Aleksándr Nikoláevich Líders; 14 January 1790 – 2 February 1874), better known as Alexander von Lüders, was a Russian general and Namestnik of the Kingdom of Poland belonging to German ethnicity.

His father, Major General Nikolay Ivanovich von Lüders (1762–1823) was the commander of Bryansk regiment during the Napoleonic Wars.

[1] A member of the Russian army during the November Uprising, he participated in the Battle of Warsaw in 1831, leading the troops that captured Wola.

[1] From November 1861 to June 1862, he held the position of Namestnik of the Kingdom of Poland;[1] he is remembered as a brutal overseer, persecuting Poles and the Catholic Church.

His activities contributed to the rising tensions that culminated in the January Uprising (1863), however Lüders had already been wounded in 1862 during an assassination attempt by the Ukrainian officer Andrij Potebnia (a member of the Committee of Russian Officers in Poland, who took revenge on Lüders for executing his revolutionary comrades) and returned to St. Petersburg before the uprising, to become one of the members of State Council of Imperial Russia.