Adams

Adams is a common surname of English and Scottish origin, meaning "son of Adam".^[2]

People with the surname Adams

Politics and law

• Abigail Adams (1744–1818), U.S. First Lady
• Brock Adams (1927–2004), U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Washington
• Campbell W. Adams (1852–1930), NY State Engineer and Surveyor 1894–1898
• Charles Francis Adams, Sr. (1807–1886), U.S. congressman, ambassador
• Dick Adams (politician) (born 1951), Australian politician
• Gabriel Adams (1790–1864), Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Gerry Adams (born 1948), Irish Republican politician, President of Sinn Féin
• Henry Cullen Adams (1850–1906), U.S. Representative from Wisconsin
• Irene Adams, Baroness Adams of Craigielea (born 1947), Scottish politician
• John Adams (1735–1826), second U.S. President
• John Adams (major general), Chief of the Canadian Security Establishment
• John Adams (New York), US Congressman from New York
• John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), sixth U.S. President
• Judith Adams (born 1943), Australian Senator
• Philip Adams (1915–2001), British diplomat
• Platt Adams (politician) (1792–1887), New York politician
• Robert Adams, Jr. (1849–1906), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania
• Robert H. Adams (1792–1830), U.S. Senator from Mississippi
• Samuel Adams (1722–1803), American revolutionary
• Samuel Adams (governor) (1805–1850), Governor of Arkansas
• Thomas Adams (politician) (1730–1788), American Continental Congressman

Sports

• Amos Adams (footballer) (1880–1941), English footballer
• Babe Adams (1882–1968), American baseball pitcher
• Bob Adams (1920s pitcher) (1901–1996), American League baseball pitcher
• Bob Adams (1930s pitcher) (1907-1970), National League baseball pitcher
• Bobby Adams (1921–1997), Major League Baseball infielder
• Bob Adams (tight end), (born 1946), American football player
• Bud Adams (born 1923), owner of American professional football team, Tennessee Titans
• Carl Adams (born 1942), NASCAR driver
• Charles Adams (ice hockey) (1876–1947), Boston Bruins founder
• Chris Adams (1955-2010), British judoka and professional wrestler
• Harry Adams (umpire) (1863–1941), Major League Baseball umpire
• Katrina Adams (born 1968), American professional tennis player
• Martin Adams (born 1956), English darts player, 2007 BDO World Champion
• Michael Adams (chess player) (born 1971), English chess grandmaster
• Michael Adams (basketball) (born 1963), American NBA basketball player, college basketball
• Micky Adams (born 1961), English football (soccer) manager
• Mike Adams (wide receiver), (born 1974), professional American football player
• Neil Adams (judoka) (born 1958), British judoka
• Neil Adams (footballer) (born 1965), English football (soccer) player
• Ondigui Adams (born 1987), Cameroonian football (soccer) player
• Russ Adams (born 1980), baseball player with the Toronto Blue Jays
• Philippe Adams (born 1969), F1 driver, 2 GP with Lotus in 1994
• Sam Adams (American football) (born 1973), American football player
• Sam Adams, Sr. (born 1948), American football player
• Spencer Adams (1898–1970), Baseball player
• Tony Adams (association footballer) (born 1966), English footballer and manager
• W. Adams, English football manager of Shrewsbury Town Football Club between 1905 and 1912

Literature and journalism

• Bristow Adams (1875–1957), American journalist, forester, professor, illustrator
• Brooks Adams (1848–1927), American historian and a critic of capitalism
• Cecil Adams, pseudonym of author(s) of a syndicated question-and-answer column, The Straight Dope
• Douglas Adams (1952–2001), British comic radio dramatist and writer, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series
• Eddie Adams (photographer) (1933–2004), American photojournalist
• Francis Adams (writer) (1862–1893), Australian essayist, poet, dramatist, novelist and journalist
• Franklin Pierce Adams (1881–1960), American columnist (under the pen name F.P.A.), writer, and wit
• Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918), American historian, journalist, and novelist
• Matthew Adams (died 1753), an American writer
• Phillip Adams (born 1939), Australian broadcaster, columnist
• Poppy Adams, British television director/producer and novelist
• Richard Adams (born 1920), British novelist, author of Watership Down and The Plague Dogs
• Roy Adams (born 1940), Canadian author, newspaper columnist, human rights activist, and academic
• Samuel Hopkins Adams (1871–1958), American journalist and short story writer

Music

• Ben Adams (born 1981), British singer, businessman
• Bryan Adams (born 1959), Canadian singer, guitarist, and songwriter
• Charlie Adams (drummer), American musician
• Dave Adams, English musician and songwriter
• Derroll Adams (1925–2000), American folk musician
• Jay Boy Adams (born 1949), American singer, songwriter, and guitarist
• John Adams (composer) (born 1947), American minimalist composer
• John Luther Adams (born 1953), American composer
• Ki Adams, Canadian Choral Conductor
• Oleta Adams (born 1962), American soul and jazz singer
• Ryan Adams (born 1974), American alternative-country and rock and roll singer/songwriter
• Suzanne Adams (born 1872), American operatic soprano
• Victoria Adams (born 1974), birth name of British pop singer "Posh Spice" Victoria Beckham

