Adams (surname)
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Adams is a common surname
of English
and Scottish
origin, meaning "son of Adam
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Surname
A surname is a name added to a given name and is part of a personal name. In many cases, a surname is a family name. Many dictionaries define "surname" as a synonym of "family name"...
of English
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
and Scottish
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
origin, meaning "son of Adam
Adam (name)
-People with the given name Adam:* Adam of Ebrach , German abbot and historian* Adam , Spanish churchman* Adam , stage name of Mohd Aizam Mat Saman...
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Politics and law
- Abigail AdamsAbigail AdamsAbigail Adams was the wife of John Adams, who was the second President of the United States, and the mother of John Quincy Adams, the sixth...
(1744–1818), U.S. First Lady - Brock AdamsBrock AdamsBrockman "Brock" Adams was an American politician and member of Congress. Adams was a Democrat from Washington and served as a U.S. Representative, Senator, and United States Secretary of Transportation before retiring in January 1993.Adams was born in Atlanta, Georgia, and attended the public...
(1927–2004), U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Washington - Campbell W. AdamsCampbell W. AdamsCampbell W. Adams was an American civil engineer, surveyor and politician from New York. He was New York State Engineer and Surveyor from 1894 to 1898.-Life:...
(1852–1930), NY State Engineer and Surveyor 1894–1898 - Charles Francis Adams, Sr.Charles Francis Adams, Sr.Charles Francis Adams, Sr. was an American lawyer, politician, diplomat and writer. He was the grandson of President John Adams and Abigail Adams and the son of President John Quincy Adams and Louisa Adams....
(1807–1886), U.S. congressman, ambassador - Dick Adams (politician) (born 1951), Australian politician
- Gabriel AdamsGabriel AdamsGabriel Adams served as Mayor of Pittsburgh from 1847 to 1849.Adams' administration witnessed the founding of the Joseph Horne Company and the beginnings of Organized Labor....
(1790–1864), Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - Gerry AdamsGerry AdamsGerry Adams is an Irish republican politician and Teachta Dála for the constituency of Louth. From 1983 to 1992 and from 1997 to 2011, he was an abstentionist Westminster Member of Parliament for Belfast West. He is the president of Sinn Féin, the second largest political party in Northern...
(born 1948), Irish Republican politician, President of Sinn Féin - Henry Cullen AdamsHenry Cullen AdamsHenry Cullen Adams was an American farmer, public official, and U. S. Congressman from Wisconsin, best known for his support of pure food laws....
(1850–1906), U.S. Representative from Wisconsin - Irene Adams, Baroness Adams of CraigieleaIrene Adams, Baroness Adams of CraigieleaKatherine Patricia Irene Adams, Baroness Adams of Craigielea is a Scottish Labour Party peer, who served as Member of Parliament in the constituency of Paisley North from 1990 to 2005.-Early life:...
(born 1947), Scottish politician - John Adams (major general)John Adams (major general)John Adams is the current Chief of the Communications Security Establishment Canada and Associate Deputy Minister of National Defence. He was appointed in July 2005....
, Chief of the Canadian Security Establishment - John AdamsJohn AdamsJohn Adams was an American lawyer, statesman, diplomat and political theorist. A leading champion of independence in 1776, he was the second President of the United States...
(1735–1826), second U.S. President - John Quincy AdamsJohn Quincy AdamsJohn Quincy Adams was the sixth President of the United States . He served as an American diplomat, Senator, and Congressional representative. He was a member of the Federalist, Democratic-Republican, National Republican, and later Anti-Masonic and Whig parties. Adams was the son of former...
(1767–1848), sixth U.S. President - Judith AdamsJudith AdamsJudith Anne Adams , Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian Senate since July 2005, representing Western Australia. She was born in Picton, New Zealand, and was a trained nurse and midwife experienced in health care policy...
(born 1943), Australian Senator - Philip Adams (1915–2001), British diplomat
- Robert Adams, Jr. (1849–1906), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania
- Robert H. AdamsRobert H. AdamsRobert Huntington Adams was a Mississippi lawyer and politician who, in the final months of his life, briefly served as United States senator from Mississippi....
(1792–1830), U.S. Senator from Mississippi - Samuel AdamsSamuel AdamsSamuel Adams was an American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. As a politician in colonial Massachusetts, Adams was a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, and was one of the architects of the principles of American...
