Famous People with Name Adam

Adam Hamilton            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Adam Hamilton: was a New Zealand politician. He was the first leader of the National Party during its early years in Opposition.In the 1919 elections, Hamilton was elected to Parliament in the Southland seat of Wallace, standing as a Reform Party candidate. His brother

Adam Aitken            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Adam Aitken: an Australian poet. Born in London in 1960, to an Anglo-Australian father and a Thai mother. He spent some of his childhood with relatives in Thailand, and went to a convent in Malaysia, before coming to Australia in 1968.He began writing in the mid-1970s and majored in English and Art Film History at the University of Sydney. He has also completed a Master's in Linguistics and a Doctorate in Creative Arts from the Centre for New Writing, University of Technology, Sydney. He was Associate Poetry Editor for HEAT magazine.[1]He has published three major collections in Australia and numerous poems in Australian literary journals. He is considered to be a poet of no particular school or trend, postmodern and lyrical at the same time. His influences range from the English Romantic to the French, American and British avante-garde, especially the New York school of poets.

Adam Lindsay Gordon            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Adam Lindsay Gordon: was an Australian poet, jockey and politician.Gordon was born at Fayal in the Azores, son of Captain Adam Durnford Gordon who had married his first cousin, Harriet Gordon, both of whom were descended from Adam of Gordon of the ballad. Captain Gordon, who had retired from the Bengal cavalry and taught Hindustani, was then staying at the Azores for the sake of his wife's health. After living on the island of Madeira, they went to England and lived at Cheltenham in 1840, and in 1841 Gordon entered Cheltenham College in 1847,

Adam David Commens            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Adam David Commens: is a former field hockey midfielder from Australia, who was a member of the team that won the bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.Commens was nicknamed Billy by his team mates, and played his 100th international match for The Kookaburras ag

Adam Blackley            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Adam Blackley: is an Australian minor league baseball player. He is currently a pitcher with the Amsterdam Pirates. He is the brother of Travis Blackley, a pitcher with the Arizona Diamondbacks.In 2003, Blackley was signed to the Boston Red Sox by Australia national bas

Henri-Georges Adam            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Henri-Georges Adam: was a French engraver and non-figurative sculptor of the École de Paris, who was also involved in the creation of numerous monumental tapestries. His work in these three areas is regarded as among the most extensive of the twentieth century.

Frédéric Adam            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Frédéric Adam: was a French conductor, composer and administrator.[1] After studies in Strasbourg and Paris, he became a répétiteur at the opera house in Strasbourg in 1933, remaining there until his retirement in 1972, including periods as co-director from 1955-60 and director from 1960-1972.

Louis Adam            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Louis Adam: was a French composer, music teacher, and piano virtuoso. He spent over four decades, from 1797 through 1842, as Professor of Pianoforte at the Conservatoire de Paris. In addition to being a skilled pianist, he composed a number of piano pieces that were in vogue at the time, especially some variations on Le bon roi Dagobert. As professor, he was the teacher of a number of notable students, including Joseph Daussoigne-Méhul, Friedrich Kalkbrenner, Ferdinand Hérold,

François Gaspard Adam            Origin/Culture/Country: French

François Gaspard Adam: was a French rococo sculptor. A member of the Adam family of painters, François was born at Nancy, and studied under his father, Jacob-Sigisbert. He later followed his two brothers to Rome in 1730, before moving to Paris. In 1740, he took second in the Prix de Rome competition, but later won the contest and returned to Rome in 1742 to study at the Académie de France's campus there. From 1747 to 1760, Adam was the principal sculptor of Frederick the Great of Prussia. Most of his work decorates the grounds at Frederick's Sanssouci Palace in Potsdam. He died in Paris.

Lambert-Sigisbert Adam            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Lambert-Sigisbert Adam: French sculptor, known as Adam l’aîné ("the elder") to distinguish him from his two sculptor brothers[1], was born in Nancy, the eldest son of sculptor Jacob-Sigisbert Adam. In 1723 Adam received the Prix de Rome for study at the French Academy in Rome. In Rome Adam restored with much ability and late-Baroque freedom of interpretation a disparate group of fragmentary Roman sculptures