Adie is both a surname and a given name of Scottish origin, a medieval pet form of
Adam
Adam; el, Ἀδάμ, Adám; la, Adam is the name given in Genesis 1-5 to the first human. Beyond its use as the name of the first man, ''adam'' is also used in the Bible as a pronoun, individually as "a human" and in a collective sense as " ...
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Notable people with the name include:
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Alexander Adie
Alexander James Adie FRSE Member of the Wernerian Society, MWS (1775, Edinburgh – 4 December 1858, Edinburgh) was a Scottish maker of medical instruments, optician and meteorologist. He was the inventor of the sympiesometer, patented in 1818.
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(1775–1859), Scottish inventor
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George Adie (1901–1989), English stock-broker
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Kate Adie
Kathryn Adie (born 19 September 1945) is an English journalist. She was Chief News Correspondent for BBC News between 1989 and 2003, during which time she reported from war zones around the world.
She retired from the BBC in early 2003 and ...
(born 1945), British journalist
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Lilias Adie, Scottish prisoner
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Norman Adie (born 1946), film exhibitor and Ponzi schemer
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William John Adie (1886–1935), British neurologist
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Adie Allen (born 1966), British actress
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Adie Mike (born 1973), English football forward
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Adie Moses (born 1975), English footballer
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Adie Arsham Salleh (born 1988), Bruneian footballer
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Adie Smith (born 1973), English footballer
Fictional characters:
* Adie, The Sword of Truth, a fictional character in the epic fantasy series ''
The Sword of Truth
''The Sword of Truth'' is a series of twenty-one epic fantasy novels and 6 novellas written by Terry Goodkind. The books follow the protagonists Richard Cypher, Kahlan Amnell, Nicci, Cara, and Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander on their quest to defeat opp ...
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Adrienne Camp
Adrienn “Adie” Camp (née Liesching; born 12 July 1981) is a South African singer and songwriter, who is known as the lead singer of the Christian pop-rock band the Benjamin Gate before the group disbanded in 2003. She briefly contributed ...
(born 1981), singer and songwriter
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Adie Inlet
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Adie syndrome
Adie syndrome, also known as Holmes-Adie syndrome, is a neurological disorder characterized by a tonically dilated pupil that reacts slowly to light but shows a more definite response to accommodation (i.e., light-near dissociation). It is freq ...
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English given names