Alexander Marian Bradshaw CBE, FRS, HonFInstP (12 July 1944 – 10 October 2024) was a British physicist.

He was scientific director of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, from 1999 to 2008.

[1] Bradshaw earned a PhD from University of London in 1969, and habilitation from Technical University Munich in 1974.

[2] He is also notable for his work with D. Phil Woodruff, on photoelectron diffraction.

[3] Bradshaw died in Berlin on 10 October 2024, at the age of 80.