John Adam may refer to:
- John Adam (actor), Australian actor
- John Adam (administrator) (1779–1825), British administrator in India, serving as the acting governor-general of the British East India Company in 1823
- John Adam (architect) (1721–1792), one of the Adam Brothers, the well known partnership of Scottish eighteenth century architects
- John Adam (hoax), the name given by Islamic militants of a U.S. soldier that they claimed to have captured
- John Adam (legislator), Wisconsin Populist legislator from Milwaukee
- John Adam (MP) for New Romney (UK Parliament constituency)
- John Adam (rugby league) (born 1956), Australian former rugby league player
- John A. Adam, American journalist
Famous quotes containing the words john and/or adam:
“Could it be that those who were reared in the postwar years really were spoiled, as we used to hear? Did a child-centered generation, raised in depression and war, produce a self-centered generation that resents children and parenthood?”
—C. John Sommerville (20th century)
“Let those talk of poverty and hard times who will in the towns and cities; cannot the emigrant who can pay his fare to New York or Boston pay five dollars more to get here ... and be as rich as he pleases, where land virtually costs nothing, and houses only the labor of building, and he may begin life as Adam did? If he will still remember the distinction of poor and rich, let him bespeak him a narrower house forthwith.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)