// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhy did Charles Adams bring a ladder? To take his addams to new heights.

Charles or Charlie Adams may refer to:

Academics

Charles Adams (headmaster) (1803–1871), English headteacher and secretary
Charles Kendall Adams (1835–1902), American educator and historian
Charles Joseph Adams (1924–2011), American educator and academic
Charles P. Adams (college president) (1873–1961), founding president of Grambling State University

Charles Warren Adams (1833–1903), English pioneer detective novelist, lawyer and anti-vivisectionist
Charles Follen Adams (1842–1918), American poet
Charles Partridge Adams (1858–1942), American landscape artist
Charles James Adams (1859–1931), English landscape artist
Charles Kingsley Adams (1899–1971), British civil servant; National Portrait Gallery director
Charles R. Adams (1834–1900), American opera singer
Charles Adams (1869–1937), pseudonym for Charles A. Prince, celesta soloist
Charlie Adams (drummer) (born 1954), American drummer

Charles W. Adams (Confederate general) (1817–1878), Confederate States Army officer; grandfather of Helen Keller
Charles Powell Adams (1831–1893), brigadier general in the Union Army
Charles W. Adams (Union general) (1834–1909), Union Army general during the American Civil War
Charles Francis Adams Jr. (1835–1915), Civil War General and president of the Union Pacific Railroad
Charles Adams (Colorado Indian agent) (1845–1895), American Civil War soldier and diplomat
Charles J. Adams (U.S. Air Force general) (1921–2002), U.S. Air Force brigadier general

Charles Adams (1770–1800), son of John Adams; brother of John Quincy Adams
Charles Adams (MP) (1753–1821), British member of parliament
Charles C. Adams Jr. (born 1947), American diplomat, former ambassador, and lawyer
Charles Francis Adams Sr. (1807–1886), grandson of John Adams, son of John Quincy Adams, U.S. congressman
Charles H. Adams (New York politician) (1824–1902), U.S. representative from New York
Charles H. Adams (Massachusetts journalist) (1859–1952), American journalist and politician
Charles Edward Adams (politician) (1867–1936), lieutenant governor of Minnesota
Charles Bayley Adams (1887–1961), Vermont politician, judge and attorney
Charles J. Adams (Vermont politician) (1917–2008), Vermont politician and Attorney General
Charles Francis Adams III (1866–1954), U.S. Navy secretary
Charles Edward Adams (industrialist) (1881–1957), director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Charles Adams (Manitoba politician) (1858–1931), Canadian entrepreneur and Manitoba politician
Charles Clinton Adams (1833–1906), American merchant and politician from New York
Charles Frederic Adams (1851–1918), American idealist and lawyer

Charles Baker Adams (1814–1853), American naturalist and academic
Charles Hitchcock Adams (1868–1951), American astronomer
Charles Christopher Adams (1873–1955), American zoologist
Charles William Adams (surveyor) (1840–1918), New Zealand surveyor, astronomer and public servant
Charles Adams (seismologist) (1870–1945), New Zealand university lecturer, surveyor, astronomer and seismologist

Babe Adams (Charles Benjamin Adams, 1882–1968), American baseball pitcher
Charlie Adam (born 1985), Scottish football player
Charles Adams (ice hockey) (1876–1947), Boston Bruins founder
Charlie Adams (American football) (born 1979), American football player
Charlie Adams (Australian footballer) (1897–1986), Australian rules football player
Charlie Adams (English footballer) (born 1994), English football player
Charles Adams (rugby union) (1883—1965), Irish rugby union player