Art and photography

• Ansel Adams (1902–1984), American photographer
• Art Adams (born 1963), American comic book artist
• Clinton Adams (1918–2002), American painter and lithographer
• Herbert Adams (sculptor) (1858–1945), American sculptor
• J. Ottis Adams (1851–1927), American Impressionist painter
• Mark Adams (photographer) (born 1949), New Zealand photographer
• Neal Adams (born 1941), American comic book artist
• Robert Adams (photographer) (born 1937), American photographer
• Scott Adams (born 1957), cartoonist and creator of the Dilbert comic strip
• Theo Adams (born 1989), British performance artist

Drama and television

• Amy Adams (born 1974), American actress
• Cecily Adams (1958–2004), American actress, daughter of Don Adams
• Don Adams (1923–2005), American actor
• Fran Adams, American actress with Second City
• Julie Adams (born 1926), American actress
• Kelly Adams, English actress
• Mary Kay Adams, (born 1962) American actress
• Maud Adams (born 1945), Swedish model and actress
• Maude Adams (1872–1953), American stage actress
• Nick Adams (actor) (1931–1968), American actor and screenwriter
• Stanley Adams (actor) (1915–1977), American actor and film writer
• Tony Adams (actor) (born 1940), Welsh actor
• Travis Adams (research consultant) (born 1973), English Production
• Patrick J. Adams (born 1981), Canadian Actor

Military

• Charles Francis Adams, Jr. (1835–1915), Civil War General and president of the Union Pacific Railroad
• Charles Francis Adams III (1866–1954), U.S. Navy secretary
• Robert Bellew Adams (1856–1928), Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross
• Samuel Adams (naval officer) (1912–1942), U.S. Navy officer

Science, medicine, and engineering

• Arthur Adams (1820-1878), British physician and naturalist
• Charles Hitchcock Adams (1868–1951), US astronomer
• Douglas Q. Adams, Indo-European comparativist
• Edward Dean Adams (1846–1931), engineer, financier, and scientist, Niagara Falls hydroelectric dam engineer, recipient of the 1926 John Fritz Medal^[3]
• Edwin Plimpton Adams, American physicist
• Francis Adams (translator) (1796–1861), Scottish medical doctor and translator of Greek medical works
• Henry Adams (mechanical engineer) (1858–1929), American architectural engineer
• Johann Friedrich Adam, botanist known by the author abbreviation "Adams"
• John Bodkin Adams (1899–1983), Irish-British physician and suspected serial killer
• John Couch Adams (1819–1892), British mathematician and astronomer
• Karl Adams (mathematician) (1811–1849), Swiss mathematician and teacher
• Matthew Algernon Adams (1836–1913), British medical doctor and chemist
• Michael James Adams (1930–1967), American aviator and NASA astronaut
• Otto Eugene Adams (1889–1968), American architect
• Robert Adams (architect) (1540–1595), British architect and surveyor
• Robert Adams (handgun designer) (1809–1870), British firearms designer
• Robert McCormick Adams, Jr. (born 1926), U.S. anthropologist
• Thomas Adams (architect) (1871–1940), Scottish architect and urban planner
• Walter Sydney Adams (1876–1956), US astronomer
• William Adams (locomotive engineer) (1823–1904), British locomotive engineer
• William Adams (oculist) (1783–1827), British ophthalmic surgeon
• William Bridges Adams (1797–1872), British author, inventor, and locomotive engineer

Other

• Alfred Albert Thomas William Adams (1842-1919), New Zealand forestry pioneer
• Charles Francis Adams IV (1910–1999), president of Raytheon Company
• Charlotte Adams (1859–?), first European woman to climb to the peak of Mount Kosciuszko
• Clifford Adams, computer programmer
• Eddie Adams, real name of fictional porn star Dirk Diggler
• Herbert Baxter Adams (1850–1901), American educator and historian
• John Adams (mutineer) (1766–1829), last survivor of the Bounty mutineers who settled on Pitcairn Island
• Kevin Adams (born 1962), American theatrical lighting designer
• Richard Adams (religious writer) (ca. 1626–1698), non-conforming English Presbyterian divine
• Richard Adams (Traidcraft) (born 1946), British fair trade organisation founder
• Robert Merrihew Adams (born 1937), American philosopher
• Samuel Adams, beer company
• Scott Adams (game designer) (born 1952), computer game designer and programmer
• William Adams (sailor) (1564–1620), English navigator and first Briton to reach Japan
• William Adams (master) (1706–1789), English Master of Pembroke College, Oxford
• Zabdiel Adams (1739–1801), American minister, writer, and cousin of President John Adams
• Adams Baronets, a 17th and 18th century English Baronetage

Disambiguation

See also

• Adams (disambiguation)
• Adams (taxonomic authority)
• Adams political family
• Addams (disambiguation)
• Adamson

References

External links

• Adams surname on Genealogy at Wikicities

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