*Bob Adams (1874–1948), one half of American vaudeville duo
The Two Bobs
The Two Bobs were an American vaudeville duo who performed successfully in British music halls, and recorded, in the early twentieth century. They were Robert Lee Alden (1876–1932) and Robert Joseph Adams (1874–1948).
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Robert Adams (actor)
Robert Adams (1902 – 1965) was a British Guyanese actor of stage and screen. He was the founder and director of the Negro Repertory Arts Theatre, one of the first professional black theatre companies in Britain, and became Britain's first bla ...
(1906–1965), British Guyanese actor
* Robert Adams (sculptor) (1917–1983), British sculptor and designer
* Robert Adams (science fiction writer) (1933–1990), American science fiction and fantasy writer, best known for his ''Horseclans'' series
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Robert Adams (photographer)
Robert Adams (born May 8, 1937) is an American photographer who has focused on the changing landscape of the American West.Robert 'Shellsuit Bob' Adams, fictional character in BBC Scotland's ''River City''
Sportsmen
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Bob Adams (1920s pitcher)
Robert Burnette Adams (July 24, 1901 – October 17, 1996) was an American professional baseball right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball. He was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts and attended Lehigh University. At Lehigh, he played both foo ...
(1901–1996), American League baseball pitcher
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Bob Adams (1930s pitcher)
Robert Andrew Adams (January 20, 1907 – March 6, 1970) was a Major League Baseball pitcher. Adams played for the Philadelphia Phillies in and . He batted and threw right-handed.
He was born in Birmingham, Alabama and died in Jacksonville, Flo ...
(1907–1970), National League baseball pitcher
* Bob Adams (footballer) (1917–1970), English footballer who played in the Football League for Bristol Rovers, Cardiff City and Millwall
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Bobby Adams
Robert Henry Adams (December 14, 1921 – February 13, 1997) was an American professional baseball third baseman and second baseman. He played in Major League Baseball from 1946 through 1959 for the Cincinnati Reds, Cincinnati Reds / Redlegs, Chic ...
Bob Adams (first baseman)
Robert Melvin Adams (born January 6, 1952) is a former professional baseball first baseman and catcher. He played 15 games in Major League Baseball for the Detroit Tigers in 1977, mostly as a pinch hitter. Of the three games he played in the fi ...
(born 1952), Major League Baseball utility player
Politicians
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Robert H. Adams
Robert Huntington Adams (1792–July 2, 1830) was an American lawyer and politician from the state of Mississippi. He was briefly a member of the United States Senate, suddenly dying six months after his election to that body.
Biography
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(1792–1830), US senator from Mississippi, 1830
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Robert Patten Adams
Robert Patten Adams (4 March 1831 – 24 February 1911), was a politician and puisne judge in Tasmania.
Background
Adams was the third son of James White Adams, of Martock, Somerset, and Mary Anne Elizabeth his wife. He was born on 4 March 1831, ...
(1831–1911), puisne judge and politician in Tasmania, Australia
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Robert Adams Jr.
Robert Adams Jr. (February 26, 1849 – June 1, 1906) was an American diplomat and politician from Pennsylvania who served as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district from 1893 to 1906 ...
(1849–1906), member of the US House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, 1893–1906
* Robert Adams, VI (1963–2019), lobbyist, political campaign manager and strategist
Others
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Robert Adams (architect)
Robert Adams (1540–1595) was a 16th-century English architect, engraver and surveyor of buildings to Queen Elizabeth. He was a son of Clement Adams.
None of Robert Adams's architectural works are known to have survived, but some of his pla ...
(1540–1595), English architect
* Robert Adams (sailor) (1790–?), American sailor and explorer
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Robert Adams (physician)
Robert Adams (1791 – 13 January 1875) was an Irish surgeon and was three times President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI), in 1840, 1860 and 1867.
Early life and education
Adams was born in 1791 in Dublin, Ireland and studied ...
(1791–1875), Irish physician
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Robert Adams (handgun designer)
Robert Adams (1810–1870) was a 19th-century British gunsmith who patented the first successful double-action revolver in 1851. His revolvers were used during the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, the American Civil War, and the Anglo-Zulu War. ...
(1810–1880), British designer and manufacturer of firearms
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Robert Dudley Adams
Robert Dudley Sidney Powys Adams, born Robert Dudley Sidney Powys Herbert
(9 July 1829 – 5 April 1912), was a businessman, journalist author and littérateur in colonial Australia.
Early life and family
Adams was born aboard the Rotterda ...
(1829–1912), businessman in colonial Australia, and littérateur
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Robert Adams II
''The Last Confederate: The Story of Robert Adams'' is a 2007 American war film starring Julian Adams, Amy Redford, Gwendolyn Edwards, Eric Holloway, Joshua Lindsey, Mickey Rooney and Tippi Hedren. The movie, released in 2007 by ThinkFilm, cent ...
(1832–1882), cotton planter and officer in the army of the Confederate States of America
*Sir Robert Bellew Adams (1856–1928), British general and 1897 recipient of the Victoria Cross
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Robert M. Adams (literary scholar) Robert Martin Adams (1915 – December 16, 1996) was an American literary scholar.
Biography
Adams was born Robert Martin Krapp in New York City in 1915. He was the son of George Philip Krapp, a Columbia University English professor, and grandso ...
(1915–1996), American literary scholar
* Robert McCormick Adams Jr. (1926–2018), American anthropologist
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Robert Adams (spiritual teacher)
Robert Adams (January 21, 1928 – March 2, 1997) was an American Advaita teacher. In later life Adams held satsang with a small group of devotees in California, US. He mainly advocated the path of jñāna yoga with an emphasis on the practic ...
(1928–1997), American teacher of Advaita Vedanta (Non-dualism)
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Robert Merrihew Adams
Robert Merrihew Adams (born September 8, 1937) is an American analytic philosopher, specializing in metaphysics, philosophy of religion, ethics, and the history of early modern philosophy.
Life and career
Adams was born on September 8, 1937, ...
(born 1937), American philosopher
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Rob Adams (architect)
Rob Adams (born 1948) is an architect and urban designer, currently working part-time as City Architect and previously as the Director of City Design at the City of Melbourne, Australia. He won multiple awards as the leader of the revitalizati ...
(born 1948), director of City Design, City of Melbourne, Australia
* Bob Adams (road manager) (fl. 1960s–1981), British road manager
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Bob Adams (electrical engineer) Robert Whitlock Adams is a Technical Fellow at Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) in Wilmington, Massachusetts. His focus is on signal processing and analog-to-digital conversion for professional audio. He is a leader in the development of sigma-delta co ...
Bert Adams (disambiguation) Bert Adams (1891–1940) was an American baseball player.
Bert Adams may also refer to:
*Bert Adams, character in '' Always Greener''
*Bert Adams (Canadian football), see 1934 in Canadian football
* Bert Adams (politician) (1916–2003), member of ...