Others include Anthony Armstrong, Oronde Gadsden, Lincoln Coleman, Adrian McPherson, Rashied Davis, Jay Feely, Rob Bironas, Antonio Chatman, Mike Vanderjagt, and Paul Justin.

However, they finished the season winning eight of the their last eleven games and were considered by some a potential contender for the 2005 Arena Bowl championship led by 2004 Rookie of the Year, quarterback Adrian McPherson.

In addition, the Wranglers signed 2004 AFL Rookie of the Year and former Florida State Seminoles quarterback Adrian McPherson.

Following training camp 2007, the Wranglers roster was set as seven rookies made the cut ( nearly a fourth of the team ), while Adrian McPherson, Nate Coggins, Anthony Hines, and Chad Dukes were the lone AFL veteran free agent pick ups making the squad.

Highly touted free agent pick up Adrian McPherson failed to live up to high expectations and was cut midway through the season, while the defense was among the league's worst, ranking 18th and 17th in defensive passing and receiving respectively.

Billy Graham, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Lt. Col. Oliver North, Steve Forbes, Leonard Davidson, former US Senator Jesse Helms, Sam Donaldson, John R. Rice, Rabbi Eric Yoffie, CEO William S. Simon, Elisabeth Elliot ( wife of the late missionary Jim Elliot ), Skip Erickson, Freddie Gage, Adrian Rogers, governor Tim Kaine, Sean Hannity, Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, Pastors ; Mel White, Mark Driscoll, Josh Mcdowell, Miles McPherson, Rick Warren, Steven Furtick and Francis Chan, Entertainers / Athletes in pro-wrestler Lex Luger, Bobby Bowden, Lou Holtz, Carrie Prejean, Allan Houston, and Candace Cameron Bure, Douglas Gresham, Gianna Jessen, Clint Hubbard and 2008 Presidential candidates Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul.

* Adrian McPherson, American NFL football player

Adrian Jamal McPherson ( born May 8, 1983 in Bradenton, Florida ) is a quarterback for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League.

The Saints would eventually finish the season with a 3-13 record ; the last few games of the season saw quarterback Aaron Brooks being benched ( and later traded to the Oakland Raiders ), playing time for backup quarterback Todd Bouman and even third-stringer Adrian McPherson and, eventually, the season ended with head coach Jim Haslett losing his job.

* Adrian Leo Doyle ( born 1936 ), Australian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church

* Adrian Amstutz ( born 1953 ), Swiss politician

* Adrian Bailey ( born 1949 ), British Labour Co-operative politician

* Adrian Dix ( born 1966 ), Canadian politician

* Adrian Johns ( born 1951 ), English governor of Gibraltar and former senior officer in the Royal Navy

* Adrian Năstase ( born 1950 ), Romanian politician

* Adrian Piccoli ( born 1970 ), Australian politician

* Adrian Sanders ( born 1959 ), English Liberal Democrat politician

* Adrian Severin ( born 1954 ), Romanian politician and Member of the European Parliament

* Adrian Archibald ( born c. 1969 ), British motorcycle racer

* Adrian Arrington ( born 1985 ), American National Football League ( NFL ) player

* Adrian Aucoin ( born 1973 ), Canadian National Hockey League player

* Adrian Buchan ( born 1982 ), Australian surfer

* Adrian Cann ( born 1980 ), Canadian Major League Soccer player

* Adrian Clayborn ( born 1988 ), American NFL player

* Adrian Cristea ( born 1983 ), Romanian footballer

* Adrian Cruciat ( born 1983 ), Romanian tennis player

* Adrian Dantley ( born 1956 ), American retired National Basketball Association ( NBA ) player

* Adrian Diaconu ( born 1978 ), Romanian professional boxer

* Adrian Falub ( born 1971 ), Romanian footballer

* Adrian Forbes ( born 1979 ), English footballer

* Adrian Gonzalez ( born 1982 ), Mexican-American Major League Baseball player

* Adrian Griffin ( born 1974 ), American retired NBA player

* Adrian Heath ( born 1961 ), English football manager and former player

* Adrian Ilie ( born 1974 ), Romanian retired footballer

* Adrian Jarvis ( born 1983 ) English rugby player

* Adrian Piţ ( born 1983 ), Romanian footballer

* Adrian Sălăgeanu ( born 1983 ), Romanian footballer

* Adrian Sutil ( born 1983 ), German Formula One racing driver

* Adrian Boult ( 1889 – 1983 ), English conductor

( C ) 1983 Acorn Computers Ltd. Thanks are due to the following contributors to the development of the Electron ( among others too numerous to mention ):- Bob Austin, Astec, Harry Barman, Paul Bond, Allen Boothroyd, Ben Bridgewater, Cambridge, John Cox, Chris Curry, 6502 designers, Jeremy Dion, Tim Dobson, Joe Dunn, Ferranti, Steve Furber, David Gale, Andrew Gordon, Martyn Gilbert, Lawrence Hardwick, Hermann Hauser, John Herbert, Hitachi, Andy Hopper, Paul Jephcot, Brian Jones, Chris Jordan, Computer Laboratory, Tony Mann, Peter Miller, Trevor Morris, Steve Parsons, Robin Pain, Glyn Phillips, Brian Robertson, Peter Robinson, David Seal, Kim Spence-Jones, Graham Tebby, Jon Thackray, Topexpress, Chris Turner, Hugo Tyson, John Umney, Alex van Someren, Geoff Vincent, Adrian Warner, Robin Williamson, Roger Wilson.

