Alec
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Alec is the Scottish form of Alex, a given name related to Alexander
. Alec may refer to:
Alexander
Alexander is a common male first name, and less common surname. The most famous is Alexander the Great, the King of Macedon who created one of the largest empires in ancient history.- Origin :...
. Alec may refer to:
People
- Alec BaldwinAlec BaldwinAlexander Rae "Alec" Baldwin III is an American actor who has appeared on film, stage, and television.Baldwin first gained recognition through television for his work in the soap opera Knots Landing in the role of Joshua Rush. He was a cast member for two seasons before his character was killed off...
, American actor - Alec BedserAlec BedserSir Alec Victor Bedser, CBE was a professional English cricketer. He was the chairman of selectors for the English national cricket team, and the president of Surrey County Cricket Club...
(1918-2010), English cricketer - Alec BergAlec BergAlec Berg is a comedy writer, best known as a writer for the sitcom Seinfeld. He also co-wrote the screenplays for the films The Cat in the Hat, EuroTrip, and The Dictator...
, American television writer - Alec BregonziAlec BregonziAlec Bregonzi was an English actor who appeared in a number of stage and television roles.Bregonzi began his career as a professional actor in 1955 in repertory theatre in Farnham, then in York, Bromley and Leatherhead, amongst other places...
(1930-2006), English actor - Alec Brook-KrasnyAlec Brook-KrasnyAlec Brook-Krasny is an American Jewish politician and the first Soviet-born Russian language speaker to become a New York State Assembly member elected for the 46th District on November 7, 2006. He is affiliated with the Democratic Party...
(born 1958), American politician - Alec ButlerAlec ButlerAlec Butler is a Canadian playwright and filmmaker. Born intersex and raised as a female, he was known as Audrey and identified as a butch dyke before pursuing gender reassignment in 1999, and currently identifies as a Two-Spirit and transman.He was a nominee for the Governor General's Award for...
(born 1959), Canadian playwright - Alec CampbellAlec CampbellAlexander William Campbell was the final surviving Australian participant of the Gallipoli campaign during the First World War. His death broke the last living link of Australians with the Gallipoli story....
(1899-2002), Australian soldier - Alec Clifton-TaylorAlec Clifton-TaylorAlec Clifton-Taylor OBE was an English architectural historian, writer and TV broadcaster.-Biography and works:...
(1907-1985), English architectural historian - Alec CorytonAlec CorytonAir Chief Marshal Sir William Alec Coryton KCB, KBE, MVO, DFC, RAF , commonly known as Alec Coryton, was a senior RAF commander in World War II.-Life:...
(1895-1981), British air force commander - Alec DankworthAlec DankworthAlec Dankworth is an English jazz bassist and composer.Dankworth was born in London, the son of John Dankworth and Cleo Laine. He grew up in the villages of Aspley Guise and Wavendon, living at the Old Rectory, Wavendon, where his parents established the Wavendon All-Music Plan which includes the...
(born 1960), English jazz musician - Alec John DawsonAlec John DawsonAlec John Dawson , generally known as A. J. Dawson was an English author, traveller and novelist. During World War I he attained the rank of Major, and was awarded the MBE and Croix de Guerre in recognition of his work as a military propagandist...
(1872-1951), English author - Alec Douglas-HomeAlec Douglas-HomeAlexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, KT, PC , known as The Earl of Home from 1951 to 1963 and as Sir Alec Douglas-Home from 1963 to 1974, was a British Conservative politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from October 1963 to October 1964.He is the last...
(1903-1995), British politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1963-1964) - Alec EmpireAlec EmpireAlec Empire is a German musician who is best known as a founding member of the band Atari Teenage Riot. Also a prolific and distinguished solo artist, producer and DJ, he has released well over a hundred albums, EPs and singles and remixed over seventy tracks for various artists including Björk...
(born 1972), German musician - Alec Erwin (born 1948), South African politician
- Alec Fong LimAlec Fong LimAlec Fong Lim was the eleventh Lord Mayor of the City of Darwin, the capital city of the Northern Territory of Australia He served as Lord Mayor from 1 June 1984 – 9 August 1990)...
(1931-1990), Australian politician - Alec B. FrancisAlec B. FrancisAlec B. Francis was an English actor, largely of the silent era. He appeared in 241 films between 1911 and 1934.He was born in London and died in Hollywood, California.-Selected filmography:...
(1867-1934), English silent-film actor - Alec GallupAlec GallupAlec Miller Gallup was an American pollster, who served as chairman of the Gallup Poll, after the 1984 death of his father, George Gallup, who created the poll in 1935....
