Alex

**Alex** is a given name. It can refer to a shortened version of Alexander, Alexandra, Alexis. 

## People
### Multiple
*Alex Brown (disambiguation), multiple people
*Alex Forsyth (disambiguation), multiple people
*Alex Gordon (disambiguation), multiple people
*Alex Harris (disambiguation), multiple people
*Alex Jones (disambiguation), multiple people
*Alexander Johnson (disambiguation), multiple people
*Alex Taylor (disambiguation), multiple people

### Politicians
*Alex Allan (born 1951), British diplomat
*Alex Attwood (born 1959), Northern Irish politician
*Alex Kushnir (born 1978), Israeli politician
*Alex Salmond (born 1954), Scottish politician, former First Minister of Scotland

### Baseball players
*Alex Avila (born 1987), American baseball player
*Alex Bregman (born 1994), American baseball player
*Alex Gardner (baseball) (1861–1921), Canadian baseball player
*Alex Katz (baseball) (born 1994), American baseball player
*Alex Pompez (1890–1974), American executive in Negro league baseball and Major League Baseball scout
*Alex Rodriguez (born 1975), American baseball player

### American football
*Alex Anzalone (born 1994), American football player
*Alex Austin (born 2001), American football player
*Alex Bachman (born 1996), American football player
*Alex Barnes (American football), American football player
*Alex Bars (born 1995), American football player
*Alex Barrett, American football player
*Alex Cappa, American football player
*Alex Highsmith (born 1997), American football player
*Alex Hornibrook (born 1997), American football player
*Alex Karras (1935–2012), American football player and actor
*Alex Leatherwood (born 1998), American football player
*Alex Light (born 1996), American football player
*Alex Mack, American football player
*Alex McGough, American football player
*Alex Redmond (American football), American football player
*Alex Smith (born 1984), American football player

### Association footballers
*Alex (footballer, born 1976), Brazilian footballer
*Alex (footballer, born 1977), full name Alexsandro de Souza, Brazilian footballer
*Alex (footballer, born 1979), full name Domingos Alexandre Martins Costa, Portuguese footballer
*Alex (footballer, born January 1982), fill name Alex Henrique da Silva, Armenian-Brazilian footballer
*Alex (footballer, born June 1982), full name Alex Rodrigo Dias da Costa, Brazilian footballer
*Alex (footballer, born 1989), full name Alex Costa dos Santos, Brazilian footballer
*Alex (footballer, born 19 May 1990), full name Francisco Alex do Nascimento Moraes, Brazilian footballer
*Alex (footballer, born August 1990), full name Alexssander Medeiros de Azeredo, Brazilian footballer
*Alex (footballer, born 1999), full name Alex de Oliveira Nascimento, Brazilian footballer
*Alex Cazumba (born 1988), Brazilian footballer
*Alessandro Del Piero (born 1974), Italian footballer
*Alex Ferguson (born 1941), Scottish football manager and player
*Alex Freitas (footballer, born 1988), Brazilian footballer
*Alex Freitas (footballer, born 1991), Portuguese footballer
*Alex Gardner (footballer) (1877–1952), Scottish footballer
*Alex Manninger (born 1977), Austrian footballer
*Alex Raphael Meschini (born 1982), Brazilian footballer
*Alex Monteiro de Lima (born 1988), Brazilian footballer
*Alex Morgan (born 1989), American women's soccer player
*Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (born 1993), English footballer
*Álex Pérez (born 1991), Spanish footballer
*Alessandro Santos (born 1977), Brazilian-Japanese international footballer
*Alex Silva (footballer, born 1985), Brazilian footballer
*Alex Stepney (born 1942), English footballer
*Alex Whittle (born 1993), English footballer

### Basketball players
*Alex King (basketball) (born 1985), German basketball player
*Alex Len (born 1993), Ukrainian basketball player
*Alex Poythress (born 1993), American-Ivorian basketball player for Maccabi Tel Aviv
*Alex Tyus (born 1988), American-Israeli professional basketball player

### Boxers
*Alex Arthur (born 1978), British boxer
*Alex Obeysekere (1918-2002), Sri Lankan boxer

### Motorsports
*Alex Albon (born 1996), Thai racing driver
*Alex Labbé (born 1993), Canadian racing driver
*Alex Zanardi (born 1966), Italian racing driver and paracyclist