(1722–1803), American revolutionary - Samuel Adams (governor)Samuel Adams (governor)Samuel Adams was a Democratic Governor of the State of Arkansas.Samuel Adams was born in Halifax County, Virginia. Adams was self-taught and moved to Arkansas in 1835. Adams became a planter and became active in Arkansas politics.In 1840 Adams was elected to the Arkansas Senate...
(1805–1850), Governor of Arkansas - Thomas Adams (politician)Thomas Adams (politician)Thomas Adams was a politician and businessman from Virginia.Adams was born in New Kent County in 1730. His first political position was as a clerk of Henrico County, and later a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses...
(1730–1788), American Continental Congressman
Sports
- Amos Adams (footballer)Amos Adams (footballer)Amos Adams was a footballer who played in the Football League for West Bromwich Albion.-References:...
(1880–1941), English footballer - Babe AdamsBabe AdamsCharles Benjamin "Babe" Adams was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1906 to 1926 who spent nearly his entire career with the Pittsburgh Pirates...
(1882–1968), American baseball pitcher - Bob Adams (American League pitcher) (1901–1996), American League baseball pitcher
- Bobby AdamsBobby AdamsRobert Henry Adams was a third baseman/second baseman in Major League Baseball. He played for the Cincinnati Reds & Redlegs , Chicago White Sox , Baltimore Orioles and Chicago Cubs . Adams batted and threw right-handed...
(1921–1997), Major League Baseball infielder - Bob Adams (tight end)Bob Adams (tight end)Robert Bruce "Bob" Adams is a former professional American football tight end in the National Football League and an official within the Church of Scientology. He attended El Camino High School during the 1960s, and was encouraged by a coach at the College of San Mateo to play football...
, (born 1946), American football player - Bud AdamsBud AdamsKenneth Stanley "Bud" Adams, Jr. is the owner of the Tennessee Titans' National Football League franchise. He was instrumental in the founding and establishment of the former American Football League. Adams became a charter AFL owner with the establishment of the Titans franchise, which was...
(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)Harry Adams (umpire)Harry S. Adams was a professional baseball umpire.Adams umpired 1 National League game on August 26, 1897. He then returned to Major League umpiring in 1903 for the American League, where he umpired 15 games. -References:...
(1863–1941), Major League Baseball umpire - Katrina AdamsKatrina AdamsKatrina Adams is a former professional United States tennis player from Chicago. Her highest singles ranking was 67 on May 8, 1989.-Early life:Adams joined a tennis program in West Side, Chicago when she was six years old...
(born 1968), American professional tennis player - Martin AdamsMartin AdamsMartin Adams is an English international darts player. Nicknamed Wolfie or Mr BDO, he is BDO world ranked number one, three-time and reigning BDO World Champion and three-time World Masters champion...
(born 1956), English darts player, 2007 BDO World Champion - Michael Adams (chess player) (born 1971), English chess grandmaster
- Michael Adams (basketball)Michael Adams (basketball)Michael Adams is a former NBA player and basketball coach.After starring at Boston College, the 5'10" point guard was selected by the Sacramento Kings in the 3rd round with the 66th pick of the 1985 NBA Draft...
(born 1963), American NBA basketball player, college basketball - Micky AdamsMicky AdamsMichael Richard "Micky" Adams is an English former professional footballer turned football manager who is in charge of League Two side Port Vale. As a player he was a full back, and made a total of 438 league appearances in a nineteen year professional career in the Football League, including five...
(born 1961), English football (soccer) manager - Mike Adams (wide receiver)Mike Adams (wide receiver)Michael Christopher "Mike" Adams is a former college American football wide receiver. He was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers, but only played for one season.-College:...
, (born 1974), professional American football player - Neil Adams (judoka) (born 1958), British judoka
- Neil Adams (footballer)Neil Adams (footballer)Neil James Adams is a former professional footballer and current Academy football coach for Norwich City.-Career:...
(born 1965), English football (soccer) player - Ondigui AdamsOndigui AdamsOndigui Adams, usually known as Adams , is a Cameroonian football defensive midfielder currently playing for Portuguesa Santista of Brazil....
(born 1987), Cameroonian football (soccer) player - Russ AdamsRuss AdamsRuss Moore Adams is a former Major League Baseball player who played for the Toronto Blue Jays, San Diego Padres, and New York Mets organizations. Adams bats left-handed and throws with his right hand....
