Ernest
Ernest is a given name derived from Germanic word ernst, meaning "serious". Notable people and fictional characters with the name include:People
- Ernest, Margrave of Austria
- Ernest, Duke of Bavaria
- Archduke Ernest of Austria, son of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor
- Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg
- Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover, son of King George III of England
- Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, sovereign duke of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover
- Ernest Augustus, Prince of Hanover
- Prince Ernst August of Hanover
- Prince Ernst August of Hanover
- Saint Ernest, German abbot
- Ernest Adams
- Ernie Anderson, American radio and television announcer
- Ernie Banks, American baseball player
- Ernest Benach, President of the Catalan parliament
- Ernest Bevin, British Labour politician
- Ernest Bohr, Danish lawyer, former barrister, and field hockey player
- Ernest Broșteanu, Romanian general during World War I
- Ernest Buckmaster, Australian artist
- Ernest Radcliffe Bond, British police officer and soldier
- Ernie Bond , English footballer
- Ernie Bond , Australian politician
- Ernest Borgnine, American actor
- Ernie Calloway, American football player
- Ernie Cox, Canadian football player
- Ernest Daltroff, French perfumer, and founder of Parfums Caron
- Ernie DiGregorio, American basketball player
- Ernest Duff, American businessman, lawyer and Mormon bishop
- Ernie Els, South African golfer
- Ernie Fletcher, American physician and politician, 60th Governor of Kentucky
- Tennessee Ernie Ford, American country singer
- Ernest Gold , American composer
- Ernest Gold , British meteorologist
- Ernest Gjoka, Albanian football coach
- Ernie Green, American football player
- Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Argentine physician, author and Marxist revolutionary
- Ernie Harwell, American baseball broadcaster
- Ernest Haycox, American writer of Westerns
- Ernest Hemingway, American writer
- E. W. Hornung, English author and poet
- Ernie Hughes, American football player
- Ernie Isley, American musician, the Isley Brothers
- Ernie Isley, Canadian politician
- Ernest Juvara, Romanian physician
- Ernest Koliqi, Albanian writer
- Ernie Kovacs, American comedian, actor and writer
- Ernest Krausz, Israeli professor of sociology and President at Bar Ilan University
- Ernest Lluch, Catalan-Spanish politician
- Ernest Millington, British politician
- Ernie Morgan, English football player and manager
- Ernie Nordli, American animation artist and graphic designer
- Ernest O. Lawrence, American physicist
- Ernie Phythian, English footballer
- Ernie Price, English footballer
- Ernst Reuter, German politician and mayor of Berlin
- Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand chemist and nuclear physicist
- Ernest Shackleton, Anglo-Irish explorer
- Ernest de Silva, Sri Lankan philanthropist
- Ernest Spybuck, American Indian autoethnographer
- Ernest Troubridge, British naval officer
- Ernest Tubb, American country music singer and songwriter
- Ernest Veuve, American Civil War soldier
- Ernest Vinberg, Russian mathematician
- Ernest Walker
- Ernest Walton, Irish physicist and Nobel laureate
- Ernie Watts, American saxophonist
- Ernie Watts, English footballer
- Ernie Watts , English footballer
- Ernie Wise, stage name of English comedian Ernest Wiseman, Morecambe and Wise
- Ernie Zalejski, 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, main comic character of the series of Ernest films as played by Jim Varney
- Ernest B. Raykes, in the film Cars
- Ernest, in The Swiss Family Robinson
- Ernest Otter, the father of the 3 otter children from PB&J Otter
- 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 '