Alex

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Alex may refer to:

Famous people

• Alexander the Great, Leader of the Greek empire of Macedonian descent, whose conquests ushered in the Hellenistic Age
• Alexander Graham Bell, famous inventor, most well known for the invention of the telephone
• Alex Cox, British film director
• Alex George, botanist
• Alex Grey, artist
• Alexander Kapranos, singer for the Scottish band Franz Ferdinand
• Alex Lifeson, guitarist for the rock band Rush
• Alex McLeish, manager of the Scotland national football team
• Alex Menzies, Scottish professional footballer
• Alex Naumik, Polish Norwegian funk rock musician
• Alex Pettyfer, English actor who plays Alex Rider in the film Stormbreaker
• Alex Rodriguez, Major League Baseball player on the New York Yankees
• Alex Shelly, Professional wrestler
• Alex Trebek, host of the game show Jeopardy!
• Alex Turner, singer for the Arctic Monkeys
• Alex Van Halen, a drummer from the band Van Halen.
• Alex Varkatzas Lead singer of the Metalcore band Atreyu

Brazilian-born footballers

Several Brazilian-born footballers use the name Alex rather than their surnames; see also Alex (footballer):

• Alex Raphael Meschini, Brazilian football player currently playing for Internacional.
• Alex Rodrigo Dias da Costa, Brazilian football player, currently playing for Chelsea FC.
• Alessandro dos Santos Brazilian-born football player who plays for the Japan national football team
• Alex de Souza, Brazilian football player, who currently plays for Turkish club Fenerbahçe

Fictional characters

• Alex DeLarge, the antihero of A Clockwork Orange
• Alex Fernandez, a member of the Ghostwriter Team
• Alex Kidd, a video game character for the Sega company
• Alex Krycek, a villain from the television series The X-files
• Alex P. Keaton, the Republican young man in the TV series Family Ties
• Alex Power, a character of the Marvel Universe
• Alex Rider, the hero of Anthony Horowitz's "Alex Rider" series
• Alex Rowe, the captain of the battleship Silvana in the anime series Last Exile
• Alex (Lost), a recurring character in the TV series Lost
• Alex (Street Fighter), the main character of the Street Fighter III video game series
• Alex (Tekken), a character in the Tekken fighting game series
• Alex (comics), a mutant in the Marvel comics universe
• Alex, a character in the video game Golden Sun
• Alex, a character in the animated series Totally Spies!
• Alex (comic strip), a comic strip in the Daily Telegraph
• Alex, the principal character of the 2005 film Madagascar
• Alex, a minor Pokémon character
• Alex, a dog who was the mascot of Stroh's Beer in the 1980s and 1990s
• Alex (T-Rex), a dinosaur in the movie Night at the Museum

Places

• Alex, Haute-Savoie, a commune in the Haute-Savoie département of France
• Alex, Oklahoma, a city in the United States
• Alexanderplatz, a large square in central Berlin
• Alexandria, a city in Egypt
• Alexandra township, a suburb near Johannesburg

Others

• Alex (videotex service), a videotex service offered by Bell Canada in the early 1990s
• Hurricane Alex (2004), a category 2 hurricane
• Alex (sniper rifle), a Polish sniper rifle
• Alex (1908 Automobile), an early British automobile
• Alex (parrot), a famous talking parrot studied by Dr. Irene Pepperberg
• Alexandra College, Dublin
• Alex's Lemonade Stand, pediatric cancer charity fundraiser
• Alex (restaurant), a restaurant by Alessandro Stratta at the Wynn Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Resort

See also

• Special:Allpages/Alex, a number of people with the given name Alex