Adonis (disambiguation)
Appearance
Adonis is a hero in Greek mythology.
Adonis may also refer to:
Places
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Adonis (musician), house music pioneer
- Adunis (born 1930), Syrian poet
- ADONXS, Slovak singer-songwriter
Surnamed
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Adonis (plant), a genus in the plant family Ranunculaceae
- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]Search for "Adonis" on Wikipedia.
- 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