Ames (surname)
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The surname Ames is usually either French or Hebrew in origin. The French name comes from the noun amie, meaning a friend or a beloved. In Hebrew it literally means burden, but is actually derived from the eponymous Hebrew prophet Amos. The name may also be a contraction of Ambrose or Eames.
- Adelbert Ames (1835-1933), American Civil War general
- Adelbert Ames Jr. (1880-1955), American scientist
- Adrienne Ames (1907-1947), American film actress
- Aldrich Ames (b. 1941), convicted spy for the Soviet Union
- Andrew Blake Ames, American dancer and performer
- Blanche Ames Ames (1878-1969), artist, inventor, writer, and prominent supporter of women's suffrage and birth control
- Blanche Butler Ames (1847-1939), the wife of Adelbert Ames (American Civil War general)
- Bruce Ames (b. 1928), American biochemist
- Ed Ames (b. 1927), American popular singer and actor
- Fisher Ames (1758-1808), Congressman from Massachusetts
- James Barr Ames (1848-1910), dean of Harvard Law School
- Jonathan Ames, American author
- Joseph Ames (author) (1680-1759), English author
- Dr. Joseph Sweetman Ames (1864-1943), founding member of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
- Keith Ames (b. 1933), English former professional footballer
- Leon Ames (actor) (1903-1993), American actor
- Les Ames (1905-1990), English cricketer
- Oakes Ames (1804-1873), American manufacturer and Congressman from Massachusetts
- Nathan P. Ames (1803-1847) sword manufacturer for the U.S. Army
- Oakes Ames (botanist) (1874-1950), American botanist
- Oliver Ames, Jr. (1807–1877), president of Union Pacific Railroad during the completion of the First Transcontinental Railroad in North America
- Rachel Ames (b.1929), American actress
- Red Ames (1882-1936), Major League Baseball pitcher
- Roger Ames, music industry executive and entrepreneur
- Roger T. Ames, prominent sinologist, linguist, and translator of a version of the Analects of Confucius and the Zhongyong.
- Stephen Ames (b. 1964), golfer from Trinidad and Tobago and Canada
- William Ames (1576-1633), English theologian
- William Thayer Ames (1901–1987), American composer
- The Ames Brothers, a singing quartet
Though it is not common, Ames is also used as a first name.
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