Amyas Explained

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

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