Charles Adams
Wikimedia disambiguation page
Charles or Charlie Adams may refer to:
Academics
Charles Adams (headmaster) (1803–1871), English headteacher and secretary
Charles Kendall Adams (1835–1902), American educator and historian
Charles Joseph Adams (1924–2011), American educator and academic
Charles P. Adams (college president) (1873–1961), founding president of Grambling State University
Arts and entertainment
Charles Warren Adams (1833–1903), English pioneer detective novelist, lawyer and anti-vivisectionist
Charles Follen Adams (1842–1918), American poet
Charles Partridge Adams (1858–1942), American landscape artist
Charles James Adams (1859–1931), English landscape artist
Charles Kingsley Adams (1899–1971), British civil servant; National Portrait Gallery director
Charles R. Adams (1834–1900), American opera singer
Charles Adams (1869–1937), pseudonym for Charles A. Prince, celesta soloist
Charlie Adams (drummer) (born 1954), American drummer
Military
Charles W. Adams (Confederate general) (1817–1878), Confederate States Army officer; grandfather of Helen Keller
Charles Powell Adams (1831–1893), brigadier general in the Union Army
Charles W. Adams (Union general) (1834–1909), Union Army general during the American Civil War
Charles Francis Adams Jr. (1835–1915), Civil War General and president of the Union Pacific Railroad
Charles Adams (Colorado Indian agent) (1845–1895), American Civil War soldier and diplomat
Charles J. Adams (U.S. Air Force general) (1921–2002), U.S. Air Force brigadier general
Politics
Charles Adams (1770–1800), son of John Adams; brother of John Quincy Adams
Charles Adams (MP) (1753–1821), British member of parliament
Charles C. Adams Jr. (born 1947), American diplomat, former ambassador, and lawyer
Charles Francis Adams Sr.
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