Amy
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Amy is a given name, sometimes short for Amelia
or Amanda. In French, the name is spelled "Aimée", which means beloved. In ancient Irish it has been translated as "little it".
Amelia (name)
Amelia is a female given name. It is a variant of Amalia, derived from the Germanic word amal meaning "work", and means "industrious" and "fertile". The variant form Amelie is derived from the French equivalent, Amélie...
or Amanda. In French, the name is spelled "Aimée", which means beloved. In ancient Irish it has been translated as "little it".
Notable people with the given name Amy
- Amy AckerAmy AckerAmy Louise Acker is an American actress. She is best known for her roles on the television series Angel as Winifred Burkle and Illyria and on Alias as Kelly Peyton. She is also known for her role as Dr. Claire Saunders/Whiskey on Dollhouse.-Early life:Acker was born and raised in Dallas, where she...
, American actress - Amy Adams (actress)Amy Adams (actress)Amy Lou Adams is an American actress and singer. Adams began her performing career on stage in dinner theaters before making her screen debut in the 1999 black comedy film Drop Dead Gorgeous...
, American actress and occasional singer - Amy BrennemanAmy BrennemanAmy Frederica Brenneman is an American actress, perhaps best known for her roles in the television series NYPD Blue, Judging Amy and Private Practice...
, American actress - Amy BrucknerAmy BrucknerAmelia Ellen "Amy" Bruckner is an American actress and singer noted for her roles in the Disney Channel shows Phil of the Future and American Dragon: Jake Long...
, American actress and singer - Amy CarmichaelAmy CarmichaelAmy Wilson Carmichael was a Protestant Christian missionary in India, who opened an orphanage and founded a mission in Dohnavur...
, missionary to India - Amy CarterAmy CarterAmy Lynn Carter is the fourth child and only daughter of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn Carter. She entered the limelight as she lived as a child in the White House during the Carter presidency.-Early life:...
, political activist - Amy CottonAmy CottonAmy Cotton is a female judoka from Canada, who won the bronze medal in the women's half heavyweight division at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. She represented her native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.-References:...
, Canadian judoka - Amy DalbyAmy DalbyAmy Mary Dalby was a British actress.-Selected filmography:* On the Night of the Fire * Quiet Wedding * The Night Has Eyes * The Gentle Sex...
, British actress - Amy DavidsonAmy DavidsonAmy Lynn Davidson is an American actress best known for her role as Kerry Michelle Hennessy in the ABC sitcom 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter.-Early life and education:...
, American actress - Amy DiamondAmy DiamondAmy Diamond is a Swedish pop singer, actress and television presenter. She is known for her single "What's in It for Me" and album This Is Me Now which were released when she was 12 years old. The song was a 2005 hit in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland. It was the most-played song in Poland...
, Swedish-British singer - Amy DumasAmy DumasAmy Christine Dumas , known by her primary stage name Lita, is the lead singer for the band The Luchagors as well as a retired professional wrestler and WWE Diva active from 1999 to 2006....
, American singer and former professional wrestler - Amy FisherAmy FisherAmy Elizabeth Fisher is an American woman who became known as "the Long Island Lolita" by the media in 1992, when, at the age of 17, she shot and severely wounded Mary Jo Buttafuoco, the wife of her lover Joey Buttafuoco...
, The Long Island Lolita and a porn star - Amy GrantAmy GrantAmy Lee Grant is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, media personality and actress, best known for her Christian music. She has been referred to as "The Queen of Christian Pop"...
, American Christian contemporary pop singer - Amy HennigAmy HennigAmy Hennig is a video game director and script writer currently employed by video game company Naughty Dog. She began her work in the industry on the Nintendo Entertainment System, with her design debut on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System game Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City...
, video game director and script writer - Amy IrvingAmy IrvingAmy Davis Irving is an American actress, known for her roles in the films Crossing Delancey, The Fury, Carrie, and Yentl as well as acclaimed roles on Broadway and Off-Broadway. She has been nominated for an Academy Award, two Golden Globes, and has won an Obie award...