(born 1980), baseball player with the Toronto Blue Jays - Philippe AdamsPhilippe Adams- Early career :Adams first began in motorsport at the age of twelve, racing karts, before beginning in car racing in 1984. In 1992, Adams competed in the British Formula Three Championship, finishing second overall in the season...
(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 AdamsSpencer AdamsSpencer Dewey Adams was a Major League Baseball player. He played with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1923, the Washington Senators in 1925, the New York Yankees in 1926 and the St. Louis Browns in 1927....
(1898–1970), Baseball player - Tony Adams (association footballer) (born 1966), English footballer and manager
- W. AdamsW. AdamsWilliam Adams was the captain of HMS Harwich in the Royal Navy who was killed in Edward Boscawen's unsuccessful siege of Pondicherry during the War of the Austrian Succession.-Sources:#*...
, English football manager of Shrewsbury Town Football Club between 1905 and 1912
Literature and journalism
- Bristow AdamsBristow AdamsBristow Adams was an American journalist, professor, forester, and illustrator.Adams was born in Washington, D.C.. He taught at Cornell University from 1914 to 1945...
(1875–1957), American journalist, forester, professor, illustrator - Brooks AdamsBrooks AdamsPeter Chardon Brooks Adams , was an American historian and a critic of capitalism. He graduated from Harvard University in 1870 and studied at Harvard Law School in 1870 and 1871....
(1848–1927), American historian and a critic of capitalism - Cecil AdamsCecil AdamsCecil Adams is a name, possibly a pseudonym, designating the American author of The Straight Dope, a popular question and answer column published in The Chicago Reader since 1973. Ed Zotti is Adams' current editor....
, pseudonym of author(s) of a syndicated question-and-answer column, The Straight Dope - Douglas AdamsDouglas AdamsDouglas Noel Adams was an English writer and dramatist. He is best known as the author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy before developing into a "trilogy" of five books that sold over 15 million copies in his lifetime, a television...
(1952–2001), British comic radio dramatist and writer, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series - Eddie Adams (photographer)Eddie Adams (photographer)Eddie Adams was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American photographer and photojournalist noted for portraits of celebrities and politicians and his coverage of 13 wars.-Combat photographer:...
(1933–2004), American photojournalist - Francis Adams (writer)Francis Adams (writer)Francis William Lauderdale Adams was an essayist, poet, dramatist, novelist and journalist who produced a large volume of work in his short life.- Early life :...
(1862–1893), Australian essayist, poet, dramatist, novelist and journalist - Franklin Pierce AdamsFranklin Pierce AdamsFranklin Pierce Adams was an American columnist, well known by his initials F.P.A., and wit, best known for his newspaper column, "The Conning Tower", and his appearances as a regular panelist on radio's Information Please...
(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 AdamsMatthew AdamsMatthew Adams was a distinguished writer in Boston, Massachusetts, though a mechanic, or "tradesman," yet had a handsome collection of books and cultivated literature. Dr...
(died 1753), an American writerWriterA writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images.... - Phillip AdamsPhillip AdamsPhillip Andrew Hedley Adams, AO is an Australian broadcaster, film producer, writer, social commentator, satirist and left-wing pundit. He currently hosts a radio program, Late Night Live, four nights a week on the ABC, and he also writes a weekly column for the News Limited-owned newspaper, The...
(born 1939), Australian broadcaster, columnist - Poppy AdamsPoppy AdamsPoppy Adams is a British television documentary director/producer and novelist.Adams attended the Dragon School in Oxford. Later she received a degree in Natural Sciences from Durham University....
, British television director/producer and novelist - Richard AdamsRichard AdamsRichard Adams was a non-conforming English Presbyterian divine, known as author of sermons and other theological writings.-Life:...
(born 1920), British novelist, author of Watership Down and The Plague Dogs - Roy AdamsRoy AdamsRoy J. Adams is a Canadian author, newspaper columnist, human rights activist and academic.He emigrated to Canada in 1973 and taught industrial relations at McMaster University until 1997. Since then he has been a newspaper columnist for the Hamilton Spectator and has written a number of articles...
(born 1940), Canadian author, newspaper columnist, human rights activist, and academic - Samuel Hopkins AdamsSamuel Hopkins AdamsSamuel Hopkins Adams was an American writer, best known for his investigative journalism.-Biography:Adams was born in Dunkirk, New York...
