- Walter Adolph
Walter Adolph was a Luftwaffe fighter ace. He was born on 11 June 1913 and died on 18 September 1941.
- Adulf
Saint Adulf (also Adolph) (died c. 680) was an Anglo-Saxon saint.
- Homer Plessy
Homer Plessy was the American plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court decision in "Plessy v. Ferguson". Arrested, tried and convicted of a violation of Louisiana's racial segregation laws--his great-grandmother was black--he appealed to the Supreme Court. The resulting "separate-but-equal" decision against him had wide consequences for the U.S. civil rights for the next half century. Plessy was born Homère Patrice Plessy in New Orleans, Louisiana, on St.
- Adolph Gottfried Kinau
Adolph (or Adolf) Gottfried Kinau (January 4 1814, in Aschersleben, Germany - January 9 1888 Suhl, Germany) was a German Protestant minister and astronomer. Born into a family of ministers and teachers, he studied theology at the universities of Halle and Magdeburg from 1833 to 1840. Until 1851, he had several appointments as teacher. Till 1861 he was minister in Rohr in Thuringia, Germany.
- Hermann Schlagintweit
Hermann Schlagintweit, Sakünlünski, also known as Hermann Rudolph Alfred von Schlagintweit-Sakünlünski, was a German explorer of Central Asia. The eldest of the five Schlagintweit brothers of Munich, his earliest work was scientific study in the Alps, 1846-1848, along with his brother Adolph. They established their reputation with the "Untersuchungen über die physikalische Geographie der Alpen" (1850), …
- Adolf Of Germany
Adolf or Adolph (c. 1255 - 2 July 1298) was the King of Germany from 1292 until 1298. His title in his lifetime was "rex Romanorum", but he is usually known as Adolf of Nassau. Adolf of Nassau was a member of the minor nobility, born about 1255 as son of count Walram II of Nassau and Adelheid of Katzenelnbogen.
- Theobald II, Duke of Lorraine
Theobald II (1263 - May 13 1312) was the duke of Lorraine from 1303 to his death. He was the son and successor of Frederick III and Margaret, daughter of King Theobald I of Navarre. In 1298, he took part in the Battle of Göllheim, near Speyer, in which the king of Germany, Adolph, was killed fighting his rival, Albert of Hapsburg.
- Adolph Coors
Adolph Coors (February 4, 1847 - June 5, 1929) was a brewer who started the Adolph Coors Company in Golden, Colorado in 1873. Adolph was the son of Joseph Kuhrs (c1820-1862) and Helena Hein (c1820-1862), and was born in Barmen in Rhenish Prussia on February 4, 1847. He was apprenticed at age thirteen to the book and stationery store of Andrea & Company in nearby Ruhrort from November of 1860 until June of 1862.
- Sonny Jurgensen
Christian Adolph "Sonny" Jurgensen III (born August 23, 1934) is a famed American football quarterback in the NFL.
- Donald Adolph Sr
- Gerhard Adolph
- John Brandon Adolph
- Ken Adolph
- Anthony Adolph
- Adolph Freiherr Knigge
Freiherr Adolph Franz Friedrich Ludwig Knigge was a German writer and Freemason. Knigge was born in Bredenbeck, Hannover as a member of the lesser nobility. He studied law from 1769 to 1772 in Göttingen where he became a member of Corps Hannovera. He was allegedly initiated into Freemasonry in 1772 in Kassel, where he held a position as Court Squire and Assessor of the War and Domains Exchequer. In 1777 he became Chamberlain at the Weimar court.
- Adolph J. Sabath
Adolph Joachim Sabath (b. April 4, 1866 in Zabori, Czech Republic of Jewish parentage; d. November 6, 1952 in Bethesda, Maryland). He served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Chicago, Illinois, from 1907 until his death in 1952. He immigrated to America at age 15, became active in real estate, and received his LL.B. degree in 1891 from Lake Forest University. He served in local offices until election to Congress from the Jewish West Side in 1907.
