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given nameA given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...
for males. It is equivalent to the
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AlexanderAlexander is a common male first name, and less common surname. The most famous is Alexander the Great, the King of Macedon who created one of the largest empires in ancient history.- Origin :...
. A common diminutive is
Sandu; another common diminutive is
Alecu. Its female forms are
AlexandraAlexandra is the feminine form of the given name Alexander, which is a romanization of the Greek name Αλέξανδρος . Etymologically, the name is a compound of the Greek verb ἀλέξειν "to defend" and the noun ἀνδρός , genitive of ἀνήρ "man". Thus it may be roughly translated as "protector of man"...
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Rulers
(in chronological order)
- Alexandru cel Bun
Alexander cel Bun was a Voivode of Moldavia, reigning between 1400 and 1432, son of Roman I Mușat. He succeeded Iuga to the throne, and, as a ruler, initiated a series of reforms while consolidating the status of the Moldavian Principality....
(d.1432), Prince of Moldavia 1400-1432
- Alexandru I Aldea
Alexander I Aldea was Prince of Wallachia .Alexandru I was the brother of Vlad II Dracul, father to Mircea II and Vlad Tepes . He came to rule Wallachia during an extremely turbulent time, when rule of the country changed hands by violence eighteen times during the 15th century...
(1397-1436), Prince of Wallachia 1431-1436
- Alexandru Lăpuşneanu
Alexandru Lăpuşneanu was Prince of Moldavia between September 1552 and 18 November 1561 and then between October 1564 and 5 May 1568....
Prince of Moldavia 1552-1561 and 1564-1568
- Alexandru II Mircea
Alexandru II Mircea was Hospodar of Wallachia from 1568 to 1574 and 1574 to 1577. He was the father of Mihnea II Turcitul. His parents were Mircea III Dracul and Maria Despina...
, Hospodar of Wallachia 1568-1574 and 1574-1577
- Alexandru Ghica
Alexandru Ghica was Voivode of Wallachia from 1766 to 1768....
, Prince of Wallachia 1766-1768
- Alexandru Suţu (1758-1821), Prince of Moldavia and Prince of Wallachia
- Alexandru II Ghica
Alexandru II or Alexandru D. Ghica , a member of the Ghica family, was Prince of Wallachia from April 1834 to 7 October 1842 and later caimacam from July 1856 to October 1858....
(1796-1862), Prince of Wallachia
- Alexandru Ioan Cuza
Alexander John Cuza was a Moldavian-born Romanian politician who ruled as the first Domnitor of the United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia between 1859 and 1866.-Early life:...
(1820-1873), Prince of Moldavia, Domnitor of the United Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia 1859-1866
Prime ministers
- Alexandru Athanasiu
Alexandru Athanasiu is a Romanian politician and jurist. A former leader of the Romanian Social Democratic Party , he is a member of the Social Democratic Party since 2001...
- Alexandru Averescu
Alexandru Averescu was a Romanian marshal and populist politician. A Romanian Armed Forces Commander during World War I, he served as Prime Minister of three separate cabinets . He first rose to prominence during the peasant's revolt of 1907, which he helped repress in violence...
- Alexandru G. Golescu
Alexandru G. Golescu was a Romanian politician who served as a Prime Minister of Romania in 1870 .-Early life:...
- Alexandru Marghiloman
Alexandru Marghiloman was a Romanian conservative statesman who served for a short time in 1918 as Prime Minister of Romania, and had a decisive role during World War I.-Early career:...
- Alexandru Vaida-Voevod
Alexandru Vaida-Voevod or Vaida-Voievod was a Romanian politician who was a supporter and promoter of the union of Transylvania with the Romanian Old Kingdom; he later served three terms as a Prime Minister of Greater Romania.-Transylvanian politics:He was born to a Greek-Catholic family in the...
Other people
- Alexandru Apolzan
Alexandru Apolzan was a Romanian football player, who played mainly for Steaua Bucureşti and also for Romania...
- Alexandru Bogdan-Piteşti
Alexandru Bogdan-Piteşti was a Romanian Symbolist poet, essayist, and art and literary critic, who was also known as a journalist and left-wing political agitator. A wealthy landowner, he invested his fortune in patronage and art collecting, becoming one of the main local promoters of modern art,...
