Arts and Music

• Adolf Fassbender
  • A member of the International Photography Hall of Fame (see list of International Photography Hall of Fame)

Leadership

• Adolf Hitler (born 1889, died 1945)

  Leader of Germany in World War II. Ordered the extermination of Jews and other ''undesirables'' in concentration camps.

  • Avatar of fascism (see list of Twenty people who helped define the political and social fabric of the 20th century)
  • German dictator and founder of Naziism (see list of Miscellaneous Political Leaders)

Miscellaneous

• Adolf Hitler (born 1889, died 1945)

  Leader of Germany in World War II. Ordered the extermination of Jews and other ''undesirables'' in concentration camps.

  • Had tuberculosis (see list of People Who Have Had Tuberculosis)
  • 1938 Time Magazine Man of the Year (see list of Time Magazine's Man of the Year Honorees)

Science and Philosophy

• Adolf von Baeyer (born 1835, died 1917)

  German chemist who studied the chemical nature of dyes.

  • 1905 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry (see list of Winners of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry)
• Adolf F. J. Butenandt (born 1903, died 1995)

  German biochemist who isolated several sex hormones.

  • 1939 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, with Leopold Ruzicka (see list of Winners of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry)
• Adolf O.R. Windaus (born 1876, died 1959)

  German chemist who discovered the structure of cholesterol and other steroids.

  • 1928 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry (see list of Winners of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry)