Adam Dawson may refer to:
- Adam Dawson (colonial administrator), administrator of the English East India Company, served as President of Bengal in the eighteenth century
- Adam Dawson (distiller) (1793–1873), Scottish industrialist
- Adam Dawson (footballer, born 1912), English footballer, played for Seahouses, Craster, Pegswood Utd, Hull City, Blyth Spartans, Chesterfield, Torquay Utd, Halifax Town, Rochdale, Southport
- Adam Dawson (footballer) (born 1992), English footballer
- Adam Alexander Dawson (1913–2010), noted film editor