Adams
Categories: Geographical locations sharing the same title | Human name disambiguation
Adams is the name of a number of places in the United States and Canada, as well as a common surname.
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Places
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United States
Adams is the name of some places in the United States:
- Adams, Massachusetts
- Adams, Minnesota
- Adams, Nebraska
- Adams (town), New York
- Adams (village), New York
- Adams Center, New York
- Adams, North Dakota
- Adams, Oregon
- Adams, Tennessee
- Adams, Wisconsin, city
- Adams, Adams County, Wisconsin, town
- Adams, Green County, Wisconsin, town
- Adams, Jackson County, Wisconsin, town
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Canada
Adams is also the name of the following places in Canada:
- 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
Similar place names include North Adams, Adams County, Adams Township, Adamsburg, Adamsdale, Adamstown, and Adamsville.
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Surnames
People whose surname is or was Adams include:
- Abigail Adams - U.S. First Lady
- Ansel Adams - photographer
- Ben Adams - Singer, Businessman
- Brockman Adams - U.S. politician
- Bristow Adams - journalist, forester, professor, illustrator
- Bryan Adams - singer
- Cecil Adams - author
- Cecily Adams - U.S. actress
- Charles Adams
- Charles Francis Adams - (disamiguation)
- Christian Adams - oenologist, terrorist victim
- Clifford Adams - composer
- Clifford Adams - computer programmer
- Don Adams - U.S. actor
- Douglas Adams - author
- Eddie Adams - U.S. photographer
- Eddie Adams - U.S. actor
- Franklin Pierce Adams - U.S. journalist
- Gerry Adams - Irish politician
- Henry Adams - historian and novelist
- Herbert Baxter Adams - historian and educator
- John Adams - U.S. President
- John Adams - mutineer
- John Coolidge Adams - composer
- John Couch Adams - mathematician
- John Luther Adams - composer
- John Quincy Adams - U.S. President
- Katherine Adams - British MP
- Maud Adams - Bond girl
- Michael Adams - chess grandmaster
- Milivi Adams - cancer patient
- Neal Adams - comic book artist
- Nick Adams - U.S. actor
- Richard Adams - novelist
- Robert Adams - American photographer
- Robert Adams - British firearms inventor
- Ryan Adams - singer
- Sam Adams - American football player
- Samuel Adams - American revolutionary
- Samuel Adams - former Governor of Arkansas
- Samuel Adams - American naval officer
- Scott Adams - cartoonist
- Scott Adams - computer game designer and programmer
- Thomas Adams - Continental Congressman
- Thomas Adams - urban planner
- Tony Adams - British actor
- Tony Adams - English footballer
- Victoria Adams - singer
- William Adams - navigator
Also Adams surname on Genealogy at wikicities.
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Other uses of Adams
- Adams Park, a football stadium in England
- A novel by Booth Tarkington entitled 'Alice Adams
- A brand of beer called Samuel Adams.
- An Adams crater on the Moon.
- An early 20th century automobile called The Adams.
- A mid-19th century revolver called The Adams.
- The USS Adams later became the HMS Detroit.
- Adams is a well-known brand of jockstrap.
- As an author abbreviation in binomial nomenclature, Adams refers to botanist Johann Friedrich Adam.
- Adams, Ilocos Norte, a municipality in the Philippines
- MSC.ADAMS, a part of SimOffice, VPD environment.