Alex

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Alex is a short form of the given names Alexander or Alexandra, which has become very common in the English-speaking world since the middle of the twentieth century. It may refer to:

Famous people:

• Alex Rodrigo Dias da Costa, a Brazilian football player (defender)
• Alex Trebek, host of the game show Jeopardy!
• Alex Rodriguez, star Major League Baseball player on the New York Yankees
• Alex Pettyfer, an English actor who plays Alex Rider in the film Stormbreaker
• Alexander the Great, Leader of the Greek empire
• Alex Van Halen, drummer for the metal band Van Halen
• Alex Grey, artist
• Alex George, botanist
• Alexander Kapranos, singer for the Scottish band Franz Ferdinand
• Alex Turner, singer for the Arctic Monkeys band

Fictional characters:

• Alex DeLarge, the antihero of A Clockwork Orange
• Alex (Street Fighter), the main character of the Street Fighter III video game series
• Alex, a character in the video game Golden Sun
• Alex, a character in the animated series Totally Spies!
• Alex Kidd, a video game character for the Sega company
• Alex (comic strip), a comic strip in the Daily Telegraph
• 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 is also the name of:

• Alex (videotex service), a videotex service offered by Bell Canada in the early 1990s
• Alex (Hurricane Alex) category 2 hurricane during 2004 hurricane season
• Standard sniper rifle "Alex", a Polish sniper rifle
• Alex (parrot), a famous talking parrot studied by Dr. Irene Pepperberg
• Special:Allpages/Alex, a number of people with the given name Alex
• Alexandra College Dublin
• Alex's Lemonade Stand, non-profit organization dedicated to cure pediatric cancer

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