Alexa
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Names
- Alexa (name)Alexa (name)Alexa is a feminine form of Alexander, and is also a short form of Alexandra, which comes from the Greek, Alexandros. It can be broken down into alexo meaning "to defend" and aner, meaning "man"' making both Alexa and Alexander mean defender of man.- Modern popularity :In the United States, the...
, discussion of the name itself - Alexa ChungAlexa ChungAlexa Chung is an English television presenter, model and contributing editor at British Vogue.She currently hosts Gonzo with Alexa Chung for MTV UK, and is scheduled to host Thrift America for PBS in 2011...
, British TV presenter - Alexa DavalosAlexa DavalosAlexa Davalos is an American actress. She has appeared in several Hollywood films, including Feast of Love, The Chronicles of Riddick, The Mist, Defiance, and Clash of the Titans.-Early life:...
, French-American actress - Alexa DemaraAlexa DemaraAlexa Demara is an American actress, model, writer and martial artist. She is best known for her appearances on the nationally syndicated celebrity show Extra and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. She also appeared in magazines such as FHM, MMA Sports and V...
, American actress - Alexa GerasimovichAlexa GerasimovichAlexa Veronica Gerasimovich is an American child actress. She is most famous for her role in the soap opera All My Children as Kathy Mershon.-Life and career:...
, American actress - Alexa GlatchAlexa Glatch-Junior career:She started playing tennis at the age of five. As a junior player, she won the prestigious Easter Bowl title in the Girls 14s and Girls 18s divisions and the Orange Bowl in the Girls 16s division in 2004. She achieved a World Junior Ranking of #5 in 2005, advancing to the 2005 US...
, American tennis player - Alexa GoddardAlexa GoddardAlexa Goddard is an English pop and R&B singer from Blackwater, Hampshire. Born in Camberley, Surrey, Goddard attended Yateley School before being spotted singing at a talent contest at the age of 14...
, British singer - Alexa HamiltonAlexa HamiltonAlexa Hamilton is an American actress. She appeared as a guest star in the fifth episode of the series The Greatest American Hero, 'Saturday on Sunset Boulevard', as the Italian heiress Theresa Chimerosa , in 1981...
, American actress - Alexa HavinsAlexa HavinsAlexa Carole Havins is an American actress. She first came to prominence in 2003, when she became the originating actor in the role of Babe Carey Chandler on the daytime drama All My Children...
, American actress - Alexa Ray JoelAlexa Ray JoelAlexa Ray Joel is an American singer, songwriter and pianist. She is the daughter and only child of singer-songwriter Billy Joel and supermodel Christie Brinkley....
, daughter of Billy Joel - Alexa JungeAlexa JungeAlexa Junge is a television writer, producer and screenwriter. She is best known for her work on the series Friends.Four-time Emmy and WGA Award nominee, Junge grew up in Los Angeles, attended Barnard College where she wrote The Columbia Varsity Show with David Rakoff and Jeanine Tesori. Junge...
, American screenwriter - Alexa KeninAlexa KeninAlexa Kenin was an American actress known for her supporting roles in several films released during the 1980s, including Pretty in Pink, Little Darlings, and Honkytonk Man.-Career:...
, American actress - Alexa LooAlexa LooAlexa Loo is a Canadian snowboarder of Chinese descent. She competed in the parallel giant slalom at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics.-Season highlights:...
, Canadian snowboarder - Alexa McDonoughAlexa McDonoughAlexa Ann Shaw McDonough OC is a Canadian politician who became the first woman to lead a major, recognized political party in Canada, when she was elected the Nova Scotia New Democratic Party's leader in 1980...
, Canadian politician - Alexa NikolasAlexa NikolasAlexa Helen Nikolas is an American actress. Her most notable is that of Nicole Bristow on the Nickelodeon TV show Zoey 101, in which she appeared from 2005 to 2006.-Career:...
, Greek-American actress - Alexa RaeAlexa RaeAlexa Rae is an American former pornographic actress.In 2003, Rae won the AVN Award for Best Couples Sex Scene for her scene with Lexington Steele in Lex the Impaler 2. She was for a period a contract girl with Wicked Pictures....
, American pornographic actress - Alexa StillAlexa StillAlexa Still is a New Zealand born flutist currently based in Oberlin, Ohio, where she teaches at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.Still studied in the US with Samuel Baron at SUNY Stony Brook and with Thomas Nyfenger...
