Alexander Savvas (1907–1981) was a Greek Professor of Medicine at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Anatomy.
Son of a soap and oil trader, he was the oldest of four children of the family of Panagiotis Savva.
His early school years were defined by events of the time, namely the destruction and expulsion of the Greek population in Asia Minor.
In 1942, he submitted his candidacy for the position of Professor of Medicine University of Thessaloniki, but N. Michalakeas was elected to the seat.
Savvas continued to prepare cadavers, teach, and create histological preparations of anatomy in Athens, as a member of the Medical Society of Athens, and teacher of Anatomy and Physiology to the students at the National College of Physical Education.
In 1946 his position in Athens ended, but in the academic year 1948-1949 he was called back as honorary director.
In October 1949, he published his dissertation on fellowship with the title "On the formation of the neural mesh of man" and went to Thessaloniki, where he took up a position as teacher in Anatomy.
During 1953, he worked in Stockholm, on a scholarship from the World Health Organization, on the microscopic anatomy of the central nervous system.
Savvas offered a premium educational project to prospective physicians on the Science of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology human both theoretical and laboratory level.
• Rare periptosis doubling of the inferior vena cava met'aplasias the right kidney and ureter (March 1949).