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derived from Germanic word ''ernst'', meaning "serious". Notable people and fictional characters with the name include:

People

Archduke Ernest of Austria Archduke Ernest of Austria (german: Ernst von Österreich; 15 June 1553 – 20 February 1595) was an Austrian prince, the son of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, and Maria of Spain. Biography Born in Vienna, he was educated with his brothe ...

(1553–1595), son of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor *

Ernest, Margrave of Austria Ernest (german: Ernst, 1027 – 10 June 1075), known as Ernest the Brave (''Ernst der Tapfere''), was the Margrave of Austria from 1055 to his death in 1075. He was a member of the House of Babenberg.Lingelbach 1913, p. 90. Biography He was born t ...

(1027–1075) * Ernest, Duke of Bavaria (1373–1438) *

Ernest, Duke of Opava Ernest of Opava (german: Ernst von Troppau; cz, Arnošt Opavský; – 1464) was a member of the Opava branch of the Přemyslid dynasty. He was Duke of Duchy of Opava, Opava (german: Troppau) from 1433 to 1461 and Duke of Duchy of Münsterbe ...

(c. 1415–1464) * Ernest, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1482–1553) * Ernest, Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels (1623–1693) * Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1629–1698) * Ernest, Count of Stolberg-Ilsenburg (1650–1710) *

Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover Ernest Augustus (german: Ernst August; 5 June 177118 November 1851) was King of Hanover from 20 June 1837 until his death in 1851. As the fifth son of King George III of the United Kingdom and Hanover, he initially seemed unlikely to become a m ...

(1771–1851), son of King George III of Great Britain * Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1818–1893), sovereign duke of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha * Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover (1845–1923) * Ernest, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal (1846–1925) * Ernest Augustus, Prince of Hanover (1914–1987) * Prince Ernst August of Hanover (born 1954) * Prince Ernst August of Hanover (born 1983) * Saint Ernest (died 1148), German abbot * Ernest Adams (disambiguation) * Ernie Anderson (1923–1997), American radio and television announcer * Ernie Banks (1931–2015), American baseball player * Ernest Benach (born 1959), President of the Catalan parliament * Ernest Bevin (1881–1951), British Labour politician * Ernest Bohr (1924–2018), Danish lawyer, former barrister, and field hockey player * Ernest Broșteanu (1869–1932), Romanian general during World War I *

Ernest Buckmaster Ernest William Buckmaster (1897–1968) was an Australian artist born in Victoria. He won the Archibald Prize in 1932 with a portrait of Sir William Irvine. He also served as an Australian war artist during World War II. Life and career Buckm ...

(1897–1968), Australian artist *

Ernest Radcliffe Bond Ernest Radcliffe Bond, OBE, QPM, (1 March 1919 – 20 November 2003), also called Commander X, was a British soldier, and later policeman famous for his service in the Metropolitan Police Service. Bond experienced the Fraud Squad, the F ...

(1919–2003), British police officer and soldier * Ernie Bond (footballer) (born 1929), English footballer * Ernie Bond (politician) (1897–1984), Australian politician * Ernest Borgnine (1917–2012), American actor * Ernie Calloway (born 1948), American football player *

Ernie Cooksey Ernest George Cooksey (11 June 1980 – 3 July 2008) was an English footballer, who was a utility player. He started as a trainee with Colchester United, before joining non-League clubs Heybridge Swifts, Bishop's Stortford, Chesham United and ...

(1980–2008), English footballer * Ernest Corea (1932–2017), Sri Lankan Sinhala journalist, Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the United States from 1981-1986 *

Ernie Cox Ernest Cox (February 17, 1894 – February 26, 1962), was a Canadian football player in the Canadian Football League. Cox was born in Hamilton, Ontario. He played for eleven seasons for the Hamilton Tigers. He died in his home town of Ham ...

(1894–1962), Canadian football player * Ernest Daltroff (1867–1941), French perfumer, and founder of Parfums Caron *

Ernie DiGregorio Ernest DiGregorio (born January 15, 1951), also known as "Ernie D.", is an American former professional basketball player. He was named NBA Rookie of the Year in the 1973–74 season and shares the NBA rookie record for assists in a single game w ...

