Alexander Russell, FRS (15 July 1861 – 14 January 1943) was a Scottish electrical engineer and educator.

[1] He was born in Ayr, Scotland and educated at Glasgow University (gaining an MA in Mathematics and Physics) and Caius College, Cambridge.

After teaching mathematics at Cheltenham College and the Oxford Military College, he took a post at Faraday House, in Southampton Row, London, which had been newly founded to train electrical engineers.

He also wrote a number of articles for the journal Electrician which he later published in book form.

In 1924 he was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, his citation acknowledging that he was "Distinguished for his knowledge of alternating current phenomena, inductances and electrostatics.