Scott Adams
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- Works
- 52
Top works
- All Dressed Down and Nowhere to Go
- Dilbert 5. Odeio Reuniões! - Coleção L&PM Pocket (Em Portuguese do Brasil)
- The O. P. Market
- Letters from Michael
- San Francisco Travel Guide 2017
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Film & TV
Windham, NY
Scott Raymond Adams (June 8, 1957 – January 13, 2026) was an American author and cartoonist. He was the creator of the Dilbert comic strip and nonfiction works of business, commentary, and satire. Adams grew up in Windham, NY — in the Catskill Mountains. He has a younger and older sibling and was the son of a postal clerk and a real estate agent. He graduated his high school’s Valedictorian and…
Known for
- Hoaxed — Self2019
- Silenced — Self2016
- The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder1995
- Babylon 5 — Mr. Adams1994
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Key facts
- Born
- Scott Raymond Adams , ( 1957-06-08 ) June 8, 1957, Windham, New York , U.S.
- Died
- January 13, 2026 (2026-01-13) (aged 68), Pleasanton, California , U.S.
- Education
- Hartwick College ( BA ) University of California, Berkeley ( MBA )
- Occupations
- Cartoonist writer political commentator
- Years active
- 1989–2026
- Spouses
- Shelly Miles ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2006 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2014 ) Kristina Basham ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2020 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2022 )
- Channel
- Real Coffee with Scott Adams
- Subscribers
- 209,000
- Views
- 78.1 million
- Website
- scottadams .locals .com
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Raymond
- Family name
- Adams
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Windham
- Place of death
- Pleasanton
- Occupation
- caricaturist
- Employer
- Pacific Bell
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Award
- Adamson Awards
- Notable work
- Dilbert
- Field of work
- literature
- Genre
- satire
- Official website
- www.scottadamssays.com
- Image
- Scott Adams 2017.png
- Residence
- Pleasanton
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- Commons category
- Scott Adams
- date of birth
- 1957-06-08
- name in native language
- Scott Adams
- member of
- Writers Guild of America West
- social media followers
- 183000
- birth name
- Scott Raymond Adams
- writing language
- English language
- number of viewers/listeners
- 75323127
- date of death
- 2026-01-13
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- prostate cancer
- described at URL
- baike.sogou.com/v70564577.htm
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Encyclopedic overview
Scott Raymond Adams (June 8, 1957 – January 13, 2026) was an American cartoonist, author, and conservative commentator. He was best known as the creator of the Dilbert comic strip and nonfiction works of business, self-improvement, commentary, and satire.
Adams worked in various corporate roles before he became a full-time cartoonist in 1995. By the mid-1990s, Dilbert, created in 1989, had gained national prominence in the United States and began to reach a worldwide audience, remaining popular throughout the following decades and spawning several books written by Adams. In the mid-2010s, Adams emerged as an independent commentator on events and politics.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Scott Adams” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.