Adrian

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This article is about the masculine given name. For other uses, see Adrian (disambiguation).
Adrian
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Bust of Hadrian
PronunciationEnglish: /ˈeɪdriən/ AY-dree-ən
German: [ˈaːdʁiaːn]
Romanian: [adriˈan]
Polish: [ˈadrjan]
Spanish: [aˈðɾjan]
GenderMale
Other gender
FeminineAdriana, Adriane, Adrienne
Origin
Word/nameLatin
Meaning"from Adria"
Region of originPinnaculum Anatarius
Other names
Related namesAdriaan, Adriaen, Adriana, Adriane, Adriano/Adrião, Adrianus, Adrien, Adrienne, Adi, Arie, Jadran, Jadranko

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".[1][2]

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.[3] 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.[4]

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, although it did not become common until modern times.

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 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, politics and the military[]

  • Adrian Amstutz (born 1953), Swiss politician
  • Adrian Bailey (born 1945), British Labour Co-operative politician
  • Adrian Baillie (1898–1947), British politician
  • Adrian von Bubenberg (1434–1479), Bernese knight, military commander and mayor
  • Adrian Carton de Wiart (1880–1963), Belgian-born British Army officer
  • Adrian Cole (1895–1966), Australian World War I flying ace
  • Adrian Delia (born 1969), Maltese politician
  • Adrian Fenty (born 1970), American politician, mayor of Washington D.C.
  • Adrian Flook (born 1963), British politician
  • Adrian Hasler (born 1964), Liechtenstein politician
  • Adrian Johns (born 1951), English governor of Gibraltar and former senior officer in the Royal Navy
  • Adrian Năstase (born 1950), Romanian politician
  • Adrian Neritani, former Permanent Representative of Albania to the United Nations
  • Adrian von Renteln (1897–1946), Nazi commander in Lithuania
  • Adrian M. Smith (born 1970), American politician from Nebraska
  • Adrian Sanders (born 1959), British politician
  • Adrian Severin (born 1954), Romanian politician and Member of the European Parliament
  • Adrian Stokes (1519–1586), English politician
  • Adrian Stoughton (1556–1614), English politician
  • Adrian Dietrich Lothar von Trotha (1848–1920), German military commander in Africa
  • Adrian Warburton (1918–1944), British World War II pilot
  • Adrián Woll (1795–1875), French Mexican general during the Texas Revolution and the Mexican–American War

Academics[]

  • Adrian Albert (1905–1972), American mathematician
  • 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 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 Jacobsen (1853–1947), Norwegian ethnologist and explorer
  • Adrián Recinos (1886–1962), Guatemalan historian, Mayanist and diplomat
  • Adrian Zenz (born 1974), German anthropologist
  • (born 1996), Spanish Lobbyist

Sports[]

Arts and entertainment[]