, American actress - Amy LindsayAmy LindsayAmy Lindsay is an American actress.Amy graduated from The University of Texas at Austin, where she grew up, with a degree in Journalism and a minor in Drama. After working in public relations and marketing, which she disliked, she decided to become an actress and moved from Texas to Los Angeles in...
, American actress - Amy JohnsonAmy JohnsonAmy Johnson CBE, was a pioneering English aviator. Flying solo or with her husband, Jim Mollison, Johnson set numerous long-distance records during the 1930s...
, English aviatrix - Amy Jo JohnsonAmy Jo JohnsonAmy Jo Johnson is an American actress, singer, songwriter and musician.She is best known for her roles in the televison series as the constable Jules Callaghan in the Canadian CTV television series Flashpoint, the famous jockey Tina Sharp in the ABC Family's original show Wildfire, the rookie cop...
, American actress, singer-songwriter and musician - Amy Jordyn of the Duggar Family, a minor American reality TV star
- Amy KlobucharAmy KlobucharAmy Jean Klobuchar is the senior United States Senator from Minnesota. She is a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, an affiliate of the Democratic Party...
, a United States senator from Minnesota - Amy LeeAmy LeeAmy Lynn Hartzler , best known as Amy Lee, is an American singer-songwriter and classically trained pianist. She is co-founder and lead vocalist of the rock band Evanescence. She cites influences ranging from classical musicians such as Mozart to modern artists Björk, Tori Amos, Danny Elfman and...
, American singer-songwriter, pianist and lead singer of Evanescence - Amy Lee (saxophonist), American musician
- Amy LowellAmy LowellAmy Lawrence Lowell was an American poet of the imagist school from Brookline, Massachusetts who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926.- Personal life:...
, American poet - Amy MacDonald (disambiguation), multiple people
- Amy MillanAmy MillanAmy Millan is a Canadian indie rock singer and guitarist. She records and performs with the bands Stars and Broken Social Scene as well as having a successful solo career. Her second solo album, Masters of the Burial, was released by Arts & Crafts Records in September 2009.- Early life :Amy Millan...
, Canadian singer-songwriter - Amy NuttallAmy NuttallAmy Nuttall is an English actress and singer most notable for playing the role of Chloe Atkinson in the long-running ITV soap opera Emmerdale from 2000 until 2005.-Early life:...
, British actress and singer - Amy O'NeillAmy O'NeillAmy O'Neill is a performer and a former actress. After appearing in several sitcoms and starring as Molly Stark on The Young and the Restless in 1986, she was cast as Amy Szalinski in the 1989 Disney film, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, for which she was nominated for a Young Artist Award...
, American actress/performer. - Amy PalmerAmy PalmerAmy Marie Palmer is a retired female hammer thrower from the United States. Her personal best throw was 68.28 metres, achieved on April 29, 2000 in Philadelphia.She was the bronze medalist at the 1998 Goodwill Games...
, American hammer thrower - Amy PhillipsAmy PhillipsAmy Phillips is a British actress. She is best known for her role as Jessica Arnold in the BBC school drama, Grange Hill, in which she acted between 1994 and 1998....
, British Comedian and impressionist - Amy PoehlerAmy PoehlerAmy Meredith Poehler is an American comedian, actress and voice actress. She was a cast member on the NBC television entertainment show Saturday Night Live from 2001 to 2008. In 2004, she starred in the film Mean Girls with Tina Fey, with whom she worked again in Baby Mama in 2008. She is...
, American comedian and actress - Amy RayAmy RayAmy Elizabeth Ray is an American singer-songwriter and member of the contemporary folk duo Indigo Girls. She also pursues a solo career and has released four albums under her own name, and founded a record company, Daemon Records....
