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, 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 (b. 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
- Bradford A. Ames (1936-2007), Army National Guard, philanthropist, Professor of Mathematics at University of Connecticut, psychologist, Grand Master Mason of Connecticut
- Bruce Ames (b. 1928), American biochemist
- Cheney Ames (1808–1892), New York politician
- David Ames, English actor
- 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
- 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
- Oakes Ames (botanist) (1874-1950), American botanist
- Oakes Angier Ames (1829-1899), industrialist and philanthropist from Massachusetts
- Oliver Ames (1831–1895), a U.S. political figure and financier, and 35th Governor of Massachusetts
- 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
- Ramsay Ames (1919–1998), American movie actress
- Red Ames (1882-1936), Major League Baseball pitcher
- Roger Ames (b. 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 (jurist), Chief Justice of Rhode Island 1856–1866
- Samuel Ames (1824–1875), New York politician
- 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