Adelia

Adelia Marra is an Italian speed skater. She competed in two events at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Adelia Sarah Gates (1825 - 1912) was an American illustrator of botanical specimens. After several years working as an elementary schoolteacher and amateur decorative painter and watercolorist, she began to expand into scientific illustration, especially of plants and flowers. She traveled, collecting and documenting specimens from her expeditions later in her life.

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After her death, over 600 of her works were exhibited and donated to the United States National Museum, which later became the Smithsonian Institution.

Adelia Silva (1925 – 2004) was a Uruguayan educator, writer and social activist. She became the first Afro-Uruguayan to earn a teaching degree. She taught in rural schools, weathering racial and sexist discrimination. She moved to Montevideo in 1956, but was transferred numerous times as a result of racial discrimination, ultimately returning home to Artigas. She filed a complaint with the National Council of Primary Education, which led to widespread media coverage of her treatment, heightening awareness of the racial and gender divides in Uruguayan society.

Adelia Cleopatra Graves (pen name: Aunt Alice; 1821 - 1895) was an American educator, author, and poet. At one time serving as Professor of Latin and Belles-lettres at Mary Sharp College, she went on to occupy the position of Matron and Professor of Rhetoric in the college.

Mary Adelia McLeod (1938 – 2022) was an American bishop. She was the first woman diocesan bishop in the Episcopal Church. She was elected bishop of the Diocese of Vermont on June 5, 1993, at a special convention held at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Burlington. Clergy and lay delegates selected her from among five nominees.