Amati (disambiguation)

Amati is the last name of a family of Italian violin makers who lived at Cremona from about 1538 to 1740, and may refer specifically to:

• Andrea Amati (v. 1505/1510–1577)
• Antonio Amati (1540–1638), son of Andrea Amati
• Girolamo Amati (1561–1630), son of Andrea Amati
• Niccolò Amati (1596–1684), son of Girolamo Amati
• Girolamo Amati (Hieronymus II) (1649–1740), son of Niccolò Amati

Amati may also refer to:

• Amati (ritual), a fertility cult in Western Assam, India
• Amati Cars, a planned but cancelled Mazda luxury brand
• Amati-Denak, a Czech musical instrument manufacturing company
• Amati Quartet, a Canadian string quartet
• 19183 Amati, a main-belt asteroid
• Amaţi, a village in Păuleşti, Satu Mare, Romania

Other people with the surname

• Basilio Amati [fr] (1780–1830), Italian author
• Carlo Amati (1776–1852), Italian architect
• Daniele Amati (born 1931), Italian theoretical physicist
• Edmondo Amati (1920–2002), Italian film producer
• Federico Pedini Amati (born 1976), San-Marino politician
• Giacinto Amati (theologian) [de] (1778–1850), Italian Catholic theologian
• Girolamo Amati (philologist) [de] (1768–1834), Italian classical philologist, Graecist, epigraphist, paleographer, and manuscript historian
• Giovanna Amati (born 1959), Italian automobile racer
• Pasquale Amati (1716–1796), Italian scholar
• Silvana Amati (born 1947), Italian politician
• Tony Ray Amati (born 1976), American serial killer

See also

• Giovanni Antonio Amato (surname sometimes rendered as Amati) (1475–1555), Italian painter