Arts and Music

• Aleksandr Borodin (born 1833, died 1887)

  Russian composer.

  • Composed Prince Igor (see list of Romantic Composers)
• Aleksandr K. Glazunov (born 1865, died 1936)

  Russian composer.

  • Composed Stenka Razin (see list of Romantic Composers)
• Aleksandr Scriabin (born 1872, died 1915)

  Russian composer.

  • Composed the tone poems The Poem of Ecstasy and The Poem of Fire (see list of Composers)

Leadership

• Aleksandr Kerenski (born 1881, died 1970)

  Russian revolutionary leader.

  • Served Russia''s first revolutionary government as minister of justice, minister of war, and prime minister (all in 1917); overthrown by the Bolsheviks (see list of Miscellaneous Political Leaders)
• Aleksandr Samsonov (born 1859, died 1914)

  Russian general.

  • Led invasion of East Prussia in WWI; committed suicide after his defeat at Tannenberg (see list of Miscellaneous Military Leaders)

Science and Philosophy

• Aleksandr Aleksandrov

  Soviet cosmonaut.

  • Cosmonaut on Soyuz T-9 (1983), Soyuz TM-3 (1987) (see list of Spaceflight Veterans)
• Aleksandr Balandin

  Soviet cosmonaut.

  • Cosmonaut on Soyuz TM-9 (1990) (see list of Spaceflight Veterans)
• Aleksandr Kaleri

  Russian cosmonaut.

  • Cosmonaut on Soyuz TM-14 (1992), TM-24 (1996) (see list of Spaceflight Veterans)
• Aleksandr Laveykin

  Soviet cosmonaut.

  • Cosmonaut on Soyuz TM-2 (1986) (see list of Spaceflight Veterans)
• Aleksandr I. Lazutkin

  Russian cosmonaut.

  • Cosmonaut on Soyuz TM-25 (1997) (see list of Spaceflight Veterans)
• Aleksandr Viktorenko

  Soviet cosmonaut.

  • Cosmonaut on Soyuz TM-3 (1987), TM-8 (1989), TM-14 (1992), TM-20 (1994) (see list of Spaceflight Veterans)
• Aleksandr Volkov

  Soviet cosmonaut.

  • Cosmonaut on Soyuz T-14 (1985), Soyuz TM-7 (1988), Soyuz TM-13 (1991) (see list of Spaceflight Veterans)

Sports

• Aleksandr Fadeev
  • 1985 World Figure Skating champion (see list of World Figure Skating Champions)
• Aleksandr Golubev

  Russian athlete.

  • 1994 Olympic speed skating gold medal winner for 500m (see list of Olympic Gold Medalists in Speed Skating)
• Aleksandr Gomelsky

  Russian basketball coach.

  • Elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1995 (see list of Basketball Hall of Fame)
• Aleksandr Popov

  Russian athlete.

  • 1992, 1996 Olympic swimming gold medal winner for 50m and 100m Freestyle (see list of Olympic Gold Medalists in Freestyle Swimming)
• Aleksandr Sidorenko

  Soviet athlete.

  • 1980 Olympic swimming gold medal winner for 400m Individual Medley (see list of Olympic Gold Medalists in Individual Medley)

The Literary World

• Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (born 1799, died 1837)

  Russian poet and playwright.

  • Wrote Boris Godunov (see list of Writers of the Romantic Period (1785-1830))
• Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn (born 1918)

  Russian novelist.

  • 1970 Nobel Prize winner for Literature (see list of Winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature)