Adams (surname)

Adams is a common surname in English-speaking countries, derived from the given name Adam.

People with the surname Adams

Abigail Adams (1744–1818), U.S. First Lady
Brockman 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), grandson of John Adams, son of John Quincy Adams, U.S. congressman, ambassador
Dick Adams (b. 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
John Adams (1735–1826), second U.S. President
John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), sixth U.S. President
Judith Adams, Australian Senator
Katherine Adams (born 1947), Scottish MP
Robert Adams, Jr. (Pennsylvania) (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

Babe Adams (1882–1968), American baseball pitcher
Bob Adams (AL baseball pitcher) (1901–1996), American League baseball pitcher
Bobby Adams (1921–1997), Major League Baseball infielder
Charles Adams (ice hockey) (1876–1947), Boston Bruins founder
Mark Adams, basketball coach
Michael Adams (born 1971), English chess grandmaster
Michael Adams (basketball) (born 1963), American NBA basketball player, college basketball
Micky Adams English football Manager
Neil Adams (judoka) British judo player
Neil Adams (footballer) English football player
Ondigui Adams (born 1987), Cameroonian football (soccer) player
Russ Adams (born 1980), baseball player with the Toronto Blue Jays
Sam Adams (football player) (born 1973), American football player
Sam Adams Sr. (born 1948), American football player, father of Sam Adams
Spencer Adams (1898-1970), Baseball player
Tony Adams (footballer) (born 1966), English footballer and manager

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 humor 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 Adams (1838–1918), American historian, journalist, and novelist
Richard Adams (author) (born 1920), British novelist, author of Watership Down and The Plague Dogs
Roy Adams, prominent 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, American musician
Dave Adams, English musician and songwriter
John Coolidge Adams (born 1947), American minimalist composer
John Luther Adams (born 1953), American composer
Oleta Adams (born 1962), American soul and jazz singer
Ryan Adams (born 1974), American alt-country and rock and roll singer/songwriter
Steven Adams (born 1974), English songwriter and singer with The Broken Family Band
Suzanne Adams (born 1872), American operatic soprano
Victoria Adams (born 1974), birthname of British pop singer "Posh Spice" Victoria Beckham

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 (VC) (1856–1928), recipient of the Victoria Cross
Samuel Adams (naval officer) (1912–1942), U.S. Navy officer
W. Adams (died 1748), captain in British Navy

Charles Hitchcock Adams (1868-1951), US astronomer
Edward Dean Adams, (1846-unknown) engineer, financier and scientist, Niagara Falls hydroelectric dam engineer, recipient of the John Fritz Medal.
Francis Adams (translator) (1796-1861), Scottish medical doctor and translator of Greek medical works
Henry Adams (mechanical engineer) co-founder of ASHVE, chief engineer U.S. government, large building systems engineer
John Bodkin Adams, Eastbourne physician and suspected serial killer]
John Couch Adams (1819–1892), British mathematician and astronomer
Robert Adams of London (1809–1870), British firearms designer
Robert McCormick Adams Jr. (born 1926), U.S. anthropologist
Walter Sydney Adams (1876-1956), US astronomer
William Adams (locomotive engineer) (1823–1904), British locomotive engineer
William Adams (oculist) (1783–1827), English ophthalmic surgeon
William Bridges Adams (1797–1872) British author, inventor, and locomotive engineer

Ansel Adams (1902–1984), American photographer
Arthur Adams, American comic book artist
Charles Francis Adams IV (1910–1999), president of Raytheon Company
Charlotte Adams, First European woman to climb to the peak of Mount Kosciuszko
Clifford Adams, computer programmer
Herbert Adams (1858-1945), American sculptor
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
Mark Adams, New Zealand photographer
Michael James Adams (1930–1967), American aviator and NASA astronaut
Neal Adams (born 1941), American comic book artist
Otto Eugene Adams (Sr.) (1889-1968) architect
Richard Adams (ca. 1626–1698), non-conforming English Presbyterian divine
Richard Adams (Traidcraft), British fair trade organisation founder
Robert Adams (architect) (1540–1595), English architect and surveyor
Robert Merrihew Adams (born 1937), American philosopher
Robert Adams (photographer) (born 1937), American photographer
Scott Adams (disambiguation)

Thomas Adams (architect) (1871–1940), Scottish architect and urban planner
William Adams (sailor) (1564–1620), English navigator, first Briton to reach Japan
William Adams (master) (1706–1789), Master of Pembroke College, Oxford
Zabdiel Adams (1739–1801), American minister, writer, cousin of President John Adams