(1928-2009), American pollster - Alec GuinnessAlec GuinnessSir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE was an English actor. He was featured in several of the Ealing Comedies, including Kind Hearts and Coronets in which he played eight different characters. He later won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai...
(1914-2000), English actor - Alec George HorwoodAlec George HorwoodAlec George Horwood VC, DCM was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.-Details:...
(1914-1944), British soldier - Alec IssigonisAlec IssigonisSir Alexander Arnold Constantine Issigonis, CBE, FRS was a Greek-British designer of cars, now remembered chiefly for the groundbreaking and influential development of the Mini, launched by the British Motor Corporation in 1959.- Early life:Issigonis was born into the Greek community of Smyrna ...
(1906-1988), Greek-British car designer - Alec JeffreysAlec JeffreysSir Alec John Jeffreys, FRS is a British geneticist, who developed techniques for DNA fingerprinting and DNA profiling which are now used all over the world in forensic science to assist police detective work, and also to resolve paternity and immigration disputes...
(born 1950), British geneticist - Alec JonesAlec JonesAlec Jones was a British Labour Party politician.Jones was Member of Parliament for Rhondda West from the Rhondda West by-election, 1967 until the constituency was abolished in 1974, and for Rhondda from 1974 until he died in office shortly before the 1983 general election at the age of 58...
(1924-1983), British politician - Alec KirkbrideAlec Kirkbride- Biography :He began his military career as an officer in the army of General Allenby from 1916 to 1921. In 1920, after the Battle of Maysalun and the fall of Faisal's government of Syria left Transjordan with no central authority, he was dispatched by the British government to Transjordan to help...
(1897-1978), British diplomat - Alec LazoAlec LazoAlejandro "Alec" Lazo is a Cuban-American professional dancer, instructor, and choreographer based in Palm Beach, Florida. Lazo was the US International Rising Star Latin Champion in 1990 and went on through over twenty years of successful DanceSport competition. This cumulated in 1999 when he...
, Cuban-American ballroom dancer - Alec MacKayeAlec MacKayeAlec MacKaye is an American singer and musician best known as a member of the Washington, DC Hardcore bands Untouchables, The Faith, and Ignition. In the mid-1990s Alec joined the band The Warmers as a vocalist and guitarist. Their album 14 Songs was released in 1996 by Dischord Records. The...
, American punk Vocalist - Alec MangoAlec MangoAlec Mango was an English actor. He is best known for portraying El Supremo in the 1951 Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N., he also appeared in South of Algiers , The Strange World of Planet X , The 7th Voyage of Sinbad , Danger Man , and Frankenstein Created Woman, .-Selected filmography:* They Who...
(1911-1989), English actor - Alec MapaAlec Mapa-Personal life:Mapa, a Filipino American, was born in San Francisco and attended George Washington High School . Mapa is openly gay and lends his support to various projects supporting the gay, lesbian, and Asian American communities...
(born 1965), Filipino-American actor - Alec McHoulAlec McHoulAlec McHoul is a British/Australian Ethnomethodologist. He has written numerous books and articles, many of which are informed by Ethnomethodology.He is currently Emeritus Professor at Murdoch University....
(born 1952), British-Australian ethnomethodologist - Alec NăstacAlec NastacAlec Năstac is a retired boxer from Romania, who represented his native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. There he won the bronze medal in the middleweight division after being defeated in the semifinals by eventual winner Michael Spinks of the United States...
(born 1949), Romanian boxer and Olympic medalist - Alec NeillAlec NeillAlexander George Neill is the former Chairman of the Canterbury Regional Council and a former New Zealand National Party politician. He was an Electorate Member of Parliament from 1990 to 1996, and a List Member for two terms in 1999, and from 2001 to 2002. He was born in Dunedin, and attended St...
(born 1950), New Zealand politician - Alec NewmanAlec NewmanAlec Newman is a Scottish stage, television and film actor. He was born in Glasgow on 27 November 1974. Prior to joining the National Youth Theatre in London at age 17, he considered becoming a professional footballer...
(born 1974), Scottish actor - Alec G. OlsonAlec G. OlsonAlec Gehard Olson is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives, a former state senator, and a former lieutenant governor of Minnesota. He was born in Mamre Township in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota....
(born 1930), American politician - Alec PetersonAlec PetersonAlexander Duncan Campbell Peterson OBE was a British teacher and headmaster, greatly responsible for the birth of the International Baccalaureate educational system. He was instrumental in the formation of the International Baccalaureate Organisation in 1968, and served as the organisation's first...
