List of Famous people named Adolphe

Similar names: Adolf, Adolfo, Adolph. Here are some famous Adolphes:

Adolphe Sax

First Name Adolphe
Last Name Sax
Born on November 6, 1814
Died on February 4, 1894 (aged 79)
Born in Belgium, Wallonia

Antoine-Joseph "Adolphe" Sax was a Belgian inventor and musician who created the saxophone in the early 1840s, patenting it in 1846. He also invented the saxotromba, saxhorn and saxtuba. He played the flute and clarinet.

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Adolphe Thiers

Marie-Joseph-Louis-Adolphe Thiers
First Name Adolphe
Last Name Thiers
Died on September 3, 1877

Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers was a French statesman and historian. He was the second elected President of France, and the first President of the French Third Republic.

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Adolphe Teikeu

First Name Adolphe
Last Name Teikeu
Born on June 23, 1990 (age 34)
Height 189 cm | 6'2

Adolphe Teikeu Kamgang is a Cameroonian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Turkish club BB Erzurumspor and the Cameroon national team.

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Adolphe Adam

Adolphe-Charles Adam
First Name Adolphe
Last Name Adam
Born on July 24, 1803
Died on May 3, 1856 (aged 52)

Adolphe Charles Adam was a French composer and music critic. A prolific composer of operas and ballets, he is best known today for his ballets Giselle (1841) and Le corsaire, his operas Le postillon de Lonjumeau (1836), Le toréador (1849) and Si j'étais roi (1852) and his Christmas carol Minuit, chrétiens! (1844), later set to different English lyrics and widely sung as "O Holy Night" (1847). Adam was a noted teacher, who taught Delibes and other influential composers.

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Adolphe Pégoud

Célestin Adolphe Pégoud
First Name Adolphe
Last Name Pégoud
Born on June 13, 1889
Died on August 31, 1915 (aged 26)

Adolphe Célestin Pégoud was a French aviator and flight instructor who became the first fighter ace in history during World War I.

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Adolphe Schneider

First Name Adolphe
Last Name Schneider
Born on October 23, 1802
Died on August 3, 1845 (aged 42)
Born in France, Grand Est

Adolphe Schneider was a French financier and industrialist who developed a major metalworking enterprise at Le Creusot, the parent of today's Schneider Electric.

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Adolphe Clément-Bayard

Gustave Adolphe Clément
First Name Adolphe
Last Name Clément-Bayard
Born on September 22, 1855
Died on May 10, 1928 (aged 72)

Gustave Adolphe Clément, from 1909 Clément-Bayard, was a French entrepreneur. An orphan who became a blacksmith and a Compagnon du Tour de France, he went on to race and manufacture bicycles, pneumatic tyres, motorcycles, automobiles, aeroplanes and airships.

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Prince Adolf of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorp

First Name Prince
Born on September 15, 1600
Died on September 19, 1631 (aged 31)
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Adolphe Barrot

First Name Adolphe
Last Name Barrot
Born on October 14, 1801
Died on June 15, 1870 (aged 68)

Théodore-Adolphe Barrot was a French diplomat during the July Monarchy, the French Second Republic and the Second French Empire. He served in Colombia, the Philippines, Haiti, Brazil, Portugal, Naples, Belgium and Spain. He became a senator just before his retirement.

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Adolphe Menjou

First Name Adolphe
Last Name Menjou
Born on February 18, 1890
Died on October 29, 1963 (aged 73)

Adolphe Jean Menjou was an American actor. His career spanned both silent films and talkies. He appeared in such films as Charlie Chaplin's A Woman of Paris, where he played the lead role; Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory with Kirk Douglas; Ernst Lubitsch's The Marriage Circle; The Sheik with Rudolph Valentino; Morocco with Marlene Dietrich and Gary Cooper; and A Star Is Born with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March, and was nominated for an Academy Award for The Front Page in 1931.

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