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Alexander is a common male first name.

name in English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 is taken from the Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
 name ????a?d??? (Alexandros). Etymologically
Etymology

Etymology is the study of the roots and history of words; and how their form and meaning have changed over time.In languages with a long detailed history, etymology makes use of philology, the study of how words change from culture to culture over time....
, the name is a compound of the Greek verb ????e?? (alexein) "to defend" and the noun ??d??? (andros), genitive of ???? (aner) "man". Thus it may be roughly translated as "Savior of mankind".

The earliest attested record of the name is the Mycenaean Greek of the feminine Alexandra
Alexandra

Alexandra is the feminine form of the given name Alexander, which is a romanization of the Greek language name ????a?d??? . Etymology, the name is a compound of the Greek verb ????e?? "to defend" and the noun ??d??? , genitive of ???? "man"....
, written in Linear B
Linear B

Linear B is a script that was used for writing Mycenaean language, an early form of Greek language. It predated the Greek alphabet by several centuries and seems to have died out with the fall of Mycenaean Greece civilization....
.

The name was one of the titles ("epithets") given to the Greek goddess Hera
Hera

In the Twelve Olympians of classical Greek Mythology, Hera or Here was the wife and older sister of Zeus. Her chief function was as goddess of women and marriage....
 and as such is usually taken to mean "one who comes to save warriors".






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Alexander is a common male first name.

Origin

The name in English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 is taken from the Greek
Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
 name ????a?d??? (Alexandros). Etymologically
Etymology

Etymology is the study of the roots and history of words; and how their form and meaning have changed over time.In languages with a long detailed history, etymology makes use of philology, the study of how words change from culture to culture over time....
, the name is a compound of the Greek verb ????e?? (alexein) "to defend" and the noun ??d??? (andros), genitive of ???? (aner) "man". Thus it may be roughly translated as "Savior of mankind".

The earliest attested record of the name is the Mycenaean Greek of the feminine Alexandra
Alexandra

Alexandra is the feminine form of the given name Alexander, which is a romanization of the Greek language name ????a?d??? . Etymology, the name is a compound of the Greek verb ????e?? "to defend" and the noun ??d??? , genitive of ???? "man"....
, written in Linear B
Linear B

Linear B is a script that was used for writing Mycenaean language, an early form of Greek language. It predated the Greek alphabet by several centuries and seems to have died out with the fall of Mycenaean Greece civilization....
.

The name was one of the titles ("epithets") given to the Greek goddess Hera
Hera

In the Twelve Olympians of classical Greek Mythology, Hera or Here was the wife and older sister of Zeus. Her chief function was as goddess of women and marriage....
 and as such is usually taken to mean "one who comes to save warriors". In the Iliad
ILiad

The iLiad is an electronic handheld device, or e-book device, which can be used for document reading and editing. Like the Sony Reader or Amazon Kindle, the iLiad makes use of an electronic paper display....
, the character Paris
Paris (mythology)

Paris , the son of Priam, king of Troy, appears in a number of Greek mythology. Probably the best-known was his elopement with Helen, queen of Sparta, this being one of the immediate causes of the Trojan War....
 is known also as Alexander. The name's popularity was spread throughout the Greek world by the military conquests of King Alexander III of Macedonia, commonly known as "Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great , also known as Alexander III of Macedon was an ancient Greeks King of Macedon . He was one of the most successful military commanders of all time and is presumed undefeated in battle....
". Most later Alexanders in various countries were directly or indirectly named for him.

In Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
, the name was uncommon until the time of Tsar Alexander I
Alexander I of Russia

Alexander I of Russia , also known as Alexander the Blessed served as Tsar of Russia from 23 March 1801 to 1 December 1825 and Ruler of Poland from 1815 to 1825, as well as the first Russian Grand Duke of Finland....
, due to whom it became one of the most common of Russian first names and gained a considerable number of Russian variations and abbreviations (see below).

Variants and diminutives

  • Albanian
    Albanian language

    Albanian is an Indo-European languages spoken by nearly 6 million people, primarily in Albania and Kosovo but also in other areas of the Balkans in which there is an Albanian population, including the west of the Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, and southern Serbia....
     – Aleksandλr, Aleks, Leka, Sandri, Skλnder
  • Amharic
    Amharic language

    Amharic is a Semitic languages spoken in North Central Ethiopia by the Amhara people. It is the second most spoken Semitic language in the world, after Arabic language, and the official working language of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia....
     – Eskender
  • Arabic
    Arabic language

    Arabic is a Central Semitic language, thus related to and classified alongside other Semitic languages languages such as Hebrew language and Aramaic language....
     – ???????? / ?????? (Iskandar), Skandar, Skender
  • Armenian
    Armenian language

    The 'Armenian language' is an Indo-European language spoken by the Armenians. It is the official language of the Armenia as well as in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh....
     - ????????? (Aleksandr/Alexandr), ??????? (Aleksan/Alexan), ???? (Aleq), ???? (Alik)
  • Belarusian
    Belarusian language

    The Belarusian language, or Belorussian is the language of the Belarusians and is spoken in Belarus and abroad, chiefly in Russia, Ukraine, and Poland....
     – ????????p (Aliaksandr), ??e?? (Ales)
  • Bulgarian
    Bulgarian language

    Bulgarian is an Indo-European languages, a member of the Slavic languages linguistic group.Bulgarian demonstrates several linguistic innovations that set it apart from all other Slavic languages except Macedonian language, such as the elimination of grammatical case, the development of a suffixed definite article , the lack of a verb infin...
     - ?????????? (Aleksandar), ???? (Sasho), A???? (Aleks)
  • Catalan
    Catalan language

