Ames (surname)

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.

List of people surnamed Ames

• A. A. Ames (Albert Alonzo Ames, 1842–1911), American physician and politician
• Adelbert Ames (1835–1933), American Civil War general
• Adelbert Ames Jr. (1880–1955), American scientist
• Adrienne Ames (1907–1947), American film actress
• Aldrich Ames (born 1941), convicted spy for the Soviet Union
• Alfred Elisha Ames, American physician and politician
• 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 Gen. Adelbert Ames
• Bruce Ames (born 1928), American biochemist
• Cheney Ames (1808–1892), New York politician
• David Ames (disambiguation), several people
• DeHart H. Ames (1872–1955), New York politician
• Ed Ames (born 1927), American popular singer and actor
• Fisher Ames (1758–1808), Congressman from Massachusetts
• Frederick Lothrop Ames (1835–1893), grandson of Oliver Ames, Sr.
• Frederick Lothrop Ames, Jr. (1876–1921), great-grandson of Oliver Ames, Sr.
• Hermes L. Ames (1865–1920), New York politician
• James Ames (disambiguation), several people
• John Ames, several people
• Jonathan Ames (born 1964), American author
• Joseph Ames (disambiguation), several people
• Keith Ames (born 1933), English former professional footballer
• Leon Ames (1902–1993), American actor
• Les Ames (1905–1990), English cricketer
• Oakes Ames (1804–1873), American manufacturer and Congressman from Massachusetts
• Oakes Ames (botanist) (1874–1950), American botanist
• Oakes Angier Ames (1829–1899), industrialist and philanthropist from Massachusetts
• Oliver Ames, several people
• Rachel Ames (born 1929), American actress
• Ramsay Ames (1919–1998), American movie actress
• Red Ames (1882–1936), Major League Baseball pitcher
• Roger Ames (born 1942), American Anglican priest
• Roger T. Ames, prominent sinologist, linguist, and translator of a version of the Analects of Confucius and the Zhongyong
• Rosemary Ames (1906–1988), American film actress
• Samuel Ames (1824–1875), New York politician
• Samuel Ames (jurist), Chief Justice of Rhode Island 1856–1866
• Solace Ames, American writer
• Stephen Ames (born 1964), golfer from Trinidad and Tobago and Canada
• William Ames (1576-1633), English theologian
• William Ames (Quaker) (died 1662), English preacher
• William Thayer Ames (1901–1987), American composer
• Winthrop Ames (1870–1937) American producer and playwright; son of Oakes Angier Ames
• The Ames Brothers, a singing quartet