title: Adrian
text: Adrian is a form of the Latin given name Adrianus or Hadrianus. Its ultimate origin is most likely via the former river Adria from the Venetic and Illyrian word adur, meaning "sea" or "water".
  
  The Adria was until the 8th century BC the main channel of the Po River into the Adriatic Sea but ceased to exist before the 1st century BC. Hecataeus of Miletus (c.550 – c.476 BC) asserted that both the Etruscan harbor city of Adria and the Adriatic Sea had been named after it. Emperor Hadrian's family was named after the city or region of Adria/Hadria, now Atri, in Picenum, which most likely started as an Etruscan or Greek colony of the older harbor city of the same name. 
  
  Several saints and six popes have borne this name, including the only English pope, Adrian IV, and the only Dutch pope, Adrian VI. As an English name, it has been in use since the Middle Ages.
  
  Religion
  Pope Adrian I (c. 700–795)
  Pope Adrian II (792–872)
  Pope Adrian III (died 885)
  Pope Adrian IV (c. 1100–1159), English pope
  Pope Adrian V (c. 1205–1276)
  Adrian of Batanea (died 308), Christian martyr and saint
  Adrian of Canterbury (died 710), scholar and Abbot of St Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury
  Adrian of Castello (1460–1521), Italian cardinal and writer
  Adrian of May (died 875), Scottish saint from the Isle of May, martyred by Vikings
  Adrian of Moscow (1627–1700), last pre-revolutionary Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia
  Adrian of Nicomedia (died 306), martyr and Herculian Guard of the Roman Emperor Galerius Maximian
  Adrian of Ondrusov (died 1549), Russian Orthodox saint and wonder-worker
  Adrian of Poshekhonye (died 1550), Russian Orthodox saint, hegumen of Dormition monastery in Yaroslavl region
  Adrian of Transylvania (fl. 1183–1201), Hungarian bishop and chancellor
  Adrian Fortescue (martyr) (1476–1539), English courtier at Henry VIII's court, beatified as a Roman Catholic martyr
  Adrian Gouffier de Boissy (1479–1523), French Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal
  Adrian Kivumbi Ddungu (1923–2009), Ugandan Roman Catholic bishop
  Adrian Leo Doyle (born 1936), Australian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church
  
  Government and politics
  Adrian Amstutz (born 1953), Swiss politician
  Adrian Arnold (1932–2018), American politician
  Adrian Bailey (born 1945), British politician
  Adrian Baillie (1898–1947), British politician
  Adrian A. Basora (born 1938), American diplomat
  Adrian Benepe, American Commissioner
  Adrian Bennett (1933–2006), Australian politician
  Adrian Benjamin Bentzon (1777–1827), Norwegian politician
  Adrian Berry, 4th Viscount Camrose (1937–2016), British hereditary peer and journalist
  Adrian P. Burke (1904–2000), American judge and politician
  Adrián Fernández Cabrera (born 1967), Mexican politician
  Adrian Cochrane-Watson (born 1967), Irish politician
  Adrian Davis (civil servant), British economist and civil servant
  Adrian Delia (born 1969), Maltese politician
  Adrian Fenty (born 1970), American politician, mayor of Washington D.C.
  Adrian Flook (born 1963), British politician
  Adrian Foster (politician), Canadian politician
  Adrian Hasler (born 1964), Liechtenstein politician
  Adrian Knatchbull-Hugessen (1891–1976), Canadian lawyer and senator
  Adrián Vázquez Lázara (born 1982), Spanish politician
  Adrian Molin (1880–1942), Swedish writer and political activist
  Adrian Năstase (born 1950), Romanian politician
  Adrian Neritani, former Permanent Representative of Albania to the United Nations
  Adrián Rivera Pérez (born 1962), Mexican politician
  Adrian Piccoli (born 1970), Australian politician
  Adrian Cola Rienzi (1905–1972), Trinidadin and Tobagonian trade unionist, civil rights activist, politician, and lawyer
  Adriano Sánchez Roa (born 1956), Dominican politician
  Adrian Rurawhe (born 1961), New Zealand politician
  Adrian M. Smith (born 1970), American politician
  Adrian Sanders (born 1959), British politician
  Adrian Severin (born 1954), Romanian politician and Member of the European Parliament
  Adrian Smith (politician) (born 1970), American politician
  Adrian Stokes (courtier) (1519–1586), English politician
  Adrian Stoughton (1556–1614), English politician
  
  Academia
  Adrian Albert  (1905–1972), American mathematician 
  Adrian Baddeley (born 1955), Australian scientist
  Adrian Bailey (academic), American scholar
  Adrian Bejan (born 1948), Romanian-born professor of mechanical engineering at Duke University
  Adrian Beverland (1650–1716), Dutch philosopher and jurist who settled in England
  Adrian Bird (born 1947), British geneticist
  Adrian Bowyer (born 1952), engineer, creator of the RepRap project
  Adrian John Brown (1852–1919), British professor and pioneer
  Adrian David Cheok (born 1971/1972), Australian electrical engineer and professor
  Adrian Curaj (born 1958), Romanian engineer
  Adrian Darby (born 1937), British conservationist and academic
  Adrian Goldsworthy (born 1969), British historian and author who writes mostly about ancient Roman history
  Adrian Hardy Haworth (1767–1833), English entomologist, botanist and carcinologist
  Adrian Ioana (born 1981), Romanian mathematician
  Adrian Mihai Ionescu, Romanian professor
  Adrian Ioviță (born 1954), Romanian-Canadian mathematician
  Adrian Jacobsen (1853–1947), Norwegian ethnologist and explorer 
  Adrian Kaehler, American scientist, engineer, entrepreneur, inventor, and author
  Adrian Liston (born 1980), British immunologist and author
  Adrian Paterson, South African scientist and engineer
  Adrián Recinos (1886–1962), Guatemalan historian, Mayanist and diplomat
  Adrian Smith (born 1946), British statistician
  Adrian Stephens (1795–1876), English engineer, inventor of the steam whistle
  Adrian V. Stokes (1945–2020), British computer scientist
  Adrian Webb (born 1943), British academic and public administrator
  Adrian Zenz (born 1974), German anthropologist
  