    Catalan is a Romance languages, the national language and official language of Andorra, and a official language in the Autonomous Communities of Spain of the Balearic Islands, Catalonia and Valencian Community and in the city of Alghero in the Italy List of islands in the Mediterranean of Sardinia....
     – Alexandre, ΐlex, Xandre
  • Corsican
    Corsican language

    Corsican is a continuum of Romance languages spoken and written on the islands of Corsica and northern Sardinia , alongside French language and Italian language, which are the official languages....
     - Lisandru
  • Croatian
    Croatian language

    Croatian language is a South Slavic languages which is used primarily in Croatia, by Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in neighbouring countries where Croats are Indigenous peoples, in Italian region of Molise, and parts of the Croats diaspora....
     - Aleksandar, Saša
  • Czech
    Czech language

    Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czech people worldwide....
     - Alexandr
  • Dutch
    Dutch language

    Dutch is a West Germanic languages spoken by over 22 million people as a first language, and about 5 million people as a second language."1% of the EU population claims to speak Dutch well enough in order to have a conversation." Outside the European Union the number of second language speakers of Dutch is very small. Most native...
     - Alexander, Sander, Xander
  • Ethiopian - Eskender
  • English
    English language

    English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
     – Alexander, Alec, Alex, Lex, Sandy, Andy, Alexis, Alexa, Alexandria, Alexandra, Sandra, Al, Sasha, Ali, Lexxi, Zander, Xander, Sashi, Eck
  • Esperanto – Aleksandro, Aleksacjo, Alecjo, Acjo, Alekso, Aleksandra (feminine), Aleksino (feminine), Aleksanjo (feminine), Anjo (feminine)
  • French
    French language

    French is a Romance language spoken around the world by around 80 million people as first language, by 190 million as second language, and by about another 200 million people as an acquired tongue, with significant speakers in 54 countries....
     - Alexandre, Alexis, Alex
  • Finnish
    Finnish language

    Finnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by Finnish people outside of Finland. It is one of the official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden....
     - Aleksanteri, Santeri, Santtu
  • Galician
    Galician language

    Galician is a language of the Iberian Romance languages branch, spoken in Galicia , an Autonomous communities of Spain located in northwestern Spain, as well as in small bordering zones in the neighbouring autonomous communities of Asturias and Castile and Le?n and in Northern Portugal....
     – Alexandre, Αlex
  • Georgian/????????
    Georgian language

    Georgian is the official language of Georgia , a country in the Caucasus .Georgian is the primary language of about 3.9 million people in Georgia itself, and of another 500,000 abroad ....
     – ?????????? (Aleksandre), ????? (Aleko), ????? (Lekso), ?????? (Sandro)
  • Greek
    Greek language

    Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
     - ????a?d???
  • Hebrew – ??????? (Alexander), ???? (Alex)
  • Hindi
    Hindi

    Standard Hindi, also known as High Hindi, Nagari Hindi or Literary Hindi is a Standard language register of Hindi. It is one of the 22 official languages of India, and is used, along with English language, for administration of the central government....
     – Hindustani
    Hindustani language

    Hindustani , also known as "Hindi-Urdu," is a term covering several closely related dialects in Pakistan and northern India, especially the vernacular form of the two national languages, Standard Hindi and Urdu language, also known as Khariboli, but also several nonstandard dialects of the Hindi languages....
     – Sikandar
    Sikandar

    Sikandar the Hindustani version of the name Alexander, after Alexander the Great. It may also refer to:* Sikandar , a Bollywood film directed by Sohrab Modi...
  • Hungarian
    Hungarian language

    Hungarian is a Uralic languages unrelated to most other languages in Europe. It is mainly spoken in Hungary and by the Hungarian minorities in the seven neighbouring countries....
     – Sαndor
  • Irish (Gaeilge)
    Irish language

    Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic languages of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people....
     – Alasandar
  • Italian
    Italian language

    Italian is a Romance languages spoken by about 63 million people as a first language, primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four Linguistic geography of Switzerlands....
     – Alessandro, Ale, Sandro, Alessio
  • Kurdish
    Kurdish language

    The Kurdish language is a term used for the language spoken by Kurdish people. It is mainly concentrated in the parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey....
     - Askander, Eskander
  • Kyrgyz
    Kyrgyz language

    Kyrgyz or Kirghiz is a Turkic languages and, together with Russian language, an official language of Kyrgyzstan. It is most closely related to Altay language and more distantly so to Kazakh language....
     – ???????? (Iskender)
  • Latvian
    Latvian language

    Latvian is the official state language of Latvia. Alternative names include Lettish and Lettisch. There are about 1.5 million native Latvian speakers in Latvia and about 150,000 abroad....
     – Aleksandrs (Aleksandrs)
  • Malay
    Malay language

    The Malay language is an Austronesian languages spoken by the Malays and people of other ethnic groups who reside in Peninsular Malaysia, southern Thailand, Singapore, central eastern Sumatra, the Riau Islands and parts of the coast of Borneo....
     – Iskandar
  • Malayalam – ?????? (Chandy)
  • Maltese
    Maltese language

    Maltese is the national language of Malta, and a co-official Languages of Malta alongside English language,while also serving as an Languages of the European Union European Union, the only Semitic languages so distinguished....
     – Lixandru
  • Norwegian
    Norwegian language

    Norwegian is a North Germanic languages language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is an official language. It is also spoken as a second language among Norwegian-Americans in the United States of America, especially in the central northern states....
     – Aleksander
  • Persian
    Persian language

    name=Persian|nativename=|pronunciation=[f??r'si]|image=|caption=Farsi in Perso-Arabic script |states= Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Bahrain....
     – ?????? (Eskandar)
  • Polish
    Polish language

    Polish , an official language of Poland, has the largest number of speakers of any West Slavic languages. Polish-speakers use the language in a uniform manner through most of Poland, and it has a regular orthography....
     - Aleksander, Alek, Olek, Aleks
  • Portuguese
    Portuguese language

