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Adams
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Meaning	"Son of Adam"
Region of origin	England, Scotland
Other names
Related names	MacAdam (in Scotland and Ulster)

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Adams is a common surname of English and Scottish origin, meaning "son of Adam".^[2]

People with the surname Adams

Politics and law

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., 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), Chief of the Canadian Security Establishment
John Adams (New York), 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
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 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 (wrestler) (1955-2010), British judoka and professional wrestler
Chuck Adams (born 1971), American tennis player
Danielle Adams (born 1989), American basketball player
Dennis Adams (boxer) (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
Gaines Adams (1983–2010), American football player
Gary Adams (born 1939), American college baseball coach
Harry Adams (baseball umpire) (1863–1941), 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 (wide receiver), (born 1974), professional American football player
Neil Adams (judoka) (born 1958), British judoka
Neil Adams (footballer) (born 1965), English football (soccer) player
Nicola Adams (born 1982), English boxer
Ondigui Adams (born 1987), Cameroonian football (soccer) player
Rex Adams (footballer) (1928–2014), English footballer
Russ Adams (born 1980), baseball player with the Toronto Blue Jays
Philippe Adams (born 1969), F1 driver, 2 GP with Lotus in 1994
Sadick Adams (born 1990), Ghanaian footballer
Sam Adams (American football) (born 1973), American football player
Sam Adams, Sr. (born 1948), American football player
Shawn Adams (born 1974), Canadian curler
Spencer Adams (1898–1970), Baseball player
Steven Adams (born 1993), New Zealand basketball player; half-brother of Valerie Adams (below)
Steven Adams (footballer) (born 1989), Ghanaian football 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
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 (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
Hannah Adams (1755-1831), American historian and theologian
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 (born 1920), 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
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
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
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

Drama and television

Abel Adams, Finnish film producer
Amy Adams (born 1974), American actress
Andrew Adams (born 1984), American stagehand, actor
Cecily Adams (1958–2004), American actress, daughter of Don Adams
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
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
Patrick J. Adams (born 1981), Canadian Actor

Military

Donald E. Adams, Korean War flying ace

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 (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, 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
Henry Percy Adams (architect) (1865-1930), English architect
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
Patch Adams (born 1945), American physician, social activist and clown
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
Roger Adams (1889–1971), American organic chemist
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

Other

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
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 Baronetage

Disambiguation

References

^ Celtic Surname Maps - origins
^ ^a ^b "Last name: Adams", Surname Database, Name Origin Research, archived from the original on 12 August 2010, retrieved 31 August 2011, This interesting surname is a patronymic of Adam....
^ Honor For E. D. Adams: Engineers to Award the John Fritz Medal for Niagara Development. (1926, March 17). The New York Times (1857–Current file), 6. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851–2004) database. (Document ID: 119063396).

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[BDF-1] Celtic Surname Maps - origins

[origin1-2] "Last name: Adams", Surname Database, Name Origin Research, archived from the original on 12 August 2010, retrieved 31 August 2011, This interesting surname is a patronymic of Adam....

[3] Honor For E. D. Adams: Engineers to Award the John Fritz Medal for Niagara Development. (1926, March 17). The New York Times (1857–Current file), 6. ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851–2004) database. (Document ID: 119063396).

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 ===Politics and law===
 * [[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, Louisiana|Jefferson Parish]]
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 * [[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)]], Chief of the [[Canadian Security Establishment]]