  Military
  Adrian Becher (1897–1957), British Army officer and cricketer
  Adrian von Bubenberg (1434–1479), Bernese knight, military commander and mayor
  Adrian Carton de Wiart (1880–1963), Belgian-born British Army lieutenant-general awarded the Victoria Cross
  Adrian Cole (RAAF officer) (1895–1966), Australian World War I flying ace
  Adrian Johns (born 1951), English governor of Gibraltar and former Royal Navy vice-admiral
  Adrian Dietrich Lothar von Trotha (1848–1920), German military commander in Africa
  Adrian Marks (1917–1998), United States Navy pilot
  Adrian Consett Stephen (1894–1918), Australian artillery officer and playwright
  Adrian Warburton (1918–1944), British Second World War pilot
  Adrián Woll (1795–1875), French Mexican general during the Texas Revolution and the Mexican–American War
  
  Sports
  
  American football 
   Adrian Amos (born 1993), American football player
   Adrian Arrington (born 1985), American football player
   Adrian Awasom (born 1983), Cameroon-born American football player
   Adrian Baird (born 1979), Canadian football player
   Adrian Baril (1898–1961), American football player
   Adrian Battles (born 1987), American football player
   Adrian Breen (quarterback) (born 1965), American football player
   Adrian Burk (1927–2003), American football player
   Adrian Clarke (born 1991), Canadian football player
   Adrian Clayborn (born 1988), American football player
   Adrian Colbert (born 1993), American football player
   Adrian Cooper (born 1968), American football player
   Adrian Davis (Canadian football) (born 1981), Canadian football player
   A. J. Davis (cornerback, born 1983), American football player known as A.J. Davis
   Adrian Dingle (American football) (born 1977), American football player
   Adrian Ealy (born 1999), American football player
   Adrian Ford (1904–1977), American football player
   Adrian Grady (born 1985), American football player
   Adrian Hamilton (born 1987), American football player
   Adrian Hardy (born 1970), American football player
   Adrian Hubbard (born 1992), American football player
   Adrian Jones (American football) (born 1981), American football player
   Adrian Killins (born 1998), American football player
   Adrian Klemm (born 1977), American football player and coach
   Adrian Madise (born 1980), American football player
   Adrian Magee (born 1996), American football player
   Adrian Martinez (American football) (born 2000), American football player
   Adrian Mayes (born 1980), American football player
   Adrian Moten (born 1988), American football player
   Adrian Murrell (born 1970), American football player
   Adrian Peterson (American football, born 1979), American football player
   Adrian Peterson (born 1985), American football player
   Adrian Phillips (born 1992), American football player
   Adrian Robinson (1989–2015), American football player
   Adrian Ross (born 1975), American football player
   Adrian Tracy (born 1988), American football player
   Adrian White (American football) (born 1964), American football player
   Adrian Wilson (American football) (born 1979), American football player
   Adrian Young (American football) (born 1949), American football player
  
