List of Famous people named Amos

Amos Eaton was an American botanist, geologist, and educator who is considered the founder of the modern scientific prospectus in education, which was a radical departure from the American liberal arts tradition of classics, religious classes, lecture, and recitation. Eaton co-founded the Rensselaer School in 1824 with Stephen van Rensselaer III "in the application of science to the common purposes of life". His books in the eighteenth century were among the first published for which a systematic treatment of the United States was attempted, and in a language that all could read. His teaching laboratory for botany in the 1820s was the first of its kind in the country. Eaton's popular lectures and writings inspired numerous thinkers, in particular women, whom he encouraged to attend his public talks on experimental philosophy. Emma Willard would found the Troy Female Seminary, and Mary Mason Lyon, the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. Eaton held the rank of senior professor at Rensselaer until his death in 1842.

Amos Tuck was a political figure in New Hampshire and a founder of the Republican Party.

Amos Barr Hostetter Jr. is an American businessman, who was the founder, chairman, and CEO of Continental Cablevision. With an estimated current net worth of around $3.5 billion, he is ranked by Forbes as the 538th richest person in the world as of 2020. He has also served as the chairman of C-SPAN.

Amos Edwin Botsford, was a Canadian farmer, judge, politician, and businessman.

Amos Degani was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1957 and 1969.