Ambrose (given name) explained
Ambrose is a given name. It is derived from Greek ambrosios, meaning (belonging to) immortal(s), god-like;[1] cf. ambrosia, food of gods.[2] 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 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
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Notes and References
- Petrovsky, p. 48
- Superanskaya [1], p. 32
