Alex

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 Lam, a Hong Kong music producer
* 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 YankeesFictional 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
* 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, 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