(1871–1958), American journalist and short story writer
Music
- Ben AdamsBen AdamsBen Adams is an English singer-songwriter, best known as a member of the boy band, a1.-Early life:...
(born 1981), British singer, businessman - Bryan AdamsBryan AdamsBryan Adams, is a Canadian rock singer-songwriter, guitarist, bassist, producer, actor and photographer. Adams has won dozens of awards and nominations, including 20 Juno Awards among 56 nominations. He has also received 15 Grammy Award nominations including a win for Best Song Written...
(born 1959), Canadian singer, guitarist, and songwriter - Charlie Adams (drummer)Charlie Adams (drummer)Charlie Adams is an American drummer, percussionist, drum engineer, composer, music producer, and film producer. He formed the rock band Chameleon in the 1980s, and was known for his revolving, upside-down drum set. He has been drum lead for Yanni through nine major concert tours...
, American musician - Dave AdamsDave AdamsDave Adams is a British singer, keyboard player and songwriter. He began working with Joe Meek in 1958, working with Meek until his death in 1967. In the early 1960s, he helped build up Meek's studio. He recorded singles with him under various pseudonyms and wrote songs for him...
, English musician and songwriter - Derroll AdamsDerroll AdamsDerroll Adams was an American folk musician.-Biography:Adams was born Derroll Lewis Thompson in Portland, Oregon. At 16, he served in the Army and later in the Coast Guard. He was a tall, lanky banjo player with a deep voice...
(1925–2000), American folk musician - Jay Boy AdamsJay Boy AdamsJames Wallace Adams, known as Jay Boy Adams , is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist from Lubbock and San Antonio, Texas, known particularly for his talent for storytelling in his songs.-Early years:...
(born 1949), American singer, songwriter, and guitarist - John Adams (composer) (born 1947), American minimalist composer
- John Luther AdamsJohn Luther AdamsJohn Luther Adams is a composer whose music is inspired by nature, especially the landscapes of Alaska where he has lived since 1978.-Biography:...
(born 1953), American composer - Ki AdamsKi AdamsCecil Kinette "Ki" Adams, a native of Birmingham, Alabama, is an Associate Professor in Music Education and Organ at Memorial University of Newfoundland and is a founding member of Festival 500.Mr. Adams is Music Director at St. Thomas' Anglican Church in St...
, Canadian Choral Conductor - Oleta AdamsOleta AdamsOleta Adams is an American soul, jazz, and gospel singer and pianist.-Biography:Adams was born the daughter of a preacher and was raised with gospel music. In her youth her family moved to Yakima, Washington, which is sometimes shown as her place of birth.Before gaining her opportunity to perform,...
(born 1962), American soul and jazz singer - Ryan AdamsRyan AdamsDavid Ryan Adams is an American alt-country/rock singer-songwriter, from Jacksonville, North Carolina. Initially part of the group Whiskeytown, Adams left the band and released his first solo album Heartbreaker in 2000...
(born 1974), American alternative-country and rock and roll singer/songwriter - Suzanne AdamsSuzanne AdamsSuzanne Adams was an American lyric coloratura soprano. Known for her agile and pure voice, Adams first became well known in France before establishing herself as one of the Metropolitan Opera's leading sopranos at the beginning of the twentieth century.-Biography:Adams was born in Cambridge,...
(born 1872), American operatic soprano - Victoria Adams (born 1974), birth name of British pop singer "Posh Spice" Victoria BeckhamVictoria BeckhamVictoria Caroline Beckham is an English singer-songwriter, dancer, model, actress, fashion designer and businesswoman. In the late 1990s, Beckham rose to fame with the all-female pop group Spice Girls and was dubbed Posh Spice by the July 1996 issue of the British pop music magazine Top of the Pops...
Art and photography
- Ansel AdamsAnsel AdamsAnsel Easton Adams was an American photographer and environmentalist, best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West, especially in Yosemite National Park....
(1902–1984), American photographer - Art AdamsArt AdamsArthur "Art" Adams is an American comic book artist and writer. He first broke into the American comic book industry with the 1985 Marvel Comics miniseries Longshot...
(born 1963), American comic book artist - Clinton AdamsClinton AdamsClinton Adams was an American artist and art historian.-Biography:Adams was born in Glendale, California. He worked in the art department of the University of California, Los Angeles, but eventually left to serve in the military. He returned to UCLA in 1946...