  Association football 
   Adrián Aldrete (born 1988), Mexican footballer
   Adrian Aliaj (born 1976), Albanian footballer
   Adrian Allenspach (born 1969), Swiss footballer
   Adrian Alston (born 1949), English footballer
   Adrián Álvarez (born 1968), Argentine footballer
   Adrian Anca (born 1976), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Antunović (born 1989), Croatian footballer
   Adrián Argachá (born 1986), Uruguayan footballer
   Adrian García Arias (born 1975), Mexican footballer
   Adrián Arregui (born 1992), Argentine footballer
   Adrián Ascues (born 2002), Peruvian footballer
   Adrian Ávalos (born 1974), Argentine footballer
   Adrian Avrămia (born 1992), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Bajrami (born 2002), Swiss footballer
   Adrian Bakalli (born 1976), Belgian footballer
   Adrian Bălan (born 1990), Romanian footballer
   Adrián Balboa (born 1994), Uruguayan footballer
   Adrian Baldovin (born 1971), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Barbullushi (born 1968), Albanian footballer
   Adrian Bartkowiak (born 1987), Polish footballer
   Adrian Basta (born 1988), Polish footballer
   Adrián Bastía (born 1978), Argentine footballer
   Adrian Beck (born 1997), German footballer
   Adrian Benedyczak (born 2000), Polish footballer
   Adrián Berbia (born 1977), Uruguayan goalkeeper
   Adrián Bernabé (born 2001), Spanish footballer
   Adrian Bevington (born c. 1971), Club England Managing Director
   Adrian Bielawski (born 1996), Polish footballer
   Adrian Billhardt (born 1997), German footballer
   Adrian Bird (born 1969), English footballer
   Adrian Błąd (born 1991), Polish footballer
   Adrian Blake (born 2005), English footballer
   Adrian Bogoi (born 1973), Romanian footballer
   Adrián Bone (born 1988), Ecuadorian footballer
   Adrian Boothroyd (born 1971), English footballer and manager
   Adrian Borza (born 1985), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Budka (born 1980), Polish footballer
   Adrian Bumbescu (born 1960), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Bumbut (born 1984), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Butters (born 1988), Canadian soccer player
   Adrián Butzke (born 1999), Spanish footballer
   Adrian Caceres (born 1982), Argentine footballer
   Adrián Calello (born 1987), Argentine footballer
   Adrián Cañas (born 1992), Spanish footballer
   Adrian Cann (born 1980), Canadian soccer player
   Adrian Cașcaval (born 1987), Moldovan footballer
   Adrián Centurión (born 1993), Argentine footballer
   Adrián Čermák (born 1993), Slovak footballer
   Adrian Chama (born 1989), Zambian footballer
   Adrián Chávez (born 1962), Mexican footballer
   Adrian Chomiuk (born 1988), Polish footballer
   Adrián Chovan (born 1995), Slovak footballer
   Adrian Cieślewicz (born 1990), Polish footballer
   Adrian Clarke (footballer) (born 1974), English footballer
   Adrian Clifton (born 1988), English footballer
   Adrián Colombino (born 1993), Uruguayan footballer
   Adrián Colunga (born 1984), Spanish footballer
   Adrian Coote (born 1978), English footballer
   Adrián Cortés (born 1983), Mexican footballer
   Adrian Cristea (born 1983), Romanian footballer
   Adrián Cruz (born 1987), Spanish footballer
   Adrián Cuadra (born 1997), Chilean footballer
   Adrian Cuciula (born 1986), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Cucovei (born 1982), Moldovan footballer
   Adrian Dabasse (born 1993), French footballer
   Adrián Dalmau (born 1994), Spanish footballer
   Adrian Danek (born 1994), Polish footballer
   Adrián Diéguez (born 1996), Spanish footballer
   Adrian Drida (born 1982), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Dubois (born 1987), American footballer
   Adrian Dulcea (born 1978), Romanian footballer and manager
   Adrian Durrer (born 2001), Swiss footballer
   Adrian Edqvist (born 1999), Swedish footballer
   Adrián El Charani (born 2000), Venezuelan footballer
   Adrian Elrick (born 1949), New Zealand footballer
   Adrián Escudero (1927–2011), Spanish footballer
   Adrián Faúndez (born 1989), Chilean footballer
   Adrian Fein (born 1999), German footballer
   Adrián Fernández (footballer, born 1980), Argentine footballer
   Adrián Fernández (footballer, born 1992), Paraguayan footballer
   Adrian Foncette (born 1988), Trinidadian footballer
   Adrian Forbes (born 1979), English footballer
   Adrian Foster (footballer) (born 1971), English footballer and manager
   Adrián Fuentes (born 1996), Spanish footballer
   Adrián Gabbarini (born 1985), Argentine footballer
   Adrian Dan Găman (born 1978), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Gheorghiu (born 1981), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Gîdea (born 2000), Romanian footballer
   Adrián González (footballer, born 1976), Argentine footballer
   Adrián González (footballer, born 1988), Spanish footballer
   Adrián González (footballer, born 1995), Argentine footballer
   Adrián González (footballer, born 2003), Mexican footballer
   Adrián Hernán González (born 1976), Argentine footballer
   Adrián Goransch (born 1999), Mexican footballer
   Adrian Grbić (born 1996), Austrian footballer
   Adrian Grigoruță (born 1983), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Gryszkiewicz (born 1999), Polish footballer
   Adrián Gunino (born 1989), Uruguayan footballer
   Adrian Hajdari (born 2000), Macedonian footballer
   Adrian Aleksander Hansen (born 2001), Norwegian footballer
   Adrian Heath (born 1961), English footballer and manager
   Adrian Henger (born 1996), Polish footballer
   Adrián José Hernández (born 1983), Spanish footballer, known as Pollo
   Adrián Horváth (born 1987), Hungarian footballer
   Adrian Iencsi (born 1975), Romanian footballer and manager
   Adrian Ilie (born 1974), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Ilie (footballer, born 1981), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Ionescu (footballer, born 1958), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Ionescu (footballer, born 1985), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Ioniță (born 2000), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Iordache (born 1980), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Dragoș Iordache (born 1981), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Jevrić (born 1986), German footballer
   Adrián Jusino (born 1992), Bolivian footballer
   Adrian Kappenberger (born 1996), Danish footballer
   Adrian Kasztelan (born 1986), Polish footballer
   Adrian Klepczyński (born 1981), Polish footballer
   Adrian Klimczak (born 1997), Polish footballer
   Adrian Knup (born 1968), Swiss footballer
   Adrián Kocsis (born 1991), Hungarian footballer
   Adrian Kunz (born 1967), Swiss footballer
   Adrián Lapeña (born 1996), Spanish footballer
   Adrián Torres Lázaro (born 1998), Spanish footballer commonly known as Lele
   Adrian Leijer (born 1986), Australian footballer
   Adrián Leites (born 1992), Uruguayan footballer
   Adrian LeRoy (born 1987), Canadian soccer player
   Adrián Leško (born 1995), Slovak footballer
   Adrian Liber (born 2001), Croatian footballer
