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| birth_place = Winchester, Hampshire, England200216df=yes}}| death_place = London, England| height = | weight = | country = | sport = Fencing| event = | collegeteam = | club = | team = | turnedpro = | coach = | retired = | coaching = | worlds = | regionals = | nationals = | olympics = Men's fencing}}{{MedalCountry | {{GBR}} }}{{MedalOlympic}}{{MedalSilver|1960 Rome|Épée, team}}| show-medals = yes}}Sir Michael O'Donel Bjarne Alexander {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCMG}} (19 June 1936 – 1 June 2002) was a British diplomat. He was the foreign policy secretary to Margaret Thatcher and the UK ambassador to NATO.WEB,weblinkweblink 12 May 2022, subscription, live, Sir Michael Alexander: Obituary, 29 October 2010, independent.co.uk, Alexander was the son of Hugh Alexander, the Anglo-Irish mathematician famed for his work at Bletchley Park. Michael spent much of his youth in his father's native Ireland. He was educated at Foyle College in Derry and, later, at St Paul's School, London, and King's College, Cambridge.NEWS, Braithwaite, Rodric, Sir Michael Alexander,weblink 9 June 2012, The Guardian, 27 June 2002, He competed as a fencer for Great Britain at the 1960 Summer Olympics, winning a silver medal in the team épée event.WEB,weblink Olympics Statistics: Michael Alexander, 29 October 2010, databaseolympics.com, dead,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20121018094941weblink">weblink 18 October 2012, WEB,weblinkweblink dead, 17 April 2020, Michael Alexander Olympic Results, 29 October 2010, sports-reference.com, Alexander also served as Permanent Representative on the North Atlantic Council and Ambassador to Austria.NEWS, Sir Michael Alexander,weblink 9 June 2012, The Daily Telegraph, The Telegraph, 15 June 2002,

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• Interview with Sir Michael Alexander & transcript, British Diplomatic Oral History Programme, Churchill College, Cambridge, 1998

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