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| gender = Male and Female
| meaning = Defender of Men
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| footnotes = Alex is sometimes short for Alexander and Alexandra
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'''Alex''' may refer to:

==Famous people==
* [[Alexander the Great]], Leader of the Greek empire of Macedonian descent, 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|Alex Turner]], singer for the Arctic Monkeys
* [[Alex Van Halen]], a drummer from the band Van Halen.
* [[Alex Varkatzas]] Lead singer of the Metalcore band Atreyu

===Brazilian-born footballers===
Several Brazilian-born footballers use the name '''Alex''' rather than their surnames; see also [[Alex (footballer)]]:
* [[Alex Raphael Meschini]], Brazilian football player currently playing for [[Sport Club Internacional|Internacional]].
* [[Alex Rodrigo Dias da Costa]], Brazilian football player, currently playing for Chelsea FC.
* [[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)|Alex Fernandez]], 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 P. Keaton]], the Republican young man in the TV series ''[[Family Ties]]''
* [[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)|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|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)|''Madagascar'']]
* Alex, a minor [[List of Pokémon characters#Other recurring characters|Pokémon character]]
* Alex, a dog who was the mascot of [[Stroh's]] Beer in the 1980s and 1990s
* [[Alex (T-Rex)]], a dinosaur in the movie Night at the Museum

==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|Alexandra township]], 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
* [[Alex (sniper rifle)]], 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
* [[Alex (restaurant)]], a restaurant by Alessandro Stratta at the Wynn Las Vegas Hotel & Casino Resort

==See also==

* [[Special:Allpages/Alex]], a number of people with the given name ''Alex''

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