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Adolf Metzner
Adolf Metzner (Karl-Adolf Metzner, 1910–1978), German 400 m sprinter, 1934 European champion at 400 m and 4x400 m relay, Olympian 1932 and 1936, later sports physician, Die Zeit journalist, and documented SS-Hauptsturmführer.
Adolf Mussafia
Adolf Mussafia, born Adolfo, was a Dalmatian-born Austrian Romance philologist who founded Romance studies at the University of Vienna and gave his name to the Tobler-Mussafia law on clitic pronoun placement.
Adolf Pfister
Adolf Pfister (1810–1878) was a German Catholic priest, pastor, and educationist of the Diocese of Rottenburg, co-editor with Hermann Rolfus of a Catholic encyclopedia of education.
Adolf Richter
Adolf Richter (1839–1914) was a German chemist, industrialist, and pacifist who founded a Pforzheim refinery and led the German Peace Society from 1900 to 1914.
Adolf Rosenberger
Adolf Rosenberger (1900–1967) was a German-Jewish businessman and Mercedes-Benz works racing driver who co-founded the Porsche design office in Stuttgart in 1931 and financed its first two years.
Adolf Schmal
Adolf Schmal was an Austrian fencer and racing cyclist who won three medals, including gold in the 12-hour race, at the 1896 Athens Olympics, then worked as a sports journalist.
Adolf Seilacher
Adolf ("Dolf") Seilacher (1925–2014) was a German paleontologist known for trace fossil studies, constructional morphology, and arguing that the Ediacaran fossils were not animals; he won the 1992 Crafoord Prize.
Adolf Slaby
Adolf Slaby (1849–1913) was a German electrical engineer, professor at the Technische Hochschule Berlin, who built a German wireless telegraphy system with Count Georg von Arco and co-founded Telefunken in 1903.
Adolf Spinnler
Adolf Spinnler (1879–1950), Swiss gymnast of Turnverein Esslingen; won 1904 St. Louis Olympic gold in apparatus-work all-around (43.49) and bronze in combined all-around (67.99), medals attributed to Germany.
Adolf Tobler
Adolf Tobler (1835–1910) was a Swiss-born Romance philologist who spent forty-three years at the University of Berlin, first described the Tobler–Mussafia law, and laid the foundation of the Altfranzösisches Wörterbuch, the largest dictionary of Old French.
Adolf van der Voort van Zijp
Adolf (Dolf) van der Voort van Zijp (1892-1978), Dutch cavalry officer and Olympic equestrian; won individual and team eventing gold on Silver Piece at Paris 1924, the Netherlands' first equestrian medal, plus team gold at Amsterdam 1928; later Inspector of the Cavalry and a World War II prisoner of war.
Adolf von Baeyer
Adolf von Baeyer, full name Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer, was a German organic chemist who synthesized indigo and won the 1905 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Adolf von Harnack
Adolf von Harnack (1851–1930) was a Baltic German theologian and church historian, professor at Berlin, whose History of Dogma argued that dogma arose from Greek thought.
Adolf W. Karchmer
Adolf W. Karchmer, also published as A. W. Karchmer, is an American infectious diseases physician and Harvard professor who led the division at Beth Israel Deaconess and helped write the 2023 Duke-ISCVID endocarditis criteria.
Adolf Wallenberg
Adolf Wallenberg (1862–1949) was a German neurologist and neuroanatomist in Danzig who gave the first detailed description of lateral medullary syndrome, now named for him.
Adolf Weil (physician)
Adolf Weil (1848–1916) was a German internist from Heidelberg whose 1886 description of an infectious jaundice became known as Weil's disease, the severe form of leptospirosis.
Adolf Windaus
Adolf Windaus, full name Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, was a German chemist who won the 1928 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on sterols and vitamins.
Adolf, Freiherr von
Adolf, Freiherr von Scheurl (1811–1893) was a Bavarian Lutheran jurist, professor of Roman and canon law at Erlangen from 1845, and a founder of Protestant church-law scholarship.
Adolfas Ramanauskas
Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas, code name Vanagas (the Hawk), was a Lithuanian partisan commander born in the United States who signed the 1949 LLKS declaration and was executed by the Soviets in 1957.
Adolfo A. Ferrando
Adolfo A. Ferrando is a leukemia researcher and professor of Pediatrics and Pathology at Columbia University, known for T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia research and the 2020 William Dameshek Prize.
Adolfo Babatz
Adolfo Babatz is a Mexican entrepreneur, founder, chairman, and CEO of Clip, the Mexico City payments company that became Mexico's first payments unicorn, valued at US$2 billion in 2021.
Adolfo Ballivián
Adolfo Ballivián was a Bolivian military officer, congressman, and president of Bolivia from May 1873 to January 1874, when he died in office after eight months.
Adolfo Bioy Casares
Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914–1999) was an Argentine writer and central figure of twentieth-century fantastic literature, known for La invención de Morel and his lifelong collaboration with Jorge Luis Borges.
Adolfo Caminha
Adolfo Caminha, pen name Félix Guanabarino, was a Brazilian novelist of the Naturalist movement (1867–1897) who wrote A Normalista and Bom-Crioulo, the first major Brazilian novel to center homosexuality.
Adolfo Cancani
Adolfo Cancani (1856–1904) was an Italian geophysicist who extended the Mercalli intensity scale to twelve degrees, the basis of the MCS scale still used in Italy.
Adolfo Consolini
Adolfo Consolini was an Italian discus thrower who won gold at the 1948 London Olympics, took silver in Helsinki in 1952, set three world records, and recited the 1960 Olympic Oath.
Adolfo Constanzo
Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo was a Cuban-American from Miami who led a drug-smuggling cult on the Mexican border whose human sacrifices killed 13 people in 1989.
Adolfo de la Huerta
Adolfo de la Huerta (1881–1955) was a Mexican revolutionary politician from Sonora who served as provisional president of Mexico in 1920 and later led an unsuccessful rebellion against Obregón.
Adolfo García-Sastre
Adolfo García-Sastre is a Spanish-born virologist and immunologist who directs the Global Health and Emerging Pathogens Institute at Mount Sinai and pioneered influenza reverse genetics.
Adolfo J. de Bold
Adolfo J. de Bold (Adolfo José de Bold, 1942–2021) was an Argentine-born Canadian pathologist who discovered atrial natriuretic peptide, proving the heart is a hormone-producing endocrine organ.