• Alter Kacyzne
  Alter Kacyzne
  Alter Kacyzne was a Jewish writer, poet, and photographer who was killed during the Holocaust....
  
   (1885-1941), Yiddish writer
• Alter Tepliker
  Alter Tepliker
  Alter Tepliker was the sobriquet of Rabbi Moshe Yehoshua Bezhilianski , a learned scholar and leading Breslover Hasid in Uman, Ukraine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.-Biography:...
  
   (d. 1919), Breslover Hasid and author
• Avraham Mordechai Alter
  Avraham Mordechai Alter
  Avraham Mordechai Alter , also known as the Imrei Emes after the works he authored, was the third Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger, a position he held from 1905 until his death in 1948. He was one of the founders of the Agudas Israel in Poland and was influential in establishing a network of...
  
   (1866-1948), Hasidic rabbi
• David Alter
  David Alter
  David Alter was a prominent American inventor and scientist of the 19th century. He was born in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania and graduated from the Reformed Medical School in New York City. He had German and Swiss ancestry.-Inventions:Dr...
  
   (1807-1881), American inventor
• Dinsmore Alter
  Dinsmore Alter
  Dinsmore Alter was an American astronomer and meteorologist.He was born in Colfax, Washington, and attended college at Westminster College in Pennsylvania. After graduating in 1909 with a B.S. degree, he married Ada McClelland...
  
   (1888–1968), American astronomer and meteorologist
• Harvey Alter, American virologist
• Jonathan Alter
  Jonathan Alter
  Jonathan Alter is an American journalist and author who was a columnist and senior editor for Newsweek magazine from 1983 until 2011. He is currently a lead columnist for Bloomberg View, a new commentary website. He is also a contributing correspondent to NBC News, where since 1996 he has appeared...
  
  , American journalist
• Karl Joseph Alter, American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church
• Louis Alter
  Louis Alter
  Louis Alter was an American pianist, songwriter and composer. Alter was 13 when he began playing piano in theaters showing silent films...
  
  , American composer
• Michael Alter
  Michael Alter
  Michael Alter is an American businessman who is the president of his own company, the Alter Group, which is as of 2005, one of the nation's ten largest commercial real estate developers....
  
  , American businessman
• Moshe Jacob Alter, Yiddish poet
• Pinchas Menachem Alter
  Pinchas Menachem Alter
  Pinchas Menachem Alter, , also known as the Pnei Menachem after the works he authored, was the sixth Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger, a position he held from 1992 until his death in 1996.-Early years:...
  
  , Hassidic rabbi
• Robert Alter
  Robert Alter
  Robert Bernard Alter is an American professor of Hebrew language and comparative literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967.-Biography:...
  
  , Biblical scholar
• Stephen Alter
  Stephen Alter
  Stephen Alter is an American author, primarily of non-fiction but also of fiction, who was born and raised in India, where he grew up as the son of missionaries. Accordingly, he was a Third Culture Kid , and his writings are generally described as Indo-nostalgic...
  
  , American author
• Simchah Bunim Alter
  Simchah Bunim Alter
  Simcha Bunim Alter , also known as the Lev Simcha after the works he authored, was the fifth Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger, a position he held from 1977 until 1992....
  
  , Hassidic rabbi
• Tom Alter
  Tom Alter
  Tom Alter is an Indian actor of American origin. As a thespian and television actor, he is best known for his work in Bollywood, but has also worked in the theatre...
  
  , Indian actor
• Yaakov Aryeh Alter
  Yaakov Aryeh Alter
  Yaakov Aryeh Alter, , is the seventh and current Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger, a position he has held since 1996. He lives in Israel and has followers in Europe and the United States...
  
  , Hassidic rabbi
• Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter
  Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter
  Yehudah Aryeh Leib Alter , also known by the title of his main work, the Sfas Emes, was a Hasidic rabbi who succeeded his grandfather, Rabbi Yitzchak Meir Alter, as the av beis din and Rav of Góra Kalwaria, Poland , and succeeded the Rebbe, Reb Heynekh of Alexander, as Rebbe of the Gerrer...
  
  , Hassidic rabbi
• Yisrael Alter
  Yisrael Alter
  Yisrael Alter, , also known as the Beis Yisroel after the works he authored, was the fourth Rebbe of the Hasidic dynasty of Ger, a position he held from 1948 until 1977....
  
  , Hassidic rabbi
• Yitzhak Alter (1791-1851), Hebrew writer
• Yitzchak Meir Alter
  Yitzchak Meir Alter
  Yitzchak Meir Alter , is considered to be the first Rebbe of the Ger Hasidic dynasty, which he founded in the town of Góra Kalwaria , Poland. He was also known as the Chidushei HaRim for his Torah books...
  
   (ca. 1798 - 1866), Hassidic rabbi

See also

• Alter Rebbe, nickname of Shneur Zalman of Liadi
  Shneur Zalman of Liadi
  Shneur Zalman of Liadi , also known as the Baal HaTanya, , was an Orthodox Rabbi, and the founder and first Rebbe of Chabad, a branch of Hasidic Judaism, then based in Liadi, Imperial Russia...
  
  
• The alter of Slabodka (Nosson Tzvi Finkel)
  The alter of Slabodka (Nosson Tzvi Finkel)
  Nosson Zvi Finkel known as the Alter of Slabodka was an influential leader of Orthodox Judaism in Eastern Europe and founder of the Slabodka Yeshiva, in the town of Slabodka . He is better known by the Yiddish appellation der Alter...