Behind the Name: Comments for the name Amos

Comments for AMOS:

Don't forget Famous Amos cookies.

-- breakofday 12/7/2005

Amos Slade is the angry hunter in the Disney film "The Fox and the Hound".

-- Anonymous User 12/22/2005

In the play/movie Chicago, Amos is the name of Roxy Hart's husband.

-- shadow.of.a.dream 12/23/2005

I love the name Amos, especially since J.K. Rowling used it for Cedric Diggory's father: Amos Diggory.

-- TriwizardChamp3 2/1/2006

The "Amos and Andy Show" was a popular radio show in the U.S. during the 1920/30s and a television show in the 1950s. The main characters were Amos Jones and Andy Hogg Brown. Today, the show is best remembered for its offensive racial stereotyping. It starred African-American actors, but upheld 19th-century ideas about blacks and featured moronic dialogue. Protests from the NAACP contributed to its cancelation.

Unfortunately, the stereotypes portrayed in the show are still slightly attached to Amos, and it's a shame that this lovely name doesn't get the attention it deserves.

-- GasolineAllie 1/23/2007

A famous bearer of this name is the Israeli novelist Amos Oz.

-- lady murasaki 8/1/2007

In the musical version of "Whistle Down The Wind", Swallow's old friend who saves her is called Amos.

-- Anonymous User 3/6/2008

Singer-songwriter Amos Lee.

-- FMRadio 2/21/2009

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