Gerry Adams (disambiguation)

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Gerry Adams (born 1948) is an Irish Republican politician.

Gerry Adams Irish Republican politician, leader of Sinn Fein 1983–2018

Gerard Adams is an Irish republican politician who was the Leader of the Sinn Féin political party between 13 November 1983 and 10 February 2018, and has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for Louth since the 2011 general election. From 1983 to 1992 and from 1997 to 2011, he was an abstentionist Member of Parliament (MP) of the British Parliament for the Belfast West constituency.

Gerry Adams may also refer to:

Gerry Adams Sr. was a Belfast Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteer who took part in its Northern Campaign in the 1940s. He has also been described as "important in the emergence of the Provisional IRA in 1970".

Gerry Adams is an Australian fencer. He competed in the individual and team épée events at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

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Jerry McKee Adams, FAA, FRS is an Australian-American molecular biologist whose research into the genetics of haemopoietic differentiation and malignancy, led him and his wife, Professor Suzanne Cory, to be the first two scientists to pioneer gene cloning techniques in Australia, and to successfully clone mammalian genes.

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