, American singer-songwriter, half of the Indigo Girls duo - Amy RyanAmy RyanAmy Ryan is an American actress. She has been nominated for an Academy Award and Golden Globe for her performance in Gone Baby Gone and is also known for her roles in the HBO series The Wire, playing Port Authority Officer Beadie Russell; In Treatment, playing psychiatrist Adele Brousse; and The...
, American actress - Amy SchumerAmy SchumerAmy Beth Schumer is an American stand-up comedian. She placed fourth on NBC's Last Comic Standing Season 5, and she placed second on Comedy Central's Reality Bites Back.-Life and career:...
, American comedian and actress - Amy SedarisAmy SedarisAmy Louise Sedaris is an American actress, author, and comedian. She is known for playing the character Jerri Blank in the Comedy Central television series Strangers with Candy. Sedaris regularly collaborates with her older brother, humorist and author David Sedaris...
, American actress, author, and comedian - Amy SkyAmy SkyAmy Sky is a Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, theatre actress, and television host. Sky started classical music lessons at the age of five , and plays piano, guitar, cello and recorder....
, Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, theatre actress, and television host - Amy SmartAmy SmartAmy Lysle Smart is an American television and film actress and former fashion model.-Early life:Smart was born in Topanga, California. Her mother, Judy Lysle , worked at a museum, and her father, John Boden Smart, was a salesman...
, American actress and fashion model - Amy StudtAmy StudtAmy Jane Studt is an English singer, songwriter and musician. Growing up in a musical family she recorded her first demo by age 14, which eventually got her signed to Polydor. Studt released her first single "Just a Little Girl" in July 2002, to international success. It was followed almost a year...
, British singer-songwriter - Amy TanAmy TanAmy Tan is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships. Her most well-known work is The Joy Luck Club, which has been translated into 35 languages...
, American writer - Amy TongAmy TongAmy Y. Tong is a female judoka from the United States. She competed for her native North American country at the 2000 Summer Olympics. Tong won a bronze medal in the Women's Half-Heavyweight division at the 1999 Pan American Games. Tong was affiliated with the San Jose State...
, American judoka - Amy VenessAmy VenessAmy Veness was a British film actress. She played the role of Grandma Huggett in The Huggetts Trilogy.-Selected filmography:* Please Help Emily * Let Me Explain, Dear * A Southern Maid...
, British actress - Amy VermeulenAmy VermeulenAmy Vermeulen is a female football forward, who won the bronze medal with the Canadian women's national soccer team at the 2007 Pan American Games, she played currently with Vancouver Whitecaps....
, Canadian football (soccer) forward - Amy WalkerAmy WalkerAmy Frances Walker is an American actress, singer, and co-founder of the ConnectedFilm project.-Early life:Walker was born in Seattle, Washington...
, American actress and singer - Amy WeberAmy WeberAmy Marie Weber is an American actress, model, film producer, former professional wrestling valet, and singer who is best known for her time as a WWE Diva for World Wrestling Entertainment under the SmackDown! brand...
, American model, actress and former WWE Diva - Amy WelbornAmy WelbornAmy Welborn is an American Roman Catholic writer and activist, as well as a public speaker. Formerly, she was a theology teacher at a Catholic high school in Lakeland Florida and served as a parish Director of Religious Education. She was a columnist for Our Sunday Visitor. as well as for Catholic...
, an American author - Amy WilliamsAmy WilliamsAmy Joy Williams MBE is an English skeleton racer and Olympic gold medallist. Originally a runner, she began training in skeleton after trying the sport on a push-start track at the University of Bath...
(born 1982), British Olympic Skeleton champion - Amy WinehouseAmy WinehouseAmy Jade Winehouse was an English singer-songwriter known for her powerful deep contralto vocals and her eclectic mix of musical genres including R&B, soul and jazz. Winehouse's 2003 debut album, Frank, was critically successful in the UK and was nominated for the Mercury Prize...
(1983–2011), British singer-songwriter - Amy WinfreyAmy WinfreyAmy Winfrey is an American animator, screenwriter, songwriter, and voice actress. She is best known for creating the web series Making Fiends that was later picked up by Nickelodeon in 2006.-Career:...
