mikkelsen. On the national level, she served briefly as personal secretary (today known as political advisor) in the Ministry of Justice and the Police in 1981. She was later Minister of Government Administration and Labour from September 1992 to October 1993, in the third cabinet Brundtland. She was the third woman in a row to hold this position; the first man to be Minister of Government Administration was Nils Olav Totland, who succeeded Aleksandersen in 1993.