(1918–2002), American painter and lithographer - Herbert Adams (sculptor) (1858–1945), American sculptor
- J. Ottis AdamsJ. Ottis AdamsJ. Ottis Adams was an American impressionist painter and member of the Hoosier Group of Indiana painters.He spent his youth in Franklin, Shelbyville, and Martinsville, Indiana and attended Wabash College for two years....
(1851–1927), American Impressionist painter - Mark Adams (photographer) (born 1949), New Zealand photographer
- Neal AdamsNeal AdamsNeal Adams is an American comic book and commercial artist known for helping to create some of the definitive modern imagery of the DC Comics characters Superman, Batman, and Green Arrow; as the co-founder of the graphic design studio Continuity Associates; and as a creators-rights advocate who...
(born 1941), American comic book artist - Robert Adams (photographer)Robert Adams (photographer)Robert Adams is an American photographer who has focused on the changing landscape of the American West. His work first came to prominence in the mid-1970s through the book The New West and the exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape...
(born 1937), American photographer - Scott AdamsScott AdamsScott Raymond Adams is the American creator of the Dilbert comic strip and the author of several nonfiction works of satire, commentary, business, and general speculation....
(born 1957), cartoonist and creator of the Dilbert comic strip - Theo AdamsTheo AdamsTheo Adams , previously referred to as The-O, is a performance artist and director of the contemporary theatrical performance art group Theo Adams Company.-Personal life:...
(born 1989), British performance artist
Drama and television
- Amy AdamsAmy AdamsAmy Lou Adams is an American actress and singer. Adams began her performing career on stage in dinner theaters before making her screen debut in the 1999 black comedy film Drop Dead Gorgeous...
(born 1974), American actress - Cecily AdamsCecily AdamsCecily April Adams was born in Jamaica, Queens, New York, the daughter of comic actor Don Adams and singer Adelaide Efantis, and the sister of actress/TV executive Stacey Adams...
(1958–2004), American actress, daughter of Don Adams - Don AdamsDon AdamsDon Adams was an American actor, comedian and director. In his five decades on television, he was best known as Maxwell Smart in the television situation comedy Get Smart , which he also sometimes directed and wrote. Adams won three consecutive Emmy Awards for his portrayal of Smart...
(1923–2005), American actor - Fran AdamsFran Adams-Biography:Fran Adams was an ensemble member of the Chicago based improvisational comedy troupe Second City. She is a featured player in the DVD release of The Best of Second City, a compilation of some of the most memorable sketches that helped make Second City one of the United State’s foremost...
, American actress with Second CitySecond CitySecond City or The Second City may refer to:* The second largest city in a country. See: List of largest cities and second largest cities by country... - Julie AdamsJulie AdamsJulie Adams is an American film and television actress, sometimes credited as Julia Adams or Betty Adams.-Life and career:...
(born 1926), American actress - Kelly AdamsKelly AdamsKelly Adams is an English actress.A pupil of North Kesteven School in North Hykeham, Adams trained at the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in Wood Green, London....
, English actress - Mary Kay AdamsMary Kay AdamsMary Kay Adams is an American actress known for her roles in television, on the soap opera Guiding Light and as Na'Toth in the second season of the science fiction television series Babylon 5....
, (born 1962) American actress - Maud AdamsMaud AdamsMaud Solveig Christina Wikström , known professionally as Maud Adams, is a Swedish actress, known for her roles as two different Bond girls: in The Man with the Golden Gun , and as the title character in Octopussy .-Early life:Adams was born Maud Solveig Christina Wikström in Luleå, Sweden, the...
(born 1945), Swedish model and actress - Maude AdamsMaude AdamsMaude Ewing Kiskadden , known professionally as Maude Adams, was an American stage actress who achieved her greatest success as Peter Pan. Adams's personality appealed to a large audience and helped her become the most successful and highest-paid performer of her day, with a yearly income of more...
(1872–1953), American stage actress - Nick Adams (actor) (1931–1968), American actor and screenwriter
- Stanley Adams (actor)Stanley Adams (actor)Stanley Adams was an American actor and screenwriter.-Career:Born in New York City, Adams had his first film role in 1952, when he played the bartender in the movie version of Death of a Salesman...
