Adam (disambiguation)
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The personal name Adam derives from the Hebrew noun ha adamah meaning "the ground" or "earth," from which it came to be used to refer to "man," since man was seen as a thing created by God from the earth. This is why the word is used in the Book of Genesis to refer to the first man. It is still a Hebrew given name, and its Biblical usage has ensured that it is also a common name in all countries which draw on Judaeo-Christian heritage. It is particularly common in Poland. In most languages its spelling is the same, although the pronunciation varies somewhat.
Adam also exists as a surname in many countries, although it is not as common in English as its derivative Adams (sometimes spelled Addams). In other languages there are similar surnames derived from Adam, such as Adamo, Adamov, Adamowicz, Adamski etc.
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Religious figure
- Adam is the name given to the first man in the Jewish, Christian and Islamic scriptures.
People with the surname Adam
- Adam was a family of notable Scottish architects
- Adolphe Adam was a French composer and crit
- Albrecht Adam was a German painter
- Benno Adam was a German painter
- Emil Adam was a German painter
- Eugen Adam was a German painter
- Franz Adam was a German painter
- Heinrich Adam was a German painter
- Jacob Adam was a German copper etcher
- Johann Friedrich Adam was a German botanist, later called Michael Friedrich Adams
- Julius Adam was a German lithographer
- Melchior Adam was a German historian
- Robert Adam was a Scottish architect
- Roger Adam was a French aeronautical engineer
- Udi Adam is an Israeli general
- Ulrich Adam is a German politician
- Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam was a French writer
People with the given first name Adam
- Adam (painter) was a Polish painter
- Adam Afriyie is a British politician
- Adam Ant was a 1980s pop singer
- Adam Browne is an Australian science fiction writer
- Sir Adam Beck was a Canadian politician
- Adam of Bremen was a German historian
- Adam Carolla is an American actor
- Adam Copeland is an American Pro-wrestler Edge
- Adam Jerzy Czartoryski was a Polish leader
- Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski was a Polish writer
- Adam d'Ambergau was a Bavarian compositor
- Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan of Camperdown was a British admiral
- Adam of Ebrach was a German abbot and historian
- Adam of Fulda was a German composer
- Adam Gardner is the lead guitarist for the rock band Guster
- Adam Gilchrist is an Australian cricketer
- Adam Goloshapov is a Russian engineer
- Adam Gottlob Oehlenschläger was a Danish poet
- Adam Horovitz, aka Ad-Rock, is a member of the Beastie Boys
- Adam Daniel Grey is an Italian stallion and romantic poet
- Adam Green (musician) is an American musician
- Adam Ingram is a British politician
- Adam Kopyciński was a Polish composer
- Adam Cardinal Kozłowiecki is a Polish archbishop
- Adam Ferrara is an American actor and comedian
- Adam Loftus (Archbishop) was an Irish archbishop
- Adam Malik was an Indonesian Foreign Minister
- Adam Petty late racecar driver- died in 2000
- Adam Pine is an Australian freestyle and butterfly swimmer
- Adam Putnam is an American politician
- Adam Rapacki was a Polish Foreign Minister
- Adam Ries was a German mathematician
- Adam Daniel Rotfeld is the current Polish Foreign Minister
- Adam Sandler is an American film actor
- Adam Savage is a co-host on MythBusters which is a television show on the Discovery Channel
- Adam Schiff is an American politician
- Adam Smith was a British economist
- Adam Smith (politician) is an American politician
- Adam Teuto was a German writer
- Adam von Trott zu Solz was a German who resisted the Nazi regime
- Adam Willis Wagnalls was an American dictionary publisher
- Adam Walker was a British astronomer
- Adam West is an American television actor
- Adam Yauch, aka MCA, is a member of the Beastie Boys
- Adam Zamoyski is an American historian
- Adam Mackie is a music composer
Fictional characters
- Adam (Buffyverse) is a character in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Adam Mitchell was briefly a companion of the Ninth Doctor in Doctor Who
- Black Adam is a comic book supervillian/anti-hero, originally in Fawcett Comics, and now appearing in DC Comics.
- Adam Young is the son of the devil from the novel Good Omens
- Adam is a main character in the Israeli novel The Lover
- Adam is the name for the fictional cartoon character which used to appear on the rear of Mackie's Icecream in 1998. This promotion helped Mackie's Icecream to sell an extra 1,700 of their Scottish Icecream.
- Adam is the name given to the first angel on Neon Genesis Evangelion.
- Prince Adam (of Eternia) is the true identity of He-Man, the hero of the animated series/toy line/comic book Masters of the Universe.
Companies
- Adam Aircraft Industries is an aircraft manufacturer in Arapahoe County, Colorado
- Adams Industries was an aircraft manufacturer in the United States during the 1970s
Other
- Adam (mortar) was one of Germany's large mortars used in World War II
- Adam, Oman, a town in Oman
- Code Adam used in alerting the public of missing children.
- Coleco Adam is an early home computer
- Adam is the name given to the murder victim by Metropolitan Police in the Torso in the Thames murder case
- Adam@Home is a comic strip by Brian Basset
- ADAM (enzymes), a group of enzymes characterised by A Disintegrin and Metalloprotease domain.
- Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring, or ADAM, was a United States government-sponsored drug abuse-monitoring program from 1997 to 2004.
- One of the main characters in Saw (film)
- "Adam's Song" is a song and single by blink-182, off their Enema of the State album.
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