Amyas

Amyas is a surname and male forename thought to be derived either from the Latin verb amare or the French city of Amiens.[1]

People

• Sir Amyas Bampfylde (1560–1626), English politician and Member of Parliament for Devon in 1597
• Amyas Borton (1886–1969), British air marshal
• Amyas Connell (1901–1980), New Zealand architect
• Amyas Godfrey, Canadian actor and British Army Officer
• Sir Amyas Morse, British auditor, Comptroller and Auditor General of the National Audit Office
• Amyas Northcote (1864–1923), English writer
• Amias Paulet (1532–1588), English diplomat

In literature

• Amyas Burdett, architect and love interest in Call Dr. Margaret by Ray Dorien
• Amyas Crale, artist and victim of murder in Agatha Christie's crime-novel Five Little Pigs AKA Murder in Retrospect
• Amyas Leigh, protagonist in Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley
• Amyas le Poulet, nicknamed Clarence, character in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Amyas
• All pages with titles containing Amyas

References

1. Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006). A Dictionary of First Names. Oxford paperback reference. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1. OCLC 67869278. Retrieved 21 November 2024.