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Adrian Adrian is a form of the Latin given name Adrianus or Hadrianus. Its ultimate origin is most likely via the former river Adria from the Venetic and Illyrian word ''adur'', meaning "sea" or "water". The Adria was until the 8th century BC the ma ...

. Before the 19th century the spelling Adriaen was also common, and people used the spelling interchangeably.

People with the given name

Artists

* Adriaen Backer (1635–1684), Dutch portrait painter * Adriaen Cornelisz Beeldemaker (1618–1709), Dutch Golden Age painter * Adriaen de Bie (1593–1668), Flemish painter * Adriaan Bloemaert (c. 1609 – 1666), Dutch painter * Adriaen van Bloemen (1639 – c. 1679), Flemish Baroque painter, printmaker, draughtsman and engraver * Adriaan Bonsel (1918–2011), Dutch composer * Adriaen Brouwer (1605–1638), Flemish genre painter * Adriaen Frans Boudewijns (1644–1719), Flemish landscape painter * Adriaan van der Burg (1693–1733), Dutch painter * Adriaen van der Cabel (1631–1705), Dutch painter of the Dutch school * Adriaen Frans Boudewijns (1644–1719), Flemish landscape painter, draughtsman and etcher * Adriaen Collaert (c. 1560 – 1618), Flemish designer and engraver * Adriaen Coorte (c. 1665 – 1707+), Dutch still life painter *

Adriaen Pietersz Crabeth Adriaen Pietersz Crabeth (1510 —1553) was a Renaissance glass painter from the Habsburg Netherlands. Life Crabeth was born in Gouda, South Holland, Gouda. According to Karel van Mander, he had been the pupil of the glass painter Jan Swart van ...

(1510–1553), Dutch Renaissance glass painter * Adriaen van Cronenburg (c. 1525 – 1604+), Dutch portrait painter * Adriaen van Diest (1655–1704), Dutch painter * Adriaan Dortsman (1635–1682), Dutch architect * Adriaen van Eemont (1626–1662), Dutch still life and landscape painter * Adriaen Foly (1664–1701), Danish painter * Adriaen van Gaesbeeck (1621–1650), Dutch genre painter * Adriaan Geuze (born 1960), Dutch landscape architect * Adriaen de Grijef (1657–1722), Dutch painter *

Adriaen Hanneman Adriaen Hanneman (c. 1603 – buried 11 July 1671) was a Dutch Golden Age painter best known for his portraits of the exiled British royal court. His style was strongly influenced by his contemporary, Anthony van Dyck. Biography He was born into ...

(1603–1671), Dutch portrait painter * Adriaan Jozef Heymans (1839–1921), Belgian impressionist landscape painter * Adriaen Honich (1643 – c. 1684), Dutch landscape painter *

Adriaen Isenbrandt Adriaen Isenbrandt or Adriaen Ysenbrandt (between 1480 and 1490 – July 1551) was a painter in Bruges, in the final years of Early Netherlandish painting, and the first of the Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painting of the Northern Renaissance. ...

(c.1485–1551), Flemish Northern Renaissance painter * Adriaen Thomasz Key (c. 1544 – c. 1599), Flemish portrait painter * Adriaen Jansz Kraen (1619–1679), Dutch still life painter * Adriaan de Lelie (1755–1820), Dutch painter * Adriaen Cornelisz van Linschoten (1590–1677), Dutch Golden Age painter *

Adriaen Matham Adriaen Matham (1590 – 1660) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, engraver and art dealer. He was part of an embassy to the Saadi dynasty of Morocco and also made some engravings while there. He married three times, once in Amsterdam and later lived ...

