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 (19352018), 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 (19231985), 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), Ghanaian 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 (19192005), Chilean politician
  • Adonis Shropshire, American songwriter
  • Adonis Stevenson (born 1977), Haitian-Canadian professional boxer
  • Adonis Terry (18641915), 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

  • , a US Navy ship name
  • , a United States Navy landing craft repair ship
  • , a British Royal Navy ship name
  • , a British Royal Navy schooner
  • Adonis-class schooners, a class of Royal Navy vessels
  • , 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