Famous People with Name Alexander

Alexander Semeonovitch Liberman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alexander Semeonovitch Liberman: was a Russian-American magazine editor, publisher, painter, photographer, and sculptor. He held senior artistic positions during his 32 years at Condé Nast Publications.He began his publishing career in Paris with the early pictorial magazine Vu, where he worked under Lucien Vogel and with photographers such as Brassai, André Kertész, and Robert Capa.[6]After emigrating to New York in 1941, he began working for Conde Nast Publications, rising to the position of Editorial Director, which he held from 1962-1994.

Alexander Young Jackson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alexander Young Jackson: was a Canadian painter and founding member of the Group of Seven.As a young boy, Jackson worked as an office boy for a lithograph company, after his father abandoned the family of six children. It was at this company that Jackson began his art training. In the evenings, he took classes at Montreal's Le Monument National.Jackson returned to Canada, settling in Sweetsburg, Quebec, where he began painting works such as The Edge of Maple Wood. He held his first single artist exhibition at the Montreal Art Gallery with Randolph Hewton in 1913. Unable to make ends meet and discouraged by the Canadian art scene, he considered moving to the United States. However, he received a letter from J. E. H. MacDonald and changed his mind.

Alexander Milne Calder            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alexander Milne Calder: was an American sculptor.Alexander Calder was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, the son of a tombstone carver. He began his career in Scotland, working for sculptor John Rhind, the father of sculptor J. Massey Rhind while attending the Royal Academy in Edinburg

Alexander Helwig Wyant            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alexander Helwig Wyant: He was an American landscape painter. Also known as Alexander Wyant, A. H. Wyant, he was active as an artist in Arkville, New York, and Keene Valley, New York among other places.

Alexander Stirling Calder            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alexander Stirling Calder: was an American sculptor, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Calder was the son of sculptor Alexander Milne Calder and the father of sculptor Alexander Calder. Calder first worked as a sculptor assisting his father in producing the extensive sculpture pr

William Vollie ?Bill? Alexander, Jr            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William Vollie ?Bill? Alexander, Jr: is a retired politician who represented the U.S. state of Arkansas in the United States House of Representatives from 1969 to 1993, rising to the post of Chief Deputy Majority Whip.He was elected as a Democrat from the 1st District of Arkansas in 1968 and

Robert Jackson "Bob" Alexander            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Robert Jackson "Bob" Alexander: was a scholar at Rutgers University. He is best remembered for his pioneering studies on the trade union movement in Latin America and dissident communist political parties, including ground-breaking monographs on the Right Opposition, Maoist, and Trotsky

Stewart Alexis Alexander            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Stewart Alexis Alexander: is an American democratic socialist politician and former Socialist Party USA nominee for Vice President of the United States in the 2008 election and is seeking the presidential candidacy of the Socialist Party USA in the 2012 election. In August 2010, A

Rev. Avery Caesar Alexander            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Rev. Avery Caesar Alexander: was a Louisiana civil rights leader and politician. He graduated from Union Baptist Theological Seminary and was ordained into the ministry in 1944. He was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1975 and served in that office u

Armstead Milton Alexander            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Armstead Milton Alexander: was a lawyer who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Missouri.In 1870, he was admitted to the bar of Missouri, and starting practicing in the Paris area, although he did not sign the record there until 1881. During this t