Adams (surname)
Adams is a common surname of English and Scottish origin, derived from the given name Adam. Related surnames include Addams and McAdam/MacAdam.
People with the surname
Politics and law
- Alice Abadam, Welsh suffragist, feminist, public speaker.
- A. A. Adams, American politician
- Abigail Adams, second First Lady of the United States and mother of John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States
- Alma Adams, U.S. representative from North Carolina
- Annette Abbott Adams, judge of the California Court of Appeal
- Arlin Adams, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- Barbara Adams, Canadian politician
- Benjamin C. Adams, American politician
- Benjamin F. Adams, American politician
- Brock Adams, U.S. representative and U.S. senator from Washington
- Bryan Adams (politician), member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Jefferson Parish
- Campbell W. Adams, New York state engineer and surveyor
- Carl S. Adams, American politician
- Charles C. Adams Jr., American international arbitration lawyer, civic activist
- Charles Francis Adams Sr., U.S. congressman, ambassador
- Dick Adams (Australian politician), Australian politician
- Dorothy Adams, later known as Dorothy Williams (activist), South African anti-apartheid activist
- Edward Hamlyn Adams, British merchant and politician.
- Ekene Abubakar Adams, Nigerian politician
- Elmer B. Adams, United States District Court judge
- Elmer Ellsworth Adams, American newspaper editor and politician
- Eric Adams, Mayor of New York City
- Floyd Adams Jr., American politician
- Fraser L. Adams, mayor of Huntsville, Alabama
- Gabriel Adams, mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Gerry Adams, Irish republican politician, leader of Sinn Féin 1983–2018
- Grantley Herbert Adams, Barbadian politician
- Green Adams, United States congressman from Kentucky
- Hank Adams, Native American rights activist
- Henry Cullen Adams, U.S. representative from Wisconsin
- Irene Adams, Baroness Adams of Craigielea, Scottish politician
- Isaac Adams (inventor), American inventor and politician
- Isaac Adams (Maine politician), American politician
- Isaac Adams (Wisconsin politician), American politician
- J. C. Adams (politician), mayor of Phoenix Arizona and businessman
- J. J. Adams, American politician
- Jed C. Adams, judge of the United States Board of Tax Appeals
- Jesse A. Adams, American politician
- John Donley Adams, American lawyer and politician
- John Adams, one of the Founding Fathers, first vice president of the United States and second president of the United States
- John Adams (Canadian general), Chief of the Canadian Security Establishment
- John Adams (New York politician), U.S. congressman from New York
- John Adams (Virginia politician), American politician
- John Quincy Adams, sixth president of the United States and son of John Adams, second president of the United States
- Judith Adams, Australian senator
- Junior Adams, American football coach
- Jüri Adams, Estonian politician
- Lawrence Adams (Mississippi politician), American politician
- Leo G. Adams, American politician
- Les Adams (politician), American politician and judge from Virginia
- Marshal T. Adams, American politician
- Mumuni Adams, Ghanaian politician
- N. Q. Adams, American politician
- Natalie Adams, Australian judge
- Nigel Adams, British politician
- Philip Adams, British diplomat
- Platt Adams (politician), New York politician
- Robert Adams Jr., U.S. representative from Pennsylvania
- Robert H. Adams, U.S. senator from Mississippi
- Salisbury Adams, American lawyer and politician
- Samuel Adams, American revolutionary
- Samuel Adams (Arkansas politician), governor of Arkansas
- Simeon R. Adams, American politician and newspaper owner
- Teresa Adams, American civil rights activist and suffragist
- Thomas Adams (politician), American Continental Congressman
- Tom Adams (politician), Barbadian politician, the prime minister of Barbados
- W. C. Adams, American politician
- Washington Adams, justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri
Sports
- Alvan Adams, American basketball player
- Amare Adams, American football player
- Amos Adams (footballer), English footballer
- Andre Adams, New Zealand cricketer
- Austin Adams (baseball, born 1986), American baseball player
- Austin Adams (baseball, born 1991), American baseball player
- Babe Adams, American baseball pitcher
- Blair Adams, English footballer
- Bob Adams (1920s pitcher), American National League baseball pitcher
- Bob Adams (1930s pitcher), American National League baseball pitcher
- Bob Adams (American football), US American football player
- Bobby Adams, American Major League Baseball infielder
- Boyd Adams, American racing driver
- Brendan Adams, American basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
