List of Famous people named Ambrose

Similar names: Ambrosia, Ambrozy. Here are some famous Ambroses:

Ambrose Rookwood

First Name Ambrose
Last Name Rookwood
Born on November 30, 1577
Died on January 31, 1606 (aged 28)

Ambrose Rookwood was a member of the failed 1605 Gunpowder Plot, a conspiracy to replace the Protestant King James I with a Catholic sovereign. Rookwood was born into a wealthy family of Catholic recusants, and educated by Jesuits in Flanders. His older brother became a Franciscan, and his two younger brothers were ordained as Catholic priests. Rookwood became a horse-breeder. He married the Catholic Elizabeth Tyrwhitt, and had at least two sons.

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Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini

First Name Ambrose
Last Name Dlamini
Born on March 5, 1968
Died on December 13, 2020 (aged 52)
Born in Eswatini

Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini was a Swazi business executive who served as the tenth prime minister of Eswatini, holding the office from October 2018 until his death on 13 December 2020.

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Ambrose Burnside

First Name Ambrose
Last Name Burnside
Born on May 23, 1824
Died on September 13, 1881 (aged 57)

Ambrose Everett Burnside was an American soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island. He served as the Governor of Rhode Island from 1866 to 1869, and as a United States Senator for Rhode Island from 1875 until his death.

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Ambrose Cheung

First Name Ambrose
Last Name Cheung
Born on January 10, 1951 (age 73)

Ambrose Cheung Wing-sum, BBS, JP is a businessman, solicitor and is a former member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong in 1998–2000 for the Urban Council constituency and incumbent Sham Shui Po District Council since 1982 and chairman of the Sham Shui Po District Council since 2016.

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Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick

First Name Ambrose
Last Name Warwick
Died on February 21, 1590

Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick, KG was an English nobleman and general, and an elder brother of Queen Elizabeth I's favourite, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Their father was John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, who led the English government from 1550–1553 under King Edward VI and unsuccessfully tried to establish Lady Jane Grey on the English throne after the King's death in July 1553. For his participation in this venture Ambrose Dudley was imprisoned in the Tower of London and condemned to death. Reprieved, his rehabilitation came after he fought for King Philip in the Battle of St. Quentin.

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Ambrose of Optina

First Name Ambrose
Last Name Optina
Born on November 23, 1812
Died on October 10, 1891 (aged 78)

Saint Ambrose of Optina was a starets and a hieroschemamonk in Optina Monastery, canonized in the 1988 convention of the Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church.

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Ambrose Lisle March Phillipps De Lisle

First Name Ambrose
Last Name Lisle
Born on March 17, 1809
Died on March 5, 1878 (aged 68)

Ambrose Lisle March Phillipps de Lisle was an English Catholic convert. He founded Mount St Bernard Abbey, a Trappist abbey in Leicestershire, and worked for the reconversion or reconciliation of Britain to Catholicism.

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Ambrose Sneyd Cave-Browne-Cave

First Name Ambrose
Last Name Cave-Browne-Cave
Born on August 31, 1834
Died on July 22, 1895 (aged 60)
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Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Gwinnetter Bierice
First Name Ambrose
Last Name Bierce
Born on June 24, 1842
Died on November 30, 1913 (aged 71)

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American short story writer, journalist, poet, and Civil War veteran. His book The Devil's Dictionary was named as one of "The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature" by the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration. His story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" has been described as "one of the most famous and frequently anthologized stories in American literature"; and his book Tales of Soldiers and Civilians was named by the Grolier Club as one of the 100 most influential American books printed before 1900.

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Ambrose Congreve

First Name Ambrose
Last Name Congreve
Born on January 16, 1832
Died on March 15, 1901 (aged 69)
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