Famous People with Name Adele

Adele Eva Goldberg            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Adele Eva Goldberg: a researcher in the field of linguistics. Since 2004, she has been a Professor in Linguistics, and an associated faculty in Psychology at Princeton University. From 1997-2004, she was an Associate Professor of Linguistics and the Beckman Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). She was also, from 1997 to 1998, Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD).Goldberg's research focus is on the psychology of language, including theoretical and experimental aspects of grammar and its representation, acquisition of form-function correspondences, and syntactic priming. Her works aim to illuminate parallels between language and other cognitive processes. She is one of the leading researchers in the framework of Construction Grammar, an alternative to mainstream generative grammar, that takes form-function correspondences to be the basic units of language.

Adele Addison            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Adele Addison: is an African American lyric soprano who was an acclaimed figure in the classical music world during the 1950s and 1960s. Although she did appear in several operas, Addison spent most of her career performing in recital and concert. Her performances spann

Adele Goldberg            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Adele Goldberg: is a computer scientist who wrote or co-wrote books on the programming language Smalltalk-80. In the 1970s she worked for Xerox's PARC laboratory on the Xerox Alto. According to Adele, Steve Jobs demanded a demonstration of the Smalltalk System, which she

Adele Marcus            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Adele Marcus: was an American pianist, but better known as a teacher of many other famous pianists.She was on faculty at the Juilliard School in New York City and provided master classes in piano performance at other conservatories including the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago during the 1970s in collaboration with William Browning, also a teacher of great repute.Her famous pupils included: Agustin Anievas, Tzimon Barto, Enrique Bátiz (later a conductor), Jeffrey Biegel, David Brunell, Anthony Byrne, Sergio Calligaris, Cy Coleman, Horacio Gutiérrez, Stephen Hough, Byron Janis, Norman Krieger, Beata Moon, Pascal Nemirovski, Jon Kimura Parker, Güher Pekinel and Süher Pekinel, Miguel Franz Pinto, Santiago Rodriguez, Thomas Schumacher, Neil Sedaka, Emma Tahmizian and Jeffrey Swann.

Adele Warden Paxson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Adele Warden Paxson: was an American socialite, philanthropist, conservationist, and a Champion breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses. Adele Paxon's husband inherited Elm Grove Farm on Old York Road in Holicong, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Near the community of Lahaska, Elm Grov

Kenny Adeleke            Origin/Culture/Country: Nigerian

Kenny Adeleke: is a Nigerian American basketball player who plays in Italy for NSB Napoli.

Ayodele ("Dele") Adeleye            Origin/Culture/Country: Nigerian

Ayodele ("Dele") Adeleye: is a Nigerian footballer who currently plays for Sparta Rotterdam.A tall central defender, Adeleye caught the eye of Sparta when playing 3 matches for the Nigeria U-20 at the 2005 FIFA Youth World Cup in the Netherlands. He made his first senior cap in a friendly against Ireland on May 29, 2009.