Charles Adams
Charles or Charlie Adams may refer to:
Academics
- Charles Henry Adams, English Headteacher and Secretary
- Charles Kendall Adams, American educator and historian
- Charles Joseph Adams, American educator and academic
- Charles P. Adams (college president), founding president of Grambling State University
Arts and entertainment
- Charles Warren Adams, English pioneer detective novelist, lawyer and anti-vivisectionist
- Charles Follen Adams, American poet
- Charles Partridge Adams, American landscape artist
- Charles James Adams, English landscape artist
- Charles Kingsley Adams, British civil servant; National Portrait Gallery director
- Charles R. Adams, American opera singer
- Charles Adams, pseudonym for Charles A. Prince, celesta soloist
- Charlie Adams (drummer), American drummer
Military
- Charles W. Adams (Confederate general), Confederate States Army officer; grandfather of Helen Keller
- Charles Powell Adams, Brigadier General in the Union Army
- Charles W. Adams (Union general), Union Army general during the American Civil War
- Charles Francis Adams Jr., Civil War General and president of the Union Pacific Railroad
- Charles Adams (Colorado Indian agent), American Civil War soldier and diplomat
- Charles J. Adams (U.S. Air Force general), U.S. Air Force Brigadier General
Politics
- Charles Adams (1770–1800), son of John Adams; brother of John Quincy Adams
- Charles Adams (MP), British Member of Parliament
- Charles C. Adams Jr., American diplomat, former ambassador, and lawyer
- Charles Francis Adams Sr., grandson of John Adams, son of John Quincy Adams, U.S. congressman
- Charles H. Adams (New York politician), U.S. Representative from New York
- Charles H. Adams (Massachusetts journalist), American journalist and politician
- Charles Edward Adams (politician), 25th Lieutenant Governor of Minnesota
- Charles Bayley Adams, Vermont politician, judge and attorney
- Charles J. Adams (Vermont politician), Vermont politician and Attorney General
- Charles Francis Adams III, U.S. Navy secretary
- Charles Edward Adams (industrialist), director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
- Charles Adams (Manitoba politician), Canadian entrepreneur and Manitoba politician
- Charles Clinton Adams, American merchant and politician from New York
Science
- Charles Baker Adams, American naturalist and academic
- Charles Hitchcock Adams, American astronomer
- Charles Christopher Adams, American zoologist
- Charles William Adams (surveyor), New Zealand surveyor, astronomer and public servant
- Charles Adams (seismologist), New Zealand university lecturer, surveyor, astronomer and seismologist
Sports
- Babe Adams, American baseball pitcher
- Charlie Adam, Scottish football player
- Charles Adams (ice hockey), Boston Bruins founder
- Charlie Adams (American football), American football player
- Charlie Adams (Australian footballer), Australian rules football player
- Charlie Adams (English footballer), English football player
- Charles Adams (rugby union)
Other
- Charles Francis Adams IV, president of Raytheon
- Charles Gilchrist Adams, American clergyman