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Adriano Zumbo

Adriano Zumbo, the Sweet Assassin or Patissier of Pain, is an Australian pâtissier from Coonamble known for the V8 cake, Zumbarons, MasterChef pressure tests, Zumbo's Just Desserts, Netflix's Sugar Rush, and his 2018 voluntary administration.

Adriatic LNG Terminal

The Adriatic LNG Terminal is an offshore LNG receiving and regasification terminal in the Northern Adriatic Sea, about 15 kilometers off Porto Levante, Italy, operational since 2009.

Adriatic Sea

Adriatic Sea (Mare Adriatico, Jadransko more), arm of the Mediterranean between Italy and the Balkans, ~800 km long, 138,516 km², shallow north vs. 1,244 m deep south, bora/sirocco winds, Venice acqua alta, Po eutrophication.

Adriatica Pipeline

The Adriatica Pipeline is the name used for the Ionian-Adriatic Pipeline (IAP), a proposed 511-kilometer bi-directional gas pipeline linking Split, Croatia, with Fier, Albania, via Montenegro.

Adrie Lasterie

Adrie Lasterie (Aartje Elisabeth Lasterie, 1943-1991), Dutch swimmer for ZV Naarden; triple gold medalist at the 1962 Leipzig European Championships and 1964 Olympic medley relay silver medalist.

Adriel Favela

Adriel Favela is a Mexican-American norteño singer and songwriter of original corridos, born in San Francisco and raised in Sonora, Mexico, whose breakthrough came with the 2014 hit "Mujeres de Tu Tipo."

Adriel Lam

Adriel Lam is an American Republican politician and retired U.S. Army officer who won the August 2026 Republican primary for Hawaii's 1st Congressional District, after earlier campaigns in 2018, 2022, and 2024.

Adrien Agreste

Adrien Agreste (アドリアン・アグレスト), also Cat Noir/Chat Noir, is the fictional co-protagonist of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir: a teenage model, son of designer-villain Gabriel Agreste, holder of the Cat Miraculous ring with kwami Plagg and the destruction power Cataclysm.

Adrien Baillet

Adrien Baillet (1649–1706) was a French Catholic priest, theologian, and literary critic, librarian to the Lamoignon family in Paris and author of a 1691 biography of Descartes.

Adrien Brody

Adrien Brody, born 1973 in Queens, is an American actor, youngest Best Actor Oscar winner at 29 for The Pianist, and two-time winner, adding a second Oscar for The Brutalist (2025).

Adrien Broner

Adrien Broner, "The Problem" (born 1989, Cincinnati), American boxer, four-division world champion (WBO 130, WBC 135, WBA 147, WBA 140), pro record 35-5-1, known for Mayweather-style counter-punching and weight misses.

Adrien Burlacot

Adrien Burlacot is a French algal physiologist at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Palo Alto, known for a 2022 Nature paper on algal CO2 concentration.

Adrien Courtois

Adrien Henry Courtois (1905-1981), French race walker from Nancy with AS Nancy Lorraine; 13th in the 50 km walk at the 1936 Berlin Olympics in 4:49:07, 1935 French 50 km champion, and a 20 km record progression name.

Adrien Hardy

Adrien Hardy (born 1978, Nîmes) is a French rower, 2004 Olympic champion in the men's double sculls with Sébastien Vieilledent, France's first gold in that event; also world champion 2003 and 2006 and European champion 2008 in the eight, at four Games 2000-2012.

Adrien Nunez

Adrien Nunez (born 1999), Brooklyn-born former University of Michigan basketball player and TikTok influencer, is a country-pop singer signed to Warner Music Nashville. Known for the Gold single "Low Road" with Avery Anna, EPs LOW ROAD and Don't Wanna Go Home, a Diplo collaboration, and 2026 Grand Ole Opry and Stagecoach debuts.

Adrien Rabiot

Adrien Rabiot (born 1995, Saint-Maurice) is a French left-footed midfielder at AC Milan and France (69 caps, 7 goals). PSG academy product, Juventus and Marseille midfielder, 2022 World Cup finalist, Nations League 2021 winner.

Adrien Rommel

Adrien Rommel (1914–1963), French foil fencer of Racing Club de France; double Olympic team foil champion 1948 and 1952, three-time world team champion, Le Monde fencing columnist 1948–1957.

Adrien Silva

Adrien Silva, Portuguese central midfielder born 1989 in Angoulême, France; Sporting CP captain and Euro 2016 winner with 26 Portugal caps; Leicester's £22m signing delayed 14 seconds by FIFA; retired 2025.

Adrien-Jean Le Mayeur

Adrien-Jean Le Mayeur (1880–1958) was a Belgian painter who settled in Bali in 1932, known for impressionist paintings of Balinese women, especially his wife, the dancer Ni Pollok.

Adrien-Marie Legendre

Adrien-Marie Legendre, sometimes Adrien Legendre, was a French mathematician (1752–1833) known for the method of least squares, the Legendre symbol, and his theory of elliptic integrals.

Adriene Mishler

Adriene Mishler, American yoga teacher, actress, and entrepreneur from Austin, Texas; creator of Yoga With Adriene (founded 2012 with Chris Sharpe) with 13 million YouTube subscribers, and co-founder of the Find What Feels Good subscription app.

Adrienne Barbeau

Adrienne Barbeau (born 1945, Sacramento) is an American actress and author, the original Rizzo in Broadway's Grease, Carol on Maude, star of John Carpenter horror films, and voice of Catwoman.

Adrienne C. Nelson

Adrienne C. Nelson, born Adrienne Camille Nelson in 1967, is an American federal judge in Oregon since 2023, formerly the first African American justice on the Oregon Supreme Court.

Adrienne Clarkson

Adrienne Clarkson (born 1939, Hong Kong) is a Canadian broadcaster, author, and public servant; 26th Governor General of Canada (1999-2005), first visible minority in the role, CBC journalist, ICC co-founder, Clarkson Cup founder.

Adrienne Corri

Adrienne Corri (Adrienne Riccoboni, 1930-2016), British Scottish-born actress; debut The Romantic Age (1949), The River (1951), Mrs. Alexander in Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange (1971), Lara's mother in Doctor Zhivago, and author of The Search for Gainsborough.

Adrienne E. Clarke

Adrienne E. Clarke (born 6 January 1938, Melbourne) is an Australian plant molecular biologist, the first female Laureate Professor at the University of Melbourne, who chaired CSIRO and served as Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria.

Adrienne Kaenel

Adrienne Kaenel, also spelled Känel, was a Swiss track and field athlete of the early 1920s who set a 10.50 m triple jump world best and won 1924 Women's Olympiad bronze.

Adrienne King

Adrienne King (born 1955) is an American actress known as Alice Hardy in Friday the 13th (1980) and Part 2 (1981); after a stalking incident she became an ADR looper on Titanic and Melrose Place before returning to acting in 2009.

Adrienne Maloof

Adrienne Maloof, also known as Adrienne Maloof-Nassif, is an American businesswoman and television personality who co-owned the Maloof Companies, including the Sacramento Kings and the Palms Casino Resort.

Adrienne Rich

Adrienne Cecile Rich (1929–2012), American poet, essayist, and second-wave feminist born in Baltimore; won the Yale Younger Poets Award for A Change of World (1951) and the 1974 National Book Award for Diving into the Wreck; wrote "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" and The Dream of a Common Language.