  • Adrian (costume designer) (1903–1959), born Adrian Adolph Greenburg, costume designer for over 250 films
  • Adrian Adlam (born 1963), British violinist and conductor
  • Adrian Aeschbacher (1912–2002), Swiss classical pianist
  • Adrian Allinson (1890–1959), British painter, potter and engraver
  • Adrián Alonso (born 1994), Mexican actor
  • Adrian Alphona, Canadian comic book artist
  • Adrian Anantawan (born 1986), Canadian violinist
  • Adrian Baker (born 1951), English singer, songwriter, and record producer
  • Adrian Batten (1591–1637), English organist
  • Adrian Belew (born 1949), American guitarist, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer
  • Adrian Biddle (1952–2005), English cinematographer
  • Adrian Borland (1957–1999), English singer, songwriter, guitarist and record producer
  • Adrian Boult (1889–1983), English conductor
  • Adrian Brunel (1892–1958), English film director and screenwriter
  • Adrián Caetano (born 1969), Uruguayan-Argentine film director, producer and screenplay writer
  • Adrian Carmack (born 1969), American video game artist
  • Adrian Chiles (born 1967), British television and radio presenter
  • 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 (born 1948), 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
  • Adrian Grenier (born 1976), American actor, producer, director, musician and environmentalist
  • Adrian Gurvitz (born 1949), English singer, musician and songwriter
  • Adrian Hates (born 1973), German dark wave musician
  • Adrian Hoven (1922–1981), Austrian actor, producer and film director
  • 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 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 Lulgjuraj (born 1980), Albanian rock singer
  • Adrian Lukis (born 1957), British actor
  • Adrian Lux (born 1986), Swedish discjockey and music producer
  • Adrian Lyne (born 1941), English filmmaker and producer
  • Adrian Martinez, American actor
  • Adrian Minune (born 1974), Romani-Romanian manele singer
  • Adrian Mitchell (1932–2008), English poet, novelist and playwright
  • Adrian Noble (born 1950), English theatre director
  • Adrian Pasdar (born 1965), American actor and film director
  • Adrian Paul (born 1959), English actor
  • Adrian Piotrovsky (1898–1937), Russian dramaturge
  • Adrian Piper (born 1948), American conceptual artist and philosophy professor
  • Adrian R'Mante (born 1978), American television actor
  • Adrian Rawlins (born 1958), English actor
  • Adrian Ludwig Richter (1803–1884), German painter and etcher
  • Adrián Rodríguez (born 1988), Spanish actor and singer from Catalonia
  • Adrian Rollini (1903–1956), American multi-instrumentalist best known for his jazz music
  • Adrian Ross (1859–1933), British lyricist
  • 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 Scott Stokes (1854–1935), English landscape painter
  • Adrián Suar (born 1968), Argentine actor and media producer
  • 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
  • (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 Willaert (c. 1490–1562), Flemish composer of the Renaissance and founder of the Venetian School
  • Adrian Young (born 1969), American drummer for the rock band No Doubt
  • Adrian Zingg (1734–1816), Swiss painter
  • Adrian Zmed (born 1954), American television personality and film actor
  • Adrian Wells (born 1989), British-American clinical psychologist, singer and songwriter

Other[]

  • (born 1938), American diplomat
  • Adrian Block (1567–1627), Dutch explorer of the American East Coast
  • Adrian Cioroianu (born 1967), Romanian historian, politician, journalist, and essayist
  • Adrian Conan Doyle (1910–1970), English race-car driver, big-game hunter, explorer, and writer
  • Adrian Cronauer (born 1938), American former lawyer and radio speaker
  • Adrian Diel (1756–1839), German physician
  • Adrian Finighan (born 1964), British journalist
  • Adrian Frutiger (born 1928), 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 Hanauer (born 1966), American businessman and minority owner and general manager of the Seattle Sounders FC
  • Adrian Holovaty (born 1981), American web developer, journalist and entrepreneur
  • Adrian van Hooydonk (born 1964), Dutch automobile designer
  • Adrian A. Husain (born 1945), Pakistani poet
  • Adrian Albert Jurgens (1886–1953), South African philatelist
  • Adrian Kantrowitz (1918–2008), American cardiac surgeon
  • Adrian Kashchenko (1858–1921), Ukrainian writer, historian of 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 von Mynsicht (1603–1638), German alchemist
  • Adrian Păunescu (1943–2010), Romanian poet, journalist, and politician
  • Adrian Plass (born 1948), English author and speaker
  • Adrian Rogers (1931–2005), American pastor, conservative, author
  • Adrian Anthony Spears (1910–1991), American judge
  • Adrian Stephen (1883–1948), British author and psychoanalyst, brother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell
  • 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 Zecha (born 1933), Indonesian hotelier


Fictional characters[]

  • Adrian Corbo, alias Flex, a Marvel Comics superhero
  • Adrian Ivashkov, character in Richelle Mead's Vampire Academy and protagonist in
  • 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 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)

References[]

  1. ^ Adrian Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, p.7. (ISBN 1-85986-323-X)
  2. ^ Room 2006, p. 20.
  3. ^ Bonomi, Simonetta (1998). "Adria e Spina". In Rebecchi, Fernando (ed.). Spina e il delta padano (Atti del convegno "Spina, due civiltà a confronto") (in Italian). L'ERMA di BRETSCHNEIDER. ISBN 88-7062-983-X., pp. 241-3
  4. ^  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854). "Adria". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. 1. London: John Murray. p. 8.

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