Robert Adams
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Robert Adams and the diminutive, Bob Adams or Bobby Adams are names shared by the following individuals:
[edit] Sportsmen
- Bob Adams (AL baseball pitcher) (1901–1996), American League baseball pitcher
- Bob Adams (NL baseball pitcher) (1907–1970), National League baseball pitcher
- Bobby Adams (1921–1997), Major League Baseball infielder
- Bob Adams (American football) (b. 1946), University of Pacific tight end
- Bob Adams (baseball, born 1952), Major League Baseball utility player
[edit] Others
- Robert Adams (photographer) (b. 1937), American photographer
- Robert Adams (architect) (1540–1595), English architect
- Robert Adams (physician) (1791–1875), Irish physician
- Robert H. Adams (1792–1830), United States senator from Mississippi who served from January to July 1830
- Robert Adams (handgun designer) (1809–1880), British designer and manufacturer of firearms
- Robert Newton Adams, American military commander who served as a general in the Union Army during the Civil War
- Robert Adams (Canadian writer) (1839–1902), author of A Radical Avowal
- Robert Adams, Jr. (Pennsylvania) (1849–1906), member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania (1893-1906)
- Robert Bellew Adams (VC) (1856–1928), British general, from Scotland, 1897 recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Robert Adams, chemist, recipient of the 1945 Davy Medal
- Walter Robert Adams (1877–1957), Canadian religious leader who served as the Anglican Archbishop of British Columbia
- Robert Adams (actor) (1906-1965), pioneering black actor
- Robert McCormick Adams Jr. (b. 1926), American anthropologist
- Robert Adams (science fiction writer) (1933–1990), American science fiction and fantasy writer, best known for his Horseclans series
- Robert Merrihew Adams (b. 1937), American philosopher
- Robert V. Adams (b. 1960), English social scientist and teacher; author of numerous works relating to social structures
- Bob Adams (politician), American businessman who is a candidate for the 2008 Republican nomination for Governor of West Virginia
- Bob Adams, fictional character in Sky One's Dream Team