### Other sports
*Alex Asensi (born 1984), Norwegian table tennis player
*Alex Auld (born 1981), Canadian ice hockey player
*Alex Breton (born 1997), Canadian ice hockey player
*Alex Chu (born 1992), American professional gamer, usually known by his in-game name Xpecial
*Alex Glenn (born 1988), New Zealand rugby league player
*Alex Hall (born 1998), American freestyle skier
*Alex Honnold (born 1985), American rock climber
*Alex Koslov, ring name of Alex Sherman (born 1984), a Moldovan-born professional wrestler
*Alex Ovechkin (born 1985), Russian ice hockey player and captain for the Washington Capitals
*Alex Pierzchalski (born 1991), Canadian football player
*Alex Pietrangelo (born 1990), Canadian ice hockey player
*Alex Schlopy (born 1992), American skier
*Alex Tripolski (born 1962), Israeli Olympic sport shooter, and President of the Israel Curling Federation

### Arts and entertainment
*Alex (actor) (1959–2011), Indian actor and magician
*Alex (singer) (born 1978), Danish singer
*Alex Borstein (born 1972), American actress
*Alex Brooker (born 1984), British journalist and presenter of *The Last Leg*
*Alex Bulmer, Canadian playwright and theatre artist
*Alex Chilton  (1950–2010), American singer-songwriter, guitarist, the lead singer of the Box Tops
*Alex Chu (born 1979), Korean-Canadian singer of Clazziquai
*Alex Day (born 1989), English musician
*Alex Gardner (born 1991), Scottish musician
*Alex Gaskarth (born 1987), American lead singer of All Time Low
*Alex Gonzaga (born 1988), Filipino actress, comedian, and YouTuber
*Alex Harvey (musician) (1935–1982), British rock musician
*Alex Hood (born 1935), Australian folk musician
*Alex James (musician) (born 1968), British bass player for Blur
*Alex Jolig (born 1963), German actor, singer and motorcycle racer
*Alex Kingston (born 1963), English actress
*Alex Koehler (born 1991), American vocalist for Chelsea Grin
*Alex Lifeson, stage name for Canadian musician Alexandar Zivojinovich (born 1953), a guitarist for Rush
*Alex O'Loughlin (born 1976), Australian actor
*Alex Russell (actor) (born 1987), Australian actor
*Alex Sharpe  (*fl.* 1991–present), Irish singer
*Alex Trebek (1940–2020), Canadian-American host of the game show *Jeopardy!*
*Alex Turner (musician)  (born 1986), British guitarist and lead singer of Arctic Monkeys
*Alex Van Halen (born 1953), Dutch drummer for Van Halen
*Alex Vargas (born 1988), Danish singer
*Alex Winter (born 1965), British-American actor
*Eliza Orne White (1856–1947), American author who wrote under the pen-name 'Alex'

### Other
*Alex Aïnouz (born 1982), French culinary YouTuber
*Alex Azar (born 1967), American government official and lawyer
*Alex Balfanz (born 1999), American video game developer
*Alex Ferrer (born 1960), a Cuban-born judge currently residing in Miami, Florida
*Alex Konanykhin (born 1966), Russian Entrepreneur, former banker
*Alex McCool (1923–2020), American NASA manager
*Alex Stokes (born 1996), American internet celebrity
*Alex Wagner (born 1977), American journalist

## Animals 
*Alex (parrot) (1976–2007), an African Grey Parrot and the subject of language experiments

## Fictional characters 
*Alex, a character in the 2009 American romantic comedy-drama movie ''He's Just Not That Into You*
*Alex (*A Clockwork Orange*)
*Alex (*Power Rangers*)
*Alex (*Street Fighter*)
*Alex (*Totally Spies*)
*Alex Browning, a character from Final Destination
*Alex Cross, from the *Alex Cross* novel and film series
*Alex Fierro, from the *Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard* novels by Rick Riordan
*Alex P. Keaton, a character on the United States TV sitcom *Family Ties* 
*Alex the Lion, from the *Madagascar* animated films and franchise
*Alex Louis Armstrong, the state alchemist from Fullmetal Alchemist
*Alex Masterley, the title character in Alex (comic strip)
*Alex Millar (*Being Human'')
*Alex O'Donnell, a character in the 2009 American fantasy comedy movie *17 Again*
*Alex, one of the marriageable male characters in the video game *Stardew Valley*
*Alex Rider (character), from the *Alex Rider* novels by Anthony Horowitz
*Alex Shamir, a character in the 1994 American comedy film *Robot in the Family*
*Alex Standall, a character in the novel and Netflix series *13 Reasons Why*
*Alex Taylor, the main character in the video game *The Crew*
*Alex, the default female avatar in the video game *Minecraft*
*Alex Vause, a character in the television series *Orange Is the New Black*
*Alex, supporting character in the anime series *Futari wa Pretty Cure* (originally named Akane Fujita)

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