- Alexandru Borza
Alexandru Borza was a Romanian botanist, Greek-Catholic monk and honorary protopop of Cluj.As part of a group of professors, physicians, soldiers, etc., he helped bring Scouting to Romania....
- Alexandru Candiano-Popescu
Alexandru Candiano-Popescu was a Romanian army general, lawyer, journalist, and poet, best known for his role in the Republic of Ploieşti conspiracy.-Biography:...
- Alexandru Cantacuzino
Alexandru Cantacuzino was a Romanian politician who served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs from June 24, 1862 until September 29, 1862 and as the Minister of Finance from July 12, 1862 until March 16, 1863....
- Alexandru Caraman
Alexandru Caraman , b in Cioburciu, Slobozia district), is a Transnistrian politician. He was the vice-president of Transnistria from 1990 to 2001.He was a communist party leader in Slobozia district, delegate at the 17th Congress of Moldovan Communist Party...
- Alexandru Ciucurencu
Alexandru Ciucurencu was a Romanian Post-Impressionist painter.A collection of Ciucurencu's paintings can be seen in Dr. Frasier Crane's apartment in the sitom Frasier, in the episode "The Guilt Trippers" .-External links:**...
- Alexandru Ciurcu
Alexandru Ciurcu was a Romanian inventor and publisher, famous for his invention with Just Buisson of a reaction engine. It used rocket propulsion and was successfully used to power to boat in 1886. The two men envisioned that such motors would later be used for air travel.-Sources:...
- Alexandru Davila
Alexandru Davila was a Romanian dramatist, diplomat, public administrator, and memoirist.-Biography:The son of Carol Davila, a distinguished military physician of French origin, and Ana Racoviţă , he studied in his native Goleşti and at V. A...
- Alexandru Dobrogeanu-Gherea
Alexandru Dobrogeanu-Gherea or Alexandru Gherea was a Romanian communist militant and son of socialist, sociologist and literary critic Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea...
- Alexandru Dragomir
Alexandru Dragomir was a Romanian philosopher. He made his doctoral studies under Martin Heidegger's direction, in 1940.-Philosophy:...
- Alexandru Frim
Alexandru "Dudu" Frim was a Romanian bobsledder who competed in the 1930s. He won the gold medal in the two-man event at the 1934 FIBT World Championships. He also finished 15th in the two-man event at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.Frim was also an accomplished aviator,...
- Alexandru Ghika
Alexandru Ghika was a Romanian mathematician, founder of the Romanian school of functional analysis.-Life:...
- Alexandru Graur
Alexandru Graur was a Romanian linguist.Born into a Jewish family in Botoşani, Graur graduated from the Faculty of Letters of the University of Bucharest and the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris . He obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the Sorbonne...
- Alexandru Hrisoverghi
Alexandru Hrisoverghi was a Moldavian Romanian-language poet and translator, whose work was influenced by Romanticism...
- Alexandru Koller
Alexandru Koller , , is a former football player turned into a successful businessman....
- Alexandru Leşco
Alexandru Leşco is a Moldovan activist, famous for being sentenced by the separatist Transnistrian government for actions which have been described as Moldovan state-sponsored terrorism by Transnistrian government officials...
- Alexandru Macedonski
Alexandru Macedonski was a Wallachian-born Romanian poet, novelist, dramatist and literary critic, known especially for having promoted French Symbolism in his native country, and for leading the Romanian Symbolist movement during its early decades...
- Alexandru Marin
Alexandru Adalbert "Alex" Marin was an experimental particle physicist, a professor of physics at MIT, Boston University and Harvard University, and a researcher at CERN and JINR....
- Alexandru Ioan Morţun
Alexandru Ioan Morţun is a Romanian physician, politician, and Member of the European Parliament. He is a member of the National Liberal Party , part of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, and became an MEP on January 1, 2007, with the accession of Romania to the European Union...
- Alexandru Moşanu
Alexandru Moşanu is a Moldovan politician, historian and professor.- Biography :Alexandru Moşanu was born on July 19, 1932 in Branişte, Romania . He was the first speaker of the Parliament of the Republic of Moldova between 1990 and 1993...
