Dr. John George Adami was born on January 12, 1862, in Manchester, Lancashire, England.

He was an English pathologist. In 1892, he was made Strathcona professor of pathology at McGill University, Montreal. Here, by his own original work, the organization of his laboratories, and his ability to attract and inspire students, he quickly made a name for himself and for his department. He was also the head of the pathological department of the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal. A colonel in the Canadian Army Medical Corps, he served throughout World War I as assistant director of medical services in charge of records at London and in 1919, he received the Commander of the Order of the British Empire award (C.B.E.) for his services. The same year he resigned his position at McGill University to became Vice-Chancellor of Liverpool University. In 1898, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1905. In 1912, he became president both of the Royal Society of Canada and of the Association of American Physicians. Two years later he was awarded the Fothergillian gold medal of the Medical Society of London, and in 1917, he delivered the Croonian Lectures before the Royal College of Physicians. He died on August 29, 1926, in either Ruthin Castle, Ruthin, Denbighshire, Wales or in Liverpool, Merseyside, England (according to different sources).

Mark Adamo is an American composer-librettist. He first attracted national attention with his uniquely celebrated début opera, Little Women, after the Alcott novel. Introduced by Houston Grand Opera in 1998 and revived there in 2000, Little Women is one of the most frequently performed American operas of the last fifteen years, with more than 135 national and international engagements in cities ranging from New York to London, Buenos Aires, Amsterdam, Minneapolis, Toronto, Chicago, San Francisco, Adelaide, Perth, Mexico City, Brugges, Banff, Calgary, and Tokyo. While Adamo's principal work continues to be for the opera house, over the past five years, he has ventured not only into chamber music but also into symphonic and choral composition.

He began his education in the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, where, as a freshman in the Dramatic Writing Program, he received the Paulette Goddard Remarque Scholarship for outstanding undergraduate achievement in playwriting. He went on to earn a Bachelor of Music Degree cum laude in composition in 1990 from the Catholic University of America. He and his spouse, the composer John Corigliano, divide their time between Manhattan and Kent Cliffs, New York. His music is published exclusively by G. Schirmer, Inc.

Born in Sicily, the international singer and composer, Salvatore Adamo, was the son of a well-digger; the family moved to Belgium when he was three years old. As a child, one of seven children, he was stricken with meningitis and confined to bed for several years. From this inauspicious beginning, he became the best-selling Belgian musician of all time, singing mostly in French but also in Italian, Dutch, English, German, Spanish, Japanese and Turkish. His career was launched when he won the top prize in Paris of a 1960 Radio-Luxembourg competition. He was soon famous, but his father drowned in 1966 and was thus not able to witness the subsequent peak of his son’s celebrity. His albums and singles have sold over 100 million copies. For a while in the 1980s, his emotional vocal style went out of fashion but in the 1990s his career revived due to a wave of nostalgia. In 1993, he was appointed Belgium’s honorary UNICEF ambassador, a post that involved worldwide travel. In 1998, he made an album commenting upon racism and Bosnia’s civil war. In 2001, he was knighted by King Albert II of Belgium, with the noble title of “Ridder.” The following year he was named Officer of the Belgian Order of the Crown.

Ann Adams appears to have been a Wesleyan Protestant living in Montreal, who at some point was employed sewing and may have lived in Saint Charles. She had at least two children.

Educated as an architect and architectural historian at UC Berkeley, Adams is jointly appointed in McGill University’s School of Architecture and the Department of Social Studies of Medicine. She is the author of Architecture in the Family Way: Doctors, Houses, and Women, 1870-1900 (McGill-Queens, 1996), Medicine by Design: The Architect and the Modern Hospital, 1893-1943 (U Minn Press, 2008) and co-author of Designing Women: Gender and the Architectural Profession (UTP, 2000). Recent awards include the Faculty of Engineering’s Christophe Pierre Award for Research Excellence (2016) and the President’s Award for Excellence in Media (2017) from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.

In 1975, he became a faculty member at the University of Toronto’s Department of Civil Engineering. He served as Chair of the Environmental Engineering Program in the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering and then as Chair of the Department of Civil Engineering until 2004. He has consulted in Canada and abroad on water resources and environmental engineering studies with engineering and legal firms, agencies, commissions, municipalities, and the Crown. He was a member of the Province of Ontario’s Environmental Appeal Board and the Environmental Assessment Board and is currently a member of the Advisory Board, Research in Construction at the National Research Council of Canada. Barry has published over 90 papers, books, and book chapters and 45 technical reports in the field of water resources and urban infrastructure. He has conducted innovative research in the development of probabilistic models for urban water resource infrastructure system planning and design and wrote the first major textbook on this subject. Adams is a Professor Emeritus at University of Toronto.

Charles Francis Adams Jr. was born on May 27, 1835, in Boston, Massachusetts, into a family with a long legacy in American public life (Father Charles Francis Adams Sr. (1807-1886).

He was an American author, historian, railroad and park commissioner, and philanthropist. He graduated from Harvard University in 1856 and then studied law in the office of Richard Henry Dana Jr. and was admitted to the bar in 1858. In 1895, he received an LL.D. degree from Harvard University. Adams served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. In 1866, President Andrew Johnson nominated Colonel Adams for the award of the rank of brevet (honorary) brigadier general, United States Volunteers. He served as the president of the Union Pacific Railroad from 1884 to 1890. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1871 and a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1891. After 1874, he devoted much of his time to the study of American history and became vice president of the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1890 and its president in 1895. He was also elected President of the American Historical Association in 1901. From 1893 to 1895, Adams was chairman of the Massachusetts Park Commission.

In 1865, he married Mary Hone Ogden (1843-1935). He died on March 20, 1915, in Washington, D.C.

Charles Kendall Adams was born on January 24, 1835, in Derby, Vermont.

He was an American educator and historian. He had only an elementary school education until he was 21 years old. He worked his way through the University of Michigan, where he studied with Andrew Dickson White. He taught history at the University of Michigan until his appointment in 1885 as president of Cornell University. As a result of major conflicts over honourary degrees and control of faculty appointments, Adams was forced to resign as Cornell president in 1892. He subsequently became president of the University of Wisconsin, a position he held until his death in 1902. In 1887, he was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society. In 1890, he became president of the American Historical Association.

In 1863, he married Abigail Disbrow. He died on July 26, 1902, in Redlands, California.