Adrian as First Name

Adrian Bucurel Ilie            Origin/Culture/Country: Romanian
Adrian Bucurel Ilie: is a former Romanian football (soccer) forward and currently a businessman with interests in tourism and football.

Adrian Darnell Griffin            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Adrian Darnell Griffin: is an American professional basketball player currently for the Seattle SuperSonics of the National Basketball Association to whom he was traded by the Chicago Bulls on February 21, 2008.Over six seasons, he has played for the Celtics, Dallas Mavericks, Houston Rockets and Chicago Bulls, averaging 4.4 points, 3.3 rebounds and one steal per game.

Adrian Delano Dantley            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Adrian Delano Dantley: is a basketball small forward who played 15 seasons in the NBA, seven of which as a member of the Utah Jazz.Dantley was a forward at Notre Dame from 1973-76. He was a consensus first team All-American in 1974-75 and 1975-76 and was named 1976 National Player of the Year. He ranks second on the Notre Dame career scoring list with 2,223 points and holds the school record for free throws made (615) and free throws attempted (769).

Adrian Diaconu            Origin/Culture/Country: Romanian
Adrian Diaconu: is a Romanian professional Light Heavyweight boxer. He is living, and fighting out of Montreal, QC, Canada.

Adrian Francis Branch            Origin/Culture/Country: American
Adrian Francis Branch: is a retired American professional basketball player. A 6'8" guard/forward, He played in the NBA as well as in Australia for the NBL's Geelong Supercats.

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Adrian as Last Name

Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian            Origin/Culture/Country: Egland
Edgar Adrian, 1st Baron Adrian: British electrophysiologist and recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology, won jointly with Sir Charles Sherrington for work on the function of neurons.

Max Adrian            Origin/Culture/Country: Irish
Max Adrian: was an Irish stage, film and television actor.He began his career as a chorus boy at a silent moving-picture house, coming on as part of the chorus line while the reels were being changed. After a few walk-ons, he decided to become a stage actor and, in 1930, joined the weekly rep in Northampton, where he took some forty roles a year. After subsequently gaining some experience in the West End, he toured in an early Terence Rattigan comedy, First Episode (1934), which transferred to New York. He then joined a classical repertory company in London, where he appeared in Shakespeare and Shaw.