(1915–1977), American actor and film writer - Tony Adams (actor)Tony Adams (actor)Tony Adams is a Welsh actor, best known for his performances in two British television soap operas.Adams was born in Anglesey, Wales, and he trained as an actor at the Italia Conti Stage School...
(born 1940), Welsh actor - Travis Adams (research consultant) (born 1973), English Production
- Patrick J. AdamsPatrick J. AdamsPatrick J. Adams is a Canadian actor. He is best known for playing Mike Ross in USA Network's series Suits.-Personal life:...
(born 1981), Canadian Actor
Military
- Charles Francis Adams, Jr.Charles Francis Adams, Jr.Charles Francis Adams II was a member of the prominent Adams family, and son of Charles Francis Adams, Sr. He served as a colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War...
(1835–1915), Civil War General and president of the Union Pacific Railroad - Charles Francis Adams IIICharles Francis Adams IIICharles Francis Adams III was the United States Secretary of the Navy under President Herbert Hoover and a well-known yachtsman.-Life:...
(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
- Charles Hitchcock AdamsCharles Hitchcock AdamsCharles Hitchcock Adams was an amateur American astronomer, and father of photographer Ansel Adams....
(1868–1951), US astronomer - Douglas Q. AdamsDouglas Q. AdamsDouglas Q. Adams is a professor of English at the University of Idaho and an Indo-European comparativist. Adams studied at the University of Chicago, taking his PhD in 1972. He is an expert on Tocharian and a contributor on this subject to the Encyclopædia Britannica.He has also co-authored two...
, Indo-European comparativist - Edward Dean Adams (1846–1931), engineer, financier, and scientist, Niagara FallsNiagara FallsThe Niagara Falls, located on the Niagara River draining Lake Erie into Lake Ontario, is the collective name for the Horseshoe Falls and the adjacent American Falls along with the comparatively small Bridal Veil Falls, which combined form the highest flow rate of any waterfalls in the world and has...
hydroelectric dam engineer, recipient of the 1926 John Fritz MedalJohn Fritz MedalThe John Fritz Medal is since 1902 yearly awarded by the American Association of Engineering Societies for "outstanding scientific or industrial achievements". The medal was created for Fritz's 80th birthday, who lived between 1822 and 1913.- Recipients :... - Francis Adams (translator)Francis Adams (translator)Francis Adams was a Scottish medical doctor and translator of Greek medical works.Adams had a practice in Banchory, Aberdeenshire, from 1819 to 1861...
(1796–1861), Scottish medical doctor and translator of Greek medical works - Henry Adams (mechanical engineer)Henry Adams (mechanical engineer)Henry Adams was an American mechanical engineer. He emigrated at age 22 to Baltimore from Duisburg, Germany having been educated as a building engineer...
(1858–1929), American architectural engineer - Johann Friedrich AdamJohann Friedrich AdamJohann Friedrich Adam, later called Michael Friedrich Adams was a botanist from St. Petersburg, Russia....
, botanist known by the author abbreviation "Adams" - John Bodkin AdamsJohn Bodkin AdamsJohn Bodkin Adams was an Irish-born British general practitioner, convicted fraudster and suspected serial killer. Between the years 1946 and 1956, more than 160 of his patients died in suspicious circumstances. Of these, 132 left him money or items in their will. He was tried and acquitted for...
(1899–1983), Irish-British physician and suspected serial killer - John Couch AdamsJohn Couch AdamsJohn Couch Adams was a British mathematician and astronomer. Adams was born in Laneast, near Launceston, Cornwall, and died in Cambridge. The Cornish name Couch is pronounced "cooch"....
(1819–1892), British mathematician and astronomer - Karl Adams (mathematician) (1811–1849), Swiss mathematician and teacher
- Matthew Algernon AdamsMatthew Algernon AdamsMatthew Algernon Adams was a British medical doctor. He was the President of the Society of Public Analysts in 1889 and 1890, and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Chemistry.-Biography:...
(1836–1913), British medical doctor and chemist - Michael James AdamsMichael James AdamsMichael James Adams was an American aviator, engineer and USAF astronaut. He was the first US space mission fatality, according to the US definition.-Military experience:...
(1930–1967), American aviator and NASA astronaut - Otto Eugene AdamsOtto Eugene AdamsOtto Eugene Adams the Architect was born in Baltimore November 1, 1889 to a family with Baltimore and German ancestry. He died in Baltimore County on January 29, 1968.-Family:...
