Amyas is a
surname
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and male
forename
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thought to be derived either from the
Latin
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verb ''
amare Amare may refer to:
Music
* "Amare" (Adrijana song)
* "Amare" (Mino Vergnaghi song)
* "Amare" (La Rappresentante di Lista song)
People
*Amare Aregawi, Ethiopian journalist
*Amaré Barno (born 1999), American football player
*Amar'e Stoudemire (bo ...
'' or the French city of
Amiens
Amiens (English: or ; ; pcd, Anmien, or ) is a city and commune in northern France, located north of Paris and south-west of Lille. It is the capital of the Somme department in the region of Hauts-de-France. In 2021, the population of ...
.
People
*Sir
Amyas Bampfylde (1560–1626), English politician and Member of Parliament for Devon in 1597
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Amyas Borton (1886–1969), British air marshal
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Amyas Connell (1901–1980), New Zealand architect
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Amyas Godfrey
''You Can't Do That on Television'' is a Canadian sketch comedy television series that first aired locally in 1979 before airing in the United States in 1981. It featured pre-teen and teenage actors in a sketch comedy format similar to that of ...
, Canadian actor
*Sir
Amyas Morse, British auditor, Comptroller and Auditor General of the National Audit Office
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Amyas Northcote (1864–1923), English writer
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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''
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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
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