Alexander Dmitriyevich Protopopov (Russian: Александр Дмитриевич Протопопов) (1866 – October 27, 1918) was a Russian statesman, politician Octobrist Party.
Member of Third and Fourth Dumas. Marshal of Nobility of Korsunsk Uezd (1912), and of Simbirsk Gubernia (1916).
He was Deputy Speaker of the State Duma 1914-1916 and Minister of the Interior from September 16 of 1916 to February 28 of 1917.
He continued the reactionary policies of his predecessor Boris Stürmer, and was supported by the Empress Alexandra who kept him in office despite the mounting protests against him, and the repeated requests for Tsar Nicholas II to dismiss him.
After the Romanov dynasty fell in the first Russian Revolution of 1917, he was arrested and kept in prison until the Bolsheviks executed him in 1918.
| Preceded by Aleksandr Khvostov |
Minister of Interior September 1916 – February 1917 |
Succeeded by Georgy Lvov |