    Portuguese is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia and Portugal. It is derived from the Latin language spoken by the Romanization Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula around 2000 years ago....
     – Alexandre, Alexandra (feminine), Alexandro (rare), Xana (feminine), Alex, Xande, Sandro, Sandra (feminine), Sandrina (feminine), Alessandro, Alessandra (feminine)
  • Romanian
    Romanian language

    Romanian or Daco-Romanian ; self-designation: limba rom?na, ) is a Romance languages spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova....
     — Alexandru, Alexandra (feminine), Alex, Sandu, Sanda (feminine), Sandra (feminine), Alecu, Aleca (feminine), Sasa (feminine)
  • Russian
    Russian language

    Russian is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages, and the largest native language in Europe....
     — ????????? (Aleksandr), ???? (Sasha), ???? (Shura), ???? (Sanya), ????? (Shurik), ????? (Sashok), ???? (Alik)
  • Sanskrit language – Alekchendra
  • Scots Gaelic
    Scottish Gaelic language

    Scottish Gaelic is a member of the Goidelic languages branch of Celtic languages. This branch also includes the Irish language and Manx language languages....
     – Alasdair, Alastair
    Alastair

    Alastair is a common female first name....
    , Alistair, Alisdair
  • Serbian
    Serbian language

    name=Serbian|nativename=|pronunciation=['sr?pski?]|familycolor=Indo-European|map=|states=See below under "Official status", besides that in Croatia and as an immigrant's language spread over Central Europe and Western Europe, as well as Northern America...
     - ?????????? (Aleksandar), ?????? (Aleksa), ????? (Aleks), ???? (Sasa), ???? (Sale)
  • Slovenian
    Slovenian language

    Slovene or Slovenian is a South Slavic languages spoken by approximately 2.4 million speakers worldwide, the majority of whom live in Slovenia....
     - Aleksander, Aleks, Sandi, Sašo
  • Spanish
    Spanish language

    Spanish or Castilian is a Romance languages that originated in northern Spain, and gradually spread in the Kingdom of Castile and evolved into the principal language of government and trade....
     - Alejandro, Alejo, Alex, Jandro, Jano
  • Swedish
    Swedish language

    Swedish is a North Germanic languages language, spoken by around 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along the coast and on the ?land islands....
     - Alexander, Alex, Alexey, Alexandra
  • Tamil language
    Tamil language

    Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has Official language in India, Sri Lanka and Singapore....
     – Aleksandar
  • Turkish
    Turkish language

    Turkish is a language spoken by over 63 million people worldwide, making it the most commonly spoken of the Turkic languages. Its speakers are located predominantly in Turkey and Cyprus, with smaller groups in Iraq, Greece, Bulgaria, the Republic of Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania and other parts of Eastern Europe....
     – Iskender
  • Ukrainian
    Ukrainian language

    Ukrainian is a language of the East Slavic languages of the Slavic languages. It is the official language of Ukraine. In some areas of Russia there are dialects, Balachka or Surzhyk, which are the Ukrainianized versions of the Russian language....
     — ????????? (Olexandr, Oleksandr), ????? (Sashko), ????? (Oles')
  • Urdu
    Urdu

    Urdu is a Central_Indo-Aryan_languages#Central_Zone_.28Madhya_or_Hindi.29 Indo-Aryan languages of the Indo-Iranian languages, belonging to the Indo-European languages family of languages....
     – Hindustani
    Hindustani language

    Hindustani , also known as "Hindi-Urdu," is a term covering several closely related dialects in Pakistan and northern India, especially the vernacular form of the two national languages, Standard Hindi and Urdu language, also known as Khariboli, but also several nonstandard dialects of the Hindi languages....
     – Sikandar
    Sikandar

    Sikandar the Hindustani version of the name Alexander, after Alexander the Great. It may also refer to:* Sikandar , a Bollywood film directed by Sohrab Modi...
  • Urdu
    Urdu

    Urdu is a Central_Indo-Aryan_languages#Central_Zone_.28Madhya_or_Hindi.29 Indo-Aryan languages of the Indo-Iranian languages, belonging to the Indo-European languages family of languages....
     – Pakistan
    Pakistan

    Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia and borders Central Asia and the Middle East. It has a 1,046 kilometre coastline along the Arabian Sea and Gulf of Oman in the south, and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and People's Republic of China in th...
    i – Sikander
    Sikander

    Sikandar or Sikander is a 1941 Bollywood film directed by Sohrab Modi and starring Prithviraj Kapoor as Alexander the Great. The film is a historic epic set in 326 BC....
     ("Sikander-e-Azam" is "Alexander the Great")
  • Uzbek
    Uzbek language

    Uzbek is a Turkic languages and the official language of Uzbekistan. It has about 23.5 million native speakers, and it is spoken by the Uzbeks in Uzbekistan and elsewhere in Central Asia....
     – Iskandar
  • Yiddish – ?????? – Sender, Senderl


Alexander as a given name


Monarchs


Antiquity
  • Alaksandu
    Alaksandu

    Alaksandu was a king of Wilusa who sealed a treaty with Muwatalli II ca. 1280 BC. This treaty implies that Alaksandu had previously secured a treaty with Muwatalli's father, Mursili II, as well....
    , ca. 1280 BC
  • Alexander of Corinth, 10th king of Corinth
    Corinth

    Corinth, or Korinth Corinth is now the capital of the Prefectures of Greece of Corinthia. The city is surrounded by the coastal townlets of Lechaio, Isthmia, Kechries, and the inland townlets of Examilia and the archaeological site....
     (816–791 BC)
  • Alexander I of Macedon
    Alexander I of Macedon

