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Adonis (disambiguation)

Adonis is a hero in Greek mythology.

Adonis may also refer to:

Places

  • Adonis, Missouri, USA
  • Adonis, West Virginia, USA
  • Adonis River or Abraham River, a river in Lebanon
  • 2101 Adonis, a near-Earth asteroid

People with the name

  • Adonis (musician), house music pioneer
  • Adonis (poet) or Adunis (Ali Ahmad Said Esber), Syrian poet (born 1930)


Surnamed

  • Adrian Adonis or Keith Franke (1954–1988), American professional wrestler
  • Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis (born 1963), British politician
  • Bernard Adonis, a member of the National Assembly of Seychelles
  • Joe Adonis (1902–1971), New York mobster
  • Neil Adonis (born 1969), South African baseball player

Given named

  • Adonis Alexander (born 1996), American football player
  • Adonis Medina (born 1996), Dominican baseball player
  • Adonis Stevenson (born 1977), Haitian-Canadian professional boxer

Fictional characters

Transportation

  • USS Adonis, a US Navy shipname
  • HMS Adonis, a British Royal Navy shipname
    • HMS Adonis (1806), a British Royal Navy schooner
  • Adonis class schooners, a class of Royal Navy vessels
  • Adonis (1874), a wooden brigantine built at Jervis Bay, New South Wales

Technology

  • ADONIS (software), a business process analysis tool
  • KL-7 or ADONIS, a cipher machine
  • ADONIS, an adaptive optics system on the ESO 3.6 m Telescope

Biology

Species called adonis
  • Acanthicus adonis (A. adonis), a species of catfish
  • Ancistrobasis adonis (A. adonis), a species of sea snail
  • Asaphodes adonis (A. adonis), a species of moth
  • Astrophanes adonis (A. adonis), a species of beefly
  • Atheniella adonis (A. adonis), a species of mushroom
  • Brettus adonis (B. adonis), a species of spider
  • Carinodrillia adonis (C. adonis), a species of sea snail
  • Chrysoritis adonis (C. adonis), a species of butterfly
  • Adonis tetra (L. adonis), a species of fish
  • Macaria adonis (M. adonis), a species of moth
  • Macrocneme adonis (M. adonis), a species of moth
  • Mahatha adonis (M. adnois), a species of crab
  • Micrixalus adonis (M. adonis), a species of frog
  • Morpho adonis (M. adonis), a species of butterfly
  • Mycena adonis (M. adonis), a species of fungus
  • Phanaeus adonis (P. adonis), a species of beetle
  • Psaltoda adonis (P. adonis), a species of cicada
  • Suillellus adonis (S. adonis), a species of fish

Other uses

  • Adonis (musical), an 1884 burlesque musical
  • Adonis (cocktail), a cocktail named after the musical
  • Marché Adonis, a grocery store chain in Quebec and Ontario, Canada

See also

  • Adonaïs, an 1821 elegy written by Percy Shelley
  • Adonis Complex, a muscle dysmorphia
  • All pages with titles containing Adonis
  • All pages with titles beginning with Adonis
  • Adoni (disambiguation), for the singular of Adonis
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