Adams
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Adams is the name of a number of places in the United States and Canada, as well as a common surname.
Places
Canada
- Adams Landing, Alberta
- Adams Lake, British Columbia
- Adams Gulch, New Brunswick
- Adams Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador
- Adams Island, Nunavut
- Adams Apple, Ontario
- Adams, Quebec
- Adams Camp, Quebec
- Adams, Saskatchewan
Philippines
United States
- Adams, Alabama
- Adams, Florida
- Adams, Illinois
- Adams, Indiana
- Adams, Kansas
- Adams, Kentucky
- Adams, Massachusetts
- Adams, Maine
- Adams, Minnesota
- Adams, Mississippi
- Adams, North Dakota
- Adams, Nebraska
- Adams, New Jersey
- Adams, New York (town)
- Adams, New York (village)
- Adams Center, New York
- Adams, Oklahoma
- Adams, Oregon
- Adams, Pennsylvania
- Adams, Tennessee
- Adams, Wisconsin, city
- Adams, Adams County, Wisconsin, town
- Adams, Green County, Wisconsin, town
- Adams, Jackson County, Wisconsin, town
- Adams, West Virginia
- Adams Township, Iowa
- Adams Township, Illinois
- Adams Township, Indiana
- Adams Township, Kansas
- Adams Township, Michigan
- Adams Township, Minnesota
- Adams Township, Missouri
- Adams Township, North Dakota
- Adams Township, Nebraska
- Adams Township, Ohio
- Adams Township, Pennsylvania
- Adams Township, South Dakota
People
Politics and law
- Abigail Adams (1744–1818), U.S. First Lady
- Brockman Adams (1927–2004), U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Washington
- Charles Francis Adams, Sr. (1807–1886), grandson of John Adams, son of John Quincy Adams, U.S. congressman, ambassador
- Gerry Adams (born 1948), Irish Republican politician, President of Sinn Féin
- John Adams (1735–1826), second U.S. President
- John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), sixth U.S. President
- Katherine Adams (born 1947), Scottish MP
- 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
- 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 Francis Adams (NHL) (1876–1947), Boston Bruins founder
- Michael Adams (born 1971), English chess grandmaster
- Michael Adams (basketball) (born 1963), American NBA basketball player, college basketball assistant coach
- Sam Adams (football player) (born 1973), American football player
- Sam Adams Sr. (born 1948), American football player, father of Sam Adams
- Tony Adams (footballer) (born 1966), English footballer and manager
Literature and journalism
- Bristow Adams (1875–1957), American journalist, forester, professor, illustrator
- 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
Music
- Ben Adams (born 1981), British singer, businessman
- Bryan Adams (born 1959), Canadian singer, guitarist, and songwriter
- Clifford Adams (composer)
- John Coolidge Adams (born 1947), American minimalist composer
- John Luther Adams (born 1953), American composer
- Ryan Adams (born 1974), American alt-country and rock and roll singer/songwriter
- Victoria Adams (born 1974), birthname of British pop singer "Posh Spice" (Victoria Beckham)
Drama and television
- Cecily Adams (1958–2004), American actress, daughter of Don Adams
- Don Adams (1923–2005), American actor
- Stanley Adams (actor) (1915–1977), American actor and filmwriter
- Maud Adams (born 1945), Swedish model and actress
- Nick Adams (1931–1968), American actor and screenwriter
- Tony Adams (actor) (born 1940), Welsh actor
Military
- 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
Science, medicine, and engineering
- Francis Adams (translator) (1796-1861), Scottish medical doctor and translator of Greek medical works
- 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
- William Adams (locomotive engineer) (1823–1904), British locomotive engineer
- William Adams (oculist) (1783–1827), English opthalmic surgeon
- William Bridges Adams (1797–1872) British author, inventor, and locomotive engineer
Other
- Ansel Adams (1902–1984), American photographer
- Charles Francis Adams, IV (1910–1999), president of Raytheon Company
- Clifford Adams, computer programmer
- 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
- Michael James Adams (1930–1967), American aviator and NASA astronaut
- Milivi Adams (1997–2002), Puerto Rican cancer patient
- Neal Adams (born 1941), American comic book artist
- 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 Adams (philosopher) (born 1937), American philosopher
- Robert Adams (photographer) (born 1937), American photographer
- Scott Adams (born 1957), cartoonist
- Scott Adams (game designer), computer game designer and programmer
- Thomas Adams (architect) (1871–1940), Scottish architect and urban planner
- William Adams (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
Fictional
- Eddie Adams, 'real' name of fictional porn star Dirk Diggler
Also [Adams surname] on Genealogy at wikicities.
Other uses of Adams
- Adams Grammar School
- Adams Park, football stadium in England
- Alice Adams, novel by Booth Tarkington
- Samuel Adams (beer)
- Adams (lunar crater)
- Adams (automobile), early 20th century automobile
- USS Adams (1799), U.S. Navy frigate
- Adams (brig), USS Adams
- Charles F. Adams class destroyer, U.S. Navy class of guided missile destroyers
- USS Charles F. Adams (DDG-2), U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer
- Adams is a well-known brand of jockstrap
- Johann Friedrich Adam, botanist and author
- Adams, Ilocos Norte, municipality in the Philippines
- Adams is Group Sounds band
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