Adams (surname)

Politics and law

A. A. Adams (1900-1985), American politician

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

Benjamin F. Adams (1822-1902), American politician

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

Bryan Adams (Louisiana politician) (born 1963), member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Jefferson Parish

Campbell W. Adams (1852–1930), NY State Engineer and Surveyor 1894–1898

Charles C. Adams, Jr. (born 1947 ), American international arbitration lawyer, civic activist

Charles Francis Adams, Sr. (1807–1886), U.S. congressman, ambassador

Dick Adams (politician) (born 1951), Australian politician

Floyd Adams, Jr. (1945–2014), American politician

Fraser L. Adams, Mayor of Huntsville, Alabama

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

Isaac Adams (1802-1883), American politician

Isaac Adams (Wisconsin), (1825-1879), American politician

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

John Adams (major general) (born 1942), Chief of the Canadian Security Establishment

John Adams (New York) (1778-1854), 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

Alvan Adams (born 1954), American basketball player

Amanda Adams

Amos Adams (footballer) (1880–1941), English footballer

Andre Adams (born 1975), New Zealand cricketer

Babe Adams (1882–1968), American baseball pitcher

Blair Adams (born 1991), English footballer

Bob Adams (1920s pitcher) (1901–1996), American National League baseball pitcher

Bob Adams (1930s pitcher) (1907-1970), American National League baseball pitcher

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

Bob Adams (tight end), (born 1946), US American football player

Bud Adams (born 1923), owner of American professional football team, Tennessee Titans

Carl Adams (born 1942), American NASCAR driver

Charles Adams (1876–1947), American businessman and Boston Bruins founder

Che Adams (born 1996), English footballer

Charles Adam (1955-2010), British judoka and professional wrestler

Chuck Adams (born 1971), American tennis player

Danielle Adams (born 1989), American basketball player

Darren Adams (born 1974), English footballer

Davey Adams, Scottish footballer

Dennis Adams (1934—1971), South African boxer of the 1950s and '60s

Derek Adams (born 1975), Scottish footballer and manager

Danesha Adams (born 1986), American footballer (soccer)

Doc Adams (1814–1899), American baseball player and executive, credited with inventing the shortstop position

Don Adams (basketball) (born 1947), American basketball player

Emery Adams, American baseball player

Frederick Adams (basketball), Filipino basketball player

Gaines Adams (1983–2010), US American football player

Gary Adams (born 1939), American college baseball coach

Harry Adams (baseball umpire) (1863–1941), American Major League Baseball umpire

Hassan Adams (born 1984), American basketball player

Jamie Adams (born 1987), Scottish footballer

Jordan Adams (born 1994), American basketball player

Katrina Adams (born 1968), American professional tennis player

Kevyn Adams (born 1974), American ice hockey 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, (born 1974), professional American football player

Neil Adams (born 1958), British judoka

Neil Adams (born 1965), English football (soccer) player

Nicola Adams (born 1982), English boxer

Ondigui Adams (born 1987), Cameroonian football (soccer) player

Rex Adams (1928–2014), English footballer

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

Philippe Adams (born 1969), Belgian F1 driver, 2 GP with Lotus in 1994

Sadick Adams (born 1990), Ghanaian footballer

Sam Adams (born 1973), US American football player

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

Shawn Adams (born 1974), Canadian curler

Spencer Adams (1898–1970), American Baseball player

Steven Adams (born 1993), New Zealand basketball player; half-brother of Valerie Adams (below)

Steven Adams (born 1989), Ghanaian football player

Tony Adams (born 1966), English footballer and manager

W. Adams, English football manager of Shrewsbury Town Football Club between 1905 and 1912

Valerie Adams, (born 1984), New Zealand shotputter

Vicki Adams (born 1989), Scottish curler

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 (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

Hannah Adams (1755-1831), American historian and theologian

Harriet Adams (1892-1982), American novelist and publisher

Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918), American historian, journalist, and novelist

Matthew Adams (died 1753), American writer

Phillip Adams (born 1939), Australian broadcaster, columnist

Poppy Adams, British television director/producer and novelist

Richard Adams (1920–2016), British novelist, author of Watership Down and The Plague Dogs

R.J.Q. Adams (born 1943), American historian and professor

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

Jim Adams_(musician) (born 1967), American, songwriter, heavy-metal guitarist with the band Defiance_(band)

John Adams (born 1947), American minimalist composer

John Luther Adams (born 1953), American composer

Louise Adams, Australian musician

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

Pepper Adams (1930–1986), American jazz saxophonist and composer

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

Yolanda Adams (born 1961), American gospel singer

Art and photography

Ansel Adams (1902–1984), American photographer

Art Adams (born 1963), American comic book artist

Charles Adams (1912-2008), British photographer, London UK

Clinton Adams (1918–2002), American painter and lithographer

Herbert Adams (1858–1945), American sculptor

J. Ottis Adams (1851–1927), American Impressionist painter

Mark Adams (born 1949), New Zealand photographer

Neal Adams (born 1941), American comic book artist

Robert Adams (born 1937), American photographer

John F. Adams (watercolorist) (born 1956), American painter

Scott Adams (born 1957), cartoonist and creator of the Dilbert comic strip

Theo Adams (born 1989), British performance artist

Drama and television

Abel Adams (1879-1938), Finnish film producer

Amy Adams (born 1974), American actress

Beverly Adams (born 1945), Canadian-born actress

Brooke Adams (born 1949), American actress

Carol Adams (1918-2012), American actress

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

Chris Adams (1955-2001), English model and professional wrestler

Don Adams (1923–2005), American actor

Edie Adams (1927–2008), American businesswoman, singer, Broadway, actress

Fran Adams, American actress with Second City

Julie Adams (born 1926), American actress

Kathryn Adams (1893–1959), American silent film actress

Kelly Adams (born 1979), 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 (1931–1968), American actor and screenwriter

Patrick J. Adams (born 1981), Canadian Actor

Stanley Adams (1915–1977), American actor and film writer

Stella Adams (1883-1961), American actress

Toni Adams (1964–2010), American professional female wrestler

Tony Adams (born 1940), Welsh actor

Trudy Adams, American actress and professional wrestler

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

Donald E. Adams (1921-1952), American pilot and Korean War flying ace

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

Clarence Raymond Adams (1898 – 1965), American mathematician

Douglas Q. Adams, American linguist

Edward Dean Adams (1846–1931), engineer, financier, and scientist, Niagara Falls hydroelectric dam engineer, recipient of the 1926 John Fritz Medal

Edwin Plimpton Adams (1878-1956), American physicist

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

Henry Adams (1858–1929), American architectural engineer

Henry Percy Adams (1865-1930), English architect

Johann Friedrich Adam (1780-1838), 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

Patch Adams (born 1945), American physician, social activist and clown

Raymond Delacy Adams (1911–2008), American neurologist

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

Robert Adams (1809–1870), British firearms designer

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

Roger Adams (1889–1971), American organic chemist

Thomas Adams (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), American: president of Raytheon Company

Charles Kendall Adams (1835-1902), American educator and historian

Charlotte Adams (1859–?), Australian, 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

Margaret Adams (pilot), Australian pilot

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, American beer company

Scott Adams (game designer) (born 1952), American computer game designer and programmer

Weaver W. Adams (1901–1963), American chess player

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 baronetcy