(1889–1968), American architect - Robert Adams (architect)Robert Adams (architect)Robert Adams was a 16th century English architect, engraver and surveyor of buildings to Queen Elizabeth.None of Robert Adams' architectural works are known to have survived, but some of his plans and engravings are still extant, such as a large 1588 plan of Middleburgh and, from the same year, a...
(1540–1595), British architect and surveyor - Robert Adams (handgun designer) (1809–1870), British firearms designer
- Robert McCormick Adams, Jr.Robert McCormick Adams, Jr.Robert McCormick Adams Jr. is a U.S. anthropologist.Born in Chicago, he received his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1957, where he was also employed as a member of the faculty. He served as the provost of the University of Chicago from 1982 and 1984. He served as the secretary of the...
(born 1926), U.S. anthropologist - Thomas Adams (architect)Thomas Adams (architect)Thomas Adams was a pioneer of urban planning. Born on a farm near Edinburgh and a farmer in his early years, Adams moved to London where he worked as a journalist...
(1871–1940), Scottish architect and urban planner - Walter Sydney AdamsWalter Sydney AdamsWalter Sydney Adams was an American astronomer.-Life and work:He was born in Antioch, Syria to missionary parents, and was brought to the U.S. in 1885 He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1898, then continued his education in Germany...
(1876–1956), US astronomer - William Adams (locomotive engineer)William Adams (locomotive engineer)William Adams was the Locomotive Superintendent of the North London Railway from 1858 to 1873; the Great Eastern Railway from 1873 until 1878 and the London and South Western Railway from then until his retirement in 1895...
(1823–1904), British locomotive engineer - William Adams (oculist)William Adams (oculist)Sir William Adams also known as Sir William Rawson after 1825. He was born at Morwenstow in Cornwall. He was well known as an ophthalmic surgeon and was founder of Exeter's West of England Eye Infirmary. John Nash had built the Ophthalmic Hospital for him on Albany Street, London...
(1783–1827), British ophthalmic surgeon - William Bridges AdamsWilliam Bridges AdamsWilliam Bridges Adams was an author, inventor and locomotive engineer.-Overview:He is best known for his patented Adams Axle — a successful radial axle design in use on railways in Britain until the end of steam traction in 1968 — and the railway fishplate...
(1797–1872), British author, inventor, and locomotive engineer
Other
- Charles Francis Adams IVCharles Francis Adams IVCharles Francis Adams IV was a U.S. electronics industrialist. He served as the first president of the Raytheon Company between 1948 and 1960, and again from 1962 to 1964. He served as its chairman between 1960 and 1962, and again from 1964 until 1972...
(1910–1999), president of Raytheon Company - Charlotte AdamsCharlotte AdamsCharlotte Adams was an Australian mountain climber. She became the first woman of European descent to climb to the peak of Mount Kosciuszko in February 1881, aged 21....
(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 AdamsHerbert Baxter AdamsHerbert Baxter Adams was an American educator and historian.Adams was born to Nathaniel Dickinson Adams and Harriet Adams in Shutesbury, Massachusetts. On his mother's side, he was a descendant of Thomas Hastings who came from the East Anglia region of England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in...
(1850–1901), American educator and historian - John Adams (mutineer)John Adams (mutineer)John Adams was the last survivor of the Bounty mutineers who settled on Pitcairn Island in January 1790, the year after the mutiny. His real name was John Adams; He used the name Alexander Smith until he was discovered in 1808 by Captain Mayhew Folger of the ship Topaz...
(1766–1829), last survivor of the Bounty mutineers who settled on Pitcairn Island - Kevin AdamsKevin AdamsFor the NHL player, see Kevyn Adams.Kevin Adams is an American theatrical lighting designer. He has earned three Tony Awards for lighting design.-Biography:...
(born 1962), American theatrical lighting designer - Richard Adams (religious writer) (ca. 1626–1698), non-conforming English Presbyterian divine
- Richard Adams (Traidcraft)Richard Adams (Traidcraft)Richard Adams, OBE is the British founder of the UK fair trade organisations Tearcraft and Traidcraft and of a number of social enterprises which promote ethical business.Adams attended King Edward VI Five Ways school in Birmingham...
(born 1946), British fair trade organisation founder - Robert Merrihew Adams (born 1937), American philosopher
- Samuel AdamsSamuel AdamsSamuel Adams was an American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. As a politician in colonial Massachusetts, Adams was a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, and was one of the architects of the principles of American...