   Adrian Lis (born 1992), Polish footballer
   Adrian Littlejohn (born 1970), English footballer
   Adrián Lois (born 1989), Spanish footballer
   Adrián López (footballer, born 1987), Spanish footballer
   Adrián López (born 1988), Spanish footballer
   Adrián Lozano (born 1999), Mexican footballer
   Adrian Lucaci (1966–2020), Romanian footballer
   Adrián Lucero (born 1985), Argentine footballer
   Adrián Marín Lugo (born 1994), Mexican footballer
   Adrián Luna (born 1992), Uruguayan footballer
   Adrian Łyszczarz (born 1999), Polish footballer
   Adrian Madaschi (born 1982), Australian footballer
   Adrian Małachowski (born 1998), Polish footballer
   Adrian Marek (born 1987), Polish footballer
   Adrian Mariappa (born 1986), English footballer
   Adrián Marín (footballer, born 1994), Mexican footballer
   Adrián Marín (footballer, born 1997), Spanish footballer
   Adrian Mărkuș (born 1992), Romanian footballer
   Adrián Martín (footballer) (born 1982), Spanish footballer
   Adrián Martínez (Mexican footballer) (born 1970)
   Adrián Martínez (Venezuelan footballer) (born 1993)
   Adrián Emmanuel Martínez (born 1992), Argentine footballer
   Adrián Nahuel Martínez (born 1992), Argentine footballer
   Adrian Matei (footballer) (born 1968), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Mierzejewski (born 1986), Polish footballer
   Adrian Mihalcea (born 1976), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Moescu (born 2001), Romanian footballer
   Adrián Mouriño (born 1988), Spanish footballer
   Adrian Mrowiec (born 1983), Polish footballer
   Adrian Mutu (born 1979), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Nalați (born 1983), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Napierała (born 1982), Polish footballer
   Adrian Neaga (born 1979), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Negrău (born 1968), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Neniță (born 1996), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Nikçi (born 1989), Swiss footballer
   Adrian Romeo Niță (born 2003), Romania footballer
   Adrian Olah (born 1981), Romania footballer
   Adrian Olegov (born 1985), Bulgarian footballer
   Adrian Olszewski (born 1993), Polish footballer
   Adrián Ortolá (born 1993), Spanish footballer
   Adrian Paluchowski (born 1987), Polish footballer
   Adrian Pătraș (born 1984), Moldovan footballer
   Adrian Pătulea (born 1984), Romanian footballer
   Adrián Paz (born 1966), Uruguayan footballer
   Adrian Pelka (born 1981), German footballer
   Adrian Pennock (born 1971), English footballer
   Adrián Peralta (born 1982), Argentine footballer
   Adrian Pereira (born 1999), Norwegian footballer
   Adrian Petre (born 1998), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Pettigrew (born 1986), English footballer
   Adrian Pigulea (born 1968), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Piț (born 1983), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Pitu (born 1975), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Popa (footballer, born 1988), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Popa (footballer, born 1990), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Poparadu (born 1987), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Popescu (born 1960), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Popescu (footballer, born 1975), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Pukanych (born 1981), Ukrainian footballer
   Adrian Pulis (born 1979), Maltan footballer
   Adrian Purzycki (born 1997), Polish footballer
   Adrian Rakowski (born 1990), Polish footballer
   Adrián Ramos (born 1986), Colombian footballer
   Adrián Ricchiuti (born 1978), Argentine footballer
   Adrián Riera (born 1996), Spanish footballer
   Adrián Ripa (born 1985), Spanish footballer
   Adrian Rochet (born 1987), Israel footballer
   Adrián Rojas (born 1977), Chilean footballer
   Adrian Rolko (born 1978), Czech footballer
   Adrián Romero (Argentine footballer) (born 1975)
   Adrián Romero (Uruguayan footballer) (born 1977)
   Adrian Ropotan (born 1986), Romanian footballer
   Adrián Ruelas (born 1991), American soccer player
   Adrian Rus (born 1996), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Rusu (born 1984), Romanian footballer
   Adrián Sahibeddine (born 1994), French footballer
   Adrian Sălăgeanu (born 1983), Romanian footballer
   Adrián Sánchez (born 1999), Argentine footballer
   Adrián San Miguel del Castillo (born 1987), Spanish football goalkeeper known as simply Adrián
   Adrián Sardinero (born 1990), Spanish footballer
   Adrian Sarkissian (born 1979), Uruguayan footballer
   Adrian Scarlatache (born 1986), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Schlagbauer (born 2002), German footballer
   Adrián Scifo (born 1987), Argentine footballer
   Adrian Šemper (born 1998), Croatian footballer
   Adrian Senin (born 1979), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Serioux (born 1979), Canadian soccer player
   Adrian Sikora (born 1980), Polish footballer
   Adrian Sosnovschi (born 1977), Moldovan footballer and manager
   Adrián Spörle (born 1995), Argentine footballer
   Adrian Spyrka (born 1967), German footballer
   Adrian Stanilewicz (born 2000), German footballer
   Adrian Șter (born 1998), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Stoian (born 1991), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Stoicov (1967–2017), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Șut (born 1999), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Świątek (born 1986), Polish footballer
   Adrián Szekeres (born 1989), Hungarian footballer
   Adrián Szőke (born 1998), Serbian footballer
   Adrian Toma (born 1976), Romanian footballer
   Adrián Torres (born 1989), Argentine footballer
   Adrian Trinidad (born 1982), Argentine footballer
   Adrián Turmo (born 2001), Spanish footballer
   Adrián Ugarriza (born 1997), Peruvian footballer
   Adrian Ursea (born 1967), Romanian footballer and manager
   Adrian Valentić (born 1987), Croatian footballer
   Adrian Vera (born 1997), American footballer
   Adrian Viciu (born 1991), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Viveash (born 1969), English footballer, better known as Adi Viveash 
   Adrian Vlas (born 1982), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Ionuț Voicu (born 1992), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Voiculeț (born 1985), Romanian footballer
   Adrian Webster (footballer, born 1951), English footballer
   Adrian Webster (footballer, born 1980), New Zealand footballer
   Adrian Whitbread (born 1971), English footballer and manager
   Adrian Williams, better known as Ady Williams (born 1971), English footballer and manager
   Adrian Winter (born 1986), Swiss footballer
   Adrian Woźniczka (born 1982), Polish footballer
   Adrian Zahra (born 1990), Australian footballer
   Adrian Zaluschi (born 1989), Romanian footballer
   Adrián Zambrano (born 2000), Venezuelan footballer
   Adrián Zela (born 1989), Peruvian footballer
   Adrian Zendejas (born 1995), American footballer
   Adrián Zermeño (born 1979), Mexican footballer
  
