List of Famous people named Adolf

Adolph II von der Mark was the Prince-Bishop of Liège from 1313 until his death in 1344.

Adolf II of Holstein was the Count of Schauenburg and Holstein from 1130 until his death, though he was briefly out of Holstein from 1137 until 1142. He succeeded his father Adolf I under the regency of his mother, Hildewa.

Count Adolf of Nassau-Siegen, German: Adolf Graf von Nassau-Siegen, official titles: Graf zu Nassau, Katzenelnbogen, Vianden und Diez, Herr zu Beilstein, was a count from the House of Nassau-Siegen, a cadet branch of the Ottonian Line of the House of Nassau. He served as an officer in the Dutch States Army. In the propaganda for the House of Orange, he is regarded as one of the twelve heroes of the House of Nassau who gave their lives in the Eighty Years’ War for the freedom of the Dutch people.

Adolf Wagner was a German weightlifter who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in middleweight category. He lifted a total of 352.5 kg at bodyweight of 74 kg. He was a member of the club He also won the gold medal in the 1938 World weightlifting championships. VKSA Essen 88.

Adolf Neubauer was sublibrarian at the Bodleian Library and reader in Rabbinic Hebrew at Oxford University.

Adolf Süsterhenn (1905–1974) was a German constitutional lawyer and politician. He worked on the state constitution for Rhineland-Palatinate and was on the Parlamentarischer Rat, which drafted the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany. He was born on May 31, 1905, in Cologne and was Minister for Culture and Justice in Rhineland-Palatinate between 1946 and 1951 for Christian Democratic Union of Germany. He also served on the European Commission of Human Rights from 1954 to 1973. He died in Cologne on November 24, 1974, at the age of 69.