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 (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
- 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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