  Baseball 
  
   Adrian Constantine Anson better known as Cap Anson (1852–1922), American baseball player
   Adrián Beltré (born 1979), Dominican Republic baseball player
   Adrian Brown (baseball) (born 1974), American baseball player
   Adrian Burnside (born 1977), Australian baseball player
   Adrian Cárdenas (born 1987), American baseball player
   Adrian Devine (1951–2020), American baseball player
   Adrian Garrett (1943–2021), American baseball player and coach
   Adrián González (born 1982), American-Mexican baseball player
   Adrian Houser (born 1993), American baseball player
   Addie Joss (1880–1911), American baseball pitcher
   Adrian Lynch (1897–1934), American baseball player
   Adrián Morejón (born 1999), Cuban baseball player
   Adrián Nieto (born 1989), Cuban baseball player
   Adrian Sampson (born 1991), American baseball player
   Adrián Sánchez (born 1990), Colombian-Venezuelan baseball player
   Adrián Zabala (1916–2002), Cuban baseball player
  
  Basketball 
   Adrian Autry (born 1972), American basketball player
   Adrian Banks (born 1986), American basketball player
   Adrian Bauk (born 1985), Australian basketball player
   Adrian Branch (born 1963), American basketball player
   Adrian Caldwell (born 1966), American basketball player
   Adrian Celada, Filipino basketball player
   Adrian Dantley (born 1956), American basketball player
   Adrian Griffin (born 1974), American basketball player
   Adrian Pledger (born 1976), American basketball player
   Adrian Smith (basketball) (born 1936), American basketball player
   Adrian Tudor (born 1985), Romanian basketball player
   Adrian Williams-Strong (born 1977), American basketball player
  
  Boxing 
   Adrian Blair (born 1943), Australian boxer
   Adrian Clark (boxer) (born 1986), American boxer
   Adrian Diaconu (born 1978), Romanian boxer
   Adrián Hernández (boxer) (born 1986), Mexican boxer
   Adrian Mora (born 1978), American boxer
  
  Cricket 
   Adrian Aymes (born 1964), British cricketer
   Adrian Barath (born 1990), West Indian cricketer
   Adrian Birrell (born 1960), South African cricketer and coach
   Adrian Brown (cricketer) (born 1962), English cricketer
   Adrian Jones (cricketer) (born 1961), English cricketer
   Adrian Rollins (born 1972), English cricketer
  
  Ice hockey 
   Adrian Aucoin (born 1973), Canadian ice hockey player
   Adrian Foster (ice hockey) (born 1982), Canadian ice hockey player
   Adrian Kempe (born 1996), Swedish ice hockey player
   Adrian Wichser (born 1980), Swiss ice hockey player
  
  Racing 
   Adrian Adgar (born 1965), English cyclist
   Adrian Archibald (born 1969), British motorcycle racer
   Adrian Banaszek (born 1993), Polish cyclist
   Adrián Campos (1960-2021), Spanish racing driver
   Adrián Campos Jr. (born 1988), Spanish racing driver
   Adrian Carrio (born 1989), American racing driver
   Adrian "Wildman" Cenni, American off-road racing driver
   Adrián Fernández (born 1965), Mexican racing driver and team owner
   Adrián Fernández (motorcyclist) (born 2004), Spanish motorcycle racer
   Adrián González (cyclist) (born 1992), Spanish cyclist
   Adrian Kurek (born 1988), Polish road bicycle racer
   Adrián Martín (motorcyclist) (born 1992), Spanish motorcycle racer
   Adrian Newey (born 1958), British race car engineer and designer
   Adrian Quaife-Hobbs (born 1991), British racing driver
   Adrian Aas Stien (born 1992), Norwegian cyclist
   Adrian Sutil (born 1983), German racing driver
   Adrián Vallés (born 1986), Spanish race car driver
   Adrian Zaugg (born 1986), South African racing driver
  
  Rugby 
   Adrian Apostol (born 1990), Romanian rugby player
   Adrian Barich (born 1963), Australian rules footballer and television and radio presenter
   Adrian Barone (born 1987), New Zealand rugby union footballer
   Adrian Bassett (born 1967), Australian rules footballer
   Adrian Battiston (born 1963), Australian rules footballer
   Adrian Beer (born 1943), Australian rules footballer
   Adrian Clarke (rugby union) (born 1938), New Zealand rugby player
   Adrian Davies (born 1969), English rugby player
   Adrian Davis (rugby league) (born 1990), Australian rugby player
   Adrian Garvey (born 1968), Zimbabwean-born South African rugby union player
   Adrian Lungu (born 1960), Romanian rugby player
   Adrian Morley (born 1977), English rugby player
   Adrian Pllotschi (born 1959), Romanian rugby player and coach
   Adrian Stoop (1883–1957), English rugby union player
   Adrian Young (footballer) (1943–2020), Australian rugby player
  
  Swimming 
   Adrian Andermatt (born 1969), Swiss swimmer
   Adrian Moorhouse (born 1964), English swimmer
   Adrian O'Connor (born 1972), Irish backstroke swimmer
   Adrian Radley (born 1976), Australian swimmer
   Adrian Robinson (swimmer) (born 2000), Botswanan swimmer
   Adrian Romero (swimmer) (born 1972), Guamanian swimmer
   Adrian Turner (born 1977), British Olympic swimmer
  
