People

• Ernest, Margrave of Austria
  Ernest, Margrave of Austria
  Ernest the Brave was the Babenberg margrave of Austria from 1055 to his death, following his father Adalbert.He increased the territory of Austria by amalgamating the Bohemian and Hungarian marches into Austria. In his time, the colonisation of the Waldviertel was begun by his ministeriales, the...
  
   (1027-1075)
• Ernest, Duke of Bavaria
  Ernest, Duke of Bavaria
  Ernest of Bavaria-Munich , , from 1397 Duke of Bavaria-Munich.-Biography:Ernest was a son of John II and ruled the duchy of Bavaria-Munich together with his brother William III....
  
   (1373-1438)
• Archduke Ernest of Austria
  Archduke Ernest of Austria
  Archduke Ernest of Austria was an Austrian nobleman, the son of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor and Maria of Spain....
  
   (1553-1595), son of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor
• Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg
  Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg
  Ernest Augustus was duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and ruled over the Principality of Calenberg subdivision of the duchy. He was appointed prince-elector, but died before the appointment became effective...
  
   (1629-1698)
• Ernest Augustus I of Hanover
  Ernest Augustus I of Hanover
  Ernest Augustus I was King of Hanover from 20 June 1837 until his death. He was the fifth son and eighth child of George III, who reigned in both the United Kingdom and Hanover...
  
   (1771-1851), King of Hanover, son of King George III of England
• Prince Ernest Augustus, 3rd Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale (1845-1923)
• Ernest Augustus, Prince of Hanover (1914–1987)
• Ernst August, Prince of Hanover (born 1954)
• Prince Ernst August of Hanover
  Prince Ernst August of Hanover
  Prince Ernst August of Hanover, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg is the elder son and heir apparent of Ernst August V, Prince of Hanover and his former wife Chantal Hochuli.-Life:Ernst August was...
  
   (born 1983)
• Ernest Benach i Pascual
  Ernest Benach i Pascual
  Ernest Benach was the President of the Catalan Parliament from 2003 to 2010. Also is a member of the Catalan independentist party Republican Left of Catalonia .-Education and professional background:...
  
   (born 1959), former President of the Catalonian Parliament
• Ernest Borgnine
  Ernest Borgnine
  Ernest Borgnine is an American actor of television and film. His career has spanned more than six decades. He was an unconventional lead in many films of the 1950s, including his Academy Award-winning turn in the 1955 film Marty...
  
   (born 1917), American actor
• Ernest Haycox
  Ernest Haycox
  Ernest James Haycox was a prolific American author of Western fiction.-Biography:Haycox was born in Portland, Oregon, to William James Haycox and the former Martha Burghardt on October 1, 1899...
  
   (1899-1950), American writer of westerns
• Ernest Hemingway
  Ernest Hemingway
  Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economic and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the...
  
   (1899-1961), American writer
• Ernest Lluch
  Ernest Lluch
  Ernest Lluch Martín, was a Spanish economist and politician from Catalonia. He was Minister of Health and Consumption from 1982-1986 in the first post-Francisco Franco Spanish Socialist Workers' Party government of Felipe González...
  
   (1937-2000), Catalan-Spanish politician
• Ernest Millington (1916–2009), British politician
• Ernest O. Lawrence (1901-1958), American physicist
• Ernest Rutherford
  Ernest Rutherford
  Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson OM, FRS was a New Zealand-born British chemist and physicist who became known as the father of nuclear physics...
  
   (1871-1937), chemist
• Ernest Shackleton
  Ernest Shackleton
  Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, CVO, OBE was a notable explorer from County Kildare, Ireland, who was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration...
  
   (1874-1922), British explorer
• Ernest de Silva
  Ernest de Silva
  Sir Ernest de Silva was a Sri Lankan business magnate, banker, barrister and public figure, considered to be the most prominent Sri Lankan philanthropist of the 20th century...
  
   (1887-1957), Sri Lankan philanthropist
• Ernest Spybuck
  Ernest Spybuck
  Ernest Spybuck was a Native American artist. Born on a reservation in Indian Territory, Spybuck was encouraged in his artistic endeavors by a meeting with a visiting anthropologist, M.R. Harrington. His detailed depictions of ceremonies, games and social gatherings were used to illustrate many...
  
  , (1883–1949) American Indian autoethnographer
• Ernest Troubridge
  Ernest Troubridge
  Admiral Sir Ernest Charles Thomas Troubridge KCMG, MVO was an officer of the Royal Navy who served during the First World War, later rising to the rank of admiral....
  
   (1862-1926), British naval officer
• Ernest Tubb
  Ernest Tubb
  Ernest Dale Tubb , nicknamed the Texas Troubadour, was an American singer and songwriter and one of the pioneers of country music. His biggest career hit song, "Walking the Floor Over You" , marked the rise of the honky tonk style of music...
  
   (1914–1984), American singer and songwriter of country music
• Ernest Veuve
  Ernest Veuve
  Ernest Veuve , born George Ernest Veuve, was a Swiss-born soldier in the U.S. Army who fought during the American Civil War and the Indian Wars as a member of the 16th U.S. Infantry, 3rd U.S. Infantry and 4th U.S. Cavalry...
  
   (1843–1916), American Civil War soldier

Fictional people

• Ernest T. Bass
  Ernest T. Bass
  Ernest T. Bass was a fictional character on the American TV sitcom The Andy Griffith Show. He was played by Howard Morris.Ernest T. was an ignorant and obstreperous mountain man with a penchant for troublemaking, particularly vandalous rock throwing, which wreaked havoc on the otherwise sedentary...
  