    Alexander I was ruler of Macedon from 498 BC to 454 BC. He was the son of Amyntas I of Macedon king of Macedon and Eurydice.According to Herodotus he was unfriendly to Persian Empire, and had the envoys of Darius I of Persia killed when they arrived at the court of his father during the Ionian Revolt....
  • Alexander of Pherae
    Alexander of Pherae

    Alexander was tagus or despotism of Pherae in Thessaly, and ruled from 369 BC to 358 BC....
     despot of Pherae between 369 and 358 BC
  • Alexander I of Epirus
    Alexander I of Epirus

    Alexander I of Epirotes , also known as Alexander Molossians , was a king of Epirus of the Aeacides of Epirus. He was the son of Neoptolemus I of Epirus and brother of Olympias, the mother of Alexander the Great....
     king of Epirus about 342 BC
  • Alexander II of Epirus
    Alexander II of Epirus

    Alexander II was a king of Epirus , and the son of Pyrrhus of Epirus and Lanassa, the daughter of the Sicilian tyrant Agathocles....
     king of Epirus 272 BC
  • Alexander II of Macedon
    Alexander II of Macedon

    Alexander II was king of Macedon from 370 ? 368 BC, following the death of his father Amyntas III of Macedon. He was the eldest of the three sons of Amyntas and Eurydice....
  • Alexander the Great
    Alexander the Great

    Alexander the Great , also known as Alexander III of Macedon was an ancient Greeks King of Macedon . He was one of the most successful military commanders of all time and is presumed undefeated in battle....
     (Alexander III of Macedon), King of Macedon, 356–323 BC
  • Alexander IV of Macedon
    Alexander IV of Macedon

    Alexander IV Aegus was the son of Alexander the Great and the princess Roxana, of Bactria....
  • Alexander Balas
    Alexander Balas

    Alexander Balas , ruler of the Greece Seleucid Empire 150-146 BC, was a native of Izmir of humble origin, but gave himself out to be the son of Antiochus IV Epiphanes and heir to the Seleucid throne....
    , ruler of the Seleucid kingdom of Syria between 150 and 146 BC
  • Alexander Severus
    Alexander Severus

    Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander, commonly called Alexander Severus, was the last Roman Emperors of the Severan dynasty, having succeeded, as heir apparent, his despised cousin, the eighteen year old Elagabalus who had been murdered along with his mother by his own guards—and as a mark of contempt, had their remains cast into...
    , (208–235), Roman Empire
  • Domitius Alexander
    Domitius Alexander

    Lucius Domitius Alexander , probably born in Phrygia, was vicarius of Africa Province when Roman Emperor Maxentius ordered him to send his son as hostage to Rome....
    , Roman usurper who declared himself emperor in 308


Middle Ages
  • Alexander, Byzantine Emperor
    Alexander, Byzantine Emperor

    Alexander , sometimes numbered Alexander III, ruled as Byzantine Emperor of the Byzantine Empire in 912-913. He was the third son of Emperor Basil I and Eudokia Ingerina....
     (912–913)
  • Alexander I of Scotland
    Alexander I of Scotland

    Alexander I or Alaxandair mac Ma?l Coluim , called "The Fierce", King of the Scots or King of Alba, was the fourth son of M?el Coluim mac Donnchada by his wife Saint Margaret of Scotland, grand-niece of Edward the Confessor....
     (c. 1078–1124)
  • Alexander II of Scotland
    Alexander II of Scotland

    Alexander II , King of Scots, was the only son of William I of Scotland and Ermengarde of Beaumont. He was born at Haddington, East Lothian, East Lothian, in 1198, and spent time in England before succeeding to the kingdom on the death of his father on 4 December 1214, being crowned at Scone on 6 December the same year....
     (1198–1249)
  • Alexander Nevsky
    Alexander Nevsky

    Saint Alexander Nevsky was the Grand Prince of Novgorod and Vladimir-Suzdal during some of the most trying times in the country's history. Commonly regarded as the key figure of medieval Russia, Alexander was the grandson of Vsevolod the Big Nest and rose to legendary status on account of his military victories over the German invaders whi...
     (1220–1263), Grand Prince of Novgorod and Vladimir
  • Alexander III of Scotland
    Alexander III of Scotland

    Alexander III , King of Scots, was born at Roxburgh, the only son of Alexander II of Scotland by his second wife Marie de Coucy. Alexander's father died on 6 July 1249 and he became king at the age of eight, inaugurated at Scone, Perth and Kinross on 13 July 1249....
     (1241–1286)
  • Aleksander (1338–before 1386), prince of Podolia (son of Narymunt
    Narymunt

    Narimantas or Narymunt was the second eldest son of Gediminas, Grand Duchy of Lithuania. During various periods of his life, he ruled Pinsk and Polatsk....
    )
  • Sikandar Butshikan
    Sikandar Butshikan

    Sikandar Butshikan was the second Sultan of the Sayyid Dynasty of Kashmir 1389-1413 Common Era. During the Sayyid dynasty Islam was firmly established in Kashmir and his rule has been considered controversial by many due to his radical Islamization policy in Kashmir....
    , Sultan of Kashmir (1389–1413)
  • Alexandru cel Bun
    Alexandru cel Bun

    File:010 - Alexandru cel Bun si doamna sa.jpgAlexander the Good was a Voivode of Moldavia between 1400 and 1432, son of Roman I. He succeeded Iuga of Moldavia to the throne, and, as a ruler, initiated a series of reforms while consolidating the status of the Moldavian Principality....
    , voivode of Moldavia (1400–1432)
  • Skenderbeg (1405–1468), prince of Albania
  • Alexandru I Aldea
    Alexandru I Aldea

