Another one in our series First Names First! Your “task” - should you accept it – is to pick one of the names below, then follow the Wikipedia link to read about the person, and to see what if anything he or she could contribute your life with. Lives lived have all something to tell us – let them! This time it is all about Alexander/ Aleksander!
Alexander the Great* - Pella, Macedon, Ancient Greece (356 BC-323 BC)
Alexander Jagiellon* King of Poland – Krakow, Poland (1461-1506)
Alexander Ales* theologian – Edinburgh, Scotland (1500-1565)
Alexander Cooper* Baroque miniature painter – London, England (1609-1660)
Alexander Pope* poet – London, England (1688-1744)
Alexander Hamilton* statesman/one of the Founding Fathers of the United States – Charlestown, British Leeward Islands (1755-1804) alternative birth year 1757
Alexander J. Dallas* statesman/financier – Kingston, Jamaica (1759-1817)
Alexander von Humboldt* polymath/ geographer/explorer – Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (1769-1859)
Alexander Campbell* clergyman/reformist – Ballymena, County Antrim, Ireland (1788-1866)
Alexander Pushkin* poet/playwright/novelist – Moscow, Russian Empire (1799-1837) pic
Alexander Wood* physician/co-inventor of the first true hypodermic syringe – Cupar, Fife, Scotland (1817-1884)
Alexander II* of Russia – Moscow, Russian Empire (1818-1881)
Alexander Borodin* composer/doctor/chemist – Saint Petersburg, Russia (1833-1887)
1849-0218 Alexander Kielland* author – Stavanger, Norway (1906/57)-a
Alexander Popov* physicist/ inventor of radio? Krasnoturinsk, Russia (1859-1906)
Alexander Rummler* painter/best known for his work on murals and billboards – Dubuque, Iowa USA (1867-1959)
Alexander Berkman* political activist/anarchist – Vilna, Russian Empire (1870-1936)
Alexander Kerensky* lawyer/politician – Simbirsk, Russian Empire (1881-1970)
Alexander Fleming* physician/microbiologist/N – Darvel, East Ayrshire, Scotland (1881-1955)
Alexander of Greece* King of Greece – Tatoi Palace, Kingdom of Greece (1893-1920)
Alexander R. Todd* biochemist/N – Glasgow, Scotland (1907-1997)
Alexander Prokhorov* Russian physicist/N – Peeramon, Queensland, Australia (1916-2002)
Alexander Salkind* film producer – Freistadt, Danzig (1921-1997)
Alexander Haig* politician – Philadelphia, PA USA (1924-2010)
Alexander Yakushev* hockey player/OG/coach – Moscow, Russia (1947)
Alexander Maltsev* hockey player/OG – Kirovo-Chepetsk, Soviet Union (1949)
Alexander Litvinenko* secret service agent – Vorobezh, Russia, Soviet Union (1962-2006)
Aleksander Barkov Sr.* hockey player/coach – Novsibirsk, Russia, Soviet Union (1965)
Alexander Stubb* politician – Helsinki, Finland (1968)
Aleksander Tammert* discus thrower – Tartu, Estonia, Soviet Union (1973)
Alexander Steen* hockey player – Winnipeg, MB Canada (1984)
Alexander Radulov* hockey player – Nizhny Tagil, Russia, Soviet Union (1986)
Alexander Kerfoot* hockey player – Vancouver, BC Canada (1994)
Aleksander Barkov Jr.* hockey player/OB – Tampere, Finland (1995)
Updated 10.10.2019