  Tennis 
   Adrian Andreev (born 2001), Bulgarian tennis player
   Adrian Bey (1938 – 2019), Rhodesian-born American professional tennis player
   Adrian Bodmer (born 1995), Swiss tennis player
   Adrian Bohane (born 1981), Irish-American former professional tennis player
   Adrian Cruciat (born 1983), Romanian tennis player
   Adrian Gavrilă (born 1984), Romanian tennis player
   Adrian Mannarino (born 1988), French tennis player
   Adrian Marcu (born 1961), professional tennis player from Romania
   Adrián Menéndez Maceiras (born 1985), Spanish tennis player
   Adrian Quist (1913–1991), Australian tennis player
   Adrian Ungur (born 1985), Romanian tennis player
   Adrian Voinea (born 1974), Romanian tennis player
  
  Other 
   Adrian Adonis (1954–1988), American professional wrestler
   Adrian Alvarado (figure skater) (born 1983), Mexican figure skater
   Adrian Ang (born 1988), Malaysian bowler
   Adrián Annus (born 1973), Hungarian hammer thrower
   Adrian Bachmann (born 1976), Swiss sprint canoer
   Adrian Ballinger (born 1976), British-American climber, skier, and mountain guide
   Adrián Ben (born 1998)  Spanish middle-distance runner
   Adrian Berce (born 1958), Australian field hockey player
   Adrian Blincoe (born 1979), New Zealand runner
   Adrian Błocki (born 1990), Polish racewalker
   Adrian Breen (hurler) (born 1992), Irish hurler
   Adrian Cosma (1950–1996), Romanian handball player
   Adrian Crișan (born 1980), Romanian table tennis player
   Adrián Gavira (born 1987), Spanish beach volleyball player
   Adrian Gomes (born 1990), Brazilian gymnast
   Adrian Gray (born 1981), English darts player
   Adrian Gunnell (born 1972), English snooker player
   Adrian Hansen (born 1971), South African squash player
   Adrian Lewis (born 1985), English darts player
   Adrian Matei (born 1985), Romanian figure skater
   Adrian Metcalfe (1942–2021), British runner and sports broadcaster
   Adrian Neville (born 1986), English professional wrestler, known professionally as Pac
   Adrian Parker (born 1951), British modern pentathlete and Olympic champion
   Adrian Patrick (born 1973), English former sprinter
   Adrián Alonso Pereira (born 1988), Spanish futsal player
   Adrián Popa (born 1971), Hungarian weightlifter
   Adrian Rollinson (born 1965), British strongman
   Adrian Schultheiss (born 1988), Swedish figure skater
   Adrian Smith (strongman) (born 1964), British strongman
   Adrian Street (born 1940), Welsh wrestler and author
   Adrian Strzałkowski (born 1990), Polish long jumper
   Adrián Paz Velázquez (born 1964), Mexican Paralympic athlete
   Adrian Watt (born 1947), American ski jumper
   Adrian White (equestrian) (born 1933), New Zealand equestrian
   Adrian Alejandro Wittwer (born 1986), Swiss extreme athlete and ice swimmer
   Adrian Zieliński (born 1989), Polish weightlifter
  
