Air Marshal Carey Adamson, CNZM, AFC (born c.1942) is a retired senior officer of the Royal New Zealand Air Force. He was Chief of the Air Staff from 1995 to 1999 and Chief of Defence Force from 1999 to 2001. Carey Adamson grew up in Fairlie before attending Timaru Boys' High School where he was a boarder. As a teenager Adamson joined the Air Training Corps. He then joined the Royal New Zealand Air Force in 1961 where he served as a pilot flying Austers and Harvards. In 1964 Adamson was assigned to the United States to train on the C130 Hercules.