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{{Short description|Fifth son of King Sigismund III Vasa and his wife Constance of Austria}}
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| name = Alexander Charles Vasa
| image = Zinn Alexander Charles Vasa.jpg
| birth_date = {{birth date|1614|11|4|df=y}}
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| death_date = {{death date and age|1634|11|19|1614|11|4|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Lwów]] or Wielkie
| house = [[House of Vasa|Vasa]]
| father = [[Sigismund III Vasa]]
| mother = [[Constance of Austria]]
}}
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'''Alexander Charles Vasa''' ({{langx|pl|Aleksander Karol Waza}}; 4 November 1614 &ndash; 19 November 1634) was a Prince of Poland,<ref name="s374">{{cite book | last=Gordon | first=Bonnie | title=Voice Machines: The Castrato, the Cat Piano, and Other Strange Sounds | publisher=University of Chicago Press | date=2023-05-31 | isbn=978-0-226-82514-4 | url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Voice_Machines/RPy6EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Alexander+Charles+Vasa+Poland&pg=PA401&printsec=frontcover | access-date=2025-08-13 | page=401}}</ref> the fifth son of King [[Sigismund III of Poland]] and his wife [[Constance of Austria]].

During the [[election]] of 1632 he supported his brother [[Władysław IV Vasa|Vladislaus IV Vasa]] who became King of Poland.<ref name="b786">{{cite book | last=Coelho | first=V. | title=Music and Science in the Age of Galileo | publisher=Springer Science & Business Media | date=2013-03-09 | isbn=978-94-015-8004-5 | url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Music_and_Science_in_the_Age_of_Galileo/RhgrBgAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Alexander+Charles+Vasa+Poland&pg=PA82&printsec=frontcover | access-date=2025-08-13 | page=82}}</ref> After his voyage to [[Italy]] and [[Germany]] in 1634, Alexander supported the movement for the war with [[Ottoman Empire]] but died before he had any significant influence on the events. He died from [[smallpox]]<ref name="h190">{{cite book | last=Goudriaan | first=Elisa | title=Florentine Patricians and Their Networks: Structures Behind the Cultural Success and the Political Representation of the Medici Court (1600–1660) | publisher=BRILL | date=2017-10-02 | isbn=978-90-04-35358-9 | url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Florentine_Patricians_and_Their_Networks/rDE9DwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Alexander+Charles+Vasa+Poland&pg=PA42&printsec=frontcover | access-date=2025-08-13 | page=44}}</ref> in [[Lwów]] or in the village of Wielkie near [[Warsaw]] on 19 November 1634.

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