Athanase Adolphe Henri Boissevain (8 March 1843 – 1 April 1921) was a Dutch banker who financed North American railways.
He was from a prominent Boissevain family that had long been active in the banking and insurance industries in Amsterdam.
A few years after Adolphe retired the name of the firm was changed to Pierson & Co., predecessor of the present well-known investment bank MeesPierson.
[1] He was also one of William Van Horne's main contacts in organizing financing for the Canadian Pacific Railway.
In Virginia, too, there is a small town Boissevain also named after Adolphe because of his involvement in financing the Norfolk & Western Railways.