The answer is no for curves, and then a product construction show that the answer is no in every dimension.
Take a hyperelliptic curve $X$ of genus $g \geq 3$ and let $P$ be a 2-torsion line bundle on $X$, such that $P = \mathcal{O}_C(p-q)$, where $p$, $q$ are distinct Weierstrass points. Now set $L = \omega_C \otimes P$.
Since $L$ has strictly positive degree on a curve, it is ample. Moreover, by Serre duality, $h^1(C, \, L)=h^0(C, \, P)=0$, hence $$h^0(C, \, L)=g-1 >2$$ by Riemann-Roch. On the other hand, we also have $$h^1(C, \, L (-p))=h^1(C, \, \omega_C (-q)) = h^0(C, \, \mathcal{O}_C(q))=1,$$ hence
$$h^0(C, \, L(-p))=1+(1-g)+ (2g-3)=g-1.$$ But then $|L|=|L-p|$, in other words, $p$ is in the base locus of $L$ and so $L$ is not globally generated.
Finally, take two copies $(C_1, \, L_1)$, $(C_2, \, L_2)$ of the polarized pair $(C, \, L)$ and consider the line bundle on $C_1 \times C_2$ given by $$\mathscr{L}=L_1 \boxtimes L_2=p_1^* L_1 \otimes p_2^*L_2.$$ This is ample by Nakai-Moishezon, since it has positive self-intersection and intersects positively every effective curve in $C \times C$. By the Künneth formula, we have $$H(C_1 \times C_2, \, \mathscr{L})=H^0(C_1, \, L_1) \otimes H^0(C_2, \, L_2)$$ and so a basis of sections for $\mathscr{L}$ is given by elements of the form $\sigma_1 \boxtimes \sigma_2$, with $\sigma_i \in H^0(C_i, \, L_i)$. But all these elements vanish at the point $(p, \, p) \in C_1\times C_2$, hence $\mathscr{L}$ is not globally generated.
This provides a counterexample to your question in dimension $n=2$, and similar constructions provide counterexamples in every dimension. Note that, by increasing the genus of $C$, we can make the integer $h^0(\mathscr{L})$ arbitrary large.