Public Officials
- George Adams (1731–1789), British Whig politician and Staffordshire landowner
- George Adams (judge) (1784–1844), American lawyer and political figure in Kentucky and Mississippi
- George Willison Adams (1799–1879), abolitionist and member of the Ohio General Assembly
- George Washington Adams (1801–1829), eldest son of John Quincy Adams
- George Adams (magistrate) (1804–1873), Magistrate of the Pitcairn Islands, 1848
- George Madison Adams (1837–1920), U.S. Representative from Kentucky
- George E. Adams (1840–1917), U.S. Representative from Illinois
- George Bethune Adams (1845–1911), United States lawyer and federal judge
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