Adonis (disambiguation)

Adonis is a hero in Greek mythology.

Adonis may also refer to:

Places

• Adonis, Missouri, USA
• Adonis, West Virginia, USA
• Adonis River or Abraham River, a river in Lebanon
• 2101 Adonis, a near-Earth asteroid
• Adonis, Lebanon
• Adonis Baths, a waterfall in Cyprus

People with the name

• Adonis (musician) (born 1963), house music pioneer
• Adunis (born 1930), Syrian poet
• Adonxs (born Adam Pavlovčin in 1995), Slovak singer-songwriter

Surname

• Adrian Adonis or Keith Franke (1954–1988), American professional wrestler
• Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis (born 1963), British politician
• Ashante Adonis (born 1992), stage name of Tehuti Miles, American wrestler
• Bernard Adonis, a member of the National Assembly of Seychelles
• Chris Adonis (born 1983), one stage name of Christopher Mordetzky, American wrestler
• Darren Adonis (born 1998), South African rugby player
• Frank Adonis (1935–2018), American actor
• Jerome Adonis (born 1972), Filipino labor activist
• Joe Adonis (1902–1971), New York mobster
• Neil Adonis (born 1969), South African baseball player
• Robert Adonis (born 1948), British Guyanese cricketer
• Rochelle Adonis (born 1972), Canadian-Australian chef and television personality
• Sam Adonis (born 1989), stage name of Samuel Polinsky, American wrestler

Given name

• Adonis Ajeti (born 1997), Swiss football player
• Adonis Alexander (born 1996), American football player
• Adonis Arms (born 1998), American basketball player
• Adonis Bosso (born 1990), Ivorian-Canadian model
• Adonis Carrasco (born 1993), Dominican football referee
• Adonis Diaz (born 1996), American judoka
• Adonis Durado (born 1975), Filipino poet
• Adonis Filer (born 1993), Rwandan-American basketball player
• Adonis Fotsis (born 1981), Greek basketball player
• Adonis Frías (born 1988), Argentinian football player
• Adonis García (born 1985), Cuban baseball player
• Adonis Georgiadis (born 1972), Greek politician
• Adonis Hilario (born 1965 or 1966), Brazilian football player
• Adonis Jordan (born 1970), American basketball player
• Adonis Kapsalis (born 1980), Greek-American actor
• Adonis Kemp (born 1967), Dutch baseball player
• Adonis A. Kyrou (1923–1985), Greek filmmaker and writer
• Adonis Medina (born 1996), Dominican baseball player
• Adonis Preciado (born 1990), Ecuadorian football player
• Adonis Puentes (born 1974), Cuban-Canadian singer-songwriter
• Adonis Ray (born 1944), Ghanian boxer
• Adonis Rivas (born 1972), Nicaraguan boxer
• Adonis Rosa (born 1994), Dominican baseball player
• Adonis Rose (born 1975), American drummer
• Adonis Santa Maria (born 1979), Filipino basketball player
• Adonis Sepúlveda (1919–2005), Chilean politician
• Adonis Shropshire, American songwriter
• Adonis Stevenson (born 1977), Haitian-Canadian professional boxer
• Adonis Terry (1864–1915), American baseball player
• Adonis Thomas (born 1993), American basketball player

Fictional characters

• Adonis Creed, protagonist of the film Creed and its sequel
• Adonis Otogari, singer from Ensemble Stars!
• Adonis, a character from Dyosa
• Adonis, a character in the Teen Titans animated series

Transportation

• USS Adonis, a US Navy ship name
  • USS Adonis (ARL-4), a United States Navy landing craft repair ship
• HMS Adonis, a British Royal Navy ship name
  • HMS Adonis (1806), a British Royal Navy schooner
• Adonis-class schooners, a class of Royal Navy vessels
• Adonis (1874), a wooden brigantine built at Jervis Bay, New South Wales

Technology

• ADONIS (software), a business process analysis tool
• KL-7 or ADONIS, a cipher machine
• ADONIS, an adaptive optics system on the ESO 3.6 m Telescope

Organisms

• Adonis (plant), a genus in the plant family Ranunculaceae
• Adonis blue, a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae
• Adonis opal, a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae
• Asaphodes adonis, a butterfly in the family Geometridae
• Macaria adonis, a butterfly in the family Geometridae
• Adonis tetra, a fish in the family Lepidarchidae
• Acanthicus adonis, a fish in the family Loricariidae
• Atheniella adonis, a mushroom in the genus Cyphellaceae
• Micrixalus adonis, a frog in the family Micrixalidae
• Brettus adonis, a spider in the family Salticidae
• Phidippus adonis, a spider in the family Salticidae
• Psaltoda adonis, a cicada in the family Cicadidae
• Carinodrillia adonis, a sea snail in the family Pseudomelatomidae
• Ancistrobasis adonis, a sea snail in the family Seguinziidae
• Kanamarua adonis, a sea snail in the family Colubrariidae
• Macrocneme adonis, a moth in the family Arciinae
• Fissicrambus adonis a moth in the family Crambidae
• Astrophanes adonis, a bee fly in the family Bombyliidae
• Phanaeus adonis, a dung beetle in the family Scarabaeidae
• Lampropholis adonis, a skink in the family Scincidae
• Suillellus adonis, a fungus in the family Boletaceae
• Evalljapyx adonis, a forcepstail in the family Japygidae

Other uses

• Adonis (musical), an 1884 burlesque musical
• Adonis (cocktail), a cocktail named after the musical
• Marché Adonis, a Canadian grocery store chain
• Adonis (band), a Lebanese indie band
• Adonis Geroskipou, a former Cypriot association football club
• Adonis Idaliou, a former Cypriot association football club
• Adonis Mashhad F.C., a former Iranian association football club
• Adonis (Duquesnoy), 17th-century Flemish statue

See also

• Adonais, an 1821 elegy written by Percy Shelley
• Adonis complex, a muscle dysmorphia
• Adoni (disambiguation), for the singular of Adonis
• Andonis
• Venus and Adonis
• The Birth of Adonis, a painting attributed to Titan
• The Death of Adonis
• All pages with titles containing Adonis
• All pages with titles beginning with Adonis