(1590–1660), Dutch Golden Age painter, engraver and art dealer * Adriaen van Nieulandt (1587–1658), Dutch painter, draughtsman and engraver * Adriaen van Oolen (c. 1650 – 1709), Dutch bird, landscape and still life painter * Adriaen van Ostade (1610–1685), Dutch genre painter * Adriaen Oudendijck (1677–1704), Dutch landscape painter * Adriaen van Salm (c. 1660 – 1720), Dutch marine draftsman and painter * Adriaen van der Spelt (c. 1630 – 1673), Dutch Golden Age flower painter * Adriaan van Stalbemt (1580–1662), Flemish Baroque painter * Adriaen van Utrecht (1599–1652), Flemish Baroque still life painter * Adriaen Valerius (c. 1575 – 1625), Dutch poet and composer * Adriaen van de Velde (1636–1672), Dutch animal and landscape painter * Adriaen van de Venne (1589–1662), Dutch painter, miniaturist, book-illustrator and designer of political satires * Adriaen Hendriksz Verboom (1627–1673), Dutch Golden Age landscape painter * Adriaan Verbuch (fl. 1600), Dutch Golden Age painter * Adriaen Verdoel (c. 1620 – 1675), Dutch Golden Age painter * Adriaen de Vries (c. 1556 – 1626), Dutch Northern Mannerist sculptor * Adriaan Gerritsz de Vrije (c. 1570 – 1643), Dutch glass painter * Adriaen de Weever (c. 1510 – c. 1590), Flemish Renaissance painter * Adriaen van der Werff (1659–1722), accomplished Dutch painter * Adriaan Willaert (c. 1490 – 1562), Flemish composer

Scholars and scientists

* Adriaan Adriaanszoon (1571–1635), Dutch geometer and astronomer * Adriaan Anthonisz (1541–1620), Durtch mathematician and engineer, mayor of Alkmaar, father of above * Adriaan van Baarland (1486–1538), Dutch historian * Adriaan Bax (born 1956), Dutch molecular biophysicist * Adriaan Blaauw (1814–2000), Dutch astronomer * Adriaan Gilles Camper (1759–1820), Dutch mathematics and physicist *

Adriaan Fokker Adriaan Daniël Fokker (; 17 August 1887 – 24 September 1972) was a Dutch physicist. He worked in the fields of special relativity and statistical mechanics. He was the inventor of the Fokker organ, a 31 equal temperament, 31-tone equal-temp ...

(1887–1972), Dutch physicist and musician *

Adriaan de Groot Adrianus Dingeman (Adriaan) de Groot ( Santpoort, 26 October 1914 – Schiermonnikoog, 14 August 2006) was a Dutch chess master and psychologist, who conducted some of the most famous chess experiments of all time in the 1940s-60. In 1946 he ...

(1914–2006), Dutch chess master and psychologist * Adriaan de Groot (born 1973), Dutch computer programmer * Adriaan Heereboord (1613–1661), Dutch philosopher and logician * Adriaen de Jonghe (1511–1575), Dutch physician, classical scholar, translator, lexicographer, etc. * Adriaan Kluit (1735–1807), Dutch linguist * Adriaan Koerbagh (1633–1669), Dutch scholar and writer *

Adriaan Kortlandt Adriaan Kortlandt (25 January 1918, Rotterdam – 18 October 2009, Amsterdam) was a Dutch Ethology, ethologist. He has been described together with Vernon Reynolds and Jane Goodall as "...one of a trio of pioneers ... who founded field research, ...

(1918–2009), Dutch ethologist * Adriaan van Maanen (1884–1946), Dutch–American astronomer *

Adriaan Metius Adriaan Adriaanszoon, called Metius, (9 December 1571 – 6 September 1635), was a Dutch geometer and astronomer born in Alkmaar. The name "Metius" comes from the Dutch word ''meten'' ("measuring"), and therefore means something like "measurer" ...

(1571–1635), Dutch geometer and astronomer * Adriaan Isebree Moens (1846–1891), Dutch physician and physiologist * Adriaan Nicolaas Petrus Pelzer (1915–1981), South African Afrikaans academic, historian and author * Adriaan Hendrik Johan Prins (1921–2000), Dutch Africanist and maritime anthropologist * Adriaan Reland (1676–1718), Dutch Orientalist scholar, cartographer and philologist *

Adriaan van Roomen Adriaan van Roomen (29 September 1561 – 4 May 1615), also known as Adrianus Romanus, was a mathematician, professor of medicine and medical astrologer from the Duchy of Brabant in the Habsburg Netherlands who was active throughout Central Europ ...

