List of Famous people named Ad

Adrianus Herman (Ad) van Luyn, SDB, is a Dutch prelate of the Catholic Church. He was the Bishop of Rotterdam from 1994 to 2011 and President of the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community from 2006 to 2011.

Adolph Frederick "Ad" Reinhardt was an abstract painter active in New York beginning in the 1930s and continuing through the 1960s. He was a member of the American Abstract Artists and was a part of the movement centered on the Betty Parsons Gallery that became known as abstract expressionism. He was also a member of The club, the meeting place for the New York School abstract expressionist artists during the 1940s and 1950s. He wrote and lectured extensively on art and was a major influence on conceptual art, minimal art and monochrome painting. Most famous for his "black" or "ultimate" paintings, he claimed to be painting the "last paintings" that anyone can paint. He believed in a philosophy of art he called Art-as-Art and used his writing and satirical cartoons to advocate for abstract art and against what he described as "the disreputable practices of artists-as-artists".

Ad Wijnands was a Dutch professional road bicycle racer, who won two stages in the 1981 Tour de France.

Adrianus Petrus Wilhelmus "Ad" Melkert is a Dutch politician and diplomat of the Labour Party (PvdA) who is serving as a Member of the Council of State since 20 January 2016.

Ad van Kempen is a Dutch actor. He performed in more than forty films since 1974.

Adrianus Josephus Elisabeth Havermans was a Dutch politician. A member of the Catholic People's Party and later the Christian Democratic Appeal, he served as Mayor of The Hague from 1985 to 1996. He died in The Hague on 8 March 2022, at the age of 87.