The term Adler, the German word for the bird of prey "eagle", is both the last name of many people and an emblematic bird (notably in heraldry, numismatics, etc.) featured on many blazons since the feudal age, including the present German Bundeswappen and at times on the flags of Austria and Germany.

The Coat of arms of Germany.

Adler may also refer to:

People

• Charles Adler (disambiguation)
• Friedrich Adler (disambiguation)
• Max Adler (disambiguation)
• Samuel Adler (disambiguation)

Actors, writers and producers

• Allen Adler, American writer
• André José Adler (born 1944), Hungarian-born actor, director, writer and sportscaster for Brazil
• Brian Adler, Canadian media personality
• Bruce Adler (1944-2008), American actor
• Celia Adler (1891–1979), American Jewish actress
• Chris Adler (actor) (born 1975), American actor
• Cyrus Adler (1863–1940), U.S. educator
• David A. Adler (born 1947), Writer of children's books
• Franz Oscar Adler (1862-1922), German woodwind instrument maker
• H. G. Adler (1910-1988), German Jewish poet and novelist.
• Jacob Pavlovitch Adler (1855–1926), born Yankev P. Adler, Ukrainian-born Jewish actor and a star in Yiddish theater
• Jay Adler (1896–1978), American actor in theater, television, and film
• Jerry Adler (born 1929), American theatre director, production supervisor and television and film actor
• Julius Ochs Adler (1892–1955), U.S. publisher, journalist, and United States Army General
• Lou Adler (born 1933), American record producer, manager, and director
• Luther Adler (1903–1984), American actor and director on Broadway
• Margot Adler, (born 1946), author, journalist, Wiccan Priestess and Elder, NPR correspondent in New York City
• Maurice Adler (1909–1960), American film producer and 20th Century Fox production head
• Mortimer Jerome Adler (1902–2001), American Aristotelian philosopher, author, and educator
• Renata Adler (born 1938), American journalist and writer
• Sara Adler (1858–1953), Ukrainian Jewish actress in Yiddish theater
• Sonya Adler or Sonya Oberlander (died 1886), one of the first women to perform in Yiddish theater in Imperial Russia
• Stella Adler (1901–1992), Jewish-American actress and acting teacher
• Walter Adler (born 1947), German director

Engineers and scientists

• August Adler (1863-1923), Austrian mathematician
• Charles Adler, Jr. (1899-1980), American inventor
• Darin Adler, software architect
• David Adler (1935-1987), American physicist
• George J. Adler, a noted philologist, linguist and author of A Practical Grammar of the Latin Language
• Howard I. Adler, Biologist, Founder of Oxyrase Inc.
• Mark Adler, Mars Exploration Rover mission manager, co-author of zlib, inventor of Adler-32 checksum
• Robert Adler (1913–2007), inventor of the remote control
• Saul Adler (1895-1966), British-Israeli expert on parasitology

Musicians

• Chris Adler (drummer) (born 1972), drummer of the metal band "Lamb of God"
• Adam Adler (born 1968), Canadian choral conductor, composer/arranger, music educator and researcher
• Cisco Adler, the artist featured in all songs of the artist Shwayze
• Guido Adler (1855–1941), Bohemian-Austrian musicologist and writer on music
• Henry Adler, American drum kit educator, player and actor
• Hugo Chaim Adler (1896–1955), Belgian composer, cantor, and choir conductor
• James Adler (born 1950), Composer and pianist from Chicago, Illinois
• Julia Rebekka Adler (1978-), German violist.
• Larry Adler (1914–2001), American musician, widely acknowledged as one of the world's most skilled harmonica players
• Richard Adler (born 1921), Jewish-American lyricist, composer and producer of several Broadway shows
• Samuel Adler (born 1928), Jewish-American composer
• Steven Adler (born 1965), a drummer for the hard rock band Guns N' Roses
• Vincent Adler, Hungarian pianist, composer
• Willie Adler (born 1976), guitarist of the metal band Lamb of God

Conductors

• Frederick Charles Adler (1889–1959), London-born conductor known as "F. Charles Adler"
• Kurt Adler (1907–1977), Czech-born Austrian-American conductor, Metropolitan Opera chorus master (1943-1973)
• Kurt Herbert Adler (1905–1988), Vienna-born American conductor, San Francisco Opera general director (1953-1981)
• Peter Herman Adler (1899–1990), Czech-born American conductor, director of NBC Opera Theatre (1950–1964)

Politicians

• Brigitte Adler (1944–2004), member of the German Bundestag
• Heinz Adler (1912–1990), German politician
• John H. Adler (1959–2011), American politician from New Jersey
• Victor Adler (1852–1918), Austrian Social Democratic leader

Rabbis and theologians

• Abraham Adler (ca. 1740-1800), reputed to be a nephew of Rebbe Shmelke of Nikolsburg and the Hafla'ah (Pinchas Horowitz) sent to spread Chassidus in the Austro-Hungarian empire
• Binyomin Adler (born 1969), founder of Maor Torah Center, Oak Park, Michigan
• Felix Adler (Society for Ethical Culture) (1851-1933), Leader of Ethical Humanism
• Hermann Adler (1839–1911), Orthodox Chief Rabbi of the British Empire from 1891–1911
• Johann Kaspar Adler (1488–1560), also Kaspar Aquila, Caspari Aquilae, real name Johann Kaspar Adler, German reformer
• Nathan Adler (1741–1800), German kabalist
• Nathan Marcus Adler (ca. 1800–1891), Orthodox Chief Rabbi of the British Empire from 1845–1891

Sports

• Anders Adler (born 1982), Swedish ice hockey defenceman
• Daniel Adler (born 1958), Brazilian sailor
• Jens Adler (born 1965), German football player
• Kim Adler, professional bowler
• Nicky Adler (born 1985), German football player
• René Adler (born 1985), football goalkeeper for Bayer Leverkusen

Others

• Alfred Adler (1870–1937), Austrian psychologist, founder of the school of individual psychology
• Dankmar Adler (1844–1900), German-born American architect
• Freda Adler (born 1934), criminologist
• Jacob O. Adler (1913-1999), Professor of Economics and Business at the University of Hawaii
• Jankel Adler (1895–1949), Polish painter and printmaker
• Jonathan H. Adler (born 1969), Professor of Law at Case Western University School of Law
• Rodney Adler, Australian businessman and white collar criminal
• Solomon Adler (born 1936), Soviet spy who supplied information to the Silvermaster espionage ring
• [[Bill Adler]] (born 1958), Portrait photographer

Fictional characters

• Adler (comics), Luftwaffe pilot turned adventurer, the title character of a comic book series by René Sterne
• Grace Adler, female lead in the TV series Will and Grace
• Henry Adler, main character in David Wellington's film I Love a Man in Uniform
• Irene Adler, fictional character featured in the Sherlock Holmes story "A Scandal in Bohemia" by Arthur Conan Doyle
• Scott Adler, a fictional character featured in the Tom Clancy Jack Ryan universe novels. Adler is a career U.S. Department of State employee who rises throughout the series, eventually becoming Secretary of State.
• Vincent Adler, antagonist behind the first two seasons of White Collar
• Wilhelm Adler, main character in Saul Bellow's novella Seize the Day
• Samantha Adler
• Klaus Adler, would-be Führer of the Moon Nazis in the movie Iron Sky (2012).

Other

• Adler (automobile), a German car and motorcycle manufacturer
• Adlertag or Eagle Day was the name given by the Germans for the first day of operations of the Battle of Britain in 1940.

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