Earnest is a masculine given name and a surname which may refer to:

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Earnest Andersson Earnest Andersson (born Ernest DeNeen Anderson; February 10, 1878 – June 23, 1943) was an American polymath born to a Swedish immigrant father in Iowa. Childhood illness prevented him from attaining formal schooling beyond the fifth grade. An ...

(1878–1943), American polymath * Earnest Brown IV (born 1999), American football player * Earnest Byner (born 1962), American football player * Earnest Elmo Calkins (1868–1964), American early advertising innovator *

Earnest Sevier Cox Earnest Sevier Cox (January 24, 1880 – April 26, 1966) was an American Methodist preacher, political activist and white supremacist. He is best known for his political campaigning for stricter segregation between blacks and whites in the Uni ...

(1880–1966), American Methodist preacher *

Earnest Stewart Cox Ernest Stewart Cox (1900 – 14 September 1992) was a British steam locomotive engineer and author. He had a career with the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, London, Midland and Scottish Railway and British Rail, where he finished as Assistant C ...

(1900–1992), British railway engineer and author *

Earnest Frank Earnest Frank was an American football coach. He served as the head football coach at Doane College in Crete, Nebraska in 1913, York College (Nebraska), York College in York, Nebraska from 1917 to 1919 and again in 1921, and Grand Island College i ...

, American football coach *

Earnest Graham Earnest Graham Jr. (born January 15, 1980) is an American former college and professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for eight seasons. He played college football for the University of Florida, ...

(born 1980), American football player *

Earnest Gray Earnest L. Gray (born March 2, 1957) is a former American football wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) who played for the New York Giants and St. Louis Cardinals (NFL), St. Louis Cardinals. He played college football at the Unive ...

(born 1957), American football player * Earnest Greene, American football player * Earnest Hooton (1887–1954), American physical anthropologist * Ernie Hudson (born 1945), American actor *

Earnest Jackson Earnest Jackson, Jr. (born December 18, 1959) is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL). He was named to the Pro Bowl twice. Born in Needville, Texas, Jackson graduated from ...

(born 1959), American football player *

Earnest Mudzengi Earnest Mudzengi was the national director of the Zimbabwean National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) until 2010. History Mudzengi attended high school in Gweru, and later attained a master's degree in Media and Communication Studies from the Univer ...

, Zimbabwean politician * Earnest Pugh, American gospel singer-songwriter *

Earnest Rhone Earnest Calvin Rhone (born August 20, 1953) is a former American football linebacker who played ten seasons in the National Football League (NFL) for the Miami Dolphins. He was also an assistant high school football coach at Texas High School fro ...

(born 1953), former NFL linebacker *

Earnest Ross Earnest Lee Ross Jr. (born January 27, 1991) is an American professional basketball player who last played for Toyoda Gosei Scorpions of the Japanese B.League. Born in the U.S. territory of Guam, he represented the Guam national team for the fi ...

(born 1991), American professional basketball player *

Earnest James Ujaama Earnest James Ujaama (born 1965 or 1996) is an American community activist and former terrorist suspect. A long-term resident of Seattle and well-known community activist, Ujaama was arrested under terrorism charges in July 2002, the first Amer ...

(born 1965), American Muslim social activist * Earnest Wilson, American football coach

Surname

Conrad Earnest Conrad Earnest (born December 20, 1957) is a retired American soccer goalkeeper and well respected exercise physiologist. He spent two seasons in the American Soccer League. Career Earnest began playing soccer at the age of 16. Within two y ...

(born 1957), American soccer goalkeeper *

G. Brooks Earnest Dr. G. Brooks Earnest (born George Brooks Earnest) (October 2, 1902 in Mifflintown, Pennsylvania – September 13, 1992 in West Bloomfield, Michigan,), was a distinguished American educator, administrator, and the fourth and last president of Fenn ...

(1902–1992), American educator *

James Earnest James Harrison Earnest (January 11, 1818June 12, 1900) was an Americans, American Democratic Party (United States), Democratic politician and Wisconsin pioneer. He served four years in the Wisconsin State Senate and six years in the Wisconsin St ...

(1818–1900), Wisconsin state legislator * Josh Earnest (born 1975), American political advisor, former White House press secretary * Les Earnest (born 1930), American computer scientist *

Matthew Earnest Matthew Earnest is an American theater director. He has also written plays, as well as adapted plays from novels, non-fiction books, short stories, and essays, and he has translated works in other languages for his direction. Early life and educ ...

(born 1969), American theater director

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