Adams (surname)
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| Adams | |
|---|---|
| Family name | |
| Meaning | "Son of Adam" |
| Region of origin | England, Scotland and Israel |
| Related names | MacAdam (in Scotland and Ireland) |
| Footnotes: [1][2] | |
Adams is a common surname of English, Scottish and Jewish origin, meaning "son of Adam".[2]
Contents
People with the surname Adams[edit]
Politics and law[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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 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
- 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
- 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[edit]
- 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 (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[edit]
- 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
- Jonathan Adams (born 1962), 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[edit]
- Ansel Adams (1902–1984), American photographer
- Art Adams (born 1963), American comic book artist
- Charles Adams (1912-2008), British photographer, London UK[3]
- 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[edit]
- 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
- 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
- Stanley Adams (1915–1977), American actor and film writer
- Stella Adams (1883-1961), American actress
- Tony Adams (born 1940), Welsh actor
- Patrick J. Adams (born 1981), Canadian Actor
Military[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[4]
- 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[edit]
- 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
- Nathan Adams (born 1991), British video game programmer and 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, American beer company
- Scott Adams (game designer) (born 1952), American computer game designer and programmer
- Weaver W. Adams (1901–1963), American chess player
- Wesley Edward Adams (1992-present), Rotund Woman Enthusiast and 17 Handicap
- 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[edit]
- Andrew Adams
- Arthur Adams
- Charles Adams
- Charles Francis Adams
- Chris Adams
- Colin Adams
- Craig Adams
- Daniel Adams
- David Adams
- Don Adams
- Edward Adams
- Francis Adams
- Frank Adams
- George Adams
- Greg Adams
- Henry Adams
- Herbert Adams
- James Adams
- Jimmy Adams
- John Adams
- Keith Adams
- Lee Adams
- Mark Adams
- Michael Adams
- Mike Adams
- Neil Adams
- Nick Adams
- Patrick Adams
- Paul Adams
- Richard Adams
- Rick Adams
- Robert Adams
- Roger Adams
- Samuel Adams
- Scott Adams
- Stanley Adams
- Stephen Adams
- Steve Adams
- Terry Adams
- Thomas Adams
- Tom Adams
- Tony Adams
- Walter Adams
- William Adams
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ 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....
- ^ "National Portrait Gallery - Charles Adams". npg.org.uk.
- ^ 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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