Ahmose

Ahmose in hieroglyphs

Ahmose is an Ancient Egyptian name meaning "The Moon is born" or "Child of the Moon". It was a very popular name in the beginning of the eighteenth dynasty.

This name may refer to:

Pharaohs

• Ahmose I (reigned c. 1549 BC - c. 1524 BC), pharaoh and founder of the eighteenth dynasty of Egypt
• Amasis II (or Ahmose II), (reigned c. 570 BC - c. 526 BC), pharaoh of the twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt

Queens

• Ahmose-Henuttamehu (fl. c. late-16th century BC), daughter of seventeenth dynasty pharaoh Seqenenre Tao II by his sister-wife Ahmose-Inhapi; probably married to her half-brother Pharaoh Ahmose I
• Ahmose Inhapi (or Ahmose-Inhapy) (fl. c. mid-16th century BC), queen during the late seventeenth dynasty of Egypt, daughter of Pharaoh Senakhtenre Tao I and sister to Pharaoh Tao II, and the queens Ahhotep I and Sitdjehuti
• Ahmose-Nefertari (c. 1560 BC - c. 1500 BC), daughter of Seqenenre Tao II and Ahhotep I, and royal sister and the great royal wife of 18th dynasty pharaoh, Ahmose I
• Ahmose-Meritamun (or Ahmose-Meritamon), (fl. c. late-16th century BC), royal daughter of Ahmose I and Ahmose Nefertari, and queen of her brother Amenhotep I, pharaoh during the eighteenth dynasty
• Ahmose-Sitkamose (or Sitkamose), (fl. c. late-16th century BC), princess and queen during the late 17th and early 18th dynasties of Egypt; probably the daughter of Pharaoh Kamose and wife of Ahmose I
• Ahmose (fl. c. mid-16th century BC), royal queen of 18th dynasty pharaoh, Thutmose I, and the mother of queen and later, pharaoh, Hatshepsut

Other royalty

• Ahmose (fl. c. late 15th century BC), probably a son of the 18th dynasty pharaoh Amenhotep II; High Priest of Re in Heliopolis during the reign of his brother, Thutmose IV
• Ahmose (fl. c. mid-16th century BC), a daughter of pharaoh Tao II by his sister-wife Sitdjehuti, and a half-sister of Pharaoh Ahmose I.
• Ahmose-ankh (fl. c. mid-16th century BC), a son of Pharaoh Ahmose I and queen Ahmose Nefertari; he was the crown prince but pre-deceased his father
• Ahmose-Henutemipet (fl. c. late-16th century BC), a daughter of Pharaoh Tao II and probably Queen Ahhotep I, she was the sister of Ahmose I
• Ahmose-Meritamon (fl. c. late-16th century BC), probably a daughter of Seqenenre Tao II
• Ahmose-Nebetta (fl. c. mid-16th century BC), probably the daughter of Seqenenre Tao II and a sister of Ahmose I
• Ahmose Sapair (fl. c. mid-16th century BC), probably a son of Pharaoh Tao II and a brother of Ahmose I.
• Ahmose-Sitamun (or Sitamun), (fl. c. late-16th century BC), daughter of Pharaoh Ahmose I and sister of Amenhotep I
• Ahmose-Tumerisy (fl. c. mid-16th century BC), probably a daughter of pharaoh Tao II and a sister of Ahmose I

Officials

• Ahmose (or Ahmes), (fl. c. mid-17th century BC), an ancient Egyptian scribe who lived during the Second Intermediate Period and at the beginning of the Eighteenth Dynasty, who wrote the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, a work of Ancient Egyptian mathematics
• Ahmose (fl. c. 1555 BC - c. 1500 BC), son of Ebana, served in the Egyptian military under the 17th and 18th dynasty pharaohs Tao II Seqenenre, Ahmose I, Amenhotep I, and Thutmose I.
• Ahmose Pen-Nekhebet (fl. c. 1530 BC - c. 1470 BC), an ancient Egyptian official and military commander during the 18th Dynasty who started his career under Ahmose I and served all subsequent pharaohs until Thutmose III.