(born 1951), American basketball player * Ernest Duff (1931-2016), American businessman, lawyer and Mormon bishop * Ernie Els (born 1969), South African golfer * Ernest Evans (cricketer) (1861–1948), English cricketer who played for Somerset *

Ernest Evans (politician) Ernest Evans (18 May 1885 – 18 January 1965) was a Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party politician from Wales. Family and education Ernest Evans was born at Aberystwyth, the son of Evan Evans, the Clerk to the Cardiganshire County Council a ...

(1885–1965), Welsh politician *

Ernest E. Evans Ernest Edwin Evans (August 13, 1908 – October 25, 1944) was an officer of the United States Navy who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Battle off Samar in World War II. Biography Evans, of Native American a ...

(1908–1944), officer of the United States Navy in WWII *

Ernest Peter Arnold Fernando Sir Ernest Peter Arnold Fernando, (7 February 1904 - 3 December 1956) was a Ceylonese businessman and mine owner. He was the owner of the Bogala Graphite Mine, one of the largest graphite mines in Ceylon. A patron of the arts, he gifted the buildi ...

(1919–1957), Sri Lankan Sinhala businessman and mine owner * Ernie Fletcher (born 1952), American physician and politician, 60th Governor of Kentucky * Tennessee Ernie Ford (1919–1991), American country singer * Ernest Gold (composer) (1921–1999), American composer * Ernest Gold (meteorologist) (1881–1976), British meteorologist *

Ernest Gjoka Ernest Gjoka (born 25 January 1970) is an Albanian professional football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of ...

(born 1970), Albanian football coach * Ernie Green (born 1938), American football player * Ernesto "Che" Guevara (1928-1967), Argentine physician, author and Marxist revolutionary * Ernie Harwell (1918–2010), American baseball broadcaster * Ernest Haycox (1899–1950), American writer of Westerns * Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), American writer * Ernest George Horlock (1885–1917), English recipient of the Victoria Cross * E. W. Hornung (1866–1921), English author and poet * Ernie Hughes (born 1955), American football player * Ernie Isley (born 1952), American musician, the Isley Brothers *

Ernest Jones (disambiguation) Ernest Jones (1879–1958) was a Welsh neurologist, psychoanalyst, and Sigmund Freud's official biographer. Ernest Jones may also refer to: Sportspeople American football *Ernest T. Jones (born 1970), head football coach at Alcorn State Universit ...

, multiple people * Ernest Juvara (1870–1933), Romanian physician * Ernest Koliqi (1903–1975), Albanian writer * Ernie Kovacs (1919–1962), American comedian, actor and writer * Ernest Krausz (1931–2018), Israeli professor of sociology and President at Bar Ilan University * Ernest Lawrence (1901–1958), American nuclear scientist * Ernest Lluch (1937–2000), Catalan-Spanish politician * Ernest Millington (1916–2009), British politician * Ernie Morgan (1927–2013), English football player and manager * Ernie Nordli (1912–1968), American animation artist and graphic designer * Ernest O. Lawrence (1901–1958), American physicist * Ernest Perera (1932-2013, Inspector-General of Sri Lanka Police from 1988-1993 * Ernie Phythian (1942–2020), English footballer * Ernest Victor Pieris (1926-1991), Sri Lankan Sinhala physician, medical educator, cricketer, and rugby union player * Ernest Poruthota (1931–2020), Sri Lankan Sinhala Roman Catholic priest and author * Ernest Prakasa (born 1982), Indonesian comedian, stand up performer, writer, and actor *

Ernie Price Ernest Price (born September 20, 1950) is a former professional American football defensive lineman in the National Football League. He played for seven seasons for the Detroit Lions and Seattle Seahawks The Seattle Seahawks are a professiona ...

(1926–2013), English footballer *

Ernst Reuter Ernst Rudolf Johannes Reuter (29 July 1889 – 29 September 1953) was the mayor of West Berlin from 1948 to 1953, during the time of the Cold War. Biography Early years Reuter was born in Apenrade (Aabenraa), Province of Schleswig-Holstein ...

