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).