Adler is a surname of German origin meaning eagle. and has a frequency in the United Kingdom of less than 0.004%, and of 0.008% in the United States. In Christian iconography, the eagle is the symbol of John the Evangelist, and as such a stylized eagle was commonly used as a house sign/totem in German speaking areas. From the tenement the term easily moved to its inhabitants, particularly to those having only one name. This phenomenon can be easily seen in German and Austrian censuses from the 16th and 17th centuries. Notable Adlers Actors, writers and producers Alfred Adler (1870–1937), Austrian doctor and psychotherapist Allen Adler (1916–1964), American writer Bill Adler (born 1951), American music journalist Bruce Adler (1944–2008), American actor Celia Adler (1891–1979), American Jewish actress Charles Adler (broadcaster) (born 1954), Canadian broadcaster Charlie Adler (born 1956), American voice actor Cyrus Adler (1863–1940), American educator David A. Adler (born 1947), Writer of children's books Elizabeth Adler (born 1950), British author Friedrich Adler (writer) (1857–1938), Czech-Austrian politician H. G. Adler (1910–1988), German Jewish poet and novelist. Jacob Pavlovich Adler (1855–1926), born Yankev P. Adler, Ukrainian-born Jewish actor and a star in Yiddish theater Jay Adler (1896–1978), American actor in theater, television, and film Jerry Adler (born 1929), American theatre director, production supervisor and television and film actor Julius Ochs Adler (1892–1955), American publisher, journalist, and United States Army General Jussi Adler-Olsen (born 1950), Danish writer Lou Adler (journalist) (1929–2017), American broadcaster Lou Adler (1933–), American record producer, manager, and director Luther Adler (1903–1984), American actor and director on Broadway Margot Adler, (1946–2014), author, journalist, Wiccan Priestess and Elder, NPR correspondent in New York City Maurice Adler (1909–1960), American film producer and 20th Century Fox production head Max Adler (actor) (born 1986), American actor Mortimer J. Adler (1902–2001), American Aristotelian philosopher, author, and educator Renata Adler (born 1938), American journalist and writer Sara Adler (1858–1953), Ukrainian Jewish actress in Yiddish theater Sonya Adler or Sonya Oberlander (died 1886), one of the first women to perform in Yiddish theater in Imperial Russia Stella Adler (1901–1992), Jewish-American actress and acting teacher Warren Adler (1927–2019), American writer Sarah Adler (born 1978), French actress Engineers and scientists Ada Adler (1878–1946), Danish classical scholar August Adler (1863–1923), Austrian mathematician Charles Adler Jr. (1899–1980), American inventor Darin Adler, software architect David Adler (1935–1987), American physicist Edda Adler (born 1937), Argentine chemist and biologist George J. Adler, a