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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.
Adolphe Schneider
Adolphe Schneider (1802–1845) was a French businessman who, with his younger brother Eugène, took over the bankrupt Le Creusot ironworks in 1836, founding the firm that became Schneider Electric.
Adolphe Thiers
Adolphe Thiers (1797-1877), French journalist, historian of the Revolution, and first President of the Third Republic (1871-1873), who made peace with Prussia, crushed the Paris Commune, and paid off the German indemnity.
Adolphe Vorderman
Adolphe Vorderman (1844–1902) was a Dutch physician and health inspector in the Dutch East Indies whose 1896 survey of Java prisons showed beriberi rates some 300 times higher among prisoners eating polished rice.
Adolpho Veloso
Adolpho Veloso (born 1989, São Paulo) is a Brazilian cinematographer based in Lisbon, known for Train Dreams (2025), Jockey, and Mosquito; first Brazilian Oscar-nominated DP for cinematography.
Adolphus Busch
Adolphus Busch (1839–1913) was a German-born American brewing entrepreneur who joined his father-in-law Eberhard Anheuser's St. Louis brewery in 1865, introduced Budweiser, and built Anheuser-Busch into the world's largest brewery.
Adolphus von Dalberg
Adolphus von Dalberg (Adolf von Dalberg, 1678–1737) was a German Benedictine who served as Prince-Abbot of Fulda from 1726 to 1737 and founded the University of Fulda.
Adomian decomposition method
The Adomian decomposition method (ADM) is a semi-analytical technique for solving nonlinear differential and integral equations by expressing the solution as a series built recursively with Adomian polynomials, requiring no linearization or discretization.
Adon (king of Ekron)
Adon was a Levantine king of the late 7th century BC, conventionally identified as king of Ekron, known only from an Aramaic letter appealing to Pharaoh for help.
Adon Olam
Adon Olam (אֲדוֹן עוֹלָם, "Eternal Lord") is a short Jewish liturgical hymn, popularly attributed to Solomon Ibn Gabirol, best known for closing Shabbat morning prayers.
Adon Papyrus
The Adon Papyrus is a nine-line Aramaic letter from about 600 BC, found at Saqqara in 1942, in which King Adon begs the pharaoh for help against Babylonian armies.
Adonais
Adonais is a pastoral elegy in 55 Spenserian stanzas that Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote in 1821 to mourn John Keats, who died in Rome at 25.
Adoni (ancient city)
Nuraghe Adoni (Complesso di Adoni) is a Bronze Age Nuragic tower-and-village complex at 811 m in Villanova Tulo, Sarcidano, Sardinia; quadrilobate plan, 10 m tower, occupied from the 15th century BC into the early Middle Ages.
Adoni (city)
Adoni, a municipality in Kurnool district, Andhra Pradesh, India; also Adoni town. Historic fort city of Vijayanagar and Bijapur, now a cotton and groundnut trading hub with 184,625 people (2011 census).
Adonias Filho
Adonias Filho, pen name of Adonias de Aguiar Filho (1915–1990), was a Brazilian novelist and literary critic whose fiction draws on the cocoa region of southern Bahia.
Adonija Ouanda
Adonija Bryan Ouanda (born 2005, Abidjan) is a Canadian winger for Slavia Prague, signed January 2026 from FK Voždovac, loaned to Slovácko in spring 2026, EA FC 27 rating 63.
Adoniram Judson
Adoniram Judson (1788–1850) was an American Baptist missionary who spent nearly forty years in Burma, translating the Bible into Burmese and founding the American Baptist foreign-mission movement.
Adonis
Adonis (Ἄδωνις): Greek mythological youth of Semitic origin (ʾadōn, lord), beloved of Aphrodite, killed by a boar on Mount Lebanon, mourned in the women's Adonia festival with rooftop 'gardens of Adonis'.
Adonis Creed
Adonis "Donnie" Johnson Creed is the fictional heavyweight boxer played by Michael B. Jordan in the Creed films (2015, 2018, 2023), the illegitimate son of Apollo Creed, trained by Rocky Balboa, later undisputed champion.
Adonis Linea
Adonis Linea is a 1,560-km-long linea, or linear lineament, on Jupiter's moon Europa in its southern hemisphere, IAU-approved in 1979 and named for the Greek nephew of Europa.
Adonis Stevenson
Adonis Stevenson, also called Superman, Haitian Canadian southpaw boxer born 1977 in Port-au-Prince; WBC light heavyweight champion 2013–2018 after a 76-second KO of Chad Dawson; never fought Kovalev; lost final fight to Gvozdyk in 2018.
Adonis vernalis
Adonis vernalis (spring pheasant's eye, false hellebore) is a poisonous Eurasian Ranunculaceae perennial containing cardenolide cardiac glycosides, used as a cardiotonic since 1879 and now CITES-listed and endangered in parts of Europe.