Writers
- George Adams (optician) (1720?-1773), English optical designer and scientific writer
- George Adams, Jr. (1750–1795), his son, English optician and instrument maker
- George Adams (translator) (1698–1768), English translator of Sophocles
- George Burton Adams (1851–1925), American medievalist historian at Yale University
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