George Adams

George Adams may refer to:

Public officials

• George Adams (1731–1789), British Whig politician and Staffordshire landowner
• George Adams (judge) (1784–1844), American lawyer and political figure in Kentucky and Mississippi
• George Willison Adams (1799–1879), abolitionist and member of the Ohio General Assembly
• George Washington Adams (1801–1829), eldest son of John Quincy Adams
• George Adams (magistrate) (1804–1873), Magistrate of the Pitcairn Islands, 1848
• George Madison Adams (1837–1920), U.S. Representative from Kentucky
• George E. Adams (1840–1917), U.S. Representative from Illinois
• George Bethune Adams (1845–1911), United States lawyer and federal judge
• George H. Adams (1851–1911), American Republican politician and lawyer

Writers

• George Adams (instrument maker, elder) (1720?–1773), English optical designer and scientific writer
• George Adams (optician, younger) (1750–1795), his son, English optician and instrument maker
• George Adams (translator) (1698–1768), English translator of Sophocles
• George Burton Adams (1851–1925), American medievalist historian at Yale University

Sports

• George Adams (American football) (born 1962), former American football running back
• George Adams (baseball), American baseball player for the 1879 Syracuse Stars
• George Adams (basketball) (born 1949), retired American basketball player
• George Adams (football player and coach) (born 1950/51), Scottish former footballer and director of football at Ross County
• George Adams (footballer), Scottish professional footballer during the early 1920s
• George C. Adams (1863–1900), former head coach of the Harvard University football program

Others

• George W. Adams (academic), Chairman of Commission on Extension Courses and Director of the University Extension at Harvard University
• George J. Adams (1811–1880), leader of a schismatic Latter Day Saint sect who led an ill-fated effort to establish a colony of Americans in Palestine
• George Gammon Adams (1821–1898), English portrait sculptor and medallist
• George Adams (businessman) (1839–1904), Australian publican and lottery promoter, founder of Tattersall's
• George Adams (musician) (1940–1992), American jazz musician
• George Matthew Adams (1878–1962), newspaper columnist and founder of the George Matthew Adams Newspaper Service

See also

• Adams George Archibald (1814–1892),Canadian lawyer and politician
• George Adams Post (1854–1925), Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
• Adams (surname)

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