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Adams (surname)

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Meaning
  
"Son of Adam"

Region of origin
  
England, Scotland and Israel

Related names
  
MacAdam (in Scotland and Ireland)

Adams is a common surname of English, Scottish and Jewish origin, meaning "son of Adam".

Contents

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

    • References

    Adams (surname) Wikipedia
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