  , character in the American TV sitcom The Andy Griffith Show
• Ernest LeClerc
  Monsieur Ernest LeClerc
  Monsieur Ernest "Dipstick" LeClerc is a fictional character in the BBC sitcom Allo 'Allo!, which ran from 1982 to 1992.LeClerc arrived in Nouvion after his twin brother Roger visited him in prison and they decided to swap places, because Roger claimed that the food there was better than that of...
  
  , a character in the BBC sitcom Allo 'Allo!
• Ernest P. Worrell
  Ernest P. Worrell
  Ernest P. Worrell is a fictional character most principally portrayed by the late American actor Jim Varney in a series of television commercials, and later in a television series as well as a series of feature films. Ernest was created by the Nashville advertising agency Carden and Cherry and was...
  
  , main comic character of the series of Ernest films
• Ernest B. Raykes, character in the film Cars
• Ernest, character in The Swiss Family Robinson
  The Swiss Family Robinson
  -History:Written by Swiss pastor Johann David Wyss and edited by his son Johann Rudolf Wyss, the novel was intended to teach his four sons about family values, good husbandry, the uses of the natural world and self-reliance...
  
  
• Ernest Worthing, main character in The Importance of Being Earnest
  The Importance of Being Earnest
  The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at St. James's Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personae in order to escape burdensome social obligations...
  
  , a play by Oscar Wilde

In other languages

• Armenian
  Armenian language
  The Armenian language is an Indo-European language spoken by the Armenian people. It is the official language of the Republic of Armenia as well as in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The language is also widely spoken by Armenian communities in the Armenian diaspora...
  
  : Էռնեստ (Ernest)
• Catalan
  Catalan language
  Catalan is a Romance language, the national and only official language of Andorra and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencian Community, where it is known as Valencian , as well as in the city of Alghero, on the Italian island...
  
  : Ernest
• Czech
  Czech language
  Czech is a West Slavic language with about 12 million native speakers; it is the majority language in the Czech Republic and spoken by Czechs worldwide. The language was known as Bohemian in English until the late 19th century...
  
  : Arnošt
• Danish
  Danish language
  Danish is a North Germanic language spoken by around six million people, principally in the country of Denmark. It is also spoken by 50,000 Germans of Danish ethnicity in the northern parts of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, where it holds the status of minority language...
  
  : Ernst
• Dutch
  Dutch language
  Dutch is a West Germanic language and the native language of the majority of the population of the Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname, the three member states of the Dutch Language Union. Most speakers live in the European Union, where it is a first language for about 23 million and a second...
  
  : Ernst
• Finnish
  Finnish language
  Finnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland Primarily for use by restaurant menus and by ethnic Finns outside Finland. It is one of the two official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden. In Sweden, both standard Finnish and Meänkieli, a...
  
  : Ernesti, Erno
• French
  French language
  French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
  
  : Ernest
• Georgian
  Georgian language
  Georgian is the native language of the Georgians and the official language of Georgia, a country in the Caucasus.Georgian is the primary language of about 4 million people in Georgia itself, and of another 500,000 abroad...
  
  : ერნესტ (Ernest)
• German
  German language
  German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
  
  : Ernst
• Greek
  Greek language
  Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the majority of its history;...
  
  : Ερνέστος (Ernéstos)
• Hebrew
  Hebrew language
  Hebrew is a Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Culturally, is it considered by Jews and other religious groups as the language of the Jewish people, though other Jewish languages had originated among diaspora Jews, and the Hebrew language is also used by non-Jewish groups, such...
  
  : ארנסט (Ernest)
• Hungarian
  Hungarian language
  Hungarian is a Uralic language, part of the Ugric group. With some 14 million speakers, it is one of the most widely spoken non-Indo-European languages in Europe....
  
  : Ernő
• Italian
  Italian language
  Italian is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia...
  
  : Ernesto
• Latin: Ernestus
• Latvian
  Latvian language
  Latvian is the official state language of Latvia. It is also sometimes referred to as Lettish. There are about 1.4 million native Latvian speakers in Latvia and about 150,000 abroad. The Latvian language has a relatively large number of non-native speakers, atypical for a small language...
  
  : Ernests
• Norwegian
  Norwegian language
  Norwegian is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is the official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants .These Scandinavian languages together with the Faroese language...
  
  : Ernst
• Polish
  Polish language
  Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...
  
  : Ernest
• Portuguese
  Portuguese language
  Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
  
  : Ernesto
• Russian
  Russian language
  Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
  
  : Эрнест, Эрнст (Ernest, Ernst)
• Serbian
  Serbian language
  Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....
  
  : Ернест (Ernest)
• Slovak
  Slovak language
  Slovak , is an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic languages .Slovak is the official language of Slovakia, where it is spoken by 5 million people...
  
  : Ernest
• Slovene: Ernest
• Spanish
  Spanish language
  Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
  
  : Ernesto
• Swedish
  Swedish language
  Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...
  
  : Ernst

See also

• Ernst (disambiguation)
• Ernesto
  Ernesto
  Ernesto, a form of the name Ernest in several Romance languages, may refer to:*Ernesto , an autobiographical 'secret' novel by Umberto Saba, published in 1975...
  
  
• Ernie (disambiguation)
  Ernie (disambiguation)
  -People:* Ernie Grunfeld , Romania-born American NBA basketball guard/forward & General Manager, Olympic champion* Ernests Gulbis , Latvian professional tennis player* Ernie Harwell , American MLB baseball sportscaster...
  
  , shortened version of Ernest
• Earnest (disambiguation)