, beer company - Scott Adams (game designer)Scott Adams (game designer)Scott Adams is the co-founder, with ex-wife Alexis, of Adventure International, an early publisher of games for home computers....
(born 1952), computer game designer and programmer - William Adams (sailor)William Adams (sailor)William Adams , also known in Japanese as Anjin-sama and Miura Anjin , was an English navigator who travelled to Japan and is believed to be the first Englishman ever to reach that country...
(1564–1620), English navigator and first Briton to reach Japan - William Adams (master)William Adams (master)William Adams D.D. was Fellow and Master of Pembroke College, Oxford.- Early years :He was born at Shrewsbury, of a Shropshire family, and at the early age of thirteen was entered of Pembroke College, where he took his master's degree, April 18, 1727, and obtained a fellowship...
(1706–1789), English Master of Pembroke College, Oxford - Zabdiel AdamsZabdiel AdamsZabdiel Adams , minister of Lunenburg, Massachusetts, was born in Braintree, now Quincy, November 5, 1739. His father was the uncle of John Adams, late president of the United States...
(1739–1801), American minister, writer, and cousin of President John Adams - Adams BaronetsAdams Baronets- Adams of London :* Sir Thomas Adams, 1st Baronet MP for London 1654-1655 and 1656-1658 * Sir William Adams, 2nd Baronet * Sir Thomas Adams, 3rd Baronet...
, a 17th and 18th century English Baronetage
Disambiguation
- Andrew Adams
- Arthur Adams
- Charles Adams
- Charles Francis Adams
- Chris Adams
- Colin Adams
- Daniel Adams
- David Adams
- Don AdamsDon Adams (disambiguation)Don Adams was an American actor.Don Adams is also the name of:*Don Adams , a bare-knuckle boxer*Don Adams , American basketball player...
- Edward AdamsEdward Adams (disambiguation)Edward Adams may refer to:*Edward Adams , English footballer who played for Tranmere Rovers*Edward Adams , English naval surgeon and naturalist*Eddie Adams , former American racecar driver...
- Francis Adams
- George Adams
- Greg Adams
- Herbert Adams
- James Adams
- John AdamsJohn Adams (disambiguation)John Adams was the second President of the United States.John Adams is also the name of:-Politicians:*John Quincy Adams , 6th President of the United States and son of the 2nd President*John J...
- Keith Adams
- Mark Adams
- Michael AdamsMichael Adams (disambiguation)Michael Adams may refer to:*Michael Adams , English chess Grandmaster*Michael F. Adams , president of the University of Georgia*Johann Friedrich Adam , Russian botanist, later called Michael Friedrich Adams...
- Mike Adams
- Nick Adams
- Paul Adams
- Richard AdamsRichard Adams (disambiguation)Richard Adams is an English novelist, author of Watership Down and The Plague Dogs.Richard Adams may also refer to:*Richard Adams , collector of verse...
- Rick Adams
- Robert Adams
- Samuel AdamsSamuel Adams (disambiguation)Samuel Adams or Sam Adams may refer to:Politicians:*Samuel Adams , Boston leader in the era of the American Revolution*Samuel Adams , acting Governor of Arkansas in 1844...
- Scott AdamsScott Adams (disambiguation)Scott Adams is the creator of the Dilbert comic strip.Scott Adams is also the name of:* Scott Adams , game designer* Scott Adams , Australian Paralympic skier...
- Stephen AdamsStephen Adams (disambiguation)Stephen Adams may refer to:* Michael Maybrick , an English composer best known by his pseudonym Stephen Adams* Stephen Adams , American businessman and private equity investor* Stephen Adams , U.S...
- Steve Adams
- Thomas Adams
- Tony Adams
- Walter Adams
- William Adams
See also
- Adams (disambiguation)
- Adams (taxonomic authority)
- Adams political familyAdams political familyThe Adams family was a prominent political family in the United States during the late 18th century through early 20th centuries. Based in eastern Massachusetts, they formed part of the Boston Brahmin community.-Members:...
- Addams (disambiguation)
- AdamsonAdamsonThe Adamson was an English car manufactured in Enfield, Middlesex, from 1912 to 1925. It was designed by Reginald Barton Adamson at the premises of the family haulage contract business....
External links
- Adams surname on Genealogy at Wikicities