John Adams (disambiguation)

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 (1848 - 1919), 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 (Ontario politician) a former Toronto city council who has run for office provincially.
  • John H. Addams (1822–1881), Illinois State Senator and father of Jane Addams

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 (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 (Confederate Army officer) (1825-1864), United States Army officer
  • John Adams (glassmaker) (1823 - 1886), Pioneer Glass Manufacturer
  • John Adams (jockey) (b. 1915), American Hall of Fame jockey
  • 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 Adams (drummer) (born 1951), perennial attendee of Cleveland Indians baseball home games
  • John Adams (baseball player), (1891-1940), Baseball player
  • John Bodkin Adams (1899–1983), British physician and suspected serial killer
  • John Clayton Adams (1820-1906), landscape artist
  • John Couch Adams (1819–1892), mathematician who predicted the existence of Neptune
  • John Frank Adams (1930 – 1989), British mathematician
  • John G. B. Adams (1841-1900), Civil War Medal of Honor recipient
  • John Giles Adams (1792–1832), U.S. militia commander at the Battle of Stillman's Run during the 1832 Black Hawk War
  • John Joseph Adams (born 1976), American science fiction/fantasy editor
  • John Mapes Adams, (1871-1921), Boxer Rebellion Medal of Honor recipient
  • John Ottis Adams, (1851-1927), artist
  • John T. Adams (1862-1939), Republican National Committee chairman
  • John T. Adams (Colorado) (born 1873), Chief Justice of the Colorado Supreme Court, 1931-1935
  • John Worthington Adams (1764-1837), British general in India
• In Film:
  • John Adams (miniseries), a 2008 television miniseries on the life of the second president.

See also

• John Adam