Notable inmates

Alexandru Drăghici (Romanian pronunciation: [alekˈsandru drəˈɡit͡ʃʲ]; September 27, 1913 – December 12, 1993) was a Romanian communist activist and politician.

Alexandru "Sașa" Ivasiuc (Romanian pronunciation: [alekˈsandru (ˈsaʃa) ivaˈsjuk]; July 12, 1933 – March 4, 1977) was a Romanian novelist.

Alexandru Jar (Romanian pronunciation: [alekˈsandru ˈʒar]; pen name of Alexandru Avram [aˈvram]; November 20, 1911 – November 10, 1988) was a Romanian poet and prose writer. Born into a Jewish family in Iași, his parents were Iacob Avram and his wife Șura Bella; he was self-taught.

Alexandru Moghioroș (Hungarian: Mogyorós Sándor; 23 October 1911 – 1 October 1969) was a Romanian communist activist and politician. Moghioroș was born in 1911 into an ethnic Hungarian family, in Nagyszalonta, Austria-Hungary, now Salonta, Bihor County, Romania.

Alexandru Rusu (22 November 1884 – 9 May 1963) was a Romanian bishop of the Greek-Catholic Church.

Alexandru Todea (5 June 1912, Teleac, Mureș County–22 May 2002, Târgu Mureș) was a Romanian Greek-Catholic bishop of the Alba Iulia Diocese and later cardinal.

Alexei Anatolyevich Navalny (Russian: Алексей Анатольевич Навальный, IPA: [ɐlʲɪkˈsʲej ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲɪtɕ nɐˈvalʲnɨj]; 4 June 1976 – 16 February 2024) was a Russian opposition leader, anti-corruption activist and political prisoner.

Alexej Čepička (18 August 1910 – 30 September 1990) was a Czech communist politician and general of the Czechoslovak Army.

Alexey Vladimirovich Pichugin (Russian: Алексе́й Влади́мирович Пичу́гин; born July 25, 1962, in Orekhovo-Zuevo, Moscow Oblast, USSR) is a former manager in the security department at the Russian oil company Yukos.

Alexis Corbière (French pronunciation: [alɛksi kɔʁbjɛʁ]; born 17 August 1968) is a French politician.

Alfhild Hovdan (née Olsen; 13 September 1904 – 20 February 1982) was a Norwegian journalist, and later tourist manager for the city of Oslo for more than forty years.

Alfons Gorbach (2 September 1898 – 31 July 1972) was an Austrian politician of the conservative People's Party (ÖVP).

Alfons Olszewski (5 April 1916 – 12 July 2006) was a Polish sailor.

Alfonsina Bueno Vela (1915–1979) was a Spanish activist who joined the French Resistance in 1941 and became part of the Ponzán group.