Alexander Ivanovich Mikhailov (Russian: Александр Иванович Михайлов; 6 December 1905, Zemetchino – 6 February 1988, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian engineer and information scientist.
He was one of the most influential thinkers related to the field of information science in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc.
At the beginning of the 1950s, he participated in the creation and development of VINITI, an institute devoted to the study and practice of Scientific Information in Russia.
In the 1960s, he developed, with other authors, the concept of Informatics (Informatika in Russian), related to the study, organization and the dissemination of scientific information.
His principal works in this field are the books Fundamentals of Scientific Information (1965), Fundamentals Of Informatics (1968) and Scientific Communications and Informatics (1976), all of them written with Arkadii Chernyi [pt] and Rudhzero Gilyarevskyi [pt].