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Adrian Chiles

Adrian Chiles (born 1967) is a British TV and radio presenter and Guardian columnist, known for BBC's Working Lunch, Match of the Day 2 and The One Show, then ITV football and Daybreak from 2010, now hosting BBC Radio 5 Live shows.

Adrian Chmielarz

Adrian Chmielarz is a Polish game designer who co-founded People Can Fly in Warsaw in 2002, developer of Painkiller and Bulletstorm, and later founded The Astronauts.

Adrian Clark

Adrian Clark, also known as Adrian J. L. Clark, is a British endocrinologist and Emeritus Professor at the William Harvey Research Institute, Queen Mary University of London.

Adrian Cola Rienzi

Adrian Cola Rienzi (1905–1972), born Krishna Deonarine, was a Trinidadian trade unionist, lawyer, and politician who founded the Oilfields Workers and sugar workers unions in 1937.

Adrian Colin Cameron

Adrian Colin Cameron is an Australian econometrician and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis, known for count-data models, cluster-robust inference, and standard microeconometrics texts with Pravin Trivedi.

Adrian Cortes (Washington politician)

Adrian Cortes is an American Democratic politician who represents Washington's 18th district in the State Senate, elected in 2024 and previously mayor of Battle Ground from 2020 to 2021.

Adrian Cronauer

Adrian Cronauer (1938–2018), Air Force sergeant and Armed Forces Radio DJ in Saigon 1965–66, host of Dawn Buster, famous for 'Goooooood morning, Vietnam!' and the inspiration for the 1987 Robin Williams film Good Morning, Vietnam; later a communications lawyer and Pentagon POW/MIA adviser.

Adrian Dantley

Adrian Dantley (born 1955, Washington, DC), nicknamed A.D. or The Teacher, is a Hall of Fame small forward, 1976 Olympic gold medalist, two-time NBA scoring champion with Utah, and retired with 23,177 points.

Adrian de Kleyn

Adrian de Kleyn (1883–1949) was a Dutch physician at Utrecht University who worked with Rudolf Magnus on the posture reflexes known as the Magnus–De Kleijn reflexes.

Adrian Dunbar

Adrian Dunbar (born 1958, Enniskillen) is a Northern Irish actor, director, and singer, Ted Hastings in Line of Duty, co-writer and star of Hear My Song, and star of Ridley.

Adrian Durham

Adrian Durham is a technology founder who created the global wealth-management platform FNZ in 2003 in New Zealand and led it as Group CEO until stepping back in 2024.

Adrian E. Raftery

Adrian E. Raftery (born 1955) is an Irish statistician at the University of Washington known for Bayesian model selection, model-based clustering, and probabilistic population forecasting.

Adrian E. Roitberg

Adrian E. Roitberg, also written Adrián E. Roitberg, is an Argentine-born computational chemist at the University of Florida known for the ANI neural network potentials and MMPBSA.py.

Adrian Edmondson

Adrian Edmondson (Ade Edmondson), English comedian, actor, musician and writer born 1957 in Bradford; Rik Mayall's partner in The Young Ones and Bottom; also The Bad Shepherds, novelist, Berserker! author.

Adrian Ellison

Adrian Ellison (Adrian Charles Ellison), born 1958 in Solihull, England, is a British rowing coxswain who steered Redgrave's coxed four to 1984 Olympic gold, Britain's first rowing title since 1948, and later coxed the 1992 eight.

Adrian Erlebacher

Adrian Erlebacher is an American MD-PhD immunologist and professor of laboratory medicine at UCSF whose laboratory studies fetomaternal tolerance, uterine quiescence, and the onset of labor.

Adrian F. Hernandez

Adrian F. Hernandez (Adrian Felipe Hernandez) is an American cardiologist, Vice Dean of Duke School of Medicine and Executive Director of the Duke Clinical Research Institute since 2020.

Adrian F. Ochsenbein

Adrian F. Ochsenbein is a Swiss medical oncologist and tumor immunologist who directs medical oncology at Inselspital, Bern, and led the 2020 cusatuzumab AML trial.

Adrian Fenty

Adrian M. Fenty, D.C. mayor 2007-2011, youngest in city history, won every precinct in 2006, took over schools and hired Michelle Rhee, lost the 2010 Democratic primary to Vincent Gray.

Adrian Fontes

Adrian Fontes is an American Democratic politician and Marine Corps veteran serving as Arizona's 21st secretary of state, elected in 2022 after serving as Maricopa County Recorder.

Adrian Frutiger

Adrian Frutiger (1928–2015) was a Swiss typeface designer whose Univers, Frutiger, and Avenir families are among the most widely used of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Adrián González

Adrián González, "El Titán," Mexican-American MLB first baseman (2004-2018), first overall 2000 draft pick; played for Rangers, Padres, Red Sox, Dodgers, Mets; 5x All-Star, 4x Gold Glove, 317 career home runs.

Adrian Gore

Adrian Gore is a South African businessman who founded Discovery Limited in 1992 and serves as its Group Chief Executive, creating the Vitality shared-value insurance model.

Adrian Grant (epidemiologist)

Adrian Grant (Adrian M. Grant) was a perinatal epidemiologist at Oxford's National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit who helped found the Cochrane Collaboration, co-chairing it from 2007 to 2009.

Adrian Greensmith

Adrian Greensmith (born 2001, Brooklyn) is an American actor, RCSSD-trained, known as Hunter in Metal Lords (2022), Arthur "Spoon" Spindell in Harlan Coben's Shelter (2023), and Sam Greene in Netflix's Run Away (2026).

Adrian Grenier

Adrian Grenier (born 1976, Santa Fe, New Mexico) is an American actor, producer, and documentary director known as Vincent Chase on HBO's Entourage (2004–2011) and Nate in The Devil Wears Prada; he now lives on a Texas ranch.

Adrian Griffin

Adrian Griffin (born 1974, Wichita, Kansas) is a former NBA player and assistant who was Milwaukee Bucks head coach from June 2023 to January 23, 2024, fired at 30-13 after 43 games, tied for the third-shortest full-time tenure in NBA history.

Adrian Hayday

Adrian Hayday is a British immunologist known for discovering gamma-delta T cells, Emeritus Professor of Immunobiology at King's College London and a Royal Society Fellow elected in 2016.

Adrian helmet

Designed by Louis Auguste Adrian, the Adrian helmet was the first general-issue steel combat helmet for the French Army during the First World War, with over 20 million produced.

Adrian Hill

Adrian V. S. Hill is a clinical scientist at the University of Oxford, Lakshmi Mittal Professor of Vaccinology and Director of the Jenner Institute, known for the R21 malaria vaccine.