- Bud Adams, owner of American professional football team, Tennessee Titans
- Carl Adams, American racing driver
- Charles Adams, American businessman and Boston Bruins founder
- Ché Adams, English footballer who plays for Scotland
- Chris Adams (cricketer), English cricketer
- Chris Adams (footballer), English footballer
- Chris Adams (rugby league), Australian rugby league footballer
- Chris Adams (wrestler), English judoka and professional wrestler
- Chuck Adams, American tennis player
- Danesha Adams, American footballer
- Danielle Adams, American basketball player
- Darren Adams, English footballer
- Davante Adams, American football player
- Davey Adams, Scottish footballer
- Dennis Adams (boxer), South African boxer
- Derek Adams, Scottish footballer and manager
- Diane Adams, Canadian curler, World champion
- Doc Adams, American baseball player and executive, credited with inventing the shortstop position
- Don Adams (basketball), American basketball player
- Eddie Adams (racing driver), American racing driver
- Eli Adams, Australian footballer
- Emery Adams, American baseball player
- Ernie Adams (footballer, born 1922), English footballer
- Ernie Adams (footballer, born 1948), English footballer
- Gaines Adams, American football player
- Gary Adams (baseball), American college baseball coach
- Georgia Adams, English women's cricketer
- Harry Adams (baseball umpire), American Major League Baseball umpire
- Hassan Adams, American basketball player
- Isaiah Adams, American football player
- Jack Adams, National Hockey League player, coach, and manager
- Jalen Adams, American basketball player for Hapoel Jerusalem in the Israeli Basketball Premier League
- Jamal Adams, American football player
- Jamie Adams, Scottish footballer
- Jen Adams, Australian lacrosse coach and former player
- Jeff Adams, Canadian wheelchair racer
- Jimmy Adams (racing driver), US racecar driver
- Jordan Adams (basketball, born 1981), American-Canadian basketball player
- Jordan Adams (basketball, born 1994), American basketball player
- Jordyn Adams, American baseball player
- Josh Adams (American football), American football player
- Junior Adams, American football coach
- Katrina Adams, American professional tennis player
- Keion Adams, American football player
- Kenny Adams, American boxing trainer
- Kevyn Adams, American ice hockey player
- Kola Adams, Nigerian footballer
- Layonel Adams, Russian footballer, brother of Lyukman
- Lyukman Adams, Russian triple jumper
- Marcus Adams (footballer), Australian rules footballer
- Martin Adams, English darts player, 2007 British Darts Organisation World Champion
- Matt Adams, American baseball player
- Matthew Adams (American football), American football player
- Michael Adams (basketball), American NBA basketball player, college basketball
- Michael Adams (chess player), English chess grandmaster
- Micky Adams, English football manager
- Mike Adams, professional American football player
- Montravius Adams, American football player
- Myles Adams, American football player
- Neil Adams, British judoka
- Neil Adams, English football player
- Nick Adams, British racing driver
- Nicola Adams, English boxer
- Ondigui Adams, Cameroonian football player
- Philippe Adams, Belgian Formula One driver
- Phillip Adams (American football), American football player
- Rex Adams, English footballer
- Riley Adams, American baseball player
- Rodney Adams, American football player
- Ronnie Adams, British rally driver
- Roosevelt Adams, Filipino-American basketball player
- Russ Adams, American baseball player with the Toronto Blue Jays
- Sadick Adams, Ghanaian footballer
- Sam Adams, US American football player
- Sam Adams Sr., US American football player
- Shawn Adams, Canadian curler
- Sidney Adams, English cricketer
- Spencer Adams, American Baseball player
- Stephen Adams, Ghanaian football player
- Steven Adams, New Zealand basketball player; half-brother of Valerie Adams
- Stewart Adams (ice hockey), Canadian ice hockey player
- Taeyanna Adams, Micronesian swimmer
- Tony Adams, English footballer and manager
- Travis Adams, American baseball player
- Trey Adams, American football player
- Tyler Adams, American soccer player
- Valerie Adams, New Zealand shot putter
- Vicki Adams, Scottish curler
- Vicki Adams (trick rider), rodeo performer
- W. Adams, English football manager of Shrewsbury Town Football Club between 1905 and 1912
Literature and journalism
- Bristow Adams, American journalist, forester, professor, illustrator
- Brooks Adams, American historian and a critic of capitalism
- Carol J. Adams, American writer, feminist, and animal rights advocate
- Cecil Adams, pseudonym of author of a syndicated question-and-answer column, The Straight Dope