- Adolph I, Duke of Cleves
Adolph I of Cleves (2 August 1373 - 23 September 1448) was the son of Adolph III Comte de la Mark and Margaret of Julich. He married Marie of Burgundy daughter of John II of Burgundy and Margaret of Bavaria, they had the following issue: * Katharina 1417-1479 married on 23 July 1423 to Arnold van Egmond, Duke of Geldern ca 1410-1473 * John I of Cleves 1419-1481 * Elisabeth 1420-1488 Married on 15 July 1434 to Henry XXVI, …
- Adolph Ochs
Adolph Simon Ochs (b. March 12, 1858-April 8, 1935) was an American newspaper publisher and former owner of "The New York Times" and "The Chattanooga Times" (now the Chattanooga Times Free Press). Ochs was born to German-Jewish immigrants, Julius and Bertha Levy Ochs, in Cincinnati, Ohio. The family moved south to Knoxville, Tennessee due to his mother's Southern sympathies during the Civil War. Ochs began his newspaper career there at age 11, …
- Adolph Bolm
Adolph Rudolphovitch Bolm (September 25, 1884-April 16, 1951) was a Russian born American ballet dancer. Partial chronology of Adolph Bolm's career: 1884 - Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, of Scandinavian descent. 1904 - graduated from Russian Imperial Ballet School in St. Petersburg, Russia 1904 - accepted into the ballet of the Maryinsky Theatre in St.
- Adolph Sutro
Adolph Heinrich Joseph Sutro (April 29 1830 - August 8, 1898) was the 24th mayor and 2nd Jewish mayor of San Francisco, California, serving in that office from 1894 until 1896. He is today perhaps best remembered for the various San Francisco lands and landmarks that still bear his name.
- Adolph Menzel
Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel (before 1898 Adolph Friedrich Erdmann Menzel, December 8, 1815 Breslau - February 9, 1905 Berlin) was a German artist noted for drawings, etchings, and paintings. His father was the headmaster of a school for girls, and intended to educate his son as a professor; but he would not thwart his taste for art. Left an orphan in 1832, Menzel had to maintain his family. In 1833 Sachse of Berlin published his first work, …
- Adolph Kiefer
Adolph Gustav Kiefer(born June 27, 1918 in Chicago) was an American swimmer and the first man in the world to swim 100 yards backstroke under 1 minute. His backstroke records stood for 15 years. Kiefer became the first man to break the one-minute mark in the 100-yard backstroke while competing as a sixteen-year old in the Illinois High School Championships of 1935.
- Adolph Joffe
Adolph Abramovich Joffe was a Russian Communist revolutionary, a Bolshevik politician and a Soviet diplomat.
- Adolph Herseth
Adolph Sylvester (Bud) Herseth, (born July 25, 1921 in Lake Park, MN), was principal trumpet in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1948 until 2001. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest orchestral trumpeters of his generation. He was a student of Boston Symphony Orchestra trumpeters Marcel LaFosse (second trumpet) and Georges Mager (principal trumpet) at the New England Conservatory of Music. Herseth graduated from Luther College in Iowa.
- Adolph Malan
Adolph Gysbert Malan DSO & Bar DFC (March 24, 1910 – September 17, 1963), better known as Sailor Malan, was a famed World War II RAF fighter pilot who led No. 74 Squadron RAF during the height of the Battle of Britain. Under his leadership the 74 became one of the RAF's best units.
- Adolph Rickenbacher
Adolph Rickenbacher (1886-1976) was the founder of the Rickenbacker guitar company. Born Adolf Rickenbacher in Switzerland and emigrating to the United States as a child, he settled in Los Angeles in 1928. He Anglicized his name to Adolph Rickenbacker, due partially to post World War I anti-German sentiments, but also to capitalize on the popularity of his cousin Eddie Rickenbacker.
- Adolph Bachmeier
Adolph (Adolf) Bachmeier is a former U.S.-Romanian soccer player. He spent most of his playing career with various teams in Chicago. He also earned fifteen caps with the U.S. national team between 1959 and 1969. He was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 2002.