, Australian musician - Alexa StirlingAlexa StirlingAlexa Stirling Fraser was a North American amateur golf champion.Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Alexa Stirling was coached in golf from a young age at the Atlanta Athletic Club's East Lake Golf Club course by Stewart Maiden, the club's professional, who had learned his golf at Carnoustie, Scotland...
, American golf player - Alexa ThatcherAlexa ThatcherAlexa Thatcher is an American professional wrestler who regularly wrestles for Shimmer Women Athletes and various other independent promotions. She has also made brief appearances for Ring of Honor, and wrestled for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring name Alexa Jade.-Professional...
, American wrestler - Alexa VegaAlexa VegaAlexa Ellesse Vega is an American actress, singer and pianist. She is best known for playing Carmen Cortez in the Spy Kids film series and Shilo Wallace in the movie Repo! the Genetic Opera. In 2009, she starred as the title character Ruby Gallagher in the ABC Family series Ruby & The...
, Colombian American actress - Alexa WilkinsonAlexa WilkinsonAlexa Wilkinson is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and trumpet player with two albums to her name: 2007's Lullaby Appetite, partly co-written by Josh Kelley, and Lions, released in 2008. She has toured with a number of indie musicians, including Josh Kelley, Todd Carey, Jonathan Clay,...
, American singer and musician - Dan AlexaDan AlexaDan Alexa is a Romanian football player who currently plays for FC Rapid Bucureşti. He is a defensive midfielder.-Early career:...
, Romanian footballer - Kate AlexaKate AlexaKate Alexa Gudinski is an Australian pop singer and the daughter of Australian music promoter Michael Gudinski, AM. Alexa first hit the spotlight in 2004 when her song "Always There" was featured in the Channel 7 series Home & Away...
, Australian singer - Alexa Notte, Canadian hockey player
- Arriflex AlexaArriflex AlexaThe Arri Alexa is a film-style digital motion picture camera made by Arri first introduced in April 2010. The camera marks Arri's first major transition into digital cinematography after smaller previous efforts such as the Arriflex D-20 and D-21...
, Digital film style camera made by Arnold and Richter
Other uses
- Alexa (typeface)Alexa (typeface)Alexa is a typeface. It was designed for Adobe Systems in 1995 by John Benson, a famous United States carver of inscriptions, including those at the John F. Kennedy Memorial in Arlington National Cemetery. Benson modeled the friendly, casual script after his own handwriting and named it after his...
- Alexa InternetAlexa InternetAlexa Internet, Inc. is a California-based subsidiary company of Amazon.com that is known for its toolbar and Web site. Once installed, the toolbar collects data on browsing behavior which is transmitted to the Web site where it is stored and analyzed and is the basis for the company's Web traffic...
, a subsidiary of Amazon.com, best known for operating alexa.com that provides information on the web traffic to other websites- Alexa ToolbarAlexa ToolbarThe Alexa Toolbar, is an application produced by Alexa Internet, and is a Firefox extension and Browser Helper Object for Internet Explorer on Microsoft Windows that is used by Alexa to measure website specific statistics.-Content:...
, (including Alexa Sparky) products of the above
- Alexa Toolbar
- Alexa (genus)Alexa (genus)Alexa is a genus of legumes.-External links:**...
, a genus of legumes - Alexa Fluor, a family of fluorescent dyes
- It Happened to Alexa Foundation, support group for rape victims
- Alexa Lexington from MySimsMySimsMySims, formerly The Sims Wii and Nintendo Sims, is a video game developed by EA Redwood Shores and published by Electronic Arts as a spinoff to Maxis' The Sims franchise for the Nintendo DS and Wii in 2007, then re-released for Microsoft Windows and Mobile phone in 2008.It is the first game in the...
, MySims KingdomMySims KingdomMySims Kingdom is a video game developed by EA Redwood Shores and published by Electronic Arts as a spinoff to Maxis' The Sims franchise for the Nintendo DS and Wii in 2008...
, and MySims AgentsMySims AgentsMySims Agents is a mystery-solving adventure game for the Nintendo DS and Wii, in which the player must guide agents in an effort to stop the sinister plans of Morcubus, lord of the criminal underworld... - Arri Alexa, a digital motion picture camera