In Agatha Christie's "Five Little Pigs" (a Hercule Poirot mystery), the victim's name is Amyas Crale. The television show "Poirot" used the story (and character names) for one episode.
Yeah, I first & last heard this name in the Poirot episode. And I kinda like it.
-- Anonymous User 1/12/2007
A famous bearer of this name is Amyas Godfrey, a child actor on the Classic Nickelodeon show "You Can't Do That On Television". The name on the show was pronounced "Amy-us".