    Alexandru I was principality of Wallachia, .Alexandru I was the half brother Vlad II Dracul, father to Mircea II and Vlad Tepes . He came to rule Wallachia during an extremely turbulant time, when rule of the country changed hands by violence eighteen times during the 15th century....
    , ruler of the principality of Wallachia (1431–1436)
  • Eskender
    Eskender

    Eskender was Emperor of Ethiopia of Ethiopia , and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. He was the son of Emperor Baeda Maryam of Ethiopia by Romna....
    , Emperor of Ethiopia (1472–1494)
  • Alexander Jagiellon
    Alexander Jagiellon

    Alexander Jagiellon , Grand Duke of Lithuania and later also King of Poland; he was the fourth son of Casimir IV Jagiellon. He was elected Grand Duke of Lithuania on the death of his father , and King of Poland on the death of his brother Jan I Olbracht ....
     (Alexander of Poland) (1461–1506), king of Poland
  • Alexandru Lapusneanu
    Alexandru Lapusneanu

    Alexandru Lapusneanu was Prince of Moldavia between September 1552 and 18 November 1561 and then between October 1564 and 5 May 1568....
    , voivode of Moldavia (1552–1561 and 1564–1568)
  • Sikandar Shah Suri
    Sikandar Shah Suri

    Sikandar Shah Suri was the sixth ruler of Sur dynasty. Sikandar Shah Suri's real name was Ahmad Khan. In 1555, he was defeated by Humayun and Mughal Empire dynasty was restored....
    , Shah of Delhi (1555)
  • Sikandar Lodhi
    Sikandar Lodhi

    Sikandar Lodhi was the second ruler of the Pashtun Lodhi dynasty. He became Sultan upon the death of his father, Bahlul Khan Lodhi, on July 17, 1489....
    , Sultan of Delhi (16th Century)


Modern
  • Alexander I of Russia
    Alexander I of Russia

    Alexander I of Russia , also known as Alexander the Blessed served as Tsar of Russia from 23 March 1801 to 1 December 1825 and Ruler of Poland from 1815 to 1825, as well as the first Russian Grand Duke of Finland....
     (1777–1825), emperor of Russia
  • Sikandar Jah, Nizam of Hyderabad, (1803–1829)
  • Alexander II of Russia
    Alexander II of Russia

    Alexander II Nikolaevich , also known as Alexander the Liberator was the List of Russian rulers of the Russian Empire from 3 March 1855 until his assassination in 1881....
     (1818–1881), emperor of Russia
  • Alexander III of Russia
    Alexander III of Russia

    Alexander III Alexandrovich , also known as Alexander the Peacemaker reigned as Tsar of Russia from 13 March 1881 until his death in 1894....
     (1845–1894), emperor of Russia
  • Alexander Karadordevic, Prince of Serbia
    Alexander Karadordevic, Prince of Serbia

    Aleksandar Karadordevic was the prince of Serbia between 1842 and 1858. He was a member of the House of Karadordevic....
     (1842–1858)
  • Alexander of Bulgaria (1857–1893), first prince of Bulgaria
  • Alexander John Cuza
    Alexander John Cuza

    Alexander John Cuza was a Moldavian-born Romanian politician who ruled as the first Domnitor of the Danubian Principalities between 1859 and 1866....
    , prince of Romania (1859–1866)
  • Alexander I Obrenovic of Serbia (1876–1903), king of Serbia
  • Alexander, Prince of Lippe
    Alexander, Prince of Lippe

    Alexander, Prince of Lippe was the penultimate sovereign of the Principality of Lippe. Succeeding to the throne in 1895, power was exercised by a regent throughout his reign on account of his mental illness....
     (1831–1905), prince of Lippe
  • Alexander I of Yugoslavia
    Alexander I of Yugoslavia

    Alexander I also called Alexander I Karadordevic or Alexander the Unifier...
     (1888–1934), first king of Yugoslavia
  • Zog I also known as Skenderbeg III, (1895–1961), king of Albanians
  • Alexander of Greece (king) (1917–1920), king of Greece
  • Leka, Crown Prince of Albania
    Leka, Crown Prince of Albania

    Leka, Crown Prince of Albania , is the only son of Zog of Albania and G?raldine Apponyi de Nagyappony. He was called Crown Prince Skander at birth....
    , (born 1939), king of Albanians (throne pretender)
  • Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange
    Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange

    Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange , Prince of the Netherlands, Prince of House of Orange-Nassau, Jonkheer van Amsberg, is the eldest son of Beatrix of the Netherlands and the heir apparent to the Dutch monarchy....


Religious leaders

  • Pope Alexander I
    Pope Alexander I

    Pope Saint Alexander I was Pope from about 106 to 115. The Holy See's Annuario Pontificio identifies him as a Rome who reigned from 108 or 109 to 116 or 119....
    , (pope 97–105)
  • Alexander of Apamea
    Alexander of Apamea

    Alexander was a bishop of Apamea in Syria in the 5th century. He was one of a number of moderate Eastern bishops during the Nestorianism, and one of the eight bishops deputed by the party of John of Antioch to the Emperor Theodosius II....
    , 5th century bishop of Apamea
  • Pope Alexander II
    Pope Alexander II

    Alexander II , born Anselmo da Baggio, was Pope from 1061 to 1073.He was born in Milan. As bishop of Lucca he had been an energetic coadjutor with Pope Gregory VII in endeavouring to suppress simony, and to enforce the clerical celibacy....
    , (pope 1058–1061)
  • Pope Alexander III
    Pope Alexander III

    Pope Alexander III , born Rolando of Siena, was Pope from 1159 to 1181....
    , (pope 1164–1168)
  • Pope Alexander IV
    Pope Alexander IV

