Ernestine
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Ernestine is a given name, and can refer to:
It can also refer to :
- Ernestine AndersonErnestine AndersonErnestine Anderson is an American jazz and blues singer. In a career spanning more than five decades, she has recorded over 30 albums. She was nominated four times for a Grammy Award. She has sung at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Monterey Jazz Festival , as well as at jazz festivals all...
, American jazz and blues singer - Ernestine BayerErnestine BayerErnestine Bayer has been called the "Mother of Women's Rowing". She started rowing at a time when it was unheard of for women and paved the way for other women to follow after her.-Rowing career:...
, American athlete - Ernestine CarterErnestine CarterErnestine Carter OBE was a museum curator, journalist, and writer on fashion.-Early history:Ernestine Marie Fantl was born on 10 October 1906 in Savannah, Georgia, where she was brought up. She studied modern and contemporary art and design at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, from which she...
, American journalist - Ernestine ChassebœufErnestine ChassebœufErnestine Chassebœuf was a French letter writer.- Life :Ernestine Chassebœuf spent all her life in Anjou. Born in Botz-en-Mauges, Maine-et-Loire, she married in 1928 Edmond Chassebœuf, who died in 1970...
, French letter-writer - Ernestine Cobern BeyerErnestine Cobern BeyerErnestine Cobern Beyer, was an American poet and children’s author.-Early life:Beyer was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania to Ernestine Craft Cobern, and Camden McCormack Cobern, a Methodist minister, archaeologist, and author of many articles and books on his explorations in Palestine...
, American poet and author
It can also refer to :
- Ernestine Tomlin, a fictional telephone company operator portrayed by Lily TomlinLily TomlinMary Jean "Lily" Tomlin is an American actress, comedienne, writer, and producer. Tomlin has been a major force in American comedy since the late 1960's when she began a career as a stand up comedian and became a featured performer on television's Laugh-in...
- Ernestine (Muppet)Ernestine (Muppet)Ernestine is a minor fictional Muppet character, used occasionally in Sesame Street segments, who is Ernie's cousin.Ernestine appeared with Big Bird and Gina Jefferson in The Best of Ernie and Bert, a video of top Ernie and Bert segments....
, one of the minor characters of The MuppetsThe MuppetsThe Muppets are a group of puppet characters created by Jim Henson starting in 1954–55. Although the term is often used to refer to any puppet that resembles the distinctive style of The Muppet Show, the term is both an informal name and legal trademark owned by the Walt Disney Company in reference... - Ernestines, a faction of the German House of Wettin
- Ernestine, a comic-opera by Choderlos de Laclos
- Ernestine, a character in Dorothy CannellDorothy CannellDorothy Cannell is an English-American writer. She writes mysteries featuring Ellie Haskell, interior decorator and Ben Haskell, writer and chef, and Hyacinth and Primrose Tramwell, a pair of dotty sisters and owners of the Flowers Detection Agency...
's book The Importance of Being Ernestine