- Alexandru Nicolschi
Alexandru Nicolschi was a Romanian communist activist, Soviet agent and officer, and Securitate chief under the Communist regime...
- Alexandru Odobescu
Alexandru Ioan Odobescu was a Romanian author, archaeologist and politician.-Biography:He was born in Bucharest, the second child of General Ioan Odobescu and his wife Ecaterina. After attending Saint Sava College and, from 1850, a Paris lycée, he took the baccalauréat in 1853 and studied...
- Alexandru Oraşcu
Alexandru Hristea Orăscu was a Romanian architect famous for his Neoclassicist and Renaissance-revival works. He studied architecture in Berlin and Munchen. He was the president of the Romanian Architects’ Society.-External links:**...
- Alexandru Paleologu
Alexandru Paleologu was a Romanian essayist, literary critic, diplomat and politician. He is the father of historian Theodor Paleologu.-Biography:...
- Alexandru Papadopol
Alexandru Papadopol is a Romanian actor.At the beginning of the year 2000 he appeared in the films Marfa şi banii and Occident, after which he appeared in a series of television productions.-External links:...
- Alexandru Papiu Ilarian
Alexandru Papiu-Ilarian was a Romanian revolutionary and lawyer.His father was a Greek-catholic priest, Ioan Pop. He grew up in Budiu de Câmpie, near Târgu Mureş, and finished high school in Cluj. He was active in the Revolution of 1848.He was a founder and president of the Transylvania Society,...
- Alexandru Plămădeală
Alexandru Plamădeală was a Moldovan sculptor. He was the artist responsible for the creation of the Stephen the Great Monument in Chişinău .He graduated from the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture....
- Alexandru Popovici (Moldovan footballer)
Alexandru Popovici is a Moldovan professional footballer who plays for FC Iskra Stali.Popovici previously played for CS Tiligul-Tiras Tiraspol and FC Dacia Chişinău....
- Alexandru Popovici (Romanian footballer)
- Alexandru Proca
Alexandru Proca was a Romanian physicist who studied and worked in France. He developed the vector meson theory of nuclear forces and the relativistic quantum field equations that bear his name for the massive, vector spin-1 mesons...
- Alexandru Sahia
Alexandru Sahia was a Romanian communist journalist and short story author.-Early life:...
- Alexandru Sturdza
Alexandru Sturdza was a Russian publicist and diplomat of Romanian origin. In his writings, he referred to himself with a French rendition of his name, Alexandre Stourdza.-Life:...
- Alexandru Şerbănescu
Alexandru "Alecu" Şerbănescu was a leading Romanian fighter pilot and flying ace in World War II. In the spring of 1942 he was assigned as a pilot to the 7th Fighter Group, which fought with the German forces against the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front, including Stalingrad...
- Alexandru Tamasan (Romanian mathematician)
- Alexandru Terheş
Alexandru Terheş. . is a former football player, who currently works for FRF.He played for Minerul Cavnic, FC Baia Mare, Sportul Studenţesc Bucharest, FC Braşov and FC Bihor Oradea....
- Alexandru Toma
Alexandru Toma was a Romanian poet, journalist and translator, known for his communist views and his role in introducing Socialist Realism and Stalinism to Romanian literature...
- Alexandru Tudose
Alexandru Tudose is a Romanian footballer who currently plays for Gloria Bistriţa in the Liga I as a Centre back.-International career:* Tudose was captain of the Romania Under 17 squad.-External links:* *...
- Alexandru Tyroler
Alexandru Tyroler was a Hungarian-Romanian chess master....
- Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol
Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol was a Romanian scholar, economist, philosopher, historian, professor, sociologist, and author. Among his many major accomplishments, he is credited with being the Romanian historian credited with authoring the first major synthesis of the history of the Romanian...
- Alexandru Zub
Alexandru Zub is a Romanian historian, biographer, essayist, political activist and academic. A former Professor at the University of Iaşi, noted for his contribution to the study of cultural history and Romanian history, he is currently head of the A. D. Xenopol Institute of History and Archeology...