Alexander the Great ---Surname ?

Question

Does any body know the surname of the Macedonian King Alexander the Great........

Answer 1

thompson

Answer 2

Surnames were not in use...

If we modernized/anglicized it, it might be Alexson, or Allison

Answer 3

Surnames, as we know them to be now,  were not used during his lifetime. Here is what www.familysearch.org has listed:

Alexander The Great, King Of Macedonia (using the information below, his name would have been ALEXANDER HERACLEIDES KARANOS, or something similar)**

Birth:   Abt 356 B.C. ,Pella, Macedonia

Death:   Abt 323 B.C.

Parents

Father:  Philip II ,  King Of  Macedonia  

Mother:  Olympias of  Epirus  

Spouse:  Roxanna of Bactria  

   In Ancient Greece, during some periods, it became common to use one's place of origin as a part of a person's official identification (such as Alexander's wife-- Roxanna of Bactria, meaning her family lived in Bactria). For example, Alexander the Great was known by the clan name Heracles and was, therefore, Heracleides (as a supposed descendant of Heracles) and by the dynastic name Karanos/Caranus, which referred to the founder of the dynasty to which he belonged.

(A longer article on how and when family names arose is at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_name...

Answer 4

There weren't many surnames in those days, he was just King Alexander III of Macedon.

Answer 5

First Name......Alexander

Middle Name......The

Surname..........Great

you never know....he may have been full of himself

Answer 6

No surnames as such in those days.