Adam Sedgwick FRS (28 September 1854 – 27 February 1913) was a British zoologist and Professor of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy, Imperial College, London, and a great nephew of the renowned geologist Adam Sedgwick.

Sedgwick was born in Norwich, Norfolk in 1854, the son of Rev Richard Sedgwick, vicar of Dent, Yorkshire and his wife Mary Jane, daughter of John Woodhouse of Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire.

Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (1880); tutor, Trinity College (1897–1907); lecturer in animal morphology, Cambridge University (1883–1890); reader in animal morphology (1890–1907); professor of zoology and comparative anatomy (1907–1909); professor of zoology, Imperial College, London (1909–1913); chairman, Geological Survey of Great Britain.

[1] Sedgwick contributed articles to the 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.

He also wrote “A Student's Textbook of Zoology” in three volumes, published in 1898, 1905[2] and 1909.