Alexander the Great ---Surname ?

Question:Does any body know the surname of the Macedonian King Alexander the Great........

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Does any body know the surname of the Macedonian King Alexander the Great........

Surnames, as we know them to be now, were not used during his lifetime. Here is what www.familysearch.org has listed:

Alexander The Great, King Of Macedonia (using the information below, his name would have been ALEXANDER HERACLEIDES KARANOS, or something similar)**
Birth: Abt 356 B.C. ,Pella, Macedonia
Death: Abt 323 B.C.
Parents
Father: Philip II , King Of Macedonia
Mother: Olympias of Epirus
Spouse: Roxanna of Bactria

In Ancient Greece, during some periods, it became common to use one's place of origin as a part of a person's official identification (such as Alexander's wife-- Roxanna of Bactria, meaning her family lived in Bactria). For example, Alexander the Great was known by the clan name Heracles and was, therefore, Heracleides (as a supposed descendant of Heracles) and by the dynastic name Karanos/Caranus, which referred to the founder of the dynasty to which he belonged.

(A longer article on how and when family names arose is at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_name...

thompson

First Name......Alexander
Middle Name......The
Surname..........Great

you never know....he may have been full of himself

There weren't many surnames in those days, he was just King Alexander III of Macedon.

Surnames were not in use...

If we modernized/anglicized it, it might be Alexson, or Allison

No surnames as such in those days.