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Adrian Pasdar
Adrian Pasdar (Adrian Kayvan Pasdar, born 1965, Pittsfield, Massachusetts) is an American actor and director known for Near Dark, Profit, Heroes' Nathan Petrelli, and voicing Iron Man.
Adrian Paul
Adrian Paul (Adrian Paul Hewett, born 1959, London) is a British actor best known as Duncan MacLeod in Highlander: The Series (1992–1998); also Tracker, Highlander: Endgame, The Peace Fund, and The Sword Experience.
Adrian Păunescu
Adrian Păunescu (1943–2010) was a Romanian poet, journalist, editor, and politician, best known as founder of Cenaclul Flacăra, whose traveling shows drew over 6 million spectators before its ban in 1985.
Adrian Pennino
Adrian Pennino, later Adrian Balboa, is the fictional wife of Rocky Balboa in the Rocky franchise, played by Talia Shire from Rocky (1976) through Rocky V (1990); a shy Philadelphia pet-shop clerk who earned Shire an Oscar nomination.
Adrian Peterson
Adrian Peterson, NFL running back (Oklahoma; 2007 first-round pick, seventh overall, Minnesota Vikings), 2012 MVP with 2,097 rushing yards, career 14,918 yards, fifth all-time.
Adrian Przyborek
Adrian Przyborek, Polish attacking midfielder born 2007 in Koszalin; Pogoń Szczecin youth product, second-youngest debutant in club history, Guardian 2007-cohort talent list member, signed by Lazio in January 2026 for €4.5m plus bonuses.
Adrian R. Chamberlain
Adrian R. Chamberlain (1929–2024) was an American civil engineer who served as president of Colorado State University and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
Adrian R. Martineau
Adrian R. Martineau is a British clinical professor of respiratory infection and immunity at Queen Mary University of London who studies vitamin D for tuberculosis and respiratory infections.
Adrian Radley
Adrian Radley, Australian backstroke swimmer; world-record 4x100m medley relay (3:30.66, 1997 short-course worlds, Gothenburg) and 1998 Commonwealth Games 200m backstroke silver; later KPMG Perth partner.
Adrian Robert Krainer
Adrian Robert Krainer, born 1958 in Montevideo, Uruguay, is a Uruguayan-American biochemist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory whose splicing research led to Spinraza, the first FDA-approved drug for spinal muscular atrophy.
Adrian Rodney Pagan
Adrian Rodney Pagan (born 1947) is an Australian econometrician and macroeconomist, Emeritus Professor at the University of Sydney, known for the Breusch–Pagan tests and Reserve Bank board service.
Adrian Rogers
Adrian Rogers was an American Southern Baptist pastor who led Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis and, elected convention president in 1979, began the Conservative Resurgence.
Adrian S. Woolf
Adrian S. Woolf is a British clinician-scientist in pediatric nephrology at the University of Manchester who studies congenital abnormalities of the kidneys, ureters, and bladder.
Adrian Salic
Adrian Salic is a Romanian-born American cell biologist, Professor of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School, known for showing that cholesterol activates Smoothened in Hedgehog signaling.
Adrian Saravia
Adrian Saravia, also Hadrian à Saravia, was a Dutch-born Reformed minister who became the first Reformed defender of English episcopacy and a King James Bible translator.
Adrian Scarborough
Adrian Scarborough (Adrian Philip Scarborough, born 1968, Melton Mowbray) is an English actor known for Pete in Gavin & Stacey, DI Max Arnold in The Chelsea Detective, and two Olivier Awards (After the Dance 2011, Leopoldstadt 2020).
Adrian Schoolcraft
Adrian Schoolcraft, former NYPD officer (81st Precinct, Brooklyn) who secretly recorded 117 roll calls in 2008-2009 exposing quotas and crime downgrading; after reporting to Internal Affairs he was involuntarily committed to Jamaica Hospital for six days, later settling with the city for $600,000 plus back pay.
Adrian Siemieniec
Adrian Siemieniec (born 1992, Czeladź) is a Polish football manager, head coach of Jagiellonia Białystok since April 2023, winning the club's first Polish championship in 2023/24, the 2025 Super Cup, and Conference League quarter-final football.
Adrian Smith (architect)
Adrian Smith, also known as Adrian D. Smith, is an American architect who designed the Burj Khalifa and the Jeddah Tower, which is planned to exceed 1,000 meters.
Adrian Smith (musician)
Adrian Smith, fully Adrian Frederick Smith, is an English guitarist born in 1957 in Hackney, London, best known as a member of Iron Maiden, which he joined in 1980.
Adrian Smith (Nebraska politician)
Adrian Smith (born 1970) is an American politician, the Republican U.S. Representative for Nebraska's 3rd congressional district since 2007, after eight years in the Nebraska Unicameral.
Adrian Sutil
Adrian Sutil (born 1983, Starnberg) is a German former Formula One driver: 128 Grands Prix for Spyker, Force India, and Sauber, 124 points, best finish fourth (Monza 2009), no podium; later Ferrari Challenge racer, convicted 2012, arrested 2024.
Adrian Tchaikovsky
Adrian Tchaikovsky (pen name of Adrian Czajkowski), British science fiction and fantasy author of Shadows of the Apt and the Clarke Award-winning Children of Time; zoology-trained, Hugo-winning, author of over forty novels.
Adrian Thrasher
Adrian Thrasher (Adrian J. Thrasher) is a British pediatric immunologist and gene therapy researcher at UCL and Great Ormond Street Hospital, known for stem-cell gene therapy trials in children with primary immunodeficiencies.
Adrian Veidt
Adrian Veidt, alias Ozymandias, is the Watchmen character by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons: a billionaire ex-vigilante based on Charlton's Thunderbolt who fakes an alien attack on New York, killing millions to force world peace.
Adrian Wojnarowski
Adrian Wojnarowski, "Woj", ESPN senior NBA insider (2017-2024) famed for "Woj bombs" and his scoop rivalry with Shams Charania; retired September 2024 to become St. Bonaventure men's basketball general manager.
Adrian Zaccaria
Adrian Zaccaria was an American engineering executive who spent his 41-year career at Bechtel, rising from nuclear planning engineer in 1971 to president, COO, and vice chairman.
Adrian Zandberg
Adrian Tadeusz Zandberg, born 1979 in Aalborg, Denmark, is a Polish historian, programmer, and co-founder of the Razem party; Sejm MP since 2019 and Razem's candidate in the 2025 Polish presidential election with a state-investment program.
Adrian Zielinski
Adrian Edward Zieliński, Polish weightlifter (Tarpan Mrocza club), Olympic champion London 2012 at 85 kg with 385 kg total, 2010 world and 2014 European champion; banned four years for nandrolone before Rio 2016.
Adrian Zmed
Adrian Zmed (born 1954, Chicago) is an American actor and singer known as Officer Vince Romano on T.J. Hooker, Johnny Nogerelli in Grease 2, Danny Zuko in Grease on Broadway, and host of Dance Fever.