, American animator - Amy YasbeckAmy YasbeckAmy Marie Yasbeck is an American film and television actress. She is best known for her role as Casey Chapel Davenport on the sitcom Wings from 1994-1997.-Early life:...
(born 1962), American actress
Fictional characters
- Amy Brookes, playable character in the sequel to the 2004 ObsCure (video game)
- Amy Cahill, one of the main characters of The 39 CluesThe 39 CluesThe 39 Clues consists of two series of adventure books, The Clue Hunt and Cahills vs. Vespers, combining reading, online gaming, and card collecting...
series - Amy Duncan, main character in the TV show, Good Luck CharlieGood Luck CharlieGood Luck Charlie is an original Disney Channel television sitcom, which premiered April 4, 2010. The series was created by Phil Baker and Drew Vaupen, who wanted to create a program that would appeal to entire families, as opposed to children only...
- Amy Denver, character in the novel "Beloved" by Toni Morrison
- Amy GardnerAmy GardnerAmelia "Amy" Gardner is a fictional character on the American television series The West Wing, portrayed by Mary-Louise Parker. Politically skilled and a strong advocate on feminist causes, the character holds various jobs throughout the timeline depicted on The West Wing, both in public-advocacy...
, lobbyist and the First Lady's Chief of Staff in The West Wing - Amy Green (Friends character), Rachel Green's little sister in the TV series Friends, played by Christina Applegate
- Amy Juergens, main character in the teen show The Secret Life of the American Teenager
- Amy MacDougall, Robert Barone's girlfriend on the sitcom Everybody Loves RaymondEverybody Loves RaymondEverybody Loves Raymond is an American television sitcom that originally ran on CBS from September 13, 1996, to May 16, 2005. Many of the situations from the show are based on the real-life experiences of lead actor Ray Romano, creator/producer Phil Rosenthal and the show's writing staff...
- Amy MadisonAmy MadisonAmy Madison is a fictional character, a witch played by Elizabeth Anne Allen in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and by Shay Astar in the Season 8 motion comics. She made appearances in every season of Buffy except Seasons Five .Amy is a witch...
, a character in the hit TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Amy March, character from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
- Amy PondAmy PondAmelia Jessica 'Amy' Pond is a fictional character portrayed by Karen Gillan in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who...
, companion of the Doctor in the British T.V. show Doctor Who - Amy Pridmore art and fashion photographer from London, England
- Amy RoseAmy Rose, known earlier as Rosy the Rascal, is a video game character who appears in most of the Sonic the Hedgehog series of video games developed by Sega's Sonic Team, debuting in Sonic CD as the third recurring protagonist. Amy Rose was created by Kazuyuki Hoshino and based on one of Kenji Terada's...
, character from the video game franchise Sonic the Hedgehog - Amy Sorel, playable female character in the Soul series of fighting games
- Amy Sutton, character in the Sweet Valley High series
- Amy WongAmy WongAmy Wong, voiced by Lauren Tom, is a fictional character, one of the main characters from the Fox and Comedy Central television animated series Futurama. She works as an intern at Planet Express...
, character in the television show Futurama
See also
- AimeeAimee-People with the given name Aimee:*Aimee Bender, American novelist and short story writer*Aimee Echo, American vocalist*Aimee Garcia , American actress*Aimee Mann , American rock guitarist, bassist, and singer-songwriter...
- Ami (Japanese name)Ami (Japanese name)Ami is a female Japanese given name. It is also a female name in Gujarat, India, meaning "nectar".-Real people:*Ami Suzuki , a Japanese singer and songwriter*Ami Onuki a Japanese pop singer...
(unrelated to Amy, similar spelling) - Amy (disambiguation)Amy (disambiguation)Amy is a given name for females.Amy or AMY may also refer to:*Amy , a 1981 film starring Jenny Agutter*Amy , a 1997 film starring Rachel Griffiths and Ben Mendelsohn*Amy , created by Harry Mace in 1962...