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Tom Adams (other)
Tom or Tommy Adams may refer to: * Tom Adams (actor) (1938–2014), English actor * Tom Adams (cricketer) (1808–1894), English cricketer * Thomas Burton Adams Jr. (1917–2006), American politician in Florida, known as Tom * Tom Adams (illustrator) (1926–2019), American illustrator * Tom Adams (bluegrass musician) (born 1958), American bluegrass musician * Tom Adams (politician) (1931–1985), Prime Minister of Barbados, real name Jon Adams * Tommy Adams (criminal) (born 1958), Clerkenwell crime syndicate * Tommy Adams (footballer) (1916–1984), Scottish footballer * Tom Adams (entrepreneur) (born 1972), Swedish-American businessman * Tom Adams (Canadian football) Tom Adams (born April 26, 1934) was an American football end who played for the Ottawa Rough Riders of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was selected in the 17th round of the 1956 NFL draft by the Chicago Bears The Chicago Bears are ... (born 1934), Canadian football end * Tommy Adams (basketball) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Adams (actor)
Anthony Frederick Charles "Tom" Adams (9 March 1938 – 11 December 2014) was an English actor with roles in adventure, horror and mystery films and several TV shows. He was best known for his role as Daniel Fogarty in several series of ''The Onedin Line''. Early life Adams was born in Poplar, London and his father was a commercial chauffeur. After school he did national service in the Coldstream Guards, then joined the Unity Theatre, London. He adopted the stage name of Tom Adams and taught English and drama at the Cardinal Griffin secondary modern school, Poplar, in the 1960s between acting jobs with repertory companies.Tom Adams obituary at Daily Express Retrieved 20 December 2014 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Adams (cricketer)
Thomas Miles Adams (2 May 1808 – 20 January 1894) was an English cricketer who played in the mid-19th century. He was a member of the great Kent county cricket teams of the 1840s and played for both MCC and various All-England Elevens. He was a right-handed batsman who bowled roundarm style.Carlaw D (2020) ''Kent County Cricketers A to Z. Part One: 1806–1914'' (revised edition), pp. 23–25.Available onlineat the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians. Retrieved 2020-12-21.) Adams was born in Gravesend in Kent. He made his debut in the 1836 season and is known to have made 157 appearances in matches which were later given first-class cricket status between 1836 and 1858. He played for Kent both before the first county club was formed in 1842 and afterwards for Kent County Cricket Club. He stood as umpire in 20 top-class matches from 1852 to 1865. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Burton Adams Jr
Thomas may refer to: People * List of people with given name Thomas * Thomas (name) * Thomas (surname) * Saint Thomas (other) * Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, and Doctor of the Church * Thomas the Apostle * Thomas (bishop of the East Angles) (fl. 640s–650s), medieval Bishop of the East Angles * Thomas (Archdeacon of Barnstaple) (fl. 1203), Archdeacon of Barnstaple * Thomas, Count of Perche (1195–1217), Count of Perche * Thomas (bishop of Finland) (1248), first known Bishop of Finland * Thomas, Earl of Mar (1330–1377), 14th-century Earl, Aberdeen, Scotland Geography Places in the United States * Thomas, Illinois * Thomas, Indiana * Thomas, Oklahoma * Thomas, Oregon * Thomas, South Dakota * Thomas, Virginia * Thomas, Washington * Thomas, West Virginia * Thomas County (other) * Thomas Township (other) Elsewhere * Thomas Glacier (Greenland) Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Thomas'' (Burton novel) 1969 novel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Adams (illustrator)
Thomas Charles Renwick Adams (March 29, 1926 – December 9, 2019) was a US-born Anglo-Scots illustrator and painter. Long active in a variety of visual formats, he is known for his work in book cover art, portrait painting, poster, advertising and album art. He is most widely known for his book cover art for the paperback editions of Agatha Christie. Family background and influence Adams was born into a family of town and urban planners. His grandfather, Thomas Adams (1871–1940), was an influential urban planner, who served as an advisor to Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt and went on to found the Civic Improvement League in 1915 and the Town Planning Institution of Canada in 1919. Indeed, it is not an exaggeration to suggest that Thomas Adams was one of the principal founders of urban planning as a discipline. His two sons went on to make their mark in American and English town and urban planning. The younger son, Frederick Johnstone Adams, was a member of the fac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Adams (bluegrass Musician)
Tom Adams (born 1958) is an American bluegrass guitarist and banjo player. Adams began his career in 1969, playing banjo in his family bluegrass band in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. In 1983 he joined Jimmy Martin's Sunny Mountain Boys, and then became one of the Johnson Mountain Boys in 1986.Goldsmith, Thomas (ed.''The Bluegrass Reader'' University of Illinois Press, 2004 Adams played with Rhonda Vincent & The Rage in 2000,"Tom Adams to Flamekeeper" ''Bluegrass Today'', 23 July 2009 He recorded an album, ''Live - At the Ragged Edge'', with Michael Cleveland in 2004, and the album was awarded "Bluegrass Instrumental Album of The Year 2004" by the |
Tom Adams (politician)
Jon Michael Geoffrey Manningham Adams (September 24, 1931 – March 11, 1985), known as Tom Adams, was a Barbadian politician who served as the second prime minister of Barbados from 1976 until 1985. Biography Personal life The only son of Sir Grantley Adams (a lawyer and the only Premier of the West Indies Federation) and Grace Adams ( Thorne), Tom Adams was educated at Harrison College, from which he won a Barbados Scholarship to Magdalen College of the University of Oxford. Prime Minister He served as the second Prime Minister of Barbados between 1976 and 1985. His party, the Barbados Labour Party (BLP), had capitalized on the population's desire for a change from Errol Barrow's Democratic Labour Party, which had governed the island since independence in 1966. Adams moved the country back towards the liberalism the BLP had been founded on, a trend in keeping with the popularity of liberal economist Friedrich Hayek in Margaret Thatcher's Britain and Ronald Reagan's Unite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Adams (criminal)
