ADAMS (SURNAME)

'Adams' is a common surname in English-speaking countries.

Contents
People with the surname Adams
Politics and law
Sports
Literature and journalism
Music
Drama and television
Military
Science, medicine, and engineering
Other
Disambiguation
Fictional
See also
External links

People with the surname Adams


Politics and law


Abigail Adams (1744–1818), U.S. First Lady

Brockman Adams (1927–2004), U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Washington

Charles Francis Adams, Sr. (1807–1886), grandson of John Adams, son of John Quincy Adams, U.S. congressman, ambassador

Dick Adams (b. 1951), Australian politician

Gerry Adams (born 1948), Irish Republican politician, President of Sinn Féin

Henry Cullen Adams (1850-1906), U.S. Representative from Wisconsin

John Adams (1735–1826), second U.S. President

John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), sixth U.S. President

Katherine Adams (born 1947), Scottish MP

Robert Adams, Jr. (Pennsylvania) (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


Babe Adams (1882–1968), American baseball pitcher

Bob Adams (AL baseball pitcher) (1901–1996), American League baseball pitcher

Bobby Adams (1921–1997), Major League Baseball infielder

Charles Adams (ice hockey) (1876–1947), Boston Bruins founder

Michael Adams (born 1971), English chess grandmaster

Michael Adams (basketball) (born 1963), American NBA basketball player, college basketball

Micky Adams English football Manager

Neil Adams British judo player

Neil Adams (footballer) English football player

Russ Adams (born 1980), baseball player with the Toronto Blue Jays

Sam Adams (football player) (born 1973), American football player

Sam Adams Sr. (born 1948), American football player, father of Sam Adams

Tony Adams (footballer) (born 1966), English footballer and manager
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 humor 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 Adams (1838–1918), American historian, journalist, and novelist

Richard Adams (author) (born 1920), British novelist, author of ''Watership Down'' and ''The Plague Dogs''

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, American musician

Dave Adams, English musician and songwriter

John Coolidge Adams (born 1947), American minimalist composer

John Luther Adams (born 1953), American composer

Oleta Adams (born 1962), American soul and jazz singer

Ryan Adams (born 1974), American alt-country and rock and roll singer/songwriter

Steven Adams (born 1974), English songwriter and singer with The Broken Family Band

Victoria Adams (born 1974), birthname of British pop singer "Posh Spice" (Victoria Beckham)
Drama and television


Cecily Adams (1958–2004), American actress, daughter of Don Adams

Don Adams (1923–2005), American actor

Maud Adams (born 1945), Swedish model and actress

Nick Adams (1931–1968), American actor and screenwriter

Stanley Adams (actor) (1915–1977), American actor and filmwriter

Tony Adams (actor) (born 1940), Welsh 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 (VC) (1856–1928), recipient of the Victoria Cross

Samuel Adams (naval officer) (1912–1942), U.S. Navy officer

W. Adams (died 1748), captain in British Navy
Science, medicine, and engineering


Francis Adams (translator) (1796-1861), Scottish medical doctor and translator of Greek medical works

John Bodkin Adams, Eastbourne physician and suspected serial killer]

John Couch Adams (1819–1892), British mathematician and astronomer

J. Stacy Adams, creator of the Equity theory

Robert Adams of London (1809–1870), British firearms designer

Robert McCormick Adams Jr. (born 1926), U.S. anthropologist

William Adams (locomotive engineer) (1823–1904), British locomotive engineer

William Adams (oculist) (1783–1827), English ophthalmic surgeon

William Bridges Adams (1797–1872) British author, inventor, and locomotive engineer
Other


Ansel Adams (1902–1984), American photographer

Arthur Adams, American Photographer

Arthur Adams, American comic book artist

Charles Francis Adams IV (1910–1999), president of Raytheon Company

Clifford Adams, computer programmer

Herbert Adams (1858-1945), American sculptor

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

Michael James Adams (1930–1967), American aviator and NASA astronaut

Milivi Adams (1997–2002), Puerto Rican cancer patient

Neal Adams (born 1941), American comic book artist

Richard Adams (ca. 1626–1698), non-conforming English Presbyterian divine

Richard Adams (Traidcraft), British fair trade organisation founder

Robert Adams (architect) (1540–1595), English architect and surveyor

Robert Merrihew Adams (born 1937), American philosopher

Robert Adams (photographer) (born 1937), American photographer

Scott Adams (disambiguation)


Scott Adams (born 1957), cartoonist


Scott Adams (game designer), computer game designer and programmer

Thomas Adams (architect) (1871–1940), Scottish architect and urban planner

William Adams (sailor) (1564–1620), English navigator, first Briton to reach Japan

William Adams (master) (1706–1789), Master of Pembroke College, Oxford

Zabdiel Adams (1739–1801), American minister, writer, cousin of President John Adams
Disambiguation


Andrew Adams

Arthur Adams

Carl Adams

Charles Adams

Charles Francis Adams

Chris Adams

Colin Adams

Daniel Adams

David Adams

Don Adams

Eddie Adams

Francis Adams

George Adams

Greg Adams

Herbert Adams

James Adams

John Adams

Keith Adams

Michael Adams

Mike Adams

Nick Adams

Paul Adams

Richard Adams

Robert Adams

Robert M. Adams

Samuel Adams

Scott Adams

Steve Adams

Steven Adams

Thomas Adams

Tony Adams

Walter Adams

William Adams
Fictional


★ Eddie Adams, real name of fictional porn star Dirk Diggler

See also



Addams


External links



Adams surname on Genealogy at wikicities.

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