List of Famous people named Adrian
Adrian Peterson
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 Grenier
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).
Adrian Fulford
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
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
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 Suar
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
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.
Adrián Lastra
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.
Adrian Lamo
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
Adrian Chiles is a British television and radio presenter, currently working for BBC Radio 5 Live.