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Lex (given name)

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Lex is a given name. It can refer to a shortened version of Alexander or Alexis.

People with the name

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  • Lex Albrecht (born 1987), Canadian racing cyclist
  • Lex de Azevedo (born 1943), American composer, songwriter, pianist
  • Lex Baillie (born 1966), Scottish professional footballer
  • Lex Banning (1921–1965), Australian lyric poet
  • Lex Barker (1919–1973), American actor
  • Lex Bell OAM (born 1945), Australian politician
  • Lex Bos (born 1957), field hockey goalkeeper from the Netherlands
  • Lex Brown (artist) (born 1989), American video and performance artist
  • Lex Brown (businessman), Scottish businessman
  • Lex Chisholm (1915–1981), Canadian ice hockey centre
  • Lex Cools (1941–2013), Dutch behavioral pharmacologist
  • Lex Czarnek (born 1977), Polish politician and academic
  • Lex van Dam (born 1968), Dutch investment manager, investor, writer
  • Lex Scott Davis (born 1991), American actress
  • Lex Davison (1923–1965), Australian racing driver
  • Lex van Delden (1919–1988), Dutch composer
  • Lex van Delden (actor) (1947–2010), Dutch actor and singer
  • Lex Delles (born 1984), Luxembourgish politician
  • Lex Diamonds (born 1970), American rapper (stage name Raekwon)
  • Lex Doyle AO, Australian paediatrician, researcher and academic
  • Lex Dwyer, former Australian rules footballer
  • Lex van der Eb (born 1934), Dutch molecular biologist and virologist
  • Lex Eilifsen (1897–1943), Norwegian police officer
  • Lex Eisenhardt (born 1952), performer on early plucked instruments
  • Lex Fair (1926–1995), Dean of Connor from 1990 until 1995
  • Lex Franken (born 1916), Dutch Olympic water polo player
  • Lex Fridman (born 1983), Russian-American computer scientist
  • Lex Frieden (born 1949), American disability activist and professor
  • Lex Gibb, Australian professional soccer player
  • Lex Gigeroff (1962–2011), Canadian television writer, actor, co-creator of the science fiction series Lexx
  • Lex Gillette (born 1984), US blind Paralympic athlete competing in T11 and F11
  • Lex Gold CBE (born 1940), Scottish administrator and former footballer
  • Lex Goudsmit (1913–1999), Dutch actor
  • Lex Govan (1914–1996), Scottish rugby union player
  • Lex Grant (born 1962), Scottish football forward
  • Lex Greensill (born 1976), Australian businessman, founded Greensill Capital
  • Lex Green (Florida politician) (Robert A. Green) (1892–1973), U.S. Representative from Florida
  • Lex de Haan (1954–2006), author, lecturer, researcher, and consultant in relational database technology
  • Lex van Haeften (born 1987), Dutch professional footballer
  • Lex Hester (1935–2000), public administrator in Jacksonville, Florida
  • Lex Hilliard (born 1984), American football running back and fullback
  • Lex Hixon (1941–1995), American Sufi author, poet, and spiritual teacher
  • Lex Hudson (born 1955), Canadian professional ice hockey player
  • Lex Humphries (1936–1994), jazz drummer
  • Lex Icon (born 1978), Norwegian metal musician
  • Lex Immers (born 1986), Dutch professional footballer
  • Lex Jacoby (1930–2015), Luxembourgian writer
  • Lex Johnson, British designer, director and creative executive
  • Lex van Kreuningen (born 1937), Dutch road cyclist between 1959 and 1964
  • Lex Land (born 1988), American singer-songwriter and jazz vocalist
  • Lex Lang (born 1965), American voice actor
  • Lex Lasry (born 1948), Australian lawyer and a judge on the Supreme Court of Victoria
  • Lex Law, Scottish former footballer
  • Lex Luger (born 1958), American professional wrestler, bodybuilder and football player
  • Lex Luger (record producer) (born 1991), American record producer
  • Lex Lutzus (born 1980), British film producer and financier
  • Lex MacKenzie, MC (1885–1970), Canadian politician
  • Lex Marinos (1949–2024), Australian actor
  • Lex McLean (1908–1975), Scottish comedian
  • Lex Medlin (born 1969), American actor
  • Alexander "Lex" Miller (1908–1960), New Zealand Presbyterian minister, author, theologian
  • Lex Mpati SC (born 1949), South African judge, Chancellor of Rhodes University
  • Lex Mullink (born 1944), Dutch Olympic rower
  • Lex Nederlof (born 1966), retired Dutch cyclist
  • Lex Peterson (1957–2004), New Zealand bobsledder
  • Lex Pritchard (born 1954), Australian rules footballer
  • Lex Redelé (1939–2013), Dutch rower
  • Lex Richardson (born 1958), Scottish professional football player and manager
  • Lex Rijger (1944–2021), Surinamese country singer and songwriter
  • Lex Robson (1898–1974), Scottish-Canadian professional golfer
  • Lex Schoenmaker (born 1947), Dutch former football player and manager
  • Lex Schrijver (born 1948), Dutch mathematician and computer scientist
  • Lex Shrapnel (born 1979), English actor
  • Lex Staley, half of the syndicated American radio morning team Lex and Terry
  • Lex Stone (1885–1925), American football player, coach, politician
  • Lex Thompson (1911–1954), owner of the National Football League's Philadelphia Eagles
  • Lex Tupas, Filipino public servant
  • Lex van den Berghe, contestant in the 2001 American television show Survivor: Africa
  • Lex Veldhuis (born 1983), Dutch professional poker player
  • Lex Watson "Lex" Watson, AM (1943–2014), Australian LGBT rights activist, historian, political scientist

Fictional characters

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  • Lex Luthor, nemesis of Superman
  • Alexis "Lex" Murphy, in the Jurassic Park novel and film franchise
  • Lex, in the New Zealand / British TV series The Tribe (1999–2003), played by Caleb Ross
  • Lex, in the game Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War (1996)

See also

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  • Lexx, a science fiction TV series and a spaceship/weapon in the series
  • LEXX (text editor)
  • Mr. Lexx, Jamaican dancehall artist Christopher Palmer (born 1974)