Famous People with Name Adam

Adam Hughes            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Adam Hughes: is an Australian football (soccer) player who is currently playing with Adelaide United in the A-League.While with Drogheda United he played and scored against Football giants Dynamo Kiev in the Champions League qualifiers in 2008. On 3 March 2009, he was

Adam Hrehoresin            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Adam Hrehoresin: is an Australian football (soccer) player, who is goalkeeper for Hume City in the Victorian Premier League.

Adam Kwasnik            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Adam Kwasnik: is an Australian football (soccer) player. He currently plays as a striker for the Australian A-League club the Central Coast Mariners. Kwasnik was scorer of the 200th goal in the Hyundai A-League on January 20, 2006. He is starting to show his potential

Adam Sarota            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Adam Sarota: is an Australian football (soccer) player who started his senior career at Brisbane Roar and recently signed to FC Utrecht on a three year deal with fellow Brisbane Roar team mates Thomas Oar and Michael Zullo. They will officially transfer in the summer

Adam Van Dommele            Origin/Culture/Country: Australian

Adam Van Dommele: is an Australian football (soccer) player. He played as a left fullback for Adelaide United in the Hyundai A-League where he played a total of 25 games. He has represented Australia at Under 17 level, including during the 2001 FIFA U-17 World Championship

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

Johannes Adam            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Johannes Adam: was a German Olympic fencer. He competed at the 1908 and 1912 Summer Olympics.

Karl Ferdinand Adam            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Karl Ferdinand Adam: was a German composer, cantor, and music director. Adam was born in Constappel (now a part of Klipphausen, Saxony). He moved to Leisnig, where he served as cantor and music director. He composed popular choruses and quartets for men's voices, as well as songs and piano pieces. He died in Leisnig.