Famous People with Name Alexander

Alexander Rich            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alexander Rich: a biologist and biophysicist. He is the William Thompson Sedgwick Professor of Biophysics at MIT (since 1958) and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Rich earned both an A.B. (magna cum laude) and an M.D. (cum laude) from Harvard University. He was a post-doc of Linus Pauling along with James Watson. He has over 600 publications to his name.Rich is the founder of Alkermes and has been its director since 1987. Dr. Rich is Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors of Repligen Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company. He is also a member of the Board of Directors for Profectus BioSciences, Inc. He also serves on the editorial board of Genomics and the Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics.

Alexander Shabalov            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alexander Shabalov: is an American chess grandmaster, the multiple winner of the U.S. Chess Championships; he was the 2007 US Champion. He is of Latvian origin, and like his fellow Latvians Alexei Shirov and Mikhail Tal he is known for courting complications even at the cost

Alexander Calder            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alexander Calder: was an American sculptor and artist most famous for inventing the mobile. In addition to mobile and stabile sculpture, Alexander Calder also created paintings, lithographs, toys, tapestry and jewelry, and designed carpets.After Arizona, the Calder family moved to Pasadena, California. The windowed cellar of the family home became Calder’s first studio and he received his first set of tools. He used scraps of copper wire that he found in the streets to make jewelry and beads for his sister’s dolls. On January 1, 1907, Calder’s mother took him to the Tournament of Roses and he observed a four-horse-chariot race. This style of event later became the finale of Calder’s wire circus shows.[6]

Alexander Semeonovitch Liberman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alexander Semeonovitch Liberman: was a Russian-American magazine editor, publisher, painter, photographer, and sculptor. He held senior artistic positions during his 32 years at Condé Nast Publications.He began his publishing career in Paris with the early pictorial magazine Vu, where he worked under Lucien Vogel and with photographers such as Brassai, André Kertész, and Robert Capa.[6]After emigrating to New York in 1941, he began working for Conde Nast Publications, rising to the position of Editorial Director, which he held from 1962-1994.

Alexander Young Jackson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alexander Young Jackson: was a Canadian painter and founding member of the Group of Seven.As a young boy, Jackson worked as an office boy for a lithograph company, after his father abandoned the family of six children. It was at this company that Jackson began his art training. In the evenings, he took classes at Montreal's Le Monument National.Jackson returned to Canada, settling in Sweetsburg, Quebec, where he began painting works such as The Edge of Maple Wood. He held his first single artist exhibition at the Montreal Art Gallery with Randolph Hewton in 1913. Unable to make ends meet and discouraged by the Canadian art scene, he considered moving to the United States. However, he received a letter from J. E. H. MacDonald and changed his mind.

Demetrius Alexander            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Demetrius Alexander: Height 202 cm Year of Birth 1975 Nationality United States of America Position Forward - Center

Victor Alexander            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Victor Alexander: Height 208 cm Year of Birth 1969 Nationality United States Position Center NBA Draft 1991 # 17

Hugh Alexander            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Hugh Alexander: (July 10, 1917 in Buffalo, Missouri- November 25, 2000 in Buffalo, Missouri) played one year of major league baseball as an outfielder. for the Cleveland Indians in 1937.

Cory Lynn Alexander            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Cory Lynn Alexander: American professional basketball player in the NBA.After a career at the University of Virginia (having graduated with a degree in psychology), Alexander was the 29th overall selection of the 1995 NBA Draft, chosen by the San Antonio Spurs.

Courtney Jason Alexander            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Courtney Jason Alexander: American professional basketball player, formerly in the NBA.