- Adolph E. Borie
Adolph Edward Borie (November 25, 1809 - February 5,1880) was a United States politician who briefly served (1869) as Secretary of the Navy in the Grant administration. Borie was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended the University of Pennsylvania and graduated in 1825. In 1843 he was U.S Consul in Belgium. He became a Republican and supported the Union cause in the Civil War.
- Adolph van der Voort van Zijp
Adolph Dirk Coenraad van der Voort van Zijp (born September 1, 1892 in Klambir Lima, North Sumatra, Dutch East Indies - died March 8, 1978 in Monaco) was a Dutch horse rider who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics and in the 1928 Summer Olympics. In the 1924 Summer Olympics he won the gold medal in the individual three-day event as well as in the team three-day event.
- Adolph Northen
Adolph Northen (also credited as Adolf Northen, Adolf Northern or Adolph Northern) (November 6 1828 - May 28 1876) was a 19th century German painter. He was born in Münden, Hannover and was a pupil of Düsseldorf Painting Academy. Chiefly depicting battle scenes, and paricularly events of the Napoleonic Wars, Northen's most noted works include "Napoleon's retreat from Moscow" and "Prussian Attack", …
- Adolph II of Nassau
Adolph II (or III) of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein (c. 1423 - 6 September 1475), was the Archbishop of Mainz from 1461 until 1475. Adolph was a son of Count Adolph II of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein. In 1459 he was defeated in the election of Archbishop of Mainz by Theodoric of Isenburg-Büdingen. In 1461 Pope Pius II declared Adolph the archbishop of Mainz following the confrontational reforms of Theodoric.
- Adolph Rupp
Adolph Frederick Rupp (September 2, 1901 - December 10, 1977) is one of the most successful coaches in the history of American college basketball. Rupp is the third winningest men's college coach in total victories (after Bobby Knight and Dean Smith), winning 876 games in 41 years of coaching, and setting a remarkable standard of excellence that exists to this day. Rupp is also second among all coaches in alltime winning percentage (.822), trailing only Clair Bee.
- Adolph Dubs
Adolph "Spike" Dubs (August 4, 1920 - February 14, 1979) was the ambassador of the United States to Afghanistan from May 13 1978 to 1979. He was killed in an exchange of fire after a kidnapping attempt. Dubs was born in Chicago, Illinois and graduated from Beloit College in 1942 with a degree in political science. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II. Later, …
- Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe
Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe was a chemist. Kolbe was born in Elliehausen near Hanover, Germany. He became an assistant to Robert Wilhelm Bunsen at the University of Marburg in 1842, after studying chemistry with Friedrich Wöhler.
- Adolph Jentsch
Adolph Jentsch was a famous German-born Namibian artist, born in Dresden, Germany in 1888, and died in Windhoek, Namibia (formerly South West Africa) in 1977. He studied at Dresden Staatsakademie für Bildende Kunste for six years, and used a travel grant award to visit France, Italy, UK and The Netherlands. Jentsch moved to Namibia in 1938 to escape the approaching war and lived there until his death.
- Adolph Alexander Weinman
Adolph Alexander Weinman (December 11, 1870 - August 8, 1952) was an American sculptor, born in Karlsruhe, Germany.
- Adolph Green
Adolph Green was an American lyricist and playwright who, with long-time collaborator Betty Comden, penned the screenplays and songs for some of the most beloved movie musicals, particularly as part of Arthur Freed's production unit at MGM, during the genre's heyday. Although many people thought they were, the pair were not married, …
- Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier
Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier was an American archaeologist after whom Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico is named. Bandelier was born in Bern, Switzerland. When a youth he emigrated to the United States. After 1880 he devoted himself to archaeological and ethnological work among the Indians of the southwestern United States, Mexico and South America. Beginning his studies in Sonora (Mexico), Arizona and New Mexico, …
- Adolph Kolping
Adolph Kolping was a German Catholic priest.
- Adolph Marix
Adolph Marix (April 24, 1848-1919), was an American officer in the United States Navy, who served in the Spanish-American War. The former executive officer of the battleship "USS Maine", he served as recorder on the court of inquiry which investigated the ship's explosion in 1898. He eventually rose to the rank of vice admiral.