List of Famous people named Adrian

Adrian Lewis Peterson is an American football running back for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Oklahoma, where he set the freshman rushing record with 1,925 yards during the 2004 season. Named a unanimous All-American that year, he became the first freshman to finish as a runner-up in the Heisman Trophy balloting. Peterson finished his college football career as the Sooners' third all-time leading rusher. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest running backs in football history.

Adrian Sean Grenier is an American actor, producer, director, musician and environmentalist. He is best known for his portrayal of Vincent Chase in the television series Entourage (2004–2011). He has appeared in films such as Drive Me Crazy (1999), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Trash Fire (2016), and Marauders (2016).

Sir Adrian Bruce Fulford, styled The Rt Hon. Lord Justice Fulford, is a Lord Justice of Appeal and became, in 2017, the first Investigatory Powers Commissioner, a post he held until October 2019, when he became Vice-President of the Court of Appeal, in succession to Lady Justice Hallett DBE.

Adrián Beltré Pérez is a Dominican former professional baseball third baseman. Originally signed as an amateur free agent, he made his Major League Baseball (MLB) debut with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 1998 at age 19. He subsequently played for the Seattle Mariners, Boston Red Sox, and Texas Rangers. He batted and threw right-handed. He became one of the most all-around accomplished players in history; he ranks 13th in defensive Wins Above Replacement and was the fourth third baseman to reach 400 home runs and 1,500 runs batted in. Beltré was a four-time selection for the Silver Slugger Award and MLB All-Star Game, and a five-time winner of the Rawlings Gold Glove Award.

Adrian Mannarino is a French professional tennis player who is currently ranked world No. 38 in ATP singles rankings as of 9 March 2020. He has a career-high ATP singles rankings of world No. 22 attained on 19 March 2018. He won his first ATP Tour singles title in 2019 in Rosmalen on grass. He was the singles runner-up at eight ATP Tour tournaments held in Auckland, Bogotá, Antalya (2017), Tokyo, Antalya (2018), Moscow (2018), Zhuhai and Moscow (2019). Mannarino has achieved victories over five players ranked in the Top 10 of the ATP singles rankings; Marin Čilić, Milos Raonic, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Stan Wawrinka and Stefanos Tsitsipas.

Adrián Kirzner Schwartz, better known as Adrián Suar, is an American-born Argentine actor, media producer and businessman who is the programme director of Canal 13.

Adrian Dunbar is an Irish actor and director from Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, best known for his television and theatre work. Dunbar co-wrote and starred in the 1991 film, Hear My Song, nominated for Best Original Screenplay at the BAFTA awards.

Luis Adrián Álvaro Lastra, known professionally as Adrián Lastra, is a Spanish actor, dancer and singer, known for his performance as 'Pedro' in the TV series Velvet and Velvet Colección.

Adrián Alfonso Lamo Atwood was an American threat analyst and hacker. Lamo first gained media attention for breaking into several high-profile computer networks, including those of The New York Times, Yahoo!, and Microsoft, culminating in his 2003 arrest.

Adrian Chiles is a British television and radio presenter, currently working for BBC Radio 5 Live.

Adrián Fernández Mier is a former professional race car driver and he was co-owner of the Fernandez Racing team.

This article uses a Belgian surname: his surname is Carton de Wiart, not Wiart

Adrian Lewis is an English professional darts player currently playing in the PDC. He is a two-time PDC World Darts Champion, winning in 2011 and 2012. He is nicknamed Jackpot, as he won a jackpot gambling in Las Vegas in 2005, but he was unable to collect the money as he was 20 years old, below the US legal gambling age of 21.

Adrian Pasdar is an American actor and voice artist. He is known for playing Jim Profit on the TV series Profit, for his roles in Near Dark, Carlito's Way, Mysterious Ways and as Nathan Petrelli on Heroes. Additionally, he directed the feature film Cement. Pasdar is the voice of Iron Man in Marvel Anime as well as in the animated series Ultimate Spider-Man and Avengers Assemble. He also played district attorney Alec Rybak on The Lying Game and had a recurring role as Glenn Talbot on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.. He has appeared on the American TV drama Grand Hotel as Felix.

Adrian Anthony Lester is an English actor, director, and writer.

Adrian Joseph Cronauer was a United States Air Force Airman 1st Class and radio personality whose experiences as an innovative disc jockey on American Forces Network during the Vietnam War inspired the 1987 film Good Morning, Vietnam starring Robin Williams as Cronauer.

Adrián Ezequiel Yospe Rodriguez was an Argentine actor. He appeared in 13 films between 1991 and 2011.

Adrian Schoolcraft is a former New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer who secretly recorded police conversations from 2008 to 2009. He brought these tapes to NYPD investigators in October 2009 as evidence of corruption and wrongdoing within the department. He used the tapes as evidence that arrest quotas were leading to police abuses such as wrongful arrests, while the emphasis on fighting crime sometimes resulted in underreporting of crimes to keep the numbers down.

Adrián González Savín, also known by his nicknames "A-Gon" and "Titán", is an Mexican-American former professional baseball first baseman, now an announcer for Fox Deportes Baseball team. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Texas Rangers, San Diego Padres, Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Mets.

Adrian Mutu is a Romanian football coach and former player who is currently the coach of the Romania national under-21 team. During his playing career, he was deployed as an attacking midfielder or a forward.