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Ernest

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Pronunciation
  
/ɜːrnɪst/

Word/name
  
Germanic

Gender
  
male

Meaning
  
serious

Ernest

Related names
  
Ernestine, Erna (female forms), Ernst, Ernesto

The name Ernest is derived from Germanic word ernst, meaning "serious".

Contents

Ernest may refer to:

People

  • Ernest, Margrave of Austria (1027-1075)
  • Ernest, Duke of Bavaria (1373-1438)
  • Archduke Ernest of Austria (1553-1595), son of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor
  • Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1629-1698)
  • Ernest Augustus I of Hanover (1771–1851), King of Hanover, son of King George III of England
  • Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1818–1893), the sovereign duke of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
  • 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 (born 1983)
  • Saint Ernest (died 1148), German abbot
  • Ernest Adams (disambiguation)
  • Ernie Anderson (1923-1997), American radio and television announcer
  • Ernest Angelo (born 1934), Texas businessman and politician
  • Ernie Banks (1931-2015), American Hall-of-Fame Major League Baseball player
  • Ernest Benach (born 1959), former President of the Catalonian Parliament
  • Ernest Bevin (1881-1951), British Labour politician
  • Ernest Radcliffe Bond (1919-2003), British police officer and soldier
  • Ernie Bond (footballer) (born 1929), English former footballer
  • Ernie Bond (politician) (1897–1984), Australian politician
  • Ernest Borgnine (1917–2012), American actor
  • Ernie Calloway (born 1948), American National Football League player
  • Ernie Cox (1894-1962), Canadian Football League player
  • Ernie DiGregorio (born 1951), American former National Basketball Association player
  • Ernie Fletcher (born 1952), American physician and politician, 60th Governor of Kentucky
  • Tennessee Ernie Ford (1919-1991), American singer
  • Ernie Green (born 1938), American former National Football League player
  • Ernest Haycox (1899–1950), American writer of westerns
  • Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), American writer
  • E. W. Hornung (1866-1921), English author and poet
  • Ernie Hughes (born 1955), American former National Football League player
  • Ernie Isley (born 1952), member of the American musical group The Isley Brothers
  • Ernie Isley (politician) (born 1937), Canadian politician
  • Ernest Koliqi (1903-1975),Albanian writer
  • Ernie Kovacs (1919-1962), American comedian, actor and writer
  • 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
  • Ernie Phythian (born 1942), English former footballer
  • Ernie Price (English footballer) (1926-2013)
  • Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937), chemist
  • Ernest Shackleton (1874–1922), Anglo-Irish explorer
  • Ernest de Silva (1887–1957), Sri Lankan philanthropist
  • Ernest Spybuck, (1883–1949) American Indian autoethnographer
  • Ernest Troubridge (1862–1926), British naval officer
  • Ernest Tubb (1914–1984), American singer and songwriter of country music
  • Ernest Veuve (1843–1916), American Civil War soldier
  • Ernest Walker (disambiguation)
  • Ernest Walton (1903-1995), Irish physicist and Nobel laureate
  • Ernie Watts (born 1945), American jazz and R&B saxophone player
  • Ernie Watts (footballer), English footballer who played for Small Heath (1889-1890)
  • Ernie Watts (footballer, born 1872) (1872-?), English footballer
  • Ernie Wise, stage name of English comedian Ernest Wiseman (1925-1999), half of the comedy duo 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, main comic character of the series of