Famous People with Name Alexander

Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov: is a Russian filmmaker from St Petersburg who has been hailed as successor to renowned director Andrei Tarkovsky. His movies are said[citation needed] to represent an ultimate challenge in contemporary intellectual film making.

Alexander Nikolayevich Tcherepnin            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Alexander Nikolayevich Tcherepnin: was a Russian-born composer and pianist. His father, Nikolay Tcherepnin, (pupil of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov) and his son, Ivan Tcherepnin, (a member of the Harvard University faculty) were also composers. His son, Serge, was involved in the roots of electr

Alexander Nikulin            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Alexander Nikulin: is an ice hockey player for the Ottawa Senators organization of the National Hockey League. Alexander turned professional with CSKA Moscow of the Russian Super League in 2004.

Alexander Onufrievich Kovalevsky            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Alexander Onufrievich Kovalevsky: was a Russian embryologist who studied medicine at the University of Heidelberg and became professor at St Petersburg. He showed that all animals go through a period of gastrulation.

Alexander Petrovych Dovzhenko            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Alexander Petrovych Dovzhenko: was a writer, producer and director of films, and is often cited as one of the most important early Soviet filmmakers, alongside Sergei Eisenstein and Vsevolod Pudovkin, whose films often celebrated the lives and work of his fellow Ukrainians.

Adam Rankin Alexander            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Adam Rankin Alexander: was an American politician that represented Tennessee in the United States House of Representatives.Adam Alexander was elected as a Jacksonian Republican to the Eighteenth and as a Jacksonian to the succeeding Congress. He served as a U.S. Representative

Mark Alexander            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Mark Alexander: was a nineteenth-century lawyer from Virginia. He studied law and was admitted to the bar, commencing practice in Boydton. He was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1815 to 1819 before he was elected a Democratic-Republican, Crawford Republi

William Vollie “Bill” Alexander, Jr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William Vollie “Bill” Alexander, Jr.: is a retired politician who represented the U.S. state of Arkansas in the United States House of Representatives from 1969 to 1993, rising to the post of Chief Deputy Majority Whip. He was elected as a Democrat from the 1st District of Arkansas in 1968 an

Nathaniel Alexander            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Nathaniel Alexander: was the 13th Governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1805 to 1807. Returning to his native North Carolina, Alexander was elected to the North Carolina House of Commons in 1797, to the North Carolina Senate in 1801, and to the United States House

Sydenham Benoni Alexander            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sydenham Benoni Alexander: was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1891 and 1895. After the Civil War, Alexander was a member of the North Carolina Senate in 1879, 1883, 1885, 1887, where he was instrumental in the establishment of the North Carolina College o