Ames may refer to:

Businesses and organisations

* Ames (automobile), an early American automobile manufacturer * Ames (department store), a defunct discount store chain based in Connecticut, U.S. *

Ames Manufacturing Company Ames Manufacturing Company was a manufacturer of swords, tools and cutlery in Chicopee, Massachusetts, as well as an iron and bronze foundry. They were a major provider of side arms, swords, light artillery, and heavy ordnance for the Union in the ...

, an American manufacturer of swords, tools and cutlery *

Ames Research Center The Ames Research Center (ARC), also known as NASA Ames, is a major NASA research center at Moffett Federal Airfield in California's Silicon Valley. It was founded in 1939 as the second National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) labo ...

, NASA research center in California, U.S. *

Ames True Temper Ames True Temper is a multinational corporation headquartered in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, USA. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Griffon Corporation. Ames True Temper specializes in the manufacture of non-powered lawn and garden products. T ...

, a multinational manufacturer of non-powered lawn and garden products * Academy for Math, Engineering, and Science (AMES) in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.

People

Aldrich Ames Aldrich Hazen "Rick" Ames (; born May 26, 1941) is a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer turned KGB double agent, who was convicted of espionage in 1994. He is serving a life sentence, without the possibility of parole, in the Federa ...

, spy *

Ames (surname) The surname Ames is usually either French, English or German in origin. The French name comes from the noun , meaning a friend or a beloved. The surname also derives from the Old French and Middle English personal name Amys or Amice, the Latin amic ...

, including a list of people with the name *

Ames family The Ames family is one of the oldest and most illustrious families of the United States. The family's branches are descended from John Ames, the son of a 17th-century settler of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, and numerous public and private wo ...

, a prominent family of the United States

Places

United States

* Ames, Arkansas, a place in Arkansas *

Ames, Colorado Ames is an unincorporated community in San Miguel County, Colorado, United States. Ames is the site of the world's first system to generate and transmit alternating current electricity for industrial purposes (mining), the Ames Hydroelectric G ...

* Ames, Illinois *

Ames, Indiana Ames is an unincorporated community in Union Township, Montgomery County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. It is located within the city limits City limits or city boundaries refer to the defined boundary or border of a city. The area within t ...

* Ames, Iowa, the most populous city bearing this name * Ames, Kansas *

Ames, Nebraska Ames is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in southern Dodge County, Nebraska, Dodge County, Nebraska, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census it had a population of 24. Ames lies along U.S. Route 30 i ...

Ames, New York Ames is a village in Montgomery County, New York, United States. The population was 145 at the 2010 census. The Village of Ames is in the south-central part of the Town of Canajoharie and is south of the Village of Canajoharie. Ames is one of ...

Ames Township, Athens County, Ohio Ames Township is one of the fourteen townships of Athens County, Ohio, United States. The 2010 census found 1,183 people in the township, 1,029 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of the township. Geography Located in the northern part ...

Ames, Oklahoma Ames is a town in southeastern Major County, Oklahoma, Major County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 239 at the United States Census, 2010, 2010 census. This was a 20.1 percent increase from the figure of 199 in 2000. Ames is best kno ...

Ames, Texas Ames is a city in Liberty County, Texas, United States. The population was 937 at the 2020 census. Geography Ames is located at (30.0535, –94.7435). According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all land. Dem ...

* Ames, West Virginia

Other places

* Ames, Pas-de-Calais, France * Ames, Spain *

Ames Range The Ames Range is an Antarctic range of snow-covered, flat-topped, steep-sided mountains, extending in a N-S direction for 32 km (20 mi) and forming a right angle with the eastern end of the Flood Range in Marie Byrd Land. They were di ...

, a mountain range in Antarctica

Other uses

* Ames, standard author abbreviation in botany for Oakes Ames * AMES,

Air Ministry Experimental Station AMES, short Air Ministry Experimental Station, was the name given to the British Air Ministry's radar development team at Bawdsey Manor (afterwards RAF Bawdsey) in the immediate pre-World War II era. The team was forced to move on three occasions ...