Ambrose (given name)

Ambrose is a given name. It is derived from Greek ambrosios, meaning (belonging to) immortal(s), god-like; cf. ambrosia, food of gods. Notable people with the name include:

• St Ambrose of Milan
• St. Ambrose Traversari, also referred to as Ambrose of Camaldoli, (1386–1439), Italian monk and theologian
• Ambrose Akinmusire (born 1982), Nigerian-American jazz trumpeter
• Ambrose Bierce (1842–1913), American author
• Ambrose Burnside (1824–1881), American general and namesake of sideburns
• Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini (1968–2020), Swazi politician and businessman
• Ambrose Gaines IV (born 1959), American swimmer better known as Rowdy Gaines
• John Ambrose Fleming (1849-1945), English electrical engineer and physicist. Invented the first thermionic valve or vacuum tube, designed the radio transmitter with which the first transatlantic radio transmission was made, established the right-hand rule used in physics.
• Ambrose K. Hutchison (1856–1932), Hawaiian resident leader of the leper settlement of Kalaupapa
• Ambrose Kenny-Smith, Australian singer and harmonicist of The Murlocs and King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
• Ambrose O'Brien (1885–1968), Canadian industrialist
• Ambrose Page (1723–1791), Rhode Island admiralty judge who declined appointment as an associate justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court
• Ambrose Small (1863–1919), Canadian theatre magnate
• Ambrose Tarrant (1866–1938), Australian cricketer
• Ambrose Parry, pseudonym of Scottish authors Chris Brookmyre and Marisa Haetzman

Amby

• Amby Burfoot (born 1946), American long-distance runner and journalist
• Amby Fogarty (1933–2016), Irish footballer
• Amby McConnell (1883–1942), American baseball player
• Amby Paliwoda (1909–1999), American animator

See also

• Ambroise (name)
• Ambrosius
• Ambrož (disambiguation)
• Amvrosy