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Notable Adlers

Actors, writers and producers

Alfred Adler Alfred Adler ( ; ; 7 February 1870 – 28 May 1937) was an Austrian medical doctor, psychotherapist, and founder of the school of individual psychology. His emphasis on the importance of feelings of belonging, relationships within the family, a ...

(1870–1937), Austrian doctor and psychotherapist * Allen Adler (1916–1964), American writer *

Bill Adler Bill Adler (born December 18, 1951) is an American music journalist and critic. Since the late 1960s, he has worked in the music business in a variety of capacities, including as a record store clerk, radio disc jockey, critic, publicist, biogra ...

(born 1951), American music journalist * Bruce Adler (1944–2008), American actor * Celia Adler (1891–1979), American Jewish actress * Charles Adler (broadcaster) (born 1954), Canadian broadcaster * Charlie Adler (born 1956), American voice actor * Cyrus Adler (1863–1940), American educator * David A. Adler (born 1947), Writer of children's books * Elizabeth Adler (born 1950), British author * Elkan Nathan Adler (1861–1946), British historian and manuscript collector * Friedrich Adler (writer) (1857–1938), Czech-Austrian politician * Helena Adler (1983–2024), Austrian writer and visual artist * H. G. Adler (1910–1988), German Jewish poet and novelist * Jacob Pavlovich Adler (1855–1926), born Yankev P. Adler, Ukrainian-born Jewish actor and a star in Yiddish theater *

Jay Adler Jay Adler (August 4, 1896 – September 24, 1978) was an American actor in theater, television, and film. Early life Jay Adler was born in New York City, the eldest son of actors Jacob and Sara Adler. He had five actor siblings, including stage ...

(1896–1978), American actor in theater, television, and film *

Jerry Adler Jerry Adler (born February 4, 1929) is an American theatre director, producer, and film and television actor. He is perhaps best known for his films '' Manhattan Murder Mystery'', '' The Public Eye'', '' In Her Shoes'', and ''Prime'', and for hi ...

(born 1929), American theatre director, production supervisor and television and film actor * Julius Ochs Adler (1892–1955), American publisher, journalist, and United States Army General * Jussi Adler-Olsen (born 1950), Danish writer * Katya Adler (born 1972), British journalist, who is the BBC's Europe editor * Lou Adler (journalist) (1929–2017), American broadcaster * Lou Adler (1933–), American record producer, manager, and director * Luther Adler (1903–1984), American actor and director on Broadway * María Raquel Adler (1900–1974), Argentine poet *

Margot Adler Margot Susanna Adler (April 16, 1946 – July 28, 2014) was an American author, journalist, and lecturer. She worked as a correspondent for National Public Radio for 35 years, became bureau chief of the New York office, and could be heard frequen ...

(1946–2014), author, journalist, Wiccan priestess and elder, NPR correspondent in New York City * Maurice Adler (1909–1960), American film producer and 20th Century Fox production head * Max Adler (actor) (born 1986), American actor *

Mortimer J. Adler Mortimer Jerome Adler (; December 28, 1902 – June 28, 2001) was an American philosopher, educator, encyclopedist, popular author and lay theologian. As a philosopher he worked within the Aristotelian and Thomistic traditions. He taught at ...

(1902–2001), American Aristotelian philosopher, author, and educator * Renata Adler (born 1938), American journalist and writer * Sara Adler (1858–1953), Ukrainian Jewish actress in Yiddish theater * Sonya Adler or Sonya Oberlander (c.1862–1886), one of the first women to perform in Yiddish theater in Imperial Russia *

Stella Adler Stella Adler (February 10, 1901 – December 21, 1992) was an American actress and acting teacher. A member of Yiddish Theater's Adler dynasty, Adler began acting at a young age. She shifted to producing, directing, and teaching, founding the ...

(1901–1992), Jewish-American actress and acting teacher *

Warren Adler Warren Adler (December 16, 1927 – April 15, 2019) was an American author, playwright and poet. His novel ''The War of the Roses'' was turned into a dark comedy starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito. A remake titled ' ...

(1927–2019), American writer * Sarah Adler (born 1978), French actress

Engineers and scientists

* Ada Adler (1878–1946), Danish classical scholar * August Adler (1863–1923), Austrian mathematician * Benjamin Adler (1903–1990), American inventor * Charles Adler Jr. (1899–1980), American inventor * Darin Adler, software architect * David Adler (1935–1987), American physicist * Edda Adler (born 1937), Argentine chemist and biologist * George J. Adler (1821–1868), a noted philologist, linguist and author of ''A Practical Grammar of the Latin Language'' * Howard I. Adler (1931–1998), biologist, founder of Oxyrase Inc. * Irving Adler (1913–2012) author, mathematician, scientist, political activist and educator * Johan Gunder Adler (1784–1852), Danish civil servant and a co-author of the

Constitution of Norway The 'Constitution of Norway'' (complete name: The Constitution of the Kingdom of Norway; Danish language, Danish: ; Norwegian language, Norwegian Bokmål: ; Nynorsk, Norwegian Nynorsk: ) was adopted on 16 May and signed on 17 May 1814 by the N ...