    Pope Alexander IV was Pope from 1254 until his death.Born as Rinaldo di Jenne, a native of Jenne, Italy, near Anagni, he was, on his mother's side, a member of the de' Conti di Segni family, the counts of Segni, like Pope Innocent III and Pope Gregory IX ....
    , (pope 1243–1254)
  • Pope Alexander V, ("Peter Philarges" ca. 1339–1410)
  • Pope Alexander VI
    Pope Alexander VI

    Pope Alexander VI , born Roderic Llan?ol, later Roderic de Borja i Borja was Pope from 1492 to 1503. He is the most controversial of the Secularism popes of the Renaissance, and his surname became a byword for the debased standards of the papacy of that era....
    , (1493–1503), Roman pope
  • Pope Alexander VII
    Pope Alexander VII

    Pope Alexander VII , born Fabio Chigi, was Pope from April 7, 1655, until his death....
    , (1599–1667)
  • Pope Alexander VIII
    Pope Alexander VIII

    Pope Alexander VIII , born Pietro Vito Ottoboni, was Pope from 1689 to 1691....
    , (pope 1689–1691),
  • Alexander of Constantinople
    Alexander of Constantinople

    Saint Alexander of Constantinople was bishop of Byzantium and the bishop of Constantinople . He was elected as a vicar to assist the aged bishop Saint Metrophanes of Constantinople....
    , bishop of Constantinople (314–337)
  • St. Alexander of Alexandria
    Alexander of Alexandria

    Pope Alexander of Alexandria was the nineteenth Pope of Alexandria from 313 to his death. During his patriarchate, he was forced to deal with a number of issues relevant to the church's positions on issues facing the church....
    , Coptic Pope, Patriarch of Alexandria between 313 and 328
  • Pope Alexander II of Alexandria
    Pope Alexander II of Alexandria

    Pope Alexander II of Alexandria was the forty-third Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria of Alexandria from 702 to 729....
    , Coptic Pope (702–729)
  • Alexander of Lincoln
    Alexander of Lincoln

    Alexander of Lincoln , bishop of Lincoln, was born in Blois, France....
    , bishop of Lincoln
  • Alexander Essebiensis
    Alexander Essebiensis

    Alexander Essebiensis was a celebrated England theologian and poet, who flourished about the year 1220. Scarcely anything is known of his history, except that he appears to have been prior of Canons Ashby Priory, in Northamptonshire....
     aka Alexander of Ashby, 13th century prior and poet
  • Alexander of Jerusalem


  • See also Saint Alexander
    Saint Alexander

    Saint Alexander can refer to:*Pope Alexander I*Epipodius and Alexander, martyred in Lyon, 178 AD*Alexander of Bergamo*Alexander of Constantinople...
    , various saints with this name


Other people

  • Alexander (artists)
    Alexander (artists)

    Alexander was the name of a number of different artists in ancient Greece and Rome:*Alexander, a painter, one of whose productions is extant, painted on a marble tablet which bears his name and also delivered for 'Pizza Hut'....
    , the name of a number of artists of ancient Greece, Rome and Macedon
  • Alexander (3rd century BC general)
    Alexander (3rd century BC general)

    Alexander was commander of the cavalry in the army of Antigonus III Doson during the war against Cleomenes III of Sparta. He fought against Philopoemen, then a young man, whose prudence and valor forced him to a disadvantageous engagement at Sellasia....
    , commanded the cavalry under Antigonus III Doson
  • Alexander of Athens
    Alexander of Athens

    Alexander of Athens was a comic poet, the son of Aristion, whose name occurs in an inscrip?tion given in Philipp August B?ckh, who refers it to the 145th Olympiad ....
    , Athenian comic poet
  • Alexander Lyncestes
    Alexander Lyncestes

    Alexander , son of Aeropus II of Macedon, was a native of the Macedon district called Lynkestis, whence he is usually called Alexander Lyncestes....
    , a contemporary of Alexander the Great
  • Alexander Aetolus
    Alexander Aetolus

    Alexander Aetolus was a Greeks poet and grammarian, the only known representative of Aetolian poetry. He was the son of Satyrus and Stratocleia, and was a native of Pleuron in Aetolia, although he spent the greater part of his life at Alexandria, where he was reckoned one of the seven tragic poets who constituted the Tragic Pleiad....
    , a poet and member of the Alexandrian Pleiad
  • Alexander, son of Lysimachus
    Alexander, son of Lysimachus

    Alexander , the son of Lysimachus by an Odrysian woman whom Polyaenus calls Macris. On the murder of his brother Agathocles by the command of his father in 284 BC, he fled into Asia with his brother's widow Lysandra, and solicited the aid of Seleucus I Nicator....
    , 3rd century BC Macedonian royal
  • Alexander of Aetolia
    Alexander of Aetolia

    Alexander of Aetolia, in conjunction with Dorymachus, put himself in possession of the town of Aegeira in Achaea during the Social war, in 220 BC....
    , briefly conquered Aegira in 220 BC
  • Alexander (general)
    Alexander (general)

    Alexander was son of Polyperchon, the regent of Macedonia, and an important general in the diadochi....
    , son of Polyperchon, the regent of Macedonia
  • Alexander Isius
    Alexander Isius

    Alexander , surnamed Isius, the chief commander of the Aetolians, was a man of considerable ability and eloquence for an Aetolian. In 198 BC he was present at a colloquy held at Nicaea on the Maliac Gulf, and spoke against Philip V of Macedon, saying that the king ought to be compelled to quit Greece, and to restore to the Aetolians th...
    , 2nd century military commander of the Aetolians
  • Alexander of Acarnania
    Alexander of Acarnania

    Alexander of Acarnania was once a friend of Philip V of Macedon but abandoned him, and insinuated himself so much into the favor of Antiochus III the Great, that he was admitted to his most secret deliberations....
     (d. 191 BC), confidante of Antiochus III the Great
    Antiochus III the Great