(1561–1615), Flemish mathematician * Adriaan Joseph van Rossem (1892–1949), American ornithologist * Adriaan van Royen (1704–1779), Dutch botanist * Adriaan van den Spiegel (1578–1625), Flemish anatomist * Adriaen Verwer (c. 1655 – 1717), Dutch Mennonite merchant, scholar, philosopher and linguist * Adriaan Vlacq (1600–1667), Dutch book publisher and author of mathematical tables * Adriaan Wesselink (1909–1995), Dutch astronomer * Adriaan van Wijngaarden (1916–1987), Dutch mathematician and computer scientist * Adriaan van der Willigen Pz. (1810–1876), Dutch doctor and historian * Adriaan Cornelis Zaanen (1913–2003), Dutch mathematician

Sportspeople

* Adriaan Botha (sprinter) (born 1977), South African sprinter * Adriaan Carelse (born 1995), South African rugby player * Adriaan Engelbrecht (born 1990), South African rugby player * Adriaan Fondse (born 1983), South African rugby player * Adriaan Katte (1900–1991), Dutch field hockey player * Adriaan Koonings (1895–1963), Dutch footballer * Adriaan Paulen (1902–1985), Dutch athlete and president of the IAAF * Adriaan Richter (born 1966), South African rugby player * Adriaan Strauss (born 1985), South African rugby player

Statesmen, religious leaders and military leaders

* Adriaen Banckert (1615–1684), Dutch admiral * Adriaen Maertensz Block (1582–1661), successively captain, commander, and governor of the Ambon Island * Adriaan Boeyens (1459–1523), Dutch pope (Adrian VI) * Adriaan Dijxhoorn (1889–1953), Dutch Minister of Defence during the German invasion of the Netherlands in 1940 * Adriaan Engelvaart (1812–1893), Dutch military commander and politician * Adriaan van Flodroff (died 1690), Dutch Major General of cavalry * Adriaan Florensz (1459–1523), Dutch pope (Adrian VI) * Adriaan van der Meyden (fl. 1653–63), Dutch Governor of Ceylon * Adriaan Pauw (1585–1653), Grand Pensionary of Holland * Adriaan van der Stel (died 1646), Dutch governor of Mauritius * Adriaan Valckenier (1695–1751), Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies from 1737 to 1741 * Adriaan Vlok (1937–2023), South African politician

Writers, actors, film directors

* Adriaan van Dis (born 1946), Dutch author * Adriaan Ditvoorst (1940–1987), Dutch film director and screenwriter * Adriaan Kyvon (born 1947), Dutch comedian, television producer and screenwriter * Adriaan Loosjes (1761–1818), Dutch botanist, poet, novelist and publisher * Adriaan van Hees (1910–1976), Dutch actor and member of the NSB * Adriaan van Meerbeeck (1563–1627), Flemish writer and translator * Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak (born 1929), Dutch educator, editor and author * Adriaan Poirters (1605–1674), Dutch Jesuit poet and prose writer * Adriaan Roland Holst (1888–1976), Dutch writer, nicknamed the "Prince of Dutch Poets" * Adriaan van Toor (born 1942), Dutch comedian

Other

Adriaen van Bergen A Dutch skipper from Leur, Adriaen van Bergen devised the plot to recapture the city of Breda from the Spanish during the Eighty Years' War. In February 1590, he approached Prince Maurice with a Trojan Horse In Greek mythology, the Troja ...

(fl. 1590), devised the plot to recapture the city of Breda from the Spanish during the Eighty Years' War *

Adriaen Block Adriaen Courtsen Block (c. 1567 – 27 April 1627) was a Dutch private trader, privateer, and ship's captain who is best known for exploring the coastal and river valley areas between present-day New Jersey and Massachusetts during four voyages ...

(1567–1627), Dutch private trader and navigator * Adriaen van der Donck (1618–1655), Dutch lawyer, landowner and ethnographer in New Netherland after whom Yonkers, New York is named * Adriaan Justus Enschedé (1829–1896), Dutch archivist, collector, printer and philanthropist * Adriaan van der Hoop (1778–1854), Dutch banker * Adriaan Pelt (1892–1981), Dutch journalist, international civil servant and diplomat * Adriaan van Ravesteijn (1938–2015), Dutch gallerist and art collector * Adriaan Stoop (1856–1935), Dutch oil explorer * Adriaen Jorissen Tienpoint (fl. 1624–26), Dutch explorer of the American East coast * Adriaan Schade van Westrum (1865–1917), Dutch-American newspaper editor * Adriaan A. van der Willigen (1910–1986), Dutch philatelist