Adon (disambiguation)

Adon (אדון) is the Northwest Semitic for lord, mostly used of deities.

Adon may also refer to:

Places

Adon, Loiret, France
Adon, Wyoming, United States

People

Melvin Adon (born 1994), Dominican baseball player
Dorothy Bar-Adon (1907–1950), American-born Israeli journalist
Pessah Bar-Adon (1907–1985), Polish-born Israeli archaeologist and writer
Adon P. Brown (1873–1942), American lawyer and politician
Adon Gomis (born 1992), French footballer
Ado of Vienne, (French: Adon; died 874) archbishop, saint and author of a martyrology

Other uses

ADON, assistant director of nursing
Adon (Street Fighter), a character in the Street Fighter franchise
El Adon, a Jewish liturgical poem
In the Tanakh Adon may be used for men and angels as well as to El
Greek Adonis, an adoption of Tammuz

See also

Adonai (my lord), in Jewish tradition is used as a euphemism to refer to God

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