    Antiochus III the Great, , younger son of Seleucus II Callinicus, became the 6th ruler of the Seleucid Empire as a youth of about eighteen in 223 BC....
  • Alexander Lychnus
    Alexander Lychnus

    Alexander surnamed Lychnus , was an ancient Greek rhetorician and poet. He was a native of Ephesus, from which he is sometimes called Alexander Ephesius, and must have lived shortly before the time of Strabo , who mentions him among the more recent Ephesian authors, and also states that he took a part in the political affairs of his n...
    , early 1st century BC poet and historian
  • Alexander Jannaeus
    Alexander Jannaeus

    Alexander Jannaeus , king of Judea from , son of John Hyrcanus, inherited the throne from his brother Aristobulus, and appears to have married his brother's widow, Shlomtzion or "Shelomit", also known as Salome Alexandra, according to the Biblical law of Yibum , although Josephus is inexplicit on that point....
    , 1st century BC king of Judea
  • Alexander Polyhistor
    Alexander Polyhistor

    Lucius Cornelius Alexander Polyhistor was a Ancient Greece scholar who was enslaved by the Ancient Rome during the Mithridatic War and taken to Rome as a tutor....
    , Greek scholar of the 1st century
  • Alexander of Myndus
    Alexander of Myndus

    Alexander of Myndus in Caria was an ancient Greek writer who some believe lived during the first century AD but this date is uncertain. He wrote on diverse topics, including zoology and divination....
    , ancient Greek writer on zoology and divination
  • Alexander of Aegae
    Alexander of Aegae

    Alexander of Aegae was a Peripatetic school philosopher who flourished in Rome in the first century, and was a disciple of the celebrated mathematician Sosigenes of Alexandria....
    , peripatetic philosopher of the 1st century
  • Alexander of Judaea
    Alexander of Judaea

    Alexander , or Alexander Maccabeus, was the eldest son of Aristobulus II, king of Judaea. He married his cousin Alexandra Maccabeus , daughter of his uncle, Hyrcanus II ....
    , son of Aristobulus II, king of Judaea
  • Alexander of Cotiaeum
    Alexander of Cotiaeum

    Alexander of Cotiaeum was a Greek grammarian, who is mentioned among the instructors of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. We still possess an epitaph pronounced upon him by the rhetorician Aelius Aristides, who had studied under Alexander....
    , 2nd century Greek grammarian and tutor of Marcus Aurelius
  • Alexander the Paphlagonian
    Alexander the Paphlagonian

    Alexander the Paphlagonian, a celebrated impostor and worker of false oracles, was born at Aboniteichos in Paphlagonia in the early part of the 2nd century....
    , 2nd century Greek imposter
  • Alexander Peloplaton
    Alexander Peloplaton

    Alexander , surnamed Peloplaton , a Greek rhetorician of the age of the Antonines, was a son of Alexander of Seleucia , in Cilicia, and of Seleucis....
    , Greek rhetorician of the 2nd century
  • Alexander of Lycopolis
    Alexander of Lycopolis

    Alexander of Lycopolis was the writer of a short treatise, in twenty-six chapters, against the Manicheans . He must have flourished early in the fourth century, as he says in the second chapter of this work that he derived his knowledge of Manes' teaching apo ton gnorimon ....
    , 4th century author of an early Christian treatise against Manicheans
  • Alexander Beyer
    Alexander Beyer

    Alexander Beyer is a German actor.He was born in Erfurt, a city in central Germany. It is the capital of the States of Germany of Thuringia. He has appeared in such films as: Volker Schloendorff The Legend of Rita , Leander Haussmann Sun Alley , Johannes Kiefer's Gregor's Greatest Invention , which was nominated for an Academy...
     (* 1973), German actor
  • Claude Alexander Conlin
    Alexander (magician)

    Claude Alexander Conlin , also known as Alexander, C. Alexander, Alexander the Crystal Seer, and Alexander the Man Who Knows, was a Magician who specialized in mentalism and psychic reading acts, dressed in Orientalism style robes and a feathered turban, and often used a crystal ball as a prop....
     (1880–1954), stage magician
  • Alexander Graham Bell
    Alexander Graham Bell

    Alexander Graham Bell was an eminent scientist, Innovation and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone.Bell's father, grandfather, and brother had all been associated with work on elocution and speech, and both his mother and wife were deaf, profoundly influencing Bell's life's work....
     (1847–1922)
  • Alexander of Aphrodisias
    Alexander of Aphrodisias

    Alexander of Aphrodisias was the most celebrated of the Ancient Greek commentators on the writings of Aristotle. He was styled, by way of pre-eminence, "the expositor" ....
    , Greek commentator and philosopher
  • Alexander of Greece (rhetorician)
    Alexander of Greece (rhetorician)

    Alexander , son of Numenius , was a Roman and Byzantine Greece rhetorician who flourished in the first half of the 2nd century.About his life nothing is known....
  • Alexander of Hales
    Alexander of Hales

    Alexander Hales was a scholasticism theology. He was born at Hailes Abbey, Gloucestershire, England ca. 1183, and died in Paris on August 21, 1245....
    , 13th-century Medieval theologian
  • Alexander von Humboldt
    Alexander von Humboldt

    was a German people natural scientist and List of explorers, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguistics, Wilhelm von Humboldt ....
     (1769-1859), a German natural scientist
  • Alexander, le Pargiter
    Alexander, le Pargiter

    Alexander , said to have been known by the surname of le Pargiter , was an England ecclesiastic of the thirteenth century. He was first a Benedictine monk of the monastery of St Augustine's Abbey, at Canterbury, of which house he was made abbot in 1213....
    , 13th-century abbot
  • Alexander Pope
    Alexander Pope