Mark Adler Mark Adler (born 1959) is an American software engineer. He is best known for his work in the field of data compression as the author of the Adler-32 checksum function, and a co-author, together with Jean-loup Gailly, of the zlib compression lib ...

(born 1959), Mars Exploration Rover mission manager, co-author of zlib, inventor of Adler-32 checksum * Nancy Adler (1946–2024), American health psychologist * Niclas Adler (born 1971), Swedish organizational theorist * Robert Adler (1913–2007), inventor of the remote control * Saul Adler (1895–1966), British-Israeli expert on parasitology * Stephen L. Adler (born 1939), American physicist * Jonathan Adler (born 1988), Israeli engineer * Regina Kapeller-Adler (1900–1991), Austrian biochemist and inventor of histidine-detecting urine pregnancy tests

Musicians

Chris Adler Christopher James Adler (born November 23, 1972) is an American musician, best-known as a founding member and the longtime drummer of Heavy metal music, heavy metal band Lamb of God (band), Lamb of God from 1994 to 2019. He was also a Grammy A ...

(born 1972), drummer of the metal band

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* Cisco Adler (born 1978), the artist featured in all songs of the artist Shwayze * Guido Adler (1855–1941), Bohemian-Austrian musicologist and writer on music * Hans G. Adler (1904–1979), South African pianist, musicologist, and antique keyboard instrument collector * Henry Adler, American drum kit educator, player and actor *

Hugo Chaim Adler Hugo Chaim Adler (17 January 1894 – 24 December 1955), was a Belgian cantor, composer, and choir conductor. He is primarily recognized for creating and popularizing contemporary versions of 19th-century Jewish cantorial music. He is the father ...

(1896–1955), Belgian composer, cantor, and choir conductor * James Adler (born 1950), American composer and pianist * Julia Rebekka Adler (born 1978), German violist *

Larry Adler Lawrence Cecil Adler (February 10, 1914 – August 6, 2001) was an American harmonica player and film composer. Known for playing major works, he played compositions by George Gershwin, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Malcolm Arnold, Darius Milhaud ...

(1914–2001), American musician, widely acknowledged as one of the world's most skilled harmonica players *

Oskar Adler Oskar Adler (4 June 187515 May 1955) was an Austrian violinist, Medicine, physician and Western esotericism, esoteric savant. He was the brother of the political theorist Max Adler (Marxist), Max Adler and a key early influence on his contemporary ...

(1875–1955), Austrian violinist, physician and esoteric savant, brother of Max Adler. *

Richard Adler Richard Adler (August 3, 1921 – June 21, 2012) was an American lyricist, writer, composer and producer of several Broadway shows. He is best known for his work with Jerry Ross (composer), Jerry Ross on the musicals ''The Pajama Game'' (1954) a ...

(1921–2012), Jewish-American lyricist, composer and producer of several Broadway shows * Samuel Adler (born 1928), Jewish-American composer and conductor *

Steven Adler Steven Adler (born Michael Coletti; January 22, 1965) is an American musician. He was the drummer and co-songwriter of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses, with whom he achieved worldwide success in the late 1980s. Adler was fired from Guns N' R ...

(born 1965), a drummer for the hard rock band Guns N' Roses * Vincent Adler, Hungarian pianist and composer * Willie Adler (born 1976), guitarist of the metal band Lamb of God

Conductors

* Frederick Charles Adler (1889–1959), London-born conductor known as "F. Charles Adler" * Kurt Adler (1907–1977), Austrian-American conductor, Metropolitan Opera Chorus Master from 1943 to 1973 * Kurt Herbert Adler (1905–1988), Vienna-born American conductor, San Francisco Opera general director from 1953 to 1981 * Peter Herman Adler (1899–1990), Czech-born American conductor, director of NBC Opera Theatre from 1950 to 1964

Politicians

* Brigitte Adler (1944–2004), German politician * Charles S. Adler (1862–1911), American politician from New York * Ernie Adler (born 1950), American politician from Nevada * Friedrich Adler (1879–1960), Austrian revolutionary politician, son of Viktor Adler * John Adler (1959–2011), American politician from New Jersey * Julius Adler (1894–1945), German politician * Steve Adler (born 1956), American politician, former mayor of Austin, Texas * Victor Adler (1852–1918), Austrian Social Democratic leader

Rabbis and theologians

Felix Adler (professor) Felix Adler (August 13, 1851 – April 24, 1933) was a German-American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, influential lecturer on euthanasia, religious leader and social reformer who founded the Ethical Culture movement. ...

