Sir David Kim Hempleman-Adams, KCVO, OBE, GCStJ, DL, FRSGS (born 10 October 1956) is a British industrialist and adventurer.

Following his parents' divorce, he moved with his mother to Stoney Littleton near Bath, and, when she remarried, took his stepfather's surname, Adams.

[2] He took part in the Duke of Edinburgh's Award scheme at school, then pursued business studies at college in Manchester and at Bristol Polytechnic.

[4] On 10 October 2008, Hempleman-Adams, along with co-pilot Jon Mason won the 52nd Gordon Bennett Cup, having flown a helium balloon from Albuquerque, New Mexico and landing over 1000 miles away near Madison, Wisconsin.

[citation needed] In April 2008 his middle daughter, Camilla, at the age of 15, became the youngest person to ski the last degree to the North Pole.

[10] In 2019 he sailed from Plymouth, England, to New York, to promote the work of St John and to encourage young people to try something new.