Alec

Alec or Aleck is a Scottish form of Alex. It may be a diminutive of the given name Alexander or a given name in its own right. Notable people with the name include:

People

• Alec Acton, (1938–1994), English footballer
• Alec Baldwin, (born 1958), American actor
• Alec Bedser (1918–2010), English cricketer
• Alec Berg, American television writer
• Alec Bohm (born 1996), American baseball player in the Philadelphia Phillies organization
• Alec Bregonzi (1930–2006), English actor
• Alec Brook-Krasny (born 1958), American politician
• Alec Burks (born 1991), American basketball player
• Alec Butler (born 1959), Canadian playwright
• Alec Campbell (1899–2002), Australian soldier
• Alec Clifton-Taylor (1907–1985), English architectural historian
• Alec Coryton (1895–1981), British air force commander
• Alec Craig (1884–1945), Scottish actor
• Alec Dankworth (born 1960), English jazz musician
• Alec Douglas-Home (1903–1995), British politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1963–1964)
• Alec Empire (born 1972), German musician
• Alec Erwin (born 1948), South African politician
• Alec Fong Lim (1931–1990), Australian politician
• Alec B. Francis (1867–1934), English silent-film actor
• Alec Gallup (1928–2009), American pollster
• Alec George Horwood (1914–1944), British soldier
• Alec Guinness (1914–2000), English actor
• Alec Ingold (born 1996), American football player
• Alec Issigonis (1906–1988), Greek-British car designer
• Alec Jeffreys (born 1950), British geneticist
• Alec John Dawson (1872–1951), English author
• Alec John Such (born 1952), American bassist, former member of Bon Jovi
• Alec Jones (1924–1983), British politician
• Alec Kirkbride (1897–1978), British diplomat
• Alec Lazo, Cuban-American ballroom dancer
• Alec MacKaye, American punk Vocalist
• Alec Mango (1911–1989), English actor
• Alec Mapa (born 1965), Filipino-American actor
• Alec Martinez (born 1987), American ice hockey player
• Alec McCowen (1925–2007), English actor
• Alec McHoul (born 1952), Anglo-Australian ethnomethodologist
• Alec Mills, baseball player
• Alec Năstac (born 1949), Romanian boxer and Olympic medalist
• Alec Neill (born 1950), New Zealand politician
• Alec Newman (born 1974), Scottish actor
• Alec G. Olson (born 1930), American politician
• Alec Peters, NBA player
• Alec Peterson (1908–1988), British educator, founder of the International Baccalaureate
• Alec Reeves (1902–1971), British scientist
• Alec Russell, British journalist.
• Alec Skempton (1914–2001), British civil engineer
• Alec Stewart (born 1963), English cricketer
• Alec Su (born 1973), Taiwanese musician and actor
• Alec Templeton (1909–1963), British composer
• Alec Waugh (1898–1981), British novelist
• Alec Wilder (1907–1980), American composer
• Alec Wilkinson (born 1952), American writer
• Anthony Seibu Alec Abban, Ghanaian politician

Fiction

• Alec the Great, American newspaper comic strip
• Alec Forbes of Howglen, Scottish novel by George MacDonald
• Alec Gilroy, fictional character in Coronation Street
• Alec of Kerry, fictional character in The Nightrunner Series by Lynn Flewelling
• Alec Lightwood, fictional character in Shadowhunters
• Alec Mason, fictional character in Red Faction: Guerilla
• Alec McDowell, fictional character in Dark Angel
• Alec McEwan, fictional character in Journey to the Center of the Earth
• Alec Trevelyan, fictional character in GoldenEye
• Alec of the Volturi coven in the Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer
• Alec Ramsay, fictional character in The Black Stallion books and movies.
• Alec Ryder father of protagonist in Mass Effect Andromeda
• Alec D'Urberville, fictional character in Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
• Alec Scudder, fictional character in Maurice by E.M. Forster
• DI Alec Hardy, fictional character in the Broadchurch TV show by Chris Chibnall.
• Alec Holland, fictional character in the Swamp Thing comic series.

Organizations

• Alec Hunter Academy, British school

See also

• Alek, given name