


Adam Allouche (born 1993), French-Lebanese competitive swimmer.Adam Allan (1904–after 1937), Scottish footballer.Adam All, British drag king, performer, and host.Adam Abdullah Al-Ilory (1917–1992), Benin-Nigerian Islamic scholar.Adam Alilet (born 1997), Algerian footballer.Adam Alexi-Malle (born 1964), Italian actor, singer, dancer and musician.Adam Rankin Alexander (1781–1848), American politician.Adam Alexander (born 1998), American singer-songwriter known professionally as Demo Taped.Adam Alexander (born 1973), American sportscaster.Adam Emory Albright (1862–1957), American painter.Adam Aitken (born 1960), Australian poet.Adam Christian Agricola (1593–1645), Cieszyn evangelical preacher.Adam Agius, lead vocalist of the Australian progressive metal band Alchemist.Adam Afzelius (1750–1837), Swedish botanist.Adam Afriyie (born 1965), British politician.Adam Adrio (1901–1973), German musicologist and college professor.Adam Adli (born 1989), Malaysian student activist.Adam Adler, British television executive producer.Adam Adamson (1884–1984), New Zealand businessman, accountant, and politician.Adam Adamowicz (1968–2012), American video game concept artist.Adam Adami (1603 or 1610–1663), German diplomat and priest.Adam Adamczyk (born 1950), Polish judoka.Adam Acres, (1878–1955), Canadian politician and farmer.Adam Abramowicz (1710–1766), Polish Jesuit.Adam Abraham von Gaffron und Oberstradam (1665–1738), member of the Gaffron noble family.1540), Scottish chronicler, friar at Jedburgh Abbey Adam Abeddou (born 1996), French footballer.1990–2001), name given to the victim of an unsolved Thames murder case 1130–1181), Welsh theologian and Bishop of St Asaph Adam, Count of Schwarzenberg (1583–1641), Brandenburg official during the Thirty Years' War.Adam (bishop of Ourense) (died 1173/4), Spanish churchman.Adam of Melrose (died 1222), Bishop of Caithness.

Adam of Ebrach (died 1161), German abbot and historian.1212), Anglo-Scottish theologian and Carthusian monk Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine (1740–1793), French general.Adam of Bremen, 11th-century German chronicler.Adam, the first man according to many religions.In Arabic, Adam ( آدم) means "made from earth's mud." also means "someone dark-colored like earth's soil". In other languages there are similar surnames derived from Adam, such as Adamo, Adamov, Adamowicz, Adamski etc. Adán and Adão are the Spanish and Portuguese forms of this name, respectively.Īdam is also a surname in many countries, although it is not as common in English as its derivative Adams (sometimes spelled Addams). In most languages its spelling is the same, although the pronunciation varies somewhat. It is particularly common in Christian and Muslim majority countries. Its Biblical and Quranic uses have ensured that it is also a common name in all countries which draw on these traditions. Hebrew in Canaan or Mesopotamia Fertile CrescentĬomes from the Hebrew word "adama", which means "earth" or " soil"Īdam is a common masculine given name in the English language of Semitic origin.Īccording to the Bible, the personal name Adam derives from the Hebrew noun adamah meaning "the ground" or "earth". The personal name Adam is derivation from Hebrew meaning the ground, from which God created Adam as stated in the Bible & Quran Michelangelo's Creation of Adam, from the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
