Adrien
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Adrien is the given name
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...

 and French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...

 spelling for the name Adrian
Adrian
Adrian is a form of the Latin given name Hadrianus . Several saints and six popes have borne this name, including the only English pope, Adrian IV, and the only Dutch pope, Adrian VI...

. It is also the masculine
Grammatical gender
Grammatical gender is defined linguistically as a system of classes of nouns which trigger specific types of inflections in associated words, such as adjectives, verbs and others. For a system of noun classes to be a gender system, every noun must belong to one of the classes and there should be...

 form of the feminine
Grammatical gender
Grammatical gender is defined linguistically as a system of classes of nouns which trigger specific types of inflections in associated words, such as adjectives, verbs and others. For a system of noun classes to be a gender system, every noun must belong to one of the classes and there should be...

 name Adrienne
Adrienne
Adrienne is the French feminine form of the male name Adrien. Its meaning is literally "dark one."-People named Adrienne:* Adrienne Albert Adrienne is the French feminine form of the male name Adrien. Its meaning is literally "dark one."-People named Adrienne:* Adrienne Albert Adrienne is the...

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Adrien may refer to:
  • Adrien Auzout
    Adrien Auzout
    Adrien Auzout was a French astronomer.He was born in Rouen, France, the son of a clerk in the court of Rouen. His educational background is unknown. In 1664–1665 he made observations of comets, and argued in favor of their following elliptical or parabolic orbits...

    , French astronomer
  • Adrien Baillet
    Adrien Baillet
    Adrien Baillet was a French scholar and critic. He is now best known as a biographer of René Descartes.-Life:He was born in the village of Neuville near Beauvais, in Picardie...

    , French scholar and critic
  • Adrien Douady
    Adrien Douady
    Adrien Douady was a French mathematician.He was a student of Henri Cartan at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, and initially worked in homological algebra. His thesis concerned deformations of complex analytic spaces...

    , French mathematician
  • Adrien Silva
    Adrien Silva
    Adrien Sébastien Perruchet Silva is a Portuguese footballer who plays for Académica de Coimbra on loan from Sporting Clube de Portugal, mainly as a central midfielder.-Football career:...

    , Portuguese-French footballer
  • Adrien Zeller
    Adrien Zeller
    Adrien Zeller , was the president of the regional council of Alsace from 1996 until 2009. He was a member of the Union for a Popular Movement. He was State Secretary of the Social Security in the second Jacques Chirac government from 1986 to 1988...

     (1940-2009), French politician
  • Adrien Brody
    Adrien Brody
    Adrien Brody is an American actor and film producer. He received widespread recognition and acclaim after starring in Roman Polanski's The Pianist . Winning the Academy Award for Best Actor in 2003 at age 29, he is the youngest actor to do so...

    , American actor
  • Adrien (opera)
    Adrien (opera)
    Adrien is an opera by the French composer Étienne Méhul. The libretto, by François-Benoît Hoffman, is closely based on Metastasio's Adriano in Siria...

    , an opera by Méhul
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