It was first described in 1956 by Andrea Prader ( 1919 – 2001 ), Heinrich Willi ( 1900 – 1971 ), Alexis Labhart ( 1916 ), Andrew Ziegler, and Guido Fanconi of Switzerland.

Some of the boxers featured on the magazine covers have included Andrew Golota, Salvador Sánchez, Jack Dempsey, Max Schmeling, Joe Louis, Sugar Ray Robinson, Jake LaMotta, Rocky Marciano, Willie Pep, Muhammad Ali, Alexis Argüello, Wilfred Benítez, Wilfredo Gómez, Roberto Durán, Larry Holmes, Marvin Hagler, Sugar Ray Leonard, Bud Taylor, Mike Tyson, Evander Holyfield, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Thomas Hearns, Roy Jones Jr., Bernard Hopkins, Julio César Chávez, Félix Trinidad, Manny Pacquiao, Oscar De La Hoya, Mauro Mina, and Ricardo Mayorga.

Since 2005, Boselli has lived in Ponte Vedra with his wife, Angi and their four children: Andrew, Adam, Ashli, and Alexis.

Alexis Gilbert " Lexie " Stewart ( born September 27, 1965 ) is the only child of Martha Stewart and her ex-husband Andrew.

Films supported by the fund included James Marsh's Oscar-winning Man on Wire ; Armando Iannucci's In the Loop ( Sundance 2009 ); Jane Campion's Bright Star ; Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank ; Dominic Murphy's White Lightnin ’ ( Berlin and Sundance Film Festivals 2009 ); Sally Potter's Rage ( Berlin Competition 2009 ); Noel Clarke ’ s Adulthood ( BAFTA Rising Star ); Ken Loach's The Wind That Shakes the Barley ( Cannes, Palme d ' Or ); Shane Meadows's This is England ( BAFTA, Best British Film ); Kevin Macdonald's Touching the Void ( BAFTA, Best British Film ); Andrea Arnold's Red Road ( Cannes, Jury Prize ); Paul Andrew Williams's London to Brighton ( Edinburgh International Film Festival, Best New Director ); Alexis Dos Santos's Unmade Beds ( also at Berlin and Sundance 2009 ); and Duane Hopkins's Better Things ( Cannes, Critics ’ Week ).

All the correspondence between Elizabeth and Alexis Okhotnikov ( and some of her diaries ) were destroyed by the Emperor Nicholas I after her death.

To her memory she left 4 children ( Nicholas, Torry, Christina and Karen ) and numerous grandchildren ( Francesca, Amanda, Andres, Alexis, Kamal and David ) and great-grandchildren.

The play contains two songs, " Why Should a Foolish Marriage Vow " by Robert Smith and " Whilst Alexis Lay Pressed " by Nicholas Staggins, both set to Dryden's lyrics and printed in the 1673 book Choice Songs and Ayres for One Voyce to Sing to the Theorbo-Lute or Bass-Viol.

In September 2010, Alexis gently warns Brook Lynn Ashton that getting romantically involved with Nicholas would be a bad idea.

Alexis Carrel ( June 28, 1873 – November 5, 1944 ) was a French surgeon and biologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques.

Alexis Carrel was also a member of learned societies in the U. S., Spain, Russia, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Vatican City, Germany, Italy and Greece and received honorary doctorates from Queen's University of Belfast, Princeton University, California, New York, Brown University and Columbia University.

Alexis (, c. 394 BC – c. 288 BC ) was a Greek comic poet of the Middle Comedy period.

According to the Suda, a 10th century encyclopedia, Alexis was the paternal uncle of the dramatist Menander and wrote 245 comedies, of which only fragments now survive, including some 130 preserved titles.

While being a Middle Comic poet, Alexis was contemporary with several leading figures of New Comedy, such as Philippides, Philemon, Diphilus, and even Menander.

According to Carytius of Pergamum, Alexis was the first to use the part of the parasite.

Alexis was known in Roman times ; Aulus Gellius noted that Alexis ' poetry was used by Roman comedians, including Turpilius and possibly Plautus.

Alexis Korner ( 19 April 1928 — 1 January 1984 ) was a blues musician and radio broadcaster, who has sometimes been referred to as " a Founding Father of British Blues ".

Alexis de Tocqueville argued that the Revolution was a manifestation of a more prosperous middle class becoming conscious of its social importance.

The title was inspired by the French classical liberal thinker Alexis de Tocqueville's writings on the " road to servitude ".

He was involved in 1994 as writer and reviewer of a report on the issue by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, where he was a senior fellow.

The last Prime Minister, Jacques-Édouard Alexis, entered office in 2006 and was removed in April 2008.

The task passed to Alexis Tsipras, leader of the SYRIZA ( the second largest party ) who was also unable to form a government.

His parents were middle class ; his father, the Wallonian Alexis Remi, worked in a candy factory, whilst his mother, the Flemish Elisabeth Dufour, was a homemaker.

The notion of a distinctive religious basis for American democracy and culture was first described and popularized by Alexis de Tocqueville in the 1840s, in his influential book, Democracy in America.

Peter the Great is traditionally accused of knouting his son Alexis to death ; whoever the executioner may have been, there is little doubt that he was beaten until he died.

Alexis de Tocqueville suggested in Democracy in America that Puritanism was the very thing that provided a firm foundation for American democracy.

Alexis Clairaut was the first to think of polar coordinates in three dimensions, and Leonhard Euler was the first to actually develop them.

*** Tatiana Sfiris ( born August 28, 1968, Athens, Greece ), married on May 1996 in Athens, Greece, to Alexis Giannakoupoulos ( born 1963 ), divorced, no issue ; married Anthony Vamvakidis and has issue:

Fyodor was born in Moscow, the eldest surviving son of Tsar Alexis and Maria Miloslavskaya.

Alexis Margaret Herman ( born July 16, 1947 in Mobile, Alabama ) was the 23rd U. S. Secretary of Labor, serving under President Bill Clinton.

* Alton Alexis ( born 1957 ), former National Football League wide receiver

Alexis Denisof ( born February 25, 1966 ) is an

Aleksis Kivi (), born Alexis Stenvall, ( 10 October 1834 – 31 December 1872 ) was a Finnish author who wrote the first significant novel in the Finnish language, Seven Brothers ( Finnish title: Seitsemän veljestä ).

Daughter Georgia Alexis was conceived while Letourneau was on probation, and was born in October 1998 while Letourneau was incarcerated.

Their only child, a daughter named Alexis, was born in 1965.

They married in 1958 and set up house and studio in the south of France, where two sons were born to them, Alexis and Pierre.

Cruz had two children ; Carlos, Jr. ( born 1962 ) who has four children, Bradely Cruz ( born 1990 ) Clifford Allen Cruz & Clifton Allen Cruz ( born 1992 ), Brandon Miguel Cruz ( born 1996 ), and Hermina ( born 1963 ) having 2 children Alexis Tatia Cruz ( born 1998 ) and Bryant Lope Cruz

Alexis Adams Panshin ( born August 14, 1940 ) is an American author and science fiction ( SF ) critic.

* July 21-Henri Alexis Brialmont ( born 1821 ), military engineer.

# Mary Astrid Hearst ( 1953 – 2004 ), born in Santa Monica, daughters Shannon and Alexis, later married Randy Ives, died at San Simeon, California of cancer ; known as " Bunny "

Scott Adams ( born July 10, 1952 ) is the co-founder, with ex-wife Alexis, of Adventure International, an early publisher of games for home computers.

Kimberly Alexis Bledel ( born September 16, 1981 ) is an American actress.

Bledel was born Kimberly Alexis Bledel in Houston, Texas, the daughter of Nanette ( née Dozier ), who worked as a gift processor and flight attendant, and Martin Bledel.

* Wendell Alexis ( born 1964 ), American basketball player

Ford was born as Alexis Ford in Alexandria, Louisiana, the daughter of Pat, a schoolteacher, and Charles Ford, an insurance agent.