John Adams (disambiguation)

John Adams (1735–1826) was the second President of the United States.

John Adams is also the name of:

• Politicians:
  • 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 (1690-1761), Father of 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 (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 (physicist) (1920–1984), Director general of CERN and particle accelerator designer
  • John Adams (geographer), professor of geography, environmentalist and risk theorist
  • John Adams (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]

See also John Adam