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Clayton in 2014, photo by kathclick /Bigstock.com
Birth Name: Adam Charles Clayton
Place of Birth: Ploughley, Oxfordshire, England, U.K.
Date of Birth: 13 March, 1960
Ethnicity: English
Adam Clayton is an English-born Irish musician. He is the bass guitarist of Irish rock band U2. Other members of the band are Bono , The Edge , and Larry Mullen, Jr.
Adam and his family are English, but have resided in County Dublin, Ireland, since Adam was a child. Adam is married to Brazilian-born human rights lawyer Mariana Teixeira de Carvalho. He has two children.
Adam’s maternal grandfather’s surname was Willis.
Source: Marriage record of Adam’s parents – https://familysearch.org