    Alexander Pope is generally regarded as the greatest England poet of the eighteenth century, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer....
     (1688-1744), English Poet
  • Alexander Pushkin (1799–1837), Russian author (Germanized form of name)
  • Paris (mythology)
    Paris (mythology)

    Paris , the son of Priam, king of Troy, appears in a number of Greek mythology. Probably the best-known was his elopement with Helen, queen of Sparta, this being one of the immediate causes of the Trojan War....
     aka Alexander, the Trojan prince who kidnapped Helen
  • Alexandre, Chevalier de Vendτme (1598–1629), illegitiate child of Henry IV of France
    Henry IV of France

    Henry de Bourbon, , ruled as Henry III, List of Navarrese monarchs, from 1572 to 1610, and as Henry IV, List of French monarchs, from 1589 to 1610....
  • Prince Alexander John of Wales
    Prince Alexander John of Wales

    Prince Alexander John Charles Albert of Wales was the youngest son and sixth child of Edward VII, Prince of Wales and his wife Alexandra of Denmark, Princess of Wales....
     (1871), short-lived son of Edward VII
    Edward VII of the United Kingdom

    Edward VII was Monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death on 6 May 1910....
  • Alexander Freeman
    Alexander Freeman

    Alexander Freeman is a former Liberian football player.A prominent midfielder, Freeman was a former player for Kelantan FA, Perlis FA, and Selangor FA in the Malaysian League....
     (b. 1970), Liberian soccer player
  • Alexander Kruger
    Alex Kruger

    Alexander Eaton Kruger is a retired male decathlete from England, who was born in Germany. He twice competed for Great Britain at the Summer Olympics ....
     (b. 1963), English decathlete
  • Alexander Lucas
    Alexander Lucas

    Alexander Lucas was a Canada businessman and politician. He was the seventh mayor of the town of Calgary, Alberta, Alberta and spent six years as a Member of the Legislative Assembly in British Columbia....
    , a Canadian businessman


A few other princes have borne the name Alexander:
  • George V of Hanover
    George V of Hanover

    George V was the last king of Kingdom of Hanover and a member of the German branch of the House of Hanover. In the peerage of Great Britain, he was Duke of Cumberland....
     (1819–1878)
  • Prince Alfred of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1874–1899)
  • Prince George, Duke of Kent
    Prince George, Duke of Kent

    The Prince George, Duke of Kent was a member of the British Royal Family, the fourth son of George V of the United Kingdom and Mary of Teck. He held the title of Duke of Kent from 1934 until his death in 1942....
     (1902–1942)
  • Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester
    Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester

    Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester is a member of the British Royal Family, the youngest grandchild of George V of the United Kingdom and Mary of Teck....
     (1944–)]
  • Alexander the fuck tard (1995-2015)


Alexander as a surname

  • see Alexander (surname)
    Alexander (surname)

    The surname Alexander may refer to:*AJ Alexander , American model and Playboy Playmate*Ana Alexander , Cuban long jumper*Barton S. Alexander , U.S....


Fictional people with the name Alexander

  • Hamish Alexander
    Hamish Alexander

    Admiral of the Green Hamish Alexander-Harrington, Thirteenth Earl of White Haven, is a fictional character in the Honorverse, a series of military science fiction novels written by David Weber....
    , a character in David Weber's Honorverse
  • Lyta Alexander
    Lyta Alexander

    Lyta Alexander is a character from the fictional universe of the science-fiction television series Babylon 5, played by Patricia Tallman.Lyta was introduced in the pilot episode "Babylon 5: The Gathering" as a Telepathy assigned to the Babylon 5 space station by the Psi Corps, a fictional organization providing support to telepaths and...
    , a Telepath in the Science fiction TV-series Babylon 5
  • Alexander (Summons), a summoned avatar from the Final Fantasy series of games. He is one of the terrestrial avatars in Final Fantasy XI
  • Alexander Anderson
    Alexander Anderson

    Alexander Anderson may refer to:* Alexander Anderson * Alexander Caulfield Anderson , Canadian explorer and fur trader* Alexander Anderson ...
    , a regenerative warrior-priest from the Hellsing
    Hellsing

    is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kouta Hirano. It first premiered in Young King Ours in 1997 and ended in September 2008. The individual chapters are collected and published in tankobon volumes by Shonen Gahosha, with 9 volumes released as of October 2008....
     series.
  • Alexander "Lex" Luthor
    Lex Luthor

    Lex Luthor is a Character , a supervillain that appears in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character First appearance in Action Comics #23 , and was created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster....
    , a supervillain in the DC Comics universe and archnemesis of Superman, as well as Alexander Luthor
    Alternate versions of Lex Luthor

    As a fictional character, Lex Luthor has appeared in a number of Mass media, from comic books to films and television series - always an enemy of Superman....
    , his heroic Earth-Three counterpart, and the latter's son, Alexander Luthor, Jr.
    Alexander Luthor, Jr.

    Alexander Luthor, Jr. is a DC Comics character who turned from a hero to a villain. Created by Marv Wolfman and George P?rez, Alexander has a prominent role in the DC Universe storylines Crisis on Infinite Earths and Infinite Crisis....


See also

  • Hera Alexandros
    Hera Alexandros

    Alexandros , the "defender of men", was an epithet of the Greek mythology Hera, under which she was worshiped at Sicyon. A temple had been built there to Hera Alexandros by Adrastus after his flight from Argos....
    , an epithet of the Greek goddess Hera
    Hera

    In the Twelve Olympians of classical Greek Mythology, Hera or Here was the wife and older sister of Zeus. Her chief function was as goddess of women and marriage....
  • Philip
    Philip

    Philip is a given name, derived from the Greek language Philippos , meaning "lover of horses" or "friend of horses". From f???? "lover" and ?pp?? "horse"....