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Adelaide Oval
Adelaide Oval is a 53,500-capacity multi-purpose stadium in North Adelaide, South Australia, opened in 1873, the world's sixth Test cricket venue (1884), redeveloped 2011-2014 under a $535 million statutory cap, hosting cricket, AFL, concerts, and the Oval Hotel.
Adelaide Strikers
Adelaide Strikers, Australian Twenty20 cricket franchise in the BBL and WBBL, based at Adelaide Oval, cornflower blue kit, men's BBL champions 2017-18, back-to-back WBBL titles WBBL|08 and WBBL|09, coached by Tim Paine.
Adelaide United FC
Adelaide United FC, the Reds, is an A-League Men football club founded 12 September 2003. Inaugural A-League Premiers 2005/06, 2015/16 double, record three Australia Cups, 2008 AFC Champions League runners-up.
Adelaido "Payo" Solis III (Grupo Frontera)
Adelaido "Payo" Solis III, known as Payo Solis, is a Mexican-American singer and bajo quinto player who joined Grupo Frontera in 2022, singing on hits including "un x100to" with Bad Bunny.
Adelantado
The adelantado was a Spanish Crown office, begun in medieval Spain and carried to the Americas, granting an expedition's leader advance political, military, and judicial government of lands he discovered or conquered.
Adelbert Ames, Jr.
Adelbert Ames, Jr. (1880–1955) was an American scientist in physiological optics who invented the Ames demonstrations, including the distorted room, and directed the Dartmouth Eye Institute.
Adelbert von Chamisso
Adelbert von Chamisso, born Louis Charles Adélaïde de Chamissot de Boncourt, was a French-born German-language poet and naturalist who wrote Peter Schlemihl and discovered alternation of generations in salps.
Adelbert von Chamisso Prize
The Adelbert von Chamisso Prize (Adelbert-von-Chamisso-Preis) was a German literary prize for authors writing in German whose work reflected a change of language or culture.
Adelchi
Adelchi is a historical tragedy in five acts by Alessandro Manzoni, published in Milan in 1822, dramatizing the fall of the Lombard kingdom to the Franks in 772–774.
Adele
Adele (Adele Adkins), English singer-songwriter of 19, 21, 25, and 30; lyric mezzo-soprano known for soulful power, melisma, and chart-topping albums including 24 weeks at US No. 1 with 21.
Adele Astaire
Adele Astaire (Adele Marie Austerlitz, 1896/1898–1981), American dancer and elder sister of Fred Astaire, starred with him in vaudeville and Broadway-London musicals including Lady, Be Good! and Funny Face, retired in 1932 to marry Lord Charles Cavendish, and is known from a 1936 Selznick screen test, her only surviving footage.
Adele discography
Adele discography: four studio albums by the British singer (19, 21, 25, 30), UK No. 1 for all four, 21 over 30 million sold, 25's 3.38M US first week, Skyfall, and the 2025 Las Vegas live album.
Adèle Exarchopoulos
Adèle Exarchopoulos (born 1993) is a French actress whose breakout as Adèle in Blue Is the Warmest Colour (La Vie d'Adèle) won the 2013 Palme d'Or shared with Léa Seydoux and Abdellatif Kechiche, making her the youngest Palme winner in Cannes history; later Césars include Best Supporting Actress 2024.
Adele Goldberg (computer scientist)
Adele Goldberg is an American computer scientist, born 1945 in Cleveland, Ohio, who co-created the Smalltalk-80 programming language at Xerox PARC, managed its System Concepts Laboratory, and co-founded ParcPlace Systems.
Adèle Haenel
Adèle Haenel (born 1989, Paris) is a French actress, two-time César winner (Suzanne, Les Combattants), known for Portrait de la jeune fille en feu; she accused director Christophe Ruggia in 2019 and left cinema in 2023.
Adele in Munich
Adele in Munich: ten-concert August 2024 residency by Adele at a purpose-built 80,000-capacity pop-up arena on the Messe München fairgrounds, Riem. Over 730,000 tickets, record 220 m LED screen, €540 million economic impact, her first continental European shows since 2016.
Adele Live 2016–2017
Adele Live 2016–2017 (Adele Live 2017 for the 2017 dates) was Adele's third concert tour supporting the album 25, running from Belfast in February 2016 to Wembley Stadium in 2017, with 121 shows performed and the final two Wembley concerts cancelled for damaged vocal cords.
Adele ring
The adele ring, or ring of adeles, is the locally compact topological ring built from all completions of a global field, central to class field theory.
Adele Roberts
Adele Roberts (born 1979, Southport) is a British broadcaster, DJ and reality TV personality, Big Brother 3 housemate, BBC Radio 1 presenter 2015–2023, I'm a Celebrity 2019 contestant, bowel cancer survivor with stoma Audrey, and Guinness marathon record holder.
Adeleke Adekoya
Adeleke Adekoya is a Nigerian fintech executive who co-founded Flutterwave in 2016 with Olugbenga Agboola and Iyinoluwa Aboyeji, after leading digital banking at Access Bank in Lagos.
Adelgidae
Adelgidae (pine aphids, spruce aphids; synonym Chermidae) is a small Aphidoidea family of about 65-70 conifer-feeding, gall-forming, cyclically parthenogenetic Hemiptera, including the hemlock and balsam woolly adelgid forest pests.
Adélia Prado
Adélia Prado, full name Adélia Luzia Prado de Freitas, is a Brazilian poet born in 1935 in Divinópolis, Minas Gerais, whose debut Bagagem appeared in 1976.
Adelidae
Adelidae (fairy moths, fairy longhorn moths) is a family of about 300 small Lepidoptera species worldwide except Antarctica and New Zealand, known for male antennae up to three times forewing length and case-bearing larvae.
Adélie penguin
Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae), a 3–6 kg Antarctic penguin with a white eye ring, breeding around the entire Antarctic coast; named after Adélie Land by Dumont d'Urville in 1840; krill-eating, least concern, sensitive to sea-ice change.
Adelina Sotnikova (Аделина Дмитриевна Сотникова)
Adelina Sotnikova (Аделина Дмитриевна Сотникова), born 1996, retired Russian figure skater; 2014 Sochi Olympic ladies' champion, first Russian woman to win the title, beating Yuna Kim by 5.48 points amid a judging controversy.
Adelina Zagidullina
Adelina Zagidullina (Аделина Рустемовна Загидуллина), born 1993 in Ufa, is a Russian right-handed foil fencer, Tokyo 2020 Olympic team gold medalist for ROC and two-time world and European team champion (2016, 2019).
Adelir Antônio de Carli
Adelir Antônio de Carli, known in Brazil as the "padre do balão", was a Brazilian priest who died in 2008 during a cluster balloon flight over the sea.
Adelita Grijalva
Adelita S. Grijalva (born 1970) is the Democratic U.S. representative for Arizona's 7th district, elected in a September 2025 special election to succeed her father Raúl Grijalva; the first Latina to represent Arizona in Congress, sworn in November 12, 2025 after a seven-week delay.
Adelle Lutz
Adelle Lutz (born 1948) is an American artist, designer, and actress whose costume design treats clothing as communication, with credits in film and experimental theater.
Adelmário Coelho
Adelmário Coelho is a Brazilian forró pé-de-serra singer from northern Bahia whose 1995 hit "Não Fale Mal do Meu País" spread after looted CDs reached radio.