• Samuel Adams
  Samuel Adams
  Samuel Adams was an American statesman, political philosopher, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. As a politician in colonial Massachusetts, Adams was a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, and was one of the architects of the principles of American...
  
   (1722–1803), Boston leader in the era of the American Revolution
• Samuel Adams (governor)
  Samuel Adams (governor)
  Samuel Adams was a Democratic Governor of the State of Arkansas.Samuel Adams was born in Halifax County, Virginia. Adams was self-taught and moved to Arkansas in 1835. Adams became a planter and became active in Arkansas politics.In 1840 Adams was elected to the Arkansas Senate...
  
   (1805–1850), acting Governor of Arkansas in 1844
• Sam Adams (Oregon politician) (1963– ), mayor of Portland, Oregon

• Samuel Adams (Loyalist)
  Samuel Adams (Loyalist)
  Dr. Samuel Adams was a physician and surgeon, farmer, and loyalist soldier from Arlington, Vermont.Adams was born in Stratford, Connecticut, in 1730. In 1764, he moved with his family to Arlington in the New Hampshire Grants. On several occasions, Adams served as representative and negotiator for...
  
   (1730–1810), Loyalist officer in the Revolutionary War, physician, surgeon
• Samuel Adams (naval officer) (1912–1942), United States naval officer

• Sam Adams (golfer)
  Sam Adams (golfer)
  Sam Adams is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour. He is one of only eight left-handers to ever win a PGA Tour event.Adams was born in Boone, North Carolina. He played golf collegiately at Appalachian State University...
  
   (born 1946), PGA Tour golfer
• Sam Adams, Sr. (born 1948), American football player
• Sam Adams (American football) (born 1973), American football player

• Samuel A. Adams
  Samuel A. Adams
  Samuel A. Adams was an analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency who is best known for discovering underestimated Vietcong and North Vietnamese Army troop numbers during the Vietnam War. He eventually retired from the CIA after claiming there was a conspiracy among officials within U.S....
  
   (1934–1988), CIA analyst
• Sam Adams (explorer)
  Sam Adams (explorer)
  Sam Adams , who periodically referred to himself as "Captain", was an early explorer of the American west. His survey of the Colorado River, conducted simultaneously to John Wesley Powell's more extensive survey...
  
   (1828–1915), initial surveyor of American West
• Sorenson "Sam" Adams (1878–1963), inventor of the Joy Buzzer and other novelties
• Samuel Adams (beer)
  Samuel Adams (beer)
  Samuel Adams is an American brand of beer brewed by the Boston Beer Company and its associated contract brewers. The company was founded in 1984 by Jim Koch, Harry M. Rubin, and Lorenzo Lamadrid in Boston, Massachusetts, USA...
  
  , an American brand of beer named after the revolutionary
• Sam Adams (musician) (born 1987), American rapper

See also

• Sam Adams Award
  Sam Adams Award
  The Sam Adams Award is given annually by the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence, a group of retired CIA officers, to an intelligence professional who has taken a stand for integrity and ethics. It is named after Samuel A. Adams, a CIA whistleblower during the Vietnam War, and takes...
  
  , named after Samuel A. Adams above