Notable Persons Associated With Fort Adams
- Joseph G. Totten - oversaw construction of Fort Adams and Chief Engineer of the United States Army
- Simon Bernard - General under Napoleon and designer of Fort Adams
- Louis de Tousard - Revolutionary War hero and designer of the first Fort Adams
- John Henry - First commander of Fort Adams and adventurer.
- John G. Barnard - Army engineer, Civil War general and Superintendent of West Point
- Alexander Dallas Bache - Army engineer and Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey
- George W. Cullum - Civil War general and Superintendent of West Point
- William S. Rosecrans - Civil War general
- Isaac Ingalls Stevens - Civil War general
- John B. Magruder - Confederate Civil War general
- Pierre G. T. Beauregard - Confederate Civil War general
- William Gates - long serving Army officer
- Robley D. Evans - Navy rear admiral and commander of the Great White Fleet
- Robert Anderson - Commander of Fort Sumter and Civil War general
- Ambrose Burnside - Civil War general
- John G. Foster - Civil War general
- Thomas W. Sherman - Civil War general
- Henry A. du Pont - Medal of Honor recipient, president of the Wilmington & Northern Railroad Company and United States Senator
- Henry Jackson Hunt - Civil War general
- William Griffith Wilson - Best known as "Bill W". Founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. Stationed at Fort Adams during the First World War.
- Lyman Lemnitzer - Army general and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- Thornton Wilder - Author
- William P. Ennis - Army lieutenant general born at Fort Adams
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