(1908-1988), British educator, founder of the International Baccalaureate - Alec ReevesAlec ReevesAlec Harley Reeves, CBE was a British scientist best known for his invention of pulse-code modulation . He was awarded 82 patents.-Early life:...
(1902-1971), British scientist - Alec SkemptonAlec SkemptonSir Alec Skempton FRS was a leader in and founding father of Soil Mechanics. As a founding member of the Institution of Civil Engineers' Soil Mechanics and Foundations committees he studied at City and Guilds College London and established the Soil Mechanics course at Imperial College London,...
(1914-2001), British civil engineer - Alec StewartAlec StewartAlec James Stewart OBE is a retired English cricketer, a right-handed batsman-wicketkeeper and former captain of the England cricket team...
(born 1963), English cricketer - Alec SuAlec SuAlec Su is a Taiwanese pop star and versatile actor in films and television dramas. He became famous as a member of the Taiwanese Idol Band The Little Tigers, formed in 1988, and later for his first Chinese TV series Princess Returning Pearl .-Little Tigers:Alec Su's career started in 1988, at...
(born 1973), Taiwanese musician and actor - Alec John SuchAlec John SuchAlec John Such is an American musician, and the former bassist for the band Bon Jovi. He left the band in 1994, and has not been officially replaced. As well as playing bass guitar, Such sang backing vocals and occasionally took the lead for part of 'Blood on Blood' at live shows...
(born 1952), American bassist, former member of Bon Jovi - Alec TempletonAlec TempletonAlec Templeton was a Welsh composer, pianist and satirist.Templeton was born in Cardiff, Wales. Blind from birth, he studied at London's Royal Academy.-Radio:...
(1909-1963), British composer - Alec WaughAlec WaughAlexander Raban Waugh , was a British novelist, the elder brother of the better-known Evelyn Waugh and son of Arthur Waugh, author, literary critic, and publisher...
(1898-1981), British novelist - Alec WilderAlec WilderAlec Wilder was an American composer.-Biography:...
(1907-1980), American composer - Alec WilkinsonAlec WilkinsonAlec Wilkinson is a writer who has been on the staff of The New Yorker since 1980. According to The Philadelphia Inquirer he is among the "first rank of" contemporary American "literary journalists... of Naipaul, Norman Mailer and Agee." He is the author of nine books: "Midnights," , "Moonshine,"...
(born 1952), American writer
Fiction
- Alec the GreatAlec the GreatAlec the Great was a syndicated newspaper comic strip created by Edwina Dumm and featuring a dog character, as did her other comic strip, Cap Stubbs and Tippie.-Characters and story:...
, American newspaper comic strip - Alec Forbes of HowglenAlec Forbes of HowglenAlec Forbes of Howglen is a novel by George MacDonald, first published in 1865 and is primarily concerned with Scottish country life.-Synopsis:...
, Scottish novel by George MacDonald - Alec GilroyAlec GilroyAlexander "Alec" Gilroy is a fictional character from the British soap opera Coronation Street, played by Roy Barraclough. The character made several appearances in the show as a small-time talent agent, the first in 1972, and later as a series regular from 1986 to 1992. He reappeared briefly in...
, fictional character in Coronation Street - Alec of Kerry, fictional character in The Nightrunner Series by Lynn Flewelling
- Alec Lightwood, fictional character in The Mortal Instruments trilogy
- Alec McDowellAlec McDowellAlec McDowell is a fictional television character portrayed by Jensen Ackles in the 2000–2002 cyberpunk television series Dark Angel, created by James Cameron....
, fictional character in Dark Angel - Alec TrevelyanAlec TrevelyanAlexander "Alec" Trevelyan , also known as Janus, is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye, portrayed by actor Sean Bean...
, fictional character in GoldenEye - Alec of the Volturi coven in the Twilight saga by Stephenie MeyerStephenie MeyerStephenie Meyer is an American author known for her vampire romance series Twilight. The Twilight novels have gained worldwide recognition and sold over 100 million copies globally, with translations into 37 different languages...
Organizations
- American Legislative Exchange CouncilAmerican Legislative Exchange CouncilThe American Legislative Exchange Council is a politically conservative 501 non-profit Policy Organization, consisting of both state legislators and members of the private sector. ALEC's mission statement describes the organization's purpose as the advancement of free-market principles, limited...
- Alec Hunter Humanities CollegeAlec Hunter Humanities CollegeAlec Hunter Humanities College, formerly Alec Hunter School and Alec Hunter High School, is situated in Braintree, Essex. It is a comprehensive school for 11–16 year olds, and has Humanities specialist status.-History:...
, British school