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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.

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 (disambiguation), 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
  • Nathaniel Ames (1708–1764), American almanac maker
  • 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 (disambiguation), 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

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