Alexander Humphreys Woollcott was an American drama critic and commentator for The New Yorker magazine, a member of the Algonquin Round Table, an occasional actor and playwright, and a prominent radio personality.
Alexander Anatolyevich Yakobson is an Israeli historian, professor of Ancient history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, political activist, and commentator.
Alexander Nikolayevich Yakovlev was a Soviet and Russian politician, diplomat, and historian. A member of the Politburo and Secretariat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union throughout the 1980s, he was termed the "godfather of glasnost", and was the intellectual force behind Mikhail Gorbachev's reform programme of glasnost and perestroika.
Alexander Alekseevich Yakovlev was a Privy Councillor, an actual Chamberlain, and a memoirist. In 1803, for nine months, he was the Chief Prosecutor of the Holy Synod. He was the father of Natalia Zakharyina, who married his nephew Herzen.
Alexander Yakupov Soviet and Russian opera and symphony conductor, rector of Russian State Specialized Arts` Academy since 2011.
Merited Worker of Arts of Russian Federation (1993).
Doctor of Musical Arts (1995).
Alexander Leonidovich Yanshin was a Soviet Russian geologist, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences .
From 1982 to 1988, Yanshin served as vice-president of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
From 1967, Yanshin served as president of the Moscow Society of Naturalists.
Alexander Ivanovich Zass was a Russian strongman, professional wrestler, and animal trainer. He was better known by his stage names, The Amazing Samson, Iron Samson, or simply Samson, Zass has been credited as the "first Russian champion in weightlifting in the pre-Revolutionary era".
