Sarah Fisher Ames (1817–1901) was an American sculptor,[1] best known for a bust of Abraham Lincoln that she produced in 1866.

She studied art in Boston and in Rome, and married Joseph Alexander Ames, a portrait painter,[2] in 1845.

[3][4]: 184 She produced sculptures of notable Americans, including C. T. Brooks (1858), John Andrew (1867), Ulysses S. Grant (1868),[3] Anson Burlingame, Ross Winans,[5] and at least five busts of Abraham Lincoln.

[6] During the American Civil War, Ames worked as a volunteer nurse,[3] rising to direct the hospital situated in the U.S. Capitol.

[6] Ames exhibited her work at The Woman's Building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.