- Douglas Adams, British comic radio dramatist and writer, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series
- Eddie Adams, American photojournalist
- Francis Adams (writer), Australian essayist, poet, dramatist, novelist and journalist
- Franklin P. Adams, American columnist, writer, and wit
- Hannah Adams, American historian and theologian
- Harriet Adams, American novelist and publisher
- Henry Adams, American historian, journalist, and novelist
- J. C. Adams, American porn author
- Kay Adams (sportscaster), American sportscaster and television personality
- Lois Bryan Adams, American writer, journalist, newspaper editor
- Mary Hall Adams, American editor, letter writer
- Mary Mathews Adams, American writer, philanthropist
- Phillip Adams, Australian broadcaster, columnist
- Poppy Adams, British television director/producer and novelist
- R. J. Q. Adams, American historian and professor
- Randolph Greenfield Adams, American librarian and historian
- Richard Adams, British novelist, author of Watership Down and The Plague Dogs
- Roy Adams, Canadian author, newspaper columnist, human rights activist, and academic
- Samuel Hopkins Adams, American journalist and short story writer
- Sarah Fuller Flower Adams, English poet, hymn writer
Music
- Ben Adams, British singer, member of the boy band A1
- Bryan Adams, Canadian singer, guitarist, and songwriter
- Charlie Adams (drummer), American musician
- Dave Adams (musician), English musician and songwriter
- Derroll Adams, American folk musician
- Gregory Adams, American musician, guitarist, and songwriter
- India Adams, American singer
- Jim Adams, American thrash metal guitarist with the band Defiance
- John Adams (composer), American minimalist composer
- John Luther Adams, American composer
- Johnny Adams, American R&B singer
- Louise Adams, Australian musician
- Oleta Adams, American soul and jazz singer
- Pepper Adams, American jazz saxophonist and composer
- Pierrette Adams, singer from the Republic of the Congo
- Ryan Adams, American alternative-country and rock and roll singer/songwriter
- Ryan Adams, birth name of Rylo Rodriguez, American rapper
- Suzanne Adams, American operatic soprano
- Victoria Adams, birth name of British pop singer Victoria Beckham, known as "Posh Spice"
- William James Adams Jr., birth name of will.i.am, American rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer
- Yolanda Adams, American gospel singer
Art and photography
- Ansel Adams, American photographer
- Arthur Adams (comics), American comic book artist
- Clinton Adams, American painter and lithographer
- Elinor Proby Adams, English painter
- Gina Adams, Ojibwe-American cross-media artist and activist
- Harriet Isabel Adams, British artist and scientific illustrator
- Herbert Adams (sculptor), American sculptor
- Igshaan Adams, South African textile artist
- J. Ottis Adams, American Impressionist painter
- JJ Adams, British mixed media artist
- Lee Adams, British performance artist
- Mark Adams (artist), American painter, mosaicist
- Mark Adams (photographer), New Zealand photographer
- Marta Adams, German painter, sculptor
- Neal Adams, American comic book artist
- Phoebe Adams, American visual artist
- Robert Adams (photographer), American photographer
- Scott Adams, American author and cartoonist, creator of the Dilbert comic strip
- Theo Adams, British performance artist
- Tracey Adams, American expressionist painter
- Wayman Elbridge Adams, American portrait painter
Dance
- Precious Adams, American ballet dancer
Drama and television
- Abel Adams, Finnish film producer
- Amy Adams, American actress
- Beverly Adams, Canadian-born actress
- Brian Adams (wrestler), American professional wrestler
- Brooke Adams, American actress
- Carol Adams, American actress
- Cecily Adams, American actress, daughter of Don Adams
- Chris Adams, English model and professional wrestler
- CJ Adams, American actor
- Don Adams, American actor, comedian and director
- Edie Adams, American comedienne, actress, singer and businesswoman
- Fran Adams, American actress
- Jane Adams, American actress
- Joey Adams, American author and comedian
- Joey Adams, American actress
- Julie Adams, American actress
- Kathryn Adams, American silent film actress
- Kelly Adams, English actress
- Marla Adams, American actress
- Mary Kay Adams, American actress
- Maud Adams, Swedish model and actress
- Maude Adams, American stage actress
- Nick Adams, American actor and screenwriter
- Nykiya Adams, English child actress
- Patrick J. Adams, Canadian actor
- Rahart Adams, Australian actor
- Stanley Adams, American actor and film writer
- Stella Adams, American actress
- Toni Adams, American professional female wrestler
- Tony Adams, Welsh actor
- Trudy Adams, American actress and professional wrestler
Models
- Stephanie Adams, American Playboy model and author
