Amadeus (name)

Amadeus is a theophoric given name derived from the Latin words ama – the imperative of the word amare ("to love") – and deus ("god"). As a linguistic compound in the form of a phereoikos, the name can be taken to mean either "love of God", in other words, that the person is loved by God or "one who loves God".

The best-known bearer of the name is the composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Equivalent and similar names
Borrowings include the female form, "Amadea", the French "Amédée" (male), the Spanish "Amadeo", the Catalan and Portuguese "Amadeu", the Italian "Amedeo", and "Amadis", the Polish "Amadeusz", the Slovenian "Amadej".

Similar calques include the German "Gottlieb", Slavic names "Bogomil" and "Bohumil" meaning "Dear to God", as well as "Bogolyub", meaning "he who loves God". The Hebrew "Yedidia" and the Arabic "Habibullah" mean "Beloved of God". The Greek name "Theophilos" means "friend of God".

People

 * Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791), composer
 * Amadeus Aba
 * Amadeus de Bie (1844–1920), Belgian Abbot-General of the Cistercian order
 * Amadeo I of Spain (1845–1890), Italian prince, King of Spain 1870 to 1873
 * Amadeus I, Count of Savoy
 * Amadeus II, Count of Savoy
 * Amadeus III, Count of Savoy
 * Amadeus IV, Count of Savoy
 * Amadeus V, Count of Savoy
 * Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy
 * Amadeus VII, Count of Savoy
 * Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy, Antipope Felix V
 * Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy
 * Amadeus, Count of Neuchâtel (died 1285), son of Count Rudolph IV and Sybille of Montbéliard
 * Amadeus, Prince of Achaea (1363–1402), son of James of Piedmont and Marguerite de Beaujeu
 * Ernst Theodore Amadeus Hoffmann, better known as E.T.A. Hoffmann, writer
 * Karl Amadeus Hartmann
 * Rambo Amadeus, pseudonym for the Montenegrin singer-songwriter Antonije Pušić
 * Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy
 * Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia
 * Victor Amadeus III of Sardinia
 * Amadeus (presenter) (born 1962), Italian television and radio presenter

Fictional characters

 * Amadeus Arkham, founder of Arkham Asylum in Batman series
 * Amadeus Cho, Marvel character
 * Baron Mordo (Karl Amadeus Mordo), Marvel character
 * Amadeus, fictional artificial intelligence from the 2018 anime Steins;Gate 0