He performed poetry at Liverpool's Everyman Theatre ( 1983 ), alongside such poets as Roger McGough and Adrian Henri.

The Mexican Army included a number of horse mounted cavalry regiments as late as the mid 1990s and the Chilean Army had five such regiments in 1983 as mounted mountain troops ( see Jane's " Armed Forces of Latin America " by Adrian J. English ).

* 1983 – Adrian Sutil, German racing driver

* April 8 – Sir Adrian Boult, English conductor ( d. 1983 )

* Sir Adrian Boult ( 1889 – 1983 ), conductor

* Sir Adrian Boult ( 1889 – 1983 ), musical conductor, born in Liverpool Road.

A list of past honorary degree recipients, include: Beverly Sills ( 1975 ), Roy Lichtenstein ( 1977 ), Twyla Tharp ( 1978 ), Gordon Davidson ( 1980 ) Haskell Wexler ( 1981 ) Mischa Schneider ( 1981 ), Bella Lewitzky ( 1981 ), Henry Mancini ( 1983 ), Jan de Gaetani ( 1983 ), Ravi Shankar ( 1985 ), John Cage ( 1986 ), Frank O. Gehry ( 1987 ), Trisha Brown ( 1988 ), Donn B. Tatum ( 1989 ), Luis Valdez ( 1989 ), Paul Taylor ( 1989 ), Ornette Coleman ( 1990 ), Beatrice Manley ( 1990 ), Lulu May Von Hagen ( 1990 ), Ustad Ali Akbar Khan ( 1991 ), Pearl Primus ( 1991 ), Adrian Piper ( 1992 ), Ray Bradbury ( 1992 ), Yvonne Rainer ( 1993 ), Steven Bochco ( 1993 ), Stan Brakhage ( 1994 ), Vija Celmins ( 1994 ), Betye Saar ( 1995 ), Carolyn Forche ( 1995 ), Laurie Anderson ( 1996 ), Elvin Jones ( 1996 ), Chantal Akerman ( 1997 ), Lee Breuer ( 1998 ), Ed Ruscha ( 1999 ), Bill Viola ( 2000 ), Steve Reich ( 2000 ), Ry Cooder ( 2001 ), Faith Hubley ( 2001 ), Bruce Nauman ( 2001 ), Alice Coltrane ( 2002 ), Roy E. Disney ( 2003 ), Anna Halprin ( 2003 ), Carolee Schneemann ( 2003 ), Christian Wolff ( 2004 ), Daniel Nagrin ( 2004 ), James Newton ( 2005 ), Harrison “ Buzz ” Price ( 2005 ), Julius Shulman ( 2005 ), Rudy VanderLans ( 2006 ), Rudy Perez ( 2006 ), Alonzo King ( 2007 ), Harry Belafonte ( 2008 ), Herbert Blau ( 2008 ), Terry Riley ( 2008 ), Elizabeth LeCompte ( 2009 ), Morton Subotnick ( 2009 ), William M. Lowman ( 2010 ), Trimpin ( 2010 ), Annette Bening ( 2011 ), Donald McKayle ( 2011 ), and Peter Sellars ( 2012 ).

* April 8-Sir Adrian Boult, conductor ( d. 1983 )

At about the same time a selection of his poems was published, along with work from Adrian Henri and Brian Patten, in a best-selling paperback volume of verse entitled The Mersey Sound, first published in 1967, revised in 1983 and again in 2007.

Another historian, Adrian Graves, in a ground-breaking 1983 article in Past & Present ( see reference list below ), documented how some Pacific Islanders were paid truck wages and actively sought to work in Australia.

* Adrian Graves, 1983, " Truck and Gifts: Melanesian Immigrants and the Trade Box System in Colonial Queensland ", in: Past & Present ( no.

* Adrian Gonzales-# 6-18 ( Feb 1982-Feb 1983 ); Annual # 1 ( 1982 )

That includes players like Ron Washington ( 1977 ), Bob Welch ( 1977 ), Ron Roenicke ( 1978 – 1979 ), Mike Scioscia ( 1978 ), Dave Stewart ( 1978 ), Orel Hershiser ( 1980 – 1981, 1991 ), Fernando Valenzuela ( 1980 ), Steve Sax ( 1981 ), Sid Bream ( 1982 ), Sid Fernandez ( 1983 ), Franklin Stubbs ( 1983 ), Ramon Martinez ( 1988, 1996 ), John Wetteland ( 1988 ), Eric Karros ( 1990 ), Pedro Martinez ( 1991 ), Raul Mondesi ( 1991 – 1992 ), Eric Young ( 1991 ), Mike Piazza ( 1992 ), Henry Blanco ( 1993 – 1996 ), Todd Hollandsworth ( 1993 ), Chan Ho Park ( 1994 ), Miguel Cairo ( 1995 ), Paul LoDuca ( 1995, 1997 ), Paul Konerko ( 1996 ), Alex Cora ( 1997 ), Dennys Reyes ( 1997 ), Adrian Beltre ( 1998 ) and Eric Gagne ( 1999 ).

* In Flashdance ( 1983 ), directed by Adrian Lyne, there is a scene wherein Jennifer Beals ' character performs a footjob on Michael Nouri's character, under the table at a restaurant.