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Ambrose (given name)

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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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  1. ^ Petrovsky, p. 48
  2. ^ Superanskaya [1], p. 32