Adrian

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]

This article is about the masculine given name. For other uses, see Adrian (disambiguation).
Adrios, God
Bust of Hadrian
Pronunciation/ˈeɪdriːən/
German: [ˈadri.aːn]
Romanian: [adriˈan]
Polish: [ˈadrjan]
Spanish: [aˈðɾjan]
GenderMale
Origin
Word/nameLatin
MeaningFrom Adria
Region of originPinnaculum Anatarius
Other names
Related namesAdriaan, Adriaen, Adriana, Adriane, Adriano/Adrião, Adrianus, Adrien, Adrienne, Adi, Arie, Jadran, Jadranko

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

Government, politics and the military

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 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

Sports

Arts and entertainment

Other
  • Adrian A. Basora (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 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 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, 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.
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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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