  Arts and entertainment
  Adrian Adlam (born 1963), British violinist and conductor
  Adrian Aeschbacher (1912–2002), Swiss classical pianist
  Adrian Alandy (born 1980), Filipino actor and model
  Adrian Allinson (1890–1959), British painter, potter and engraver
  Adrián Alonso (born 1994), Mexican actor
  Adrian Alphona, Canadian comic book artist
  Adrian Alvarado (actor) (born 1976), American actor
  Adrian Anantawan (born 1986), Canadian violinist
  Adrian Augier, St. Lucian poet and producer
  Adrian Bică Bădan (born 1988), Romanian footballer
  Adrian Baker (born 1951), English singer, songwriter, and record producer
  Adrian Bărar (1960–2021), Romanian guitarist and composer
  Adrian Barber (1938–2020), English musician and producer
  Adrian Batten (1591–1637), English organist
  Adrian Bawtree (born 1968), English composer and organist
  Adrian Beaumont (born 1937), British composer, conductor, and professor
  Adrian Beers (1916–2004), British double bass player and teacher
  Adrian Belew (born 1949), American guitarist, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer
  Adrian Benjamin (born 1942), actor and prebendary emeritus
  Adrian Biddle (1952–2005), English cinematographer
  Adrian Blevins (born 1964), American poet
  Adrian Borland (1957–1999), English singer, songwriter, guitarist and record producer
  Adrian Boult (1889–1983), English conductor
  Adrian Brown (1929–2019), British director and poet
  Adrian Brown (born 1949), British conductor
  Adrian Brunel (1892–1958), English film director and screenwriter
  Adrian Bustamante (born 1981), American actor
  Adrián Caetano (born 1969), Uruguayan-Argentine film director, producer and screenplay writer
  Adrian Carmack (born 1969), American video game artist
  Adrián Carrio (born 1986), Spanish pianist
  Adrian Chiles (born 1967), British television and radio presenter
  Adrian Clarke (photographer), English photographer
  Adrian Clarke (poet), British poet
  Adrian Conan Doyle (1910–1970), English race-car driver, big-game hunter, explorer, and writer
  Adrian Dingle (artist) (1911–1974), Welsh-Canadian painter and comic book artist
  Adrian Dunbar (born 1958), Northern Ireland actor
  Adrian Edmondson better known as Ade Edmondson (born 1957), English actor, comedian, director, writer and musician
  Adrian Enescu (1948–2016), Romanian composer
  Adrian Erlandsson (born 1970), Swedish heavy metal drummer
  Adrian Fisher (musician) (1952-2000), former guitarist for Sparks (band)
  Adrian Gaxha (born 1984), Macedonian singer-songwriter and producer
  Adrian Ghenie (born 1977), Romanian painter
  Adrian Gonzales (1937-1998), Filipino comic book artist
  Adrián Luis González (born 1939), Mexican potter
  Adrian Gray (born 1961), British artist
  Adrian Adolph Greenburg (1903–1959), costume designer for over 250 films known as simply Adrian
  Adrian Grenier (born 1976), American actor, producer, director, musician and environmentalist
  Adrian Griffin (drummer), Australian drummer
  Adrian Gurvitz (born 1949), English singer, musician and songwriter
  Adrian Hall (actor) (born 1959), British actor and co-director
  Adrian Hall (artist) (born 1943), British artist
  Adrian Hall (director) (1927–2023), American theatre director
  Adrian Hates (born 1973), German dark wave musician
  Adrian Heath (1920–1992), British painter
  Adrian Heathfield, British writer and curator
  Adrian Hoven (1922–1981), Austrian actor, producer and film director
  Adrian A. Husain (born 1945), Pakistani poet
  Adrian Ivaniţchi (born 1947), Romanian folk musician and guitarist
  Adrian Jones (sculptor) (1845–1938), English sculptor and painter who specialized in animals, particularly horses
  Adrian Jones (born 1978), Swedish musician, member of Gjallarhorn
  Adrian Karsten (1960–2005), American sports reporter
  Adrian Kowanek (born 1977), Polish musician
  Adrian Le Roy (1520–1598), French string player, composer, music publisher and educator
  Adrian Leaper (born 1953), English conductor
  Adrian Legg (born 1948), English guitar player
  Adrian Lester (born 1968), British actor
  Adrian Lucas (born 1962), English organist, tutor, and composer
  Adrian Lulgjuraj (born 1980), Albanian rock singer
  Adrian Lukis (born 1957), British actor
  Adrian Lux (born 1986), Swedish disc jockey and music producer
  Adrian Lyne (born 1941), English filmmaker and producer
  Adrian Martin (born 1959), Australian film and arts critic
  Adrian Martinez (actor) (born 1972), American actor and comedian
  Adrian McKinty (writer) (born 1968), Northern Irish writer of crime and mystery novels
  Adrian Minune (born 1974), Romani-Romanian manele singer
  Adrian Mitchell (1932–2008), English poet, novelist and playwright
  Adrian William Moore (born 1956), British philosopher and broadcaster
  Adrián Navarro (born 1969), Argentine actor
  Adrian Noble (born 1950), English theatre director
  Adrian Pasdar (born 1965), American actor and film director
  Adrian Paul (born 1959), English actor
  Adrian Pecknold (1920–1999), Canadian mime, director, and author
  Adrian Petriw (born 1987), Canadian actor
  Adrian Picardi (born 1987), American filmmaker
  Adrian Pintea (1954–2007), Romanian actor
  Adrian Piotrovsky (1898–1937), Russian dramaturge
  Adrian Piper (born 1948), American conceptual artist and philosophy professor
  Adrian Pisarello (born 1970), Gibraltarian musician and songwriter
  Adrian R'Mante (born 1978), American television actor
  Adrian Rawlins (born 1958), English actor
  Adrian Ludwig Richter (1803–1884), German painter and etcher
  Adrian Rodriguez (DJ), German DJ
  Adrián Rodríguez (born 1988), Spanish actor and singer from Catalonia
  Adrian Rodriguez, American bass guitarist for The Airborne Toxic Event
  Adrian Rollini (1903–1956), American multi-instrumentalist best known for his jazz music
  Adrian Ross (1859–1933), British lyricist
  Adrián Rubio, Mexican actor and model
  Adrian Scarborough (born 1968), English character actor
  Adrian Scott (1912–1972), American screenwriter and film producer
  Adrian Shaposhnikov (1888–1967), Russian classical composer 
  Adrian Sherwood (born 1958), English record producer
  Adrian Sînă (born 1977), Romanian singer-songwriter and record producer
  Adrian D. Smith (born 1944), American architect
  Adrian Smith (born 1957), English musician and one of three guitarists/songwriters in the English band Iron Maiden
  Adrian Smith (illustrator), British illustrator
  Adrian Steirn, photographer and filmmaker
  Adrian Consett Stephen (1894–1918), Australian artillery officer and playwright
  Adrian Stokes (critic) (1902–1972), British art critic
  Adrian Scott Stokes (1854–1935), English landscape painter
  Adrian Stroe (born 1959), Romanian serial killer
  Adrian Sturges (born 1976), British film producer
  Adrián Suar (born 1968), Argentine actor and media producer
  Adrian Tanner, English writer and director
  Adrian Taylor (producer) (1954–2014), American television news producer
  Adrian Tchaikovsky (born 1972), British fantasy and science fiction author
  Adrián Terrazas-González (born 1975), Mexican jazz composer and wind player
  Adrian Thaws (born 1968), English musician and actor
  Adrian Tomine (born 1974), American cartoonist
  Adrian Truss (born 1953), British-Canadian actor
  Adrian Utley (born 1957), English musician best known as a member of the band Portishead
  Adrian Vandenberg (born 1954), Dutch rock guitarist
  Adrian Wells (born 1989), British-American clinical psychologist, singer and songwriter
  Adrian White (musician), Canadian drummer
  Adrian White (author), Anglo-Irish writer
  Adrian Willaert (c. 1490–1562), Flemish composer of the Renaissance and founder of the Venetian School
  Adrian Wilson (actor) (born 1969), South African model and actor
  Adrian Wilson (artist) (born 1964), British artist and photographer
  Adrian Wong (born 1990), Hong Kong actress
  Adrian Wright (1947–2015), English-Australian actor
  Adrian Young (born 1969), American drummer for the rock band No Doubt
  Adrian Younge (born 1978), American composer, arranger, and music producer
  Adrian Zagoritis (born 1968), British songwriter and record producer
  Adrian Zingg (1734–1816), Swiss painter
  Adrian Zmed (born 1954), American television personality and film actor
  
