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Al Adair (1929–1996), Canadian baseball player, radio broadcaster, author, politician •
Alex Adair (born 1994), British DJ, producer and remixer •
Allan Adair (1897–1988), British army officer, 6th Baronet •
Archibald Adair (died 1647), Irish Anglican bishop •
Arthur Adair (1913–1981), British diplomat •
Barbara Adair, South African author •
Beegie Adair (1937–2022), American jazz pianist •
Belle Adair (1889–1971), American actress •
Benjamin Frank Adair (1852–1902), American politician •
Bethenia Owens-Adair (1840–1926), American social reformer, physician •
Bill Adair (1913–2002), American baseball player/manager •
Bill Adair (journalist), founder of the PolitiFact website •
Billy Adair, soccer player in the American Soccer League •
Brian Adair (1935–2021), Scottish sports administrator •
Bunny Adair (1905–1994), Australian politician •
Catherine Steiner-Adair, American psychologist and author • Cecil Adair, pen name of author
Evelyn Everett-Green •
Charles Adair (soccer) (born 1971), American soccer player/coach • Sir Charles F.
Adair Hore (1874–1950), British civil servant, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Pensions •
Charles F. Adair (1874–1936), American park ranger •
Charles Henry Adair (1851–1920), British admiral •
Charles L. Adair (1902–1993) American admiral •
Charles Wallace Adair (1914–2006), American ambassador •
Charles Adair (Royal Marines officer) (1822–1897), General in the Royal Marines •
Cherry Adair (born 1951), American author •
Christia Adair (1893–1989), African-American suffragist and civil rights worker •
Cornelia Adair (1837–1921), Texas ranch landowner •
Cornelia Storrs Adair, (1884–1962), American educator •
Craig Adair (born 1963), New Zealand track cyclist •
Daniel Adair (born 1975), Canadian drummer •
Deb Adair (born 1966), American sound engineer •
Deborah Adair (born 1952), American actress •
Devin Adair, American writer, director and producer. •
Donald Adair (born 1960), American figure skater •
Doug Adair (1929–2019), American TV news anchor and journalist •
Douglass Adair (1912–1968), American historian •
E. Ross Adair (1907–1983), U.S. Representative from Indiana •
Edward Robert Adair (1888–1965), British and Canadian historian •
Eleanor R. Adair (1926–2013), American scientist •
Finlay Cross-Adair (born 2005), English footballer •
Forrest Adair (1865–1936), real estate developer •
George Adair (1823–1899), real estate developer •
George W. Adair Jr. (1874–1921), real estate developer •
Gilbert Adair (1944–2011), Scottish author and journalist •
Gilbert Smithson Adair (1896–1979), British scientist •
Green B. Adair (1840–1914), American cotton merchant •
Harry Adair (born 1997), English cricketer •
Hazel Adair (screenwriter) (1920–2015), British soap opera writer, film producer/director •
Hazel Adair (novelist) (1900–1990), pen name of British author Hazel Iris Addis •
Henry R. Adair (1882–1916), American lieutenant cavalry officer •
Hubert Adair (1917–1940), World War II Royal Air Force pilot •
Hugh Adair (1815–1902), British Liberal Party politician •
Hugh R. Adair (1889–1971), Justice of the Montana Supreme Court •
J. Leroy Adair (1887–1956), U.S. Representative from Illinois •
James Adair (historian) (1709–1783), explorer and author •
James Adair (serjeant-at-law) (–1798), Irish soldier, politician •
James Makittrick Adair (1728–1802), Scottish army officer, doctor •
Janet Adair (1901–2005), American actress •
Janice Adair (1905–1996), British actress •
Jay Adair (born 1969/1970), American businessman, (CEO) of Copart •
Jean Adair (1873–1953), Canadian actress •
Jerry Adair (1936–1987), American baseball player •
Jessica Adair (born 1986), American basketball player •
Jim Adair (born 1942), Canadian hockey player •
Jimmy Adair (1907–1982), American baseball player, manager and coach •
John Adair (1757–1840), American soldier, politician (Kentucky) •
John Adair (anthropologist) (1913–1997), American anthropologist •
John Adair (author) (1934–2025), British leadership expert •
John Adair (surveyor) (–1722), Scottish surveyor and mapmaker •
John A. M. Adair (1864–1938), U.S. Representative from Indiana •
John Frederick Adair (1852–1913), Irish physicist and cricketer •
John G. Adair, Canadian psychologist •
John George Adair (1823–1885), Scots-Irish businessman •
John Ronald Shafto Adair (1893–1960), Australian businessman and aviator •
Johnny Adair (born 1963), ex-Loyalist Paramilitary •
Joseph Adair (1877–1960), Canadian politician •
Larry Adair (born 1946), American politician •
Mark Adair (born 1996), Irish cricketer •
Mary Adair (born 1936), Cherokee Nation educator and painter •
Mildred Adair (1895–1943), American composer, pianist and teacher •
Molly Adair (1905–1990), British actress •
Nancy Adair, documentary producer •
Natasha Adair (born 1972), American college basketball coach •
Patrick Adair (1624–1694), Irish Presbyterian minister •
Perry Adair (1899–1953), American amateur golfer •
Peter Adair (1943–1996), film-maker and artist •
Red Adair (1915–2004), oil field fire-fighter •
Rhona Adair (1878–1961), British golf champion •
Rick Adair (born 1958), American baseball player, coach •
Robert Adair (actor) (1900–1954), American-born British actor •
Robert Adair (cricketer) (1876–1951), Irish cricketer •
Robert Adair (physicist) (1924–2020), Physics professor •
Robert Adair (politician) (1763–1855), English diplomat •
Robert Adair (surgeon) (c.1711–1790), Irish surgeon •
Robert Adair, 1st Baron Waveney (1811–1886), British politician •
Rod Adair, American politician •
Ron Adair (born 1931), Australian association footballer •
Ross Adair (born 1994), Irish cricketer •
Sadie Bay Adair (1868–1944), American physician •
Sandra Adair (born 1952), American film editor •
Sean Adair (born 1986), South African cricketer •
Thelma C. Davidson Adair (1920–2024), American Presbyterian educator and activist •
T. B. S. Adair (1868–1928), Scottish naval officer and politician •
Tom Adair (1913–1988), American songwriter, composer, and screenwriter •
Trevor Adair (–2020), American soccer coach •
Virginia Hamilton Adair (1913–2004), American poet •
William Penn Adair (–1880), second chief of the Cherokee nation •
William Adair (1850–1931), Royal Marines officer and Ulster Unionist •
Yvonne Adair (1897–1989), British pianist and composer
Fictional characters •
Daisy Adair, fictional TV character • Helen Adair, main character in ''
Comin' Thro the Rye (1923 film)'' • Michael Adair, main character in
The Conversations at Curlow Creek •
Rachel Adair, fictional character on General Hospital == List of persons with the given name ==