Earnest may refer to:

People

Given name

Earnest Brown IV Earnest Brown IV (born January 8, 1999) is an American football defensive end for the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He was selected with the 174th pick of the 2021 NFL Draft. He played college football at Northwestern ...

(born 1999), American football player *

Earnest Byner Earnest Alexander Byner (born September 15, 1962) is a former American football running back in the National Football League (NFL). He is now the running back coach of Out-of-Door Academy. Playing career East Carolina University (1980–83 ...

(born 1962), American football player *

Earnest Elmo Calkins Earnest Elmo Calkins (March 15, 1868 – October 4, 1964) was a deaf American advertising executive who pioneered the use of art in advertising, of fictional characters, the soft sell, and the idea of " consumer engineering". He co-founded the i ...

(1868–1964), 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 Hooton Earnest Albert Hooton (November 20, 1887 – May 3, 1954) was an American physical anthropologist known for his work on racial classification and his popular writings such as the book ''Up From The Ape''. Hooton sat on the Committee on the Negro, ...

(1887–1954), American physical anthropologist * Earnest Jackson (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 Earnest Pugh (born November 23, 1966) is an American gospel musician with a five-octave vocal range. Public recognition for the artist commenced with the success of ''Rain on Us'' (2009) and ''I Need Your Glory'' (2011), and he subsequently atta ...

, 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 Ame ...

(born 1965), American Muslim social activist *

Earnest Wilson Earnest Wilson is an American football coach. He is the head coach for the Arkansas Attack of the newly-formed Major League Football. Prior to that he was the head football coach at . Wilson served as the head football coach at Savannah State Un ...

, American football coach *

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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 American Democratic politician and Wisconsin pioneer. He served four years in the Wisconsin State Senate and six years in the Assembly, representing Lafayette County. Background J ...

(1818–1900), Wisconsin state legislator *

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Les Earnest Lester Donald Earnest (born December 17, 1930) is an American computer scientist. Education and career After receiving his B.S. in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1953, he began his career as a comp ...

(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

Places

Earnest Bridge The Earnest Bridge, located near Marcola, Oregon, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The name is spelled Ernest Bridge in some documents, including the NRHP listing, but spelled Earnest Bridge in the NRHP nomination and in si ...

, bridge near Marcola, Oregon *

Earnest, Kansas Earnest is a ghost town in Farmington Township, Rooks County, Kansas Rooks County (standard abbreviation: RO) is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 4,919. The county seat is Stock ...

, small settlement in Rooks County, Kansas

Businesses

Earnest (company) Earnest is a technology-enabled fintech lender headquartered in San Francisco, California that offers education financing products, including student loan refinancing and private student loans. The company evaluates a person’s full education, emp ...

, American student loan provider

Ships

Earnest class destroyer Six ''Earnest''-class destroyers served with the Royal Navy: , , , , and . These ships were all built by Cammell Laird and were part of the class of 'thirty knotters'. Concern about the higher speeds of foreign boats had prompted to Admiral ...