The Clerkenwell Crime Syndicate, also known as the Adams Family or the A-Team, is a criminal organisation, allegedly one of the most powerful in the United Kingdom. Media reports have credited them with wealth of up to £200 million. Background The syndicate was based in Clerkenwell while Terry Adams, until his admission of money laundering in 2007, had lived in Barnsbury. The syndicate expanded over years to include other members of the Adams family and close childhood friends. The gang is allegedly heavily involved in drug trafficking and extortion as well as the hijacking of gold bullion shipments and security fraud. They have been linked to 25 gangland murders of informants and rival criminals. In addition to developing alleged connections to Metropolitan Police officials, they were also stated to have had a British Conservative MP in their pocket at one point. The shooting of the then 68-year-old "Mad" Frankie Fraser, a former enforcer for The Richardson Gang, in Jul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Adams (footballer)
Tommy Adams (12 February 1916 – 1984) was a Scottish footballer best known for his time at East Fife. Adams signed for East Fife in 1935 from Neilston Victoria. He was a member of the 1938 Scottish Cup winning side and also won the Scottish League Cup in 1947, scoring in a 4-1 victory over Falkirk. He made 10 appearances for Hamilton Academical and scored 1 goal. Adams also played for Greenock Morton, Forfar Athletic Forfar Athletic Football Club are a Scottish semi-professional football club from the town of Forfar, Angus. They are members of the Scottish Professional Football League and currently play in Scottish League Two. They play their home games a ... and Hibernian. References External links Tommy Adams Scottish footballers Men's association football wingers East Fife F.C. players Forfar Athletic F.C. players Scottish Football League players 1916 births 1984 deaths Date of death missing Footballers from Glasgow Neilston Victoria F.C. players [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Adams (entrepreneur)
Tom P.H. Adams (born 1972) is a Swedish-American technology executive. Early life and education Adams grew up in Sweden and France before moving to the United Kingdom at the age of 10 with his parents. He learned both French and English through language immersion, which inspired an early passion for language learning and cross-culture communication. He holds a B.A. with honors from the University of Bristol, United Kingdom and an M.B.A. from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. Career In his twenties, Adams worked as a commodities trader of copper at Trafigura, which brought him to live in Mongolia for six years, and to travel to the Philippines, China, Slovakia and D.R. Congo. He also lived in Switzerland and China before moving to Harrisonburg, Virginia in the United States in 2003. After graduating from business school, Adams met the leaders of Rosetta Stone (then Fairfield & Sons Ltd.) and in February 2003 became chief executive of the company. The company went public in 2009 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Adams (Canadian Football)
Tom Adams (born April 26, 1934) was an American football end who played for the Ottawa Rough Riders of the Canadian Football League (CFL). He was selected in the 17th round of the 1956 NFL draft by the Chicago Bears The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago. The Bears compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) North division. The Bears have won nine NF ... with the 202nd overall pick, but never played for the Bears. References External linksStats Crew profile 1934 births Living people American football ends Canadian football ends UCLA Bruins football players Ottawa Rough Riders players Chicago Bears players Players of Canadian football from Minnesota Players of American football from Minnesota {{Canadianfootball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tommy Adams (basketball)
Thomas Maurice Adams (born January 15, 1980) is an American professional basketball player who last played for Asseco Prokom Gdynia in Poland. The 1.91 m guard played for Hampton University Hampton University is a private, historically black, research university in Hampton, Virginia. Founded in 1868 as Hampton Agricultural and Industrial School, it was established by Black and White leaders of the American Missionary Association af ... in the US and came to TBB Trier in 2006 via stations in Sweden and Israel (Ironi Ramat Gan). Adams switched to the Eisbären Bremerhaven for the 2007/08 season, but his contract was terminated in November 2007. Adams then moved to Poland to Atlas Stal Ostrow. Awards * MEAC Player of the Year (2002) References 1980 births Living people 08 Stockholm Human Rights players American expatriate basketball people in the Dominican Republic American expatriate basketball people in France American expatriate basketball people in Germany Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Adams (American Football)
Thomas Frank Adams (born April 26, 1940) is a former American football player who played as a wide receiver. Born in Keewatin, Minnesota, he attended Keewatin High School and the University of Minnesota–Duluth where he played both football and basketball and won two Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference football championships. He played six times in the National Football League (NFL) for the Minnesota Vikings in 1962 Events January * January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand. * January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism. * January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wors ..., starting once; he made three receptions for a total of 51 yards, with a long of 32 yards. References 1940 births Living people People from Keewatin, Minnesota Players of American football from Minnesota American football wide receivers American men's basketball players Minnesota Duluth Bulld ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
