Ali Ahmad Said Asbar (born 1930), also known by the pseudonym Adonis or Adunis , is a Syrian poet and essayist who has made his career largely in Lebanon and France. He has written more than twenty books in his native Arabic.

Adonis was considered to be a candidate for the 2005, 2006 and 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, but the awards went to British playwright Harold Pinter, Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk and British novelist Doris Lessing.