Alex

Alex may refer to:

Famous people

- Alexander the Great, Leader of the Greek empire, 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 (musician) Alex "Al" Turner, singer for the Arctic Monkeys
- Alex Van Halen, drummer for the metal band Van Halen

Brazilian-born footballers

Several Brazilian-born footballers use the name Alex rather than their surnames; see also Alex (footballer):
- Alex Rodrigo Dias da Costa, Brazilian football player
- 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 (Ghostwriter), 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 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
- List of characters in Golden Sun 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 (film)
- Alex, a minor List of Pokémon characters Other recurring characters
- Alex, a dog who was the mascot of Stroh's Beer in the 1980s and 1990s

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, Gauteng, 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
- Standard sniper rifle "Alex", 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

See also

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