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Alexander Irvine (c. 1797 - ?) was a circuit rider in the Methodist Episcopal Church.

Irvine was born in Scotland, and immigrated to the United States as a teenager, with two of his brothers, and his sister. There he converted to Methodism. Around 1820, the family emigrated to Sidney township, Upper Canada. There Irvine married another American immigrant, with whom he had two children by 1822, at which point the family moved to upstate New York.

Irvine was accepted on trial as a circuit rider by the Genesee conference in 1822.