Aleksa Šantić was a poet from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Šantić wrote about the urban culture of Herzegovina, the growing national awareness of Herzegovinian Serbs, social injustice, nostalgic love, and the unity of the South Slavs. He was the editor-in-chief of the magazine Zora (1896–1901). Šantić was one of the leading persons of Serbian literary and national movement in Mostar. In 1914 Šantić became a member of the Serbian Royal Academy.

Aleksandar Hemon is a Bosnian-American author, essayist, critic, television writer, and screenwriter. He is best known for the novels Nowhere Man (2002) and The Lazarus Project (2008), and his scriptwriting as a co-writer of The Matrix Resurrections (2021).

Aleksandar Tišma was a Serbian novelist.

Aleksander Antson was an Estonian journalist, writer, and track and field athlete.

Aleksander Borejko Chodźko was a Polish poet, Slavist, and Iranologist.

Aleksander Fredro was a Polish poet, playwright and author active during Polish Romanticism in the period of partitions by neighboring empires. His works including plays written in the octosyllabic verse (Zemsta) and in prose as well as fables, belong to the canon of Polish literature. Fredro was harshly criticized by some of his contemporaries for light-hearted humor or even alleged immorality which led to years of his literary silence. Many of Fredro's dozens of plays were published and popularized only after his death. His best-known works have been translated into English, French, German, Russian, Czech, Romanian, Hungarian and Slovak.

Aleksander Gieysztor was a Polish medievalist historian.

Aleksander Groza (1807–1875) was a Polish poet and writer.

Aleksander Krawczuk was a Polish historian and academic. He was a Minister of Culture from 1986 to 1989.

Aleksandr Ivanovich Pisarev was a Russian playwright, translator and theatre-critic.