Adam (disambiguation)
Appearance
Adam is a holy figure in the Abrahamic religions who is seen as the first human created by God.
Adam may also refer to:
- Adam (given name)
- Adam (surname)
- Adam (murder victim), the name police gave to an unidentified male child whose torso was discovered in the River Thames in London
- Adamu (Assyrian king), the earliest Assyrian king of Middle East. He may be the inspiration for Adam.
Arts
[edit]- Adam style or Adamesque, a style of interior decoration with elaborate plasterwork after three Scottish brothers
- Adam@home (previously titled Adam) newspaper comic strip, by Brian Basset and Rob Harrell
Books
[edit]- Adam, a 1960 novel by David Bolt
- Adam (novel), a 2008 novel by author Ted Dekker
- Adam, a 2014 novel by Ariel Schrag
- Adam, a character in the Japanese manga Record of Ragnarok
Film and television
[edit]- Adam (1983 film), an American drama television film
- Adam (1992 film), a British stop-motion animation film
- Adam (2009 film), an American romance film
- Adam (2019 American film), an American comedy film
- Adam (2019 Moroccan film), a Moroccan film
- Adam (2020 film), an American drama film
- "Adam" (Torchwood), a 2008 episode from Series 2 of the TV series Torchwood
- "Adam", a Series A episode of the television series QI (2003)
Music
[edit]- Adam (musical), a 1983 musical by Richard Ahlert about Adam Clayton Powell Jr.
Sculpture
[edit]- Adam (Lombardo), a c. 1490–1495 marble sculpture by Tullio Lombardo
- Adam (Rodin), an 1880–81 sculpture by Auguste Rodin
- Adam (Bourdelle), an 1889 bronze sculpture by Antoine Bourdelle
- Adam, a 1938–39 colossal sculpture of a head by Jacob Epstein
Companies
[edit]- Adam Air, a former Indonesian airline
- Adam Aircraft Industries, an aircraft manufacturer
- Adam and Company, a private bank in the UK
- ADAM Audio, a German loudspeaker manufacturer
- Adam Hats, an American hat company
- A.D.A.M., Inc., a health information company
- Adam Internet, an Australian Internet service provider
- Adam Motor Company, a defunct Pakistani automobile manufacturer
- Adam VIII, a record label
Places
[edit]- Adam, Oman, a town in Oman
- Adam, Russia, several rural localities in the Udmurt Republic, Russia
- Adam, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in West Virginia, US
- Adam, alternative name of Geva Binyamin, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank
- Adam, a village in Drăguşeni Commune, Galaţi County, Romania
- Adam Range, a mountain range in Nunavut, Canada
- City of Adam, a city mentioned in the Book of Joshua in the Bible
Science
[edit]- ADAM (protein), a family of peptidase proteins
- ADAM complex (amniotic deformity, adhesions and mutilations) or amniotic band constriction, a congenital disorder
- Y-chromosomal Adam, patrilineal most recent common ancestor
- Audit Data Analysis and Mining, an intrusion detection system
- Adam, a Robot Scientist
- Adam (tree), a giant sequoia tree in California
Technology
[edit]- Coleco Adam, an early home computer
- Adam tablet, a tablet computer from Notion Ink
- Active Directory Application Mode, the previous name for Microsoft's Active Directory Lightweight Director Service
- Opel Adam, a car
- Area Defense Anti-Munitions, an experimental weapons system being developed by Lockheed Martin
- Area Denial Artillery Munition, a family of US anti-personnel landmines and their carrier artillery shells
- Adam (optimization algorithm), an optimization algorithm for deep learning
- ADAM Program, used to help find missing children in the United States
U.S. government programs
[edit]- Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring, a US drug-abuse-monitoring program
- Code Adam, used in the US to alert the public of missing children
Other uses
[edit]- Adam (drug), a street name for MDMA/ecstasy
- Adam (beverage), meaning water