Adonis (disambiguation)

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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
  • Adunis (born 1930), Syrian poet
  • ADONXS, Slovak singer-songwriter

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
  • Adonis Thomas (born 1993), American basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
  • Adonis Kapsalis (born 1980) greek-american Actor

Fictional characters

  • Adonis "Donnie" Creed, protagonist of the film Creed and its sequel
  • Adonis, a fictional character from Dyosa
  • Adonis Otogari, singer from Ensemble Stars!
  • Adonis, a minor character in the Teen Titans animated series

Transportation

  • USS Adonis, a US Navy ship name
    • USS Adonis (ARL-4), a United States Navy landing craft repair ship
  • HMS Adonis, a British Royal Navy ship name
    • 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

  • Adonis (plant), a genus in the plant family Ranunculaceae
Species called adonis

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
  • Adonis (band), a Lebanese indie band

See also

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  • Adonais, 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
  • Andonis
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