  Other
  Adrian Arendt (born 1952), Romanian sailor
  Adrian Bancker (1703–1772), American silversmith
  Adrian Beecroft (born 1947), British venture capitalist
  Adrian Bell (1901–1980), English ruralist journalist, crossword compiler, and farmer
  Adrian Bellamy (born 1941/1942), British businessman
  Adrian Block (1567–1627), Dutch explorer of the American East Coast
  Adrian Brown (archivist) (born 1969), British archivist
  Adrian Brown (journalist), Australian journalist
  Adrian Cheng (born 1979), Hong Kong entrepreneur and business executive
  Adrian Cioroianu (born 1967), Romanian historian, politician, journalist, and essayist
  Adrian Cronauer (1938–2018), American former lawyer and radio speaker
  Adrian Diel (1756–1839), German physician
  Adrian Finighan (born 1964), British journalist
  Adrian Frutiger (1928–2015), Swiss typeface designer
  Adrian Fulford (born 1953), British judge
  Adrian Geiges (born 1960), German writer and journalist
  Adrian Anthony Gill (1954–2016), British writer and critic
  Adrian Gonzalez (kidnapper) (born 2000), American kidnapper
  Adrián Gómez González, Mexican drug lord
  Adrián Arroyo Gutiérrez (born 1976), Costa Rican serial killer and rapist, known as The Southern Psychopath
  Adrian Hanauer (born 1966), American businessman and minority owner and general manager of the Seattle Sounders FC
  Adrian Hayes (adventurer) (born 1959), British explorer
  Adrian Holovaty (born 1981), American web developer, journalist and entrepreneur
  Adrian van Hooydonk (born 1964), Dutch automobile designer
  Adrian Albert Jurgens (1886–1953), South African philatelist
  Adrian Kantrowitz (1918–2008), American cardiac surgeon
  Adrian Kashchenko (1858–1921), Ukrainian writer, historian of the Zaporozhian Cossacks
  Adrian Knox (1863–1932), Australian judge
  Adrian Künzi (born 1973), Swiss banker 
  Adrian Lamo (born 1981), Colombian-American threat analyst and "grey hat" hacker
  Adrian Lim (1942–1988), Singaporean serial killer
  Adrian Long, British civil engineer
   Adrian Mikhalchishin (born 1954), Ukrainian chess grandmaster
  Adrian von Mynsicht (1603–1638), German alchemist
  Adrian Parr (born 1967), Australian philosopher and cultural critic
  Adrian Păunescu (1943–2010), Romanian poet, journalist, and politician
  Adrian Plass (born 1948), English author and speaker
  Adrian Rogers (1931–2005), American pastor, conservative and author
  Adrian Andrei Rusu (born 1951), Romanian medieval archaeologist
  Adrian Anthony Spears (1910–1991), American judge
  Adrián Steckel, Mexican businessman
  Adrian Stephen (1883–1948), British author and psychoanalyst, brother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell
  Adrian Stroe (born 1959), Romanian serial killer
   Adrian Swire (1932 – 2018), billionaire British heir and businessman
  Adrian Ursu (born 1968), Romanian journalist
  Adrian Weale (born 1964), English writer, journalist, illustrator and photographer
  Adrian Wewer (1836–1914), German-born American architect and Franciscan friar
  Adrian White (businessman) (born 1942), British businessman, founder of Biwater
  Adrian Zecha (born 1933), Indonesian hotelier
  Adrian Yeboah Otoo (born 1985) Pharmacist and Entrepreneur Ghanaian
  
  Fictional characters 
  Adrien Agreste, a superhero and male protagonist of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
  Adrian Andrews, Ace Attorney character from Justice for All
  Adrian Chase, DC Comics superhero
  Adrian Corbo, alias Flex, a Marvel Comics superhero
  Adrian "Fletch" Fletcher, character on the British medical dramas Casualty and Holby City
  Adrian Hall, character on the soap opera Home and Away
  Adrian Ivashkov, character in Richelle Mead's Vampire Academy and protagonist in Bloodlines
  Adrian Leverkühn, protagonist of Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus
  Adrian Mole, protagonist of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole
  Adrian Monk, protagonist of the television series Monk
  Adrian Pennino, wife of Rocky Balboa
  Adrian Seidelman, character from the Cybersix comic and television series
  Adrian Shephard, protagonist of the Half-Life expansion "Half-Life: Opposing Force"
  Adrian Fahrenheit Ţepeş, alias Alucard, character in the Castlevania video games
  Adrian Toomes, alias Vulture, a Marvel Comics villain
  Adrian Veidt, alias Ozymandias, character in the Watchmen graphic novel series
  Adrian Woodhouse, spawn of Satan in the film Rosemary's Baby
   Adrian, a character in Shakespeare's Coriolanus, is a Volscian who is oddly friendly with a Roman named Nicanor, and acts as a spy for the state.
   Adrian, a mental woman in The Crush (1993 film)
  Adrian, a son of Satan in Little Nicky
  
  See also
  Adreian
  Hadrien
  
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