(1889–1953), German politician and mayor of Berlin * Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937), New Zealand chemist and nuclear physicist * Ernest Shackleton (1874–1922), Anglo-Irish explorer * Ernest de Silva (1887–1957), Sri Lankan philanthropist * Ernest (musician) (K. Smith), American country music artist *

Ernest Spybuck Earnest Spybuck (January 1883 – 1949) was an Absentee Shawnee Native American artist, who was born on the land allotted the Shawnee Indians in Indian Territory and what was to later become Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, near the town of Tec ...

(1883–1949), American Indian autoethnographer *

Ernest Thayer Ernest Lawrence Thayer (; August 14, 1863 – August 21, 1940) was an American writer and poet who wrote the poem "Casey" (or "Casey at the Bat"), which is "the single most famous baseball poem ever written" according to the Baseball Almanac, and ...

(1863–1940), American poet *

Ernest William Tristram Ernest William Tristram (1882–1952) was a British art historian, artist and conservator, and Professor of Design at the Royal College of Art (1926–1948). Life Tristram was born in Carmarthen, the son of Francis William Tristram, a railway i ...

(1882-1952), British art historian, artist and conservator * Ernest Troubridge (1862–1926), British naval officer * Ernest Tubb (1914–1984), American country music singer and songwriter * Ernest Veuve (1843–1916), American Civil War soldier * Ernest Vinberg (born 1937), Russian mathematician *

Ernest Walker (disambiguation) Ernest or Ernie Walker may refer to: * Ernest Walker (composer) Ernest Walker (15 July 187021 February 1949) was an Indian-born English composer and writer on music, as well as a pianist, organist and teacher. Biography Ernest Walker was born ...

* Ernest Walton (1903–1995), Irish physicist and Nobel laureate *

Ernie Watts Ernest James Watts (born October 23, 1945) is an American jazz and rhythm and blues saxophonist who plays soprano, alto, and tenor saxophone. He has worked with Charlie Haden's Quartet West and toured with the Rolling Stones. On Frank Zappa's ...

(born 1945), American saxophonist * Ernie Watts (Small Heath footballer), English footballer *

Ernie Watts (footballer, born 1872) Ernest Arthur Watts (11 April 1872 – 1956) was an English footballer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Woolhampton in Berkshire, his earliest known club was Reading, before he moved to Notts County, where he made 17 appearan ...

(1872–1???), English footballer * Ernie Wise (1925–1999), stage name of English comedian Ernest Wiseman (1925–1999), Morecambe and Wise * Ernie Zalejski (1925–2012), American football player

Fictional characters

* Ernest T. Bass, a recurring character on the American TV sitcom ''The Andy Griffith Show'' * Ernest Denouement, a character in Lemony Snicket's '' A Series of Unfortunate Events'' * Monsieur Ernest LeClerc, on the BBC sitcom Allo 'Allo!'' *

Ernest P. Worrell Ernest P. Worrell is a fictional character portrayed by American actor Jim Varney in a series of television commercials and later in a television series (''Hey Vern, It's Ernest!'') as well as a series of feature films. Ernest was created with ...

, main comic character of the series of ''Ernest'' films as played by Jim Varney *

Ernest B. Raykes Ernest is a given name derived from Germanic word ''ernst'', meaning "serious". Notable people and fictional characters with the name include: People * Archduke Ernest of Austria (1553–1595), son of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor * Ernest, ...

, in the film ''Cars'' * Ernest, one of the title characters of the Belgian-French francise '' Ernest & Célestine'' *Ernest, in '' The Swiss Family Robinson'' *Ernest Worthing, main character in '' The Importance of Being Earnest'', a play by Oscar Wilde *Ernest Perriclof, one of the main characters in Alexandra Adornetto's ''The Strangest Adventures'' series *Ernest Greeves, a main character from the video game '' Layton's Mystery Journey'' and the associated anime '' Layton Mystery Tanteisha: Katori no Nazotoki File'' *Ernest Bonhour, one of the main protagonist in the French animated series The Long Long Holiday

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