Amis

Amis may refer to:

  • Amis people (or Amis), a tribe of Taiwanese aborigines
  • Amis language, an indigenous language of Taiwan
  • AMIS (ISP), an Internet service provider (ISP) in Slovenia and Croatia

The acronym AMIS may stand for:

  • African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS)
  • American Musical Instrument Society (AMIS)
  • AMI Semiconductor, designer and manufacturer of silicon chips
  • Association for Music in International Schools
  • Atari Message Information System, known as "AMIS" and was Bulletin board system for 8-bit Atari computers
  • Audio Messaging Interchange Specification, a method to move messages from one voice mail system to another
  • Adaptive Multimedia Information System, a software program that you can use to read DAISY Digital Talking Books
  • Alternate Multiplex Interrupt Specification - a method of sharing a software interrupt by many TSR programs
  • Abandoned Mines Information System, a database containing abandoned and inactive mines in Ontario, Canada
  • Agricultural Market Information System, an initiative by the G20 states to analyse and forecast the situation on the global agricultural market.

People (sur)named Amis:

  • B. D. Amis, American labor and civil rights leader
  • John Amis, British music critic and broadcaster
  • Kenneth Amis, composer and tuba player
  • Kingsley Amis, British novelist
  • Martin Amis, British novelist, son of Kingsley Amis
  • Rufus Travis Amis, American entrepreneur
  • Stephen Amis, Australian film producer and director, cousin of Martin Amis
  • Suzy Amis, American actress and model

Famous quotes containing the word amis:

    “Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in.”
    —Kingsley Amis (b. 1922)

    “Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.”
    —Martin Amis (b. 1949)

    “For myself and my loved ones, I want the heat, which comes at the speed of light. I don’t want to have to hang about for the blast, which idles along at the speed of sound.”
    —Martin Amis (b. 1949)