Adolf Lasson was a German Jewish philosophical writer, strident Prussianist, and the father of Georg Lasson.

Adolf M. Birke is professor emeritus of modern history at the University of Munich. He was director of the German Historical Institute London from August 1977 to July 1985.

Adolf Michaelis was a German classical scholar, a professor of art history at the University of Strasbourg from 1872, who helped establish the connoisseurship of Ancient Greek sculpture and Roman sculpture on their modern footing. Just at the cusp of the introduction of photography as a tool of art history, Michaelis pioneered in supplementing his descriptions with sketches.

Amandus Gottfried Adolf Müllner was a German critic and dramatic poet.

Adolf Muschg is a Swiss writer and professor of literature. Muschg was a member of the Gruppe Olten.

Adolf Georg Wiedersheim-Paul was a Swedish writer of novels and plays. He lived most of his adult life in Berlin, Germany, where he was a friend of Swedish writer August Strindberg, Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, Norwegian painter Edvard Munch and Finnish artist Akseli Gallen-Kallela.

Carl Adolf Rosenberg was a German theater critic and art historian.

Adolf Schmidt was a German trade union leader and politician.

Gustav Adolf Schöll was a German art historian, archaeologist and classical philologist.

Adolf Schulten was a German historian and archaeologist.