Alexander Bain may refer to:
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Alexander Bain (philosopher)
Alexander Bain (11 June 1818 – 18 September 1903) was a Scottish philosopher and educationalist in the British school of empiricism and a prominent and innovative figure in the fields of psychology, linguistics, logic, moral philosophy and ...
(1818–1903), Scottish philosopher.
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Alexander Bain (inventor)
Alexander Bain (12 October 1810 – 2 January 1877) was a Scottish inventor and engineer who was first to invent and patent the electric clock. He invented the Telegraph Clock, which was a technology of synchronizing many electric clocks pla ...
(1810–1877), Scottish inventor and engineer
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Alexander Bain (actor) (born 2001), ''Coronation Street'' actor
See also
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Alexander Bayne
Alexander Bayne of Rires (c. 1675 – June 1737) was the first tenant of the chair of Scots law in the University of Edinburgh.
Life
Bayne was the son of John Bayne of Logie, Fife, to whom he was served heir in general on 8 October 1700, and de ...
(died 1737), first tenant of the chair of Scots law at the University of Edinburgh
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Alex Bain (disambiguation)
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Bain (surname)
Bain or Bains is an English, French, Punjabi (Jat people, Jatt), and Scottish surname. It may also be a variant form of a German surname.
Bains shares many of the origins of the surname Baines.
Origin of the surname
Northern English
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