Military
- Charles Francis Adams Jr., American Civil War General and president of the Union Pacific Railroad
- Charles Francis Adams III, U.S. Navy secretary
- Daniel Weisiger Adams, American Civil War Confederate General
- Donald E. Adams, American pilot and Korean War flying ace
- James Frank Adams, American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient
- John G. B. Adams, American Civil War Officer and Medal of Honor recipient
- Robert Bellew Adams, Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Samuel Adams (naval officer), U.S. Navy officer
Science, medicine, and engineering
- Amanda Adams, American author and archaeologist
- Arthur Adams, British physician and naturalist
- Charles Hitchcock Adams, U.S. astronomer
- Clarence Raymond Adams, American mathematician
- Douglas Q. Adams, American linguist
- Edward Dean Adams, American engineer, financier, and scientist, Niagara Falls hydroelectric dam engineer, recipient of the 1926 John Fritz Medal
- Edwin Plimpton Adams, American physicist
- Emily Adams, British molecular diagnostician
- Francis Adams, Scottish medical doctor and translator of Greek medical works
- Fred Adams, American astrophysicist
- Henry Adams, American architectural engineer
- Henry Percy Adams, English architect
- Jean Adams, epidemiologist
- Jeanne Clare Adams, American computer scientist
- Johann Friedrich Adam, Russian botanist known by the author abbreviation "Adams"
- John Bodkin Adams, Irish-British physician and suspected serial killer
- John Couch Adams, British mathematician and astronomer
- Karl Adams (mathematician), Swiss mathematician and teacher
- Matthew Algernon Adams, British medical doctor and chemist
- Michael J. Adams, American aviator and NASA astronaut
- Otto Eugene Adams, American architect
- Patch Adams, American physician, social activist and clown
- Raymond Delacy Adams, American neurologist
- Robert Adams, British architect and surveyor
- Robert Adams, British firearms designer
- Robert McCormick Adams Jr., U.S. anthropologist
- Roger Adams, American organic chemist
- Stewart Adams (chemist), British chemist
- Tarn Adams, American mathematician and indie video game creator
- Thomas Adams, Scottish architect and urban planner
- Walter Sydney Adams, US astronomer
- William Adams (locomotive engineer), British locomotive engineer
- William Adams (oculist), British ophthalmic surgeon
- William Bridges Adams, British author, inventor, and locomotive engineer
Other
- Adams baronets, a 17th and 18th century English baronetcy
- Barbara Adams (Egyptologist), British Egyptologist
- Briel Adams-Wheatley, American beauty influencer
- Charles Francis Adams IV, American: president of Raytheon Company
- Charles Kendall Adams, American educator and historian
- Charlotte Adams, Australian, first European woman to climb to the peak of Mount Kosciuszko
- Clifford Adams, computer programmer
- Eliphalet Adams, American Puritan minister
- Herbert Baxter Adams, American educator and historian
- Jane Kelley Adams, American educator
- JiDion Adams, American Christian YouTuber and streamer
- John Adams (mutineer), last survivor of the Bounty mutineers who settled on Pitcairn Island
- Kevin Adams, American theatrical lighting designer
- Marcel Adams, Canadian real estate investor, billionaire, and Holocaust survivor
- Mary Ann Adams, or Kudnarto, the first Aboriginal woman to marry a British settler in the colony of South Australia in 1848
- Richard Adams (businessman), British fair trade organisation founder
- Richard Adams (religious writer), non-conforming English Presbyterian divine
- Robert Merrihew Adams, American philosopher
- Rolan Adams, victim of racially motivated murder in Southeast London
- Samuel Adams, American beer company
- Scott Adams (game designer), American computer game designer and programmer
- Shorland Adams, British priest
- Thomas William Adams, New Zealand forestry pioneer
- Trudie Adams, American woman who has been missing since 1978A
- Truly Adams, American racing driver and karting champion
- Weaver W. Adams, American chess player
- William Adams (samurai), English navigator and first Briton to reach Japan
- William Adams (Master of Pembroke), English Master of Pembroke College, Oxford
- Zabdiel Adams, American minister and writer, cousin of President John Adams
Disambiguation lists
- Andrew Adams
- Arthur Adams
- Bert Adams
- Brian Adams
- Charles Adams
- Charles Francis Adams
- Chris Adams
- Colin Adams
- Craig Adams
- Daniel Adams
- David Adams
- Don Adams
- Douglas Adams
- Edward Adams
- Francis Adams
- Frank Adams
- George Adams
- Greg Adams
- Henry Adams
- Herbert Adams
- James Adams
- Jimmy Adams
- John Adams
- Joseph Adams
- J. C. Adams (disambiguation)
- Keith Adams
- Lee Adams
- Mark Adams
- Matthew 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