Amalric

Amalric or Amalaric (also Americ, Almerich, Emeric, Emerick and other variations) is a personal name derived from the tribal name Amal (referring to the Gothic Amali) and ric (Gothic reiks) meaning "ruler, prince".

Equivalents in different languages include:
 * French: Amaury (surname/given name), Amalric (surname), Amaurich (surname), Maury (surname)
 * German: Amalrich, Emmerich
 * Italian: Amerigo, Arrigo
 * Hungarian: Imre
 * Latin: Amalricus, Americus, Almericus, Emericus
 * Greek: Έμέρικοσ (Emérikos)
 * Polish: Amalaryk, Amalryk, Emeryk
 * Dutch: Emmerik, Amerik, Hamelink, Hamelryck
 * Portuguese: Amáuri, Américo
 * Spanish: Amauri, Américo
 * Serbo-Croatian: Emerik/Емерик
 * Arabic: عَمُورِي (ʻAmūrī)

Given name

 * Amalaric (502–531), King of the Visigoths from 526 to 531
 * Malaric (fl. 585), King of the Suevi
 * Amaury, Count of Valenciennes (fl.953-973)
 * Amalric of Nesle (fl. 1151–1180), Patriarch of Jerusalem from 1158 to 1180
 * Amalric I of Jerusalem (1136–1174), King of Jerusalem from 1162 to 1174
 * Amalric II of Jerusalem (fl. 1155–1205), King of Jerusalem from 1197 to 1205
 * Amalric of Bena (f. 1200–1204), French theologian
 * Arnaud Amalric (fl. 1196–1225), seventeenth abbot of Citeaux
 * Amaury de Montfort (disambiguation), several individuals including:
 * Amaury de Montfort (died 1241) (1195–1241), crusader
 * Amalric, Lord of Tyre (c. 1272 – 1310), Governor of Cyprus from 1306 to 1310
 * Amerigo Vespucci (1451–1512), Italian merchant, explorer, and navigator from the Republic of Florence, from whose name the term "America" is derived.

Surname

 * Arnaud Amalric (died 1225), Cistercian abbot
 * Catherine Amalric (born 1964), French politician
 * Mathieu Amalric (born 1965), French actor and director
 * Leonid Amalrik (1905–1997), Soviet animator
 * Andrei Amalrik (1938–1980), Soviet dissident