Adolph Wagner was a German economist and politician, a leading Kathedersozialist and public finance scholar and advocate of agrarianism. Wagner's law of increasing state activity is named after him.

Louis Marc Adolphe Belot was a French playwright and novelist. He was born on 6 November 1829 in Pointe-à-Pitre, and died on 18 December 1890 in Paris.

Adolphe de Leuven was a French theatre director and a librettist. Also known as Grenvallet, and Count Adolph Ribbing.

Adolphe Philippe d'Ennery or Dennery was a French playwright and novelist.

Adolphe Deschamps was a Belgian statesman and publisher, the brother of Cardinal Victor-Auguste-Isidor Deschamps.

Adolphe Franck was a French-Jewish philosopher who specialised in Jewish mysticism.

Adolphe Ganot was a French author and publisher of physics textbooks. Ganot's textbooks, written during the second half of the nineteenth century, made "...a decisive contribution to physics and its teaching on an international scale". His popular Treatise on Physics was translated into several languages.

Adolphe Joanne was a French geographical writer and author of travel books.

Adolphe L'Arronge was a German playwright and theatre director. His best known work is the 1873 comedy play My Leopold which has been adapted into numerous films.

Adolphe Pictet was a Swiss linguist, philologist and ethnologist.