David Ames may refer to:David Ames (actor), British actor David Ames (1937–2009), American football defensive back and halfback David Ames (researcher), Australian psychiatrist and academic David Ames, Northern Irish field hockey player David Ames (colonel) (1760–1847), first superintendent of the Springfield Armory David W. Ames (ethnomusicologist) (1922–2012), American ethnomusicologist and anthropologist