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Adolfo López Mateos
Adolfo López Mateos was a Mexican politician who served as president of Mexico from 1958 to 1964, distributing land to peasants and introducing free school textbooks.
Adolfo Lutz
Adolfo Lutz (1855–1940) was a Brazilian physician and zoologist called the Father of Tropical Medicine. Born in Rio de Janeiro, he directed the first bacteriological institute in South America, today the Instituto Adolfo Lutz.
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, born in Buenos Aires in 1931, is an Argentine architect and sculptor who won the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize for nonviolent human rights work.
Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport
Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas), opened in 1931, is Spain's largest airport and the main hub between Europe and Latin America, handling 68 million passengers in 2025.
Adolfo Tunesi
Adolfo Tunesi (1887–1964), Italian artistic gymnast of Virtus Bologna; won team all-around gold for Italy at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics; individual bronze disputed, later a federation judge.
Adolfo Urso
Adolfo Urso is an Italian politician of Fratelli d'Italia serving as Minister of Enterprises and Made in Italy in Giorgia Meloni's government, after sitting in the Chamber of Deputies from 1994 to 2013.
Adolfus
Adolfus (African forest lizards) is a lacertid lizard genus established by Sternfeld in 1912, native to Central and East African forests and montane habitats; split in 2011 when A. vauereselli moved to Congolacerta.
Adolis García
Adolis García (José Adolis García Arrieta, "El Bombi"), Cuban-born MLB right fielder; 2023 ALCS MVP and single-postseason RBI record holder (22) with the World Series champion Rangers; signed by the Phillies in 2025, out after June 2026 lat surgery.
Adolph Caesar
Adolph Caesar (1933-1986), American character actor and voice artist, Harlem-born Negro Ensemble Company member; Oscar-nominated as Sgt. Waters in A Soldier's Story (1984), later The Color Purple.
Adolph Coors
Adolph Coors (Adolph Herrman Kohrs, 1847-1929) was the Prussian-born founder of the Golden Brewery in Golden, Colorado, established with Jacob Schueler in 1873; his company survived Prohibition on malted milk and porcelain, becoming Coors Brewing and CoorsTek.
Adolph Frank
Adolph Frank (1834–1916) was a German chemist and entrepreneur, considered the father of the German potash industry, who with Nikodem Caro invented the Frank–Caro process, the first commercial nitrogen-fixation method, producing calcium cyanamide fertilizer.
Adolph Gottlieb
Adolph Gottlieb (1903–1974) was an American abstract expressionist painter and printmaker, a founding member of the New York School best known for his Pictograph and Burst paintings.
Adolph Joffe (Адольф Абрамович Иоффе)
Adolph Joffe (Адольф Абрамович Иоффе, 1883–1927), Soviet diplomat and Bolshevik, Brest-Litovsk delegate, first ambassador to Berlin, Trotsky ally and Left Opposition leader who died by suicide in 1927.
Adolph Kiefer
Adolph Kiefer was an American backstroke swimmer who won gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and became the first person to swim 100 yards backstroke in under a minute.
Adolph Knopf
Adolph Knopf (1882–1966) was an American petrologist and economic geologist who taught at Yale, worked for the USGS, and won the Penrose Medal in 1959.
Adolph Kolping
Adolph Kolping (1813–1865) was a German Catholic priest, called the "Journeymen's Father," who founded the Gesellenvereine for young craftsmen; beatified in 1991, his movement survives as the Kolpingwerk.
Adolph Menzel
Adolph Menzel (1815–1905) was a German painter and printmaker, regarded as the leading German artist of the second half of the 19th century and known for his Frederick the Great scenes.
Adolph Plummer
Adolph Plummer (born 1938, Brooklyn, NY) is an American former sprinter, University of New Mexico star who set the 440-yard dash world record of 44.9 seconds at Tempe, Arizona on 25 May 1963, breaking Glenn Davis's 45.7; also NCAA 440 champion 1961 and 1965 USA 220 winner.
Adolph Rupp
Adolph Rupp (1901-1977), the Baron of the Bluegrass, coached University of Kentucky basketball 1930-1972, going 876-190 with four NCAA titles, the 1966 Texas Western final, and the Rupp Arena legacy.
Adolph Schultz
Adolph Hans Schultz (1891–1976) was a Swiss-born primatologist and physical anthropologist who used comparative anatomy and growth studies to understand primate variation; he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1939.
Adolph Strümpell
Adolph Strümpell (Ernst Adolph G.G. von Strümpell, 1853–1925) was a German neurologist who helped establish neurology as a discipline, first described ankylosing spondylitis and hereditary spastic paraplegia, and wrote an influential internal medicine textbook.
Adolph Sutro
Adolph Heinrich Joseph Sutro (1830-1898), Prussian-born mining engineer and San Francisco mayor: built the Sutro Tunnel draining the Comstock Lode, then developed Sutro Heights, Cliff House, and Sutro Baths in San Francisco.
Adolph Zukor
Adolph Zukor (Adolf Cukor, 1873–1976), Hungarian-born American film mogul who founded Famous Players in 1912 and built Paramount Pictures; pioneer of vertical integration, the star system, and block booking; died at 103.
Adolphe
Adolphe is a short French novel by Benjamin Constant, written in 1806 and published in London in 1816, telling of a young aristocrat's liaison with the older Ellénore.
Adolphe Menjou
Adolphe Menjou (1890–1963), American actor of the silent and sound eras, famed for suave, elegant cad roles in A Woman of Paris, The Front Page (his lone Oscar nomination), Morocco, and Paths of Glory, and for HUAC anti-communist testimony.
Adolphe Muzito
Adolphe Muzito, born 1957, is a Congolese politician who served as Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 2008 to 2012 and as Minister of Budget.
Adolphe Pégoud
Adolphe Pégoud was a French aviator who made the first airplane parachute descent and inverted flight in 1913, and became the First World War's first fighter ace.
Adolphe Perraud
Adolphe Perraud (1828–1906) was a French Oratorian priest and historian who was bishop of Autun, superior general of the Oratory of France, and a cardinal.
Adolphe Quetelet
Adolphe Quetelet was a Belgian astronomer and statistician who founded the Brussels Observatory and created the Body Mass Index and the concept of the average man.
Adolphe Sax
Adolphe Sax (Antoine-Joseph Sax, 1814–1894), Belgian instrument maker of Dinant and Paris, inventor of the saxophone, saxhorn, and saxotromba; patented 1846, 33 patents, firm sold to Selmer in 1929.