Adams (surname)
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| Adams |
| Family name |
| Meaning |
"Son of Adam" |
| Region of origin |
England, Scotland |
| Related names |
MacAdam (in Scotland and Ulster) |
| Footnotes: [1][2] |
Adams is a common surname of English and Scottish origin, meaning "son of Adam".[2]
[edit] People with the surname Adams
[edit] 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 (major general), Chief of the Canadian Security Establishment
- John Adams (1735–1826), second U.S. President
- John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), sixth U.S. President
- Judith Adams (born 1943), Australian Senator
- Philip Adams (1915–2001), British diplomat
- 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
- 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
[edit] 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
[edit] 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
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[edit] 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
- 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
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