Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Bryantsev^[a] (14 April 1883 – 30 September 1961) was a Soviet and Russian actor, theater director and pedagogue.

He was born in Saint Petersburg to an official's family and graduated from The Second Saint Petersburg Gymnasium in 1902.

• Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR (1932)
• Three Orders of the Red Banner of Labour (1939, 1946, 1953)
• People's Artist of the RSFSR (1939)
• Stalin Prize, 2nd class (1950)
• People's Artist of the USSR (1956)
• Order of the Badge of Honour (1957)
• Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
• Medal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad"

• (in Russian) Biography