Dallas is the great-great-granduncle of former U. S. Senator Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island, and was the uncle of George M. Bache and Alexander Dallas Bache.

* Three years after Alexander Graham Bell patented his telephone invention, Bennet Pell started a private telephone exchange in Singapore that had 50 lines.

* Alexander of Bulgaria ( 1857 – 1893 ), first prince of Bulgaria

* Alexander of Bulgaria ( 1857 – 1893 ), Prince of Bulgaria

* 1857 – Alexander Shirvanzade, Armenian playwright and novelist ( d. 1935 )

* Alexander Lyapunov ( 1857 – 1918 ) in the 1890s marks the beginning of stability theory.

Count Alexander Ivanovich Ostermann-Tolstoy ( 1770 – 1857 )

Alexander Ivanovich Tolstoy ( 1770 – 1857 ), stemming from a collateral branch of the family, inherited the committal title and estates of his childless uncle, the last of the Ostermanns.

* October 23 – Alexander, Prince of Bulgaria, first prince of Bulgaria ( b. 1857 )

Alexander Joseph, Prince of Bulgaria GCB ( 5 April 1857 – 23 October 1893 ), known as Alexander of Battenberg, was the first prince ( knyaz ) of modern Bulgaria, reigning from 29 April 1879 to 7 September 1886.

It was created in 1857 and is named in honor of Alexander von Humboldt.

Scottish engineer Alexander Wilson founded the company in Dusian Road, Vauxhall, London in 1857.

1857 – Marine engineer Alexander Wilson founded the Vauxhall Ironworks in Lambeth, London, and named after the Vauxhall district of Lambeth.

In 1856, he was sent as special envoy to the coronation of Alexander II of Russia and brought home a wife, whom he married at St. Petersburg on 7 January 1857, Princess Sofia Sergeyevna Trubetskaya ( Moscow, 25 March 1836 – 8 August 1896 ), the only daughter of Prince Sergey Vasilyevich Trubetskoy ( 1814-12 May ( 30 April Old Style ), 1859 ) and his wife Ekaterina Petrovna Mussina-Pushkina ( 1 February 1816-c. 1897 ).

* Alexander Campbell ( American politician ) ( 1779 – 1857 ), Ohio

Modest Mussorgsky joined them in 1857, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov in 1861, and Alexander Borodin in 1862.

Alexander Cameron Rutherford ( February 2, 1857 – June 11, 1941 ) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the first Premier of Alberta from 1905 to 1910.

* Challen, James ( editor ), " Biographical Sketch of Alexander Campbell ", Ladies ' Christian Annual, March, 1857 ( Volume VI, No. 3 ), Philadelphia: James Challen, Publisher.

* Alexander ( 1857 – 1893 ), created Reigning Prince of Bulgaria in 1879, abdicated in Bulgaria and created Count of Hartenau, married morganatically in 1889 Johanna Loisinger ( 1865 – 1951 ), with issue.

Alexander William George Duff, 1st Duke of Fife KG, KT, GCVO, PC, VD ( 10 November 1849 – 29 January 1912 ), styled Viscount Macduff between 1857 and 1879 and known as The Earl Fife between 1879 and 1889, was a British Peer who married Princess Louise of Wales, the third child and eldest daughter of King Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark.

The brand became popular, but after Walker's death in 1857 it was his son Alexander Walker and grandson Alexander Walker II who were largely responsible for establishing the scotch as a popular brand.

Alexander Macleay started collecting the exhibits of Australia's oldest museum-Sydney's Australian Museum-in 1826 and the current building opened to the public in 1857.

* Rear Admiral Sir Alexander Milne 1857 – 1859

** Alexander Leslie-Melville, Lord Balgonie ( 1831 – 1857 )

Aristotle (, Aristotélēs ) ( 384 BC – 322 BC ) was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.

* 1812 – Alexander Herzen, Russian writer ( d. 1870 )

* 1871 – Prince Alexander John of Wales ( d. 1871 )

* 1820 – Alexander Ypsilantis is declared leader of Filiki Eteria, a secret organization to overthrow Ottoman rule over Greece.

* 1823 – Alexander Ostrovsky, Russian playwright ( d. 1886 )

* 1948 – Alexander Onassis, American Greek socialite, son of Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis ( d. 1973 )

* 1921 – Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg ( d. 1996 )

* 1826 – Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer ( d. 1915 )

* 1881 – Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1955 )

* 1886 – John Alexander Douglas McCurdy Canadian pilot and engineer ( d. 1961 )

* 1981 – Alexander Emelianenko, Russian mixed martial artist

* 1890 – Alexander F. Mozhayskiy, Russian aviation pioneer ( b. 1825 )

* 2000 – Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart, Scottish jurist ( b. 1924 )

* 2005 – Alexander Brott, Canadian violinist and composer ( b. 1915 )

Eastern European theorists include Pyotr Stolypin ( 1862 – 1911 ) and Alexander Chayanov ( 1888 – 1939 ) in Russia ; Adolph Wagner ( 1835 – 1917 ), and Karl Oldenberg in Germany, and Bolesław Limanowski ( 1835 – 1935 ) in Poland.

* Bell, John D. Peasants in Power: Alexander Stamboliski and the Bulgarian Agrarian National Union, 1899 – 1923 ( 1923 )

Alexander Mackenzie, PC ( January 28, 1822 – April 17, 1892 ), a building contractor and newspaper editor, was the second Prime Minister of Canada from November 7, 1873 to October 8, 1878.

* William Alexander Henry – September 30, 1875

* 1893 – Alexander of Greece ( d. 1920 )

* 1824 – Maria Alexandrovna, German wife of Alexander II of Russia ( d. 1880 )

* 1939 – Alexander Watson, American ambassador and diplomat

* 1915 – Joan Alexander, American actress ( d. 2009 )