List of Famous people named Adolf

Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler was a German botanist. He is notable for his work on plant taxonomy and phytogeography, such as Die natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien, edited with Karl A. E. von Prantl.

Adolf Karl Ludwig Claus was a German chemist. He is known for his structure of benzene proposed in 1867.

Adolf Jakob Wiklund was a Swedish biathlon competitor who won two world titles in 1958, individual and with a team. He competed at the 1960 Winter Olympics and finished 19th.

Adolf IX of Berg was the eldest son of Henry of Berg, Lord of Windeck and Agnes of the Mark.

Adolf Wiklund was a Swedish composer and conductor. His father was an organist. After graduating from the Royal College of Music, Stockholm as an organist and music teacher, Wiklund was awarded scholarships to study piano in Sweden and then in Paris. His debut as a piano soloist came in 1902 playing his own Konsertstycke in C major, Op 1.

Adolf Kiessling was a German philologist born in Culm. He was a specialist in the field of Roman literature.

Johann Wilhelm Adolf Kirchhoff was a German classical scholar and epigraphist.

B. Adolf Kratzer was a German theoretical physicist who made contributions to atomic physics and molecular physics, and was an authority on molecular band spectroscopy. He was born in Günzburg and died in Münster.