A low-complexity blind adaptive receiver for ultra-wideband (UWB) systems in the presence of both multiple access interference (MAI) and inter symbol interference (ISI) is proposed, which is composed of two stages. In the first stage, a reduced-rank algorithm based on the multi-stage Wiener filter (MSWF) is considered to suppress the MAI and extract multi-path components. Channel estimation using the projection approximation subspace tracking with deflation (PASTd) algorithm and multi-path combining are then performed to further enhance the signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) of the desired user in the second stage. The simulation results show that the proposed receiver exhibits reasonably good bit error ratio (BER) performance compared with those of matched filter, conventional Rake receiver, decorrelating Rake receiver and adaptive receiver based on constant modulus algorithm (CMA). Moreover, it has faster convergence speed and less complexity.