John Adams (disambiguation)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Adams is the name of:
- Politicians:
- John Adams (1735–1826), the second President of the United States.
- John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), 6th President of the United States and son of the 2nd President
- John Michael Geoffrey Manningham Adams (1931–1985), known better as "Tom" Adams, Prime Minister of Barbados
- John Adams (merchant), Nova Scotia merchant and president of the colonial Nova Scotia Council
- John J. Adams, Congressman from New York during the 48th United States Congress
- John Quincy Adams (1833-1894), American politician and grandson of the President of the same name
- John Adams (mayor) (1773–1825), Mayor of Richmond, Virginia
- John Adams (New York), (1778-1854), United States Congressman from New York
- John Adams (1690-1761), Father of the 2nd President of the United States, John Adams
- Musicians:
- John Coolidge Adams (born 1947), an American minimalist composer who came to prominence with his opera Nixon in China
- John Luther Adams (born 1953), an American postminimalist composer
- Others:
- John Adams (Army), United States Army officer
- John Adams (martyr) (died 1586), Catholic priest and martyr under Elizabeth I of England
- John Adams (provost) (1662–1720), provost of King's College, Cambridge
- John Adams (poet) (1704–1740), only son of the Nova Scotia merchant John Adams
- John Adams (mutineer) (1766–1829), on the HMS Bounty
- John Adams (educator), (1772-1863), educator who organized several hundred Sunday schools
- John Adams (physicist) (1920–1984), Director general of CERN and particle accelerator designer
- John Adams (geographer), professor of geography, environmentalist and risk theorist
- John Adams (ice hockey) (born 1946), Canadian ice hockey player
- John Bodkin Adams (1899–1983), British physician and alleged serial murderer
- John Clayton Adams (1840–1906), landscape artist
- John Couch Adams (1819–1892), mathematician who predicted the existence of Neptune
- John Joseph Adams (born 1976), American science fiction/fantasy editor
- Adams Glass (1823 - 1886), Pioneer Glass Manufacturer
- John Adams, perennial attendee of Cleveland Indians baseball home games, who strikes a bass drum to encourage cheers[1][2]