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Alexandre is the French, Portuguese, Catalan and Galician form of the masculine given name Alexander. Alexander means 'warrior' or 'defender of mankind'. Notable people with the name include:
Alexandre Dumas [a] (born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie, [b] 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), [1] [2] also known as Alexandre Dumas père, [c] was a French novelist and playwright. His works have been translated into many languages and he is one of the most widely read French authors.
Statue of General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, melted down following a 1941 decision of the Nazi occupation authorities [1] Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (French: [tɔmɑ alɛksɑ̃dʁ dymɑ davi də la pajət(ə)ʁi]; known as Thomas-Alexandre Dumas; 25 March 1762 – 26 February 1806) was a French general, from the French colony of Saint-Domingue, in Revolutionary France.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 4 January 2025. This is a list of monarchs (and other royalty and nobility) sorted by nickname. This list is divided into two parts: Cognomens: Also called cognomina. These are names which are appended before or after the person's name, like the epitheton necessarium, or Roman victory titles. Examples ...
The name was one of the epithets given to the Greek goddess Hera and as such is usually taken to mean "one who comes to save warriors". In the Iliad, the character Paris is known also as Alexander. [8] The name's popularity was spread throughout the Greek world by the military conquests of Alexander the Great. Most later Alexanders in various ...
Alexandre Chaponnier called Polyanthe [1] (24 February 1793 in Paris – 26 July 1852 in the 10th arrondissement of Paris [2]) was a 19th-century French physician, painter, engraver, and playwright. Also known under the sole first name Alexandre , [ 3 ] he was the son of the French painter and engraver of Swiss origin Alexandre Chaponnier ...
The French took her to Brest and then into their French Navy under the name Alexandre. [4] On 22 June 1795, she was with a French fleet off Belle Île when the Channel Fleet under Lord Bridport discovered them. The British ships chased the French fleet, and brought them to action in the Battle of Groix.
Alistair is a male given name. It is an anglicised form of the Scottish Gaelic Alasdair.The latter is most likely a Scottish Gaelic variant of the Norman French Alexandre or Latin Alexander, which was incorporated into English in the same form as Alexander.