David Adams may refer to:
- David Adams (dancer) (1928–2007), Canadian ballet dancer
- David Adams (poet and business coach) (born 1943), pioneered the use of poetry for Business Development
- David H. Adams, American cardiac surgeon
- David L. Adams (born 1975), American computer game developer
- David S. Adams, American biologist known for his work on Alzheimer's disease
- David S. Adams (state department), is the Assistant Secratrary of State for Legislative Affairs
- David Adams (businessman) (born 1971), publisher of the OSNews web site focusing on operating systems
- David Adams (Labour politician) (1871–1943), British Labour Party Member of Parliament, 1922–1923 and 1935–1943
- David Adams (Australian politician) (born 1930), Australian Capital Territory politician
- David Adams (baseball) (born 1987), American baseball player
- David Adams (rugby league), Australian rugby league footballer
- David Adams (tennis) (born 1970), South African tennis player
- Dave Adams (born 1938), British musician from Saint Helier, Jersey
- David Adams (photojournalist) (born 1963), Australian photojournalist and cultural documentary film presenter
- Ryan Adams (born 1974), born David Ryan Adams, American musician, songwriter and author
- David Morgan Adams (1875–1942), British Member of Parliament for Poplar South, 1931–1942
- David Hempleman-Adams (born 1956), British adventurer
- David Adams (loyalist), Northern Irish loyalist activist and former politician
- Dave Adams (USN), officer in the United States Navy
Famous quotes containing the words david and/or adams:
“Philosophy, certainly, is some account of truths the fragments and very insignificant parts of which man will practice in this workshop; truths infinite and in harmony with infinity, in respect to which the very objects and ends of the so-called practical philosopher will be mere propositions, like the rest.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“The spider-mind acquires a faculty of memory, and, with it, a singular skill of analysis and synthesis, taking apart and putting together in different relations the meshes of its trap. Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; but he had acute sensibility to the higher forces.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (18381918)