(1851–1933), leader of ethical humanism * Hermann Adler (1839–1911), Orthodox Chief Rabbi of the British Empire, 1891–1911 * Johann Kaspar Adler (1488–1560), also Kaspar Aquila or Caspari Aquilae, German reformer * Michael Adler (1868–1944), first Jewish chaplain to the British Army * Nathan Adler (1741–1800), German kabbalist * Nathan Marcus Adler (1803–1890), Orthodox Chief Rabbi of the British Empire, 1845–1891 * Samuel Adler (rabbi) (1809–1891), German-American Reform rabbi

Athletes

* Anders Adler (born 1982), Swedish ice hockey player * Daniel Adler (sailor) (born 1958), Brazilian sailor * Jens Adler (born 1965), German football player * Kim Adler, American bowler * Nicky Adler (born 1985), German football player * Nikki Adler (born 1987), German boxer * Oliver Adler (born 1967), German football player * René Adler (born 1985), German football player * Thomas Adler (born 1965), German football player

Others

(1870–1937), Austrian psychologist, founder of the school of individual psychology * Coleman Adler (1868–1938), Jeweler and founder of Adler's Jewelry in New Orleans in 1898 * Daniel Adler (prosecutor) (born 1963), Argentine lawyer *

Dankmar Adler Dankmar Adler (July 3, 1844 – April 16, 1900) was a German-born American architect and civil engineer. He is best known for his fifteen-year partnership with Louis Sullivan, during which they designed influential skyscrapers that boldly addr ...

(1844–1900), German-born American architect * David B. Adler (1826–1878), Jewish-Danish banker * Freda Adler (born 1934), criminologist * Friedrich Adler (architect) (1827–1908), German architect and archaeologist *

Friedrich Adler (artist) Friedrich Adler (29 April 1878 – c. 11 July 1942) was a Jewish-German artist, designer and academic. He was renowned for his accomplishments in designing metalwork in the Art Nouveau and Art deco styles; he was also the first designer to use b ...

(1878–1942), German artist and designer, murdered in the Holocaust * Hans Hermann Adler (1891–1956), German professor of journalism at the University of Heidelberg * Jacob O. Adler (1913–1999), Professor of Economics and Business at the University of Hawaii * Jankel Adler (1895–1949), Polish painter and printmaker * Jonathan Adler (born 1966), American potter, designer, and author * Jonathan H. Adler (born 1969), Professor of Law at Case Western University School of Law * Karl-Heinz Adler (1927–2018), German artist * Matthew Adler (born 1962), American law professor * Max Adler (Sears) (1866–1952), American businessman and philanthropist * Max Adler (Marxist) (1873–1937), Austrian social theorist, brother of

. * Rodney Adler (born 1959), Australian businessman and white collar criminal * Ruth Adler (1944–1994), feminist, human rights campaigner and child welfare advocate * Saidie May (1879–1951), born as Saidie Adler, American art collector * Salomon Adler (1630–1709), German painter of the Baroque period * Solomon Adler (1909–1994), Soviet spy who supplied information to the Silvermaster espionage ring * Valerie Adler, South African artist

Fictional characters

* Adler von Berg, a Luftwaffe pilot-turned-adventurer, of the Belgian comics series '' Adler'' by René Sterne * Grace Adler, female lead in the TV series ''Will and Grace'' * Henry Adler, main character in David Wellington's film '' I Love a Man in Uniform'' *

Irene Adler Irene Adler is a fictional character in the Sherlock Holmes stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A former opera singer and actress, she was featured in the short story " A Scandal in Bohemia", published in July 1891. Adler is one of the ...

, fictional character featured in the Sherlock Holmes story "A Scandal in Bohemia" by Arthur Conan Doyle. *Judith Adler, fictional character in '' The Case of the Toxic Spell Dump'' by Harry Turtledove *Klaus Adler, would-be Führer of the Moon Nazis in the movie '' Iron Sky'' (2012) *Rafe Adler, the main antagonist of '' Uncharted 4: A Thief's End'' *Russell Adler, a character of '' Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War'' by

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* Sadie Adler, character in ''

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'' * Samantha Adler, arms dealer in the novel series ''Son Altesse Sérénissime'' * Scott Adler, a fictional character featured in the Tom Clancy Jack Ryan universe novels. Adler is a career U.S. Department of State employee who rises throughout the series, eventually becoming Secretary of State. * Vincent Adler, antagonist behind the first two seasons of '' White Collar'' * Wilhelm Adler, main character in Saul Bellow's novella '' Seize the Day'' * Ben Adler, recurring character in the second season of '' Lost in Space (2018)''

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