Estes is an English-language surname said to derive from Old English and have the meaning "of the East" (literally, "East's"). As a surname, it has been traced to southern
Kent
Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...
, as early as the mid-15th century, Nicholas Estes (Ewstas, Esteuzi) b. 1475 Deal, Kent, England, d. 1506 Dover, Kent, England. Notable people with the surname include:
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Billie Sol Estes
Billie Sol Estes (January 10, 1925 – May 14, 2013) was an American businessman and financier best known for his involvement in a business fraud scandal that complicated his ties to friend and future U.S. President Lyndon Johnson.
Early life
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, Texas businessman and politician
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Bob Estes
Bob Alan Estes (born February 2, 1966) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour Champions. He was previously a member of the PGA Tour, where he was a four-time champion.
Early life and amateur career
Estes was born in Graham ...
, U.S. professional golf player
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Bradley Estes, U.S. neuropsychologist
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David H Estes, United States Attorney, Southern District of Georgia
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Eleanor Estes
Eleanor Estes (May 9, 1906 – July 15, 1988) was an American children's writer and a children's librarian. Her book ''Ginger Pye,'' for which she also created illustrations, won the Newbery Medal. Three of her books were Newbery Honor Winners, ...
, U.S. children's author
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James A. Estes
James Allen Estes (born October 2, 1945) is an American ecologist and Distinguished Professor at University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), known for his studies of sea otters and kelp forest ecology. Born in Sacramento, California, he gradua ...
U.S. ecologist
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Jim Estes, U.S. golfer
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John Estes
John Estes (born March 25, 1987) is a former center and guard. He graduated from the University of Hawaii at Manoa with a degree in Communications in December 2009.
College career
At Hawaii, Estes was a three-time All-Western Athletic Conference ...
, U.S. football player
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Lauren Estes, Vocaloid Producer
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John Adam Estes, also known as "Sleepy John" Estes, U.S. blues musician
* John Curtis Estes, birth name of adult film star
John Holmes
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Patrick Estes
Patrick Brion Estes (born February 4, 1983 in Richmond, Virginia) is a former American football offensive tackle. He was originally drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in the seventh round of the 2005 NFL Draft. He played college football at V ...
, U.S. football player
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Richard Estes
Richard Estes (born May 14, 1932 in Kewanee, Illinois) is an American artist, best known for his photorealist paintings. The paintings generally consist of reflective, clean, and inanimate city and geometric landscapes. He is regarded as one of ...
, U.S. photorealist painter
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Richard Despard Estes
Richard Despard Estes (December 26, 1927 - December 6, 2021) was a biologist specialising in the behaviour of mammals in mainland Africa. He was particularly interested in studying wildebeest. This interest led Rod East, the former co-chair of t ...
, biologist
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Rob Estes
Robert Estes (born July 22, 1963) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Harry Wilson on the teen drama series '' 90210'', as Sgt. Chris Lorenzo on the crime drama series '' Silk Stalkings'', and as Kyle McBride on the primetime soap ...
, U.S. actor
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Ron Estes
Ronald Gene Estes ( ; born July 19, 1956) is an American politician, engineer, and farmer who has been the U.S. representative for since April 2017. A member of the Republican Party, he served as Kansas State Treasurer from 2011 to 2017.
A fif ...
, U.S. Representative from Kansas
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Shawn Estes
Aaron Shawn Estes (born February 18, 1973) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher.
High school
Estes attended Douglas High School in Minden, Nevada. As a senior in 1991, he was named Gatorade's Nevada State Baseball Player of the Year and fin ...
, Major League Baseball player
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Simon Estes
Simon Estes (born March 2, 1938) is an operatic bass-baritone of African-American descent who had a major international opera career beginning in the 1960s. He has sung at most of the world's major opera houses as well as in front of presiden ...
, U.S. bass-baritone singer
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Vernon Estes Vernon Estes (usually referred to as Vern), born January 4, 1930, is the founder and namesake of Estes Industries, the highly recognized model rocket production company, headquartered in Penrose, Colorado.
In 1957, G. Harry Stine and Orville Carl ...
, U.S. businessman
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Wayne Estes
Wayne Vernon Estes (May 13, 1943 – February 8, 1965) was an American basketball player. He was a 6'6" (1.98 m) All-American forward for the Utah State Aggies from 1962 to 1965. Wayne is the fourth-leading scorer in Utah State history, wit ...
, U.S. basketball player
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Will Estes
William Estes (; born October 21, 1978) is an American actor known for his role on CBS police drama '' Blue Bloods'' as Jameson "Jamie" Reagan, a New York City Police Department officer and the youngest son of the police commissioner, played by ...
, U.S. actor
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William Kaye Estes
William Kaye Estes (June 17, 1919 – August 17, 2011) was an American psychologist. A ''Review of General Psychology'' survey, published in 2002, ranked Estes as the 77th most cited psychologist of the 20th century. In order to develop a statist ...
, U.S. mathematical psychologist
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W.W. Estes, U.S. businessman and farmer
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Yusuf Estes
Yusuf Estes (born: Joseph Estes, 1944), is an American from Texas who reverted from Christianity to Islam in 1991. He has served as a Muslim chaplain for the United States Bureau of Prisons during the 1990s, and has served as a delegate to the ...
, U.S. former Christian minister, now convert to Islam
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Estes is also less frequently found as a given name:
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Estes Banks
Estes McLeod Banks (born December 18, 1945 in Los Angeles, California) is a retired American football running back who played in the American Football League. Banks was an 8th round selection (188th overall pick) out of Colorado by the Oakland Ra ...
, American football player
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Estes Kefauver
Carey Estes Kefauver (;
July 26, 1903 – August 10, 1963) was an American politician from Tennessee. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1939 to 1949 and in the Senate from 1949 until his d ...
, U.S. politician
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Estes Parham
Estes Foster "Easy" Parham (December 27, 1921 – October 4, 1982) was an American professional basketball player.[Estes, Missouri
Estes is an unincorporated community in southwestern Pike County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The community is on Missouri Route Y approximately eleven miles southwest of Bowling Green
A bowling green is a finely laid, close-mown and rolle ...]
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Estes, Virginia Estes is an unincorporated community in Rappahannock County, in the U.S. state of Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlan ...
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Estes Park
Estes Park is a statutory town in Larimer County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 5,904 at the 2020 United States Census. Estes Park is a part of the Fort Collins, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Front Range Urban Cor ...
, a town in Colorado, U.S.
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Estes Express Lines
Estes Express Lines is a privately owned American freight transportation provider based in Richmond, Virginia. Founded in 1931 by W.W. Estes, the company is owned and operated by the Estes family. Robey W. Estes, Jr., became the company’s pre ...
, United States shipping company founded by W.W. Estes in 1931
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Estes Industries
Estes Industries is a model rocket company that was started in Denver, Colorado, USA. The company was the first to mass-produce model rocket engines with consistent and reliable performance. It is popular among hobbyists of experimental amateur ...
, U.S. company specializing in model aircraft and model rockets
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USS Estes (AGC-12), U.S. Navy
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