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Kristin Alexandria Stapleton is an American director, producer, and showrunner who specializes in documentary feature films and unscripted television.
1963–2025
Alex Alphonso Wheatle MBE (3 January 1963 – 16 March 2025) was a British novelist. He was brought up in a children's care home from the age of two, his education subsequently suffering from numerous suspensions and expulsions from school. His connection…
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Alexander Chapman is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his role as Lydie-Anne in Lilies, for which he garnered a Genie Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 17th Genie Awards. Chapman, who has also performed as a drag queen under the name…
1904
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGSheet music for the song Alexander Don't You Love Your Baby No More? The front cover of the sheet music features an illustration of An African American woman talking to a sleeping man through a window in red, green and black ink. There are two photographs…
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Alexander Jefferson (November 15, 1921 – June 22, 2022) was an American Air Force officer, famous as one of the Tuskegee Airmen, the 332nd Fighter Group. He served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. His book, Red Tail Captured, Red…
1960–2002
Alexander John Goodrum (1960–2002) was an African-American transgender civil rights activist, writer, and educator. He was the founder and director of TGNet Arizona. He was a board member of the Tucson GLBT Commission, and the Funding Exchange's OUT Fund,…
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Alexander Lightfoot Manly (May 13, 1866 – October 5, 1944) was an American newspaper owner and editor who lived in Wilmington, North Carolina. With his brother, Frank G. Manly, as co-owner, he published the Daily Record, the state's only daily…
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Alexander Nunez is a Canadian actor and writer, most noted as the creator and star of the web series Settle Down. He has also had regular roles in the web series Avocado Toast and Stories from My Gay Grandparents, and the television series Moonshine and…
1799–1837
Great-grandson of the African-born general Abram Gannibal, Pushkin transformed Russian literature with works including Eugene Onegin and remains a defining national voice.
1983–
Alexandra Bell (born 1983) is an American multidisciplinary artist. She is best known for her series Counternarratives, large scale paste-ups of New York Times articles edited to challenge the presumption of "objectivity" in news media. Using marginalia,…
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Alexandra Giuliana Grey (born January 4, 1991), also known mononymously as Alëxandra , is an American actress, singer, songwriter and producer. She is best known for her roles as Melody Barnes on the Fox music drama series Empire, Elizah Parks on the…
1977–
Alexandra Jones is a historical archaeologist and educator at Goucher College. She is the founder and chief executive officer of Archaeology in the Community, "a Washington, D.C.–based nonprofit that aims to increase awareness of archaeology and history."…
1993–
Alexandra Mardell is an English actress, known for playing Emma Brooker in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street. In 2019, she won the British Soap Award for Best Newcomer for her portrayal, and was nominated for Newcomer at the 24th National Television Awards.
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Alexandra Shipp (born July 16, 1991) is an American actress and singer who rose to prominence for portraying singer Aaliyah in the Lifetime television film Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B (2014), and Kimberly Woodruff, in the film Straight Outta Compton…
1802–1870
Grandson of an enslaved Haitian woman, Dumas became one of the most widely read novelists in French literary history.
1983–
Alexandre Rodrigues (born May 21, 1983) is a Brazilian actor. He is best known for playing the part of Buscapé (Rocket), the narrator and protagonist in the 2002 Brazilian film City of God. In 2018, it was revealed that Rodrigues had started driving for…
1947–2026
Alexandria Jocelyn Holloway (April 15, 1947 – July 18, 2026) was an American music educator, choral director and academic administrator. She spent 35 years at Miami Dade College, arriving in 1976 as a piano and music instructor and rising through the music…
Biography
Alexandria Smith is an American mixed-media visual artist based in London and New York City. She is currently the head of painting at the Royal College of Art. Smith was a co-organizer of the collective Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter from 2016…
[ca. 1904]
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGPrinted caption on recto reads: "Alexandrie, Rue Sésostris." Building signage in image reads: "Pierre Agopian; Manufacture de Cigarettes Egyptiennes." Additional printed text on recto reads: "Made for Pierre Agopian, Alexandria, Egypt. 87." Postmarked…
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Alexia Khadime (born 9 June 1983) is a British actress and mezzo-soprano, known for her roles in musical theatre and television.
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Alexia Elizabeth McIntosh is a British actress. She is best known for being part of the original cast of the musical SIX in the role of Anne of Cleves, for which she received an Olivier Awards nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a musical…
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Alexis Baró is a Cuban-born Canadian trumpeter, composer, arranger, bandleader and educator based in Toronto, Ontario. His work encompasses jazz, Afro-Cuban music, Latin jazz and large-ensemble music. Baró has appeared on more than 200 recordings and has…
1948–
Alexis De Veaux (sometimes as Alexis DeVeaux) (born 1948) is an American writer and illustrator. She chaired the Department of Women's Studies, at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
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Alexis Floyd is an American actress best known for her portrayal of Neff in the Netflix series Inventing Anna (2022) and Dr. Simone Griffith on Grey's Anatomy (2022–present).
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