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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

People with the name

• Adonis (musician), house music pioneer
• Adunis (born 1930), Syrian poet
• ADONXS, Slovak singer-songwriter

Surnamed

• Adrian Adonis or Keith Franke (1954–1988), American professional wrestler
• Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis (born 1963), British politician
• Bernard Adonis, a member of the National Assembly of Seychelles
• Joe Adonis (1902–1971), New York mobster
• Neil Adonis (born 1969), South African baseball player

Given named

• Adonis Alexander (born 1996), American football player
• Adonis Medina (born 1996), Dominican baseball player
• Adonis Stevenson (born 1977), Haitian-Canadian professional boxer
• Adonis Thomas (born 1993), American basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
• Adonis Kapsalis (born 1980) greek-american Actor

Fictional characters

• Adonis "Donnie" Creed, protagonist of the film Creed and its sequel
• Adonis, a fictional character from Dyosa
• Adonis Otogari, singer from Ensemble Stars!
• Adonis, a minor 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

Biology

• Adonis (plant), a genus in the plant family Ranunculaceae

Species called adonis

• Acanthicus adonis (A. adonis), a species of catfish
• Ancistrobasis adonis (A. adonis), a species of sea snail
• Asaphodes adonis (A. adonis), a species of moth
• Astrophanes adonis (A. adonis), a species of beefly
• Atheniella adonis (A. adonis), a species of mushroom
• Brettus adonis (B. adonis), a species of spider
• Carinodrillia adonis (C. adonis), a species of sea snail
• Chrysoritis adonis (C. adonis), a species of butterfly
• Adonis tetra (L. adonis), a species of fish
• Macaria adonis (M. adonis), a species of moth
• Macrocneme adonis (M. adonis), a species of moth
• Mahatha adonis (M. adnois), a species of crab
• Micrixalus adonis (M. adonis), a species of frog
• Morpho adonis (M. adonis), a species of butterfly
• Mycena adonis (M. adonis), a species of fungus
• Phanaeus adonis (P. adonis), a species of beetle
• Psaltoda adonis (P. adonis), a species of cicada
• Suillellus adonis (S. adonis), a species of fish

Other uses

• Adonis (musical), an 1884 burlesque musical
• Adonis (cocktail), a cocktail named after the musical
• Marché Adonis, a grocery store chain in Quebec and Ontario, Canada

See also

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• Adonais, an 1821 elegy written by Percy Shelley
• Adonis Complex, a muscle dysmorphia
• All pages with titles containing Adonis
• All pages with titles beginning with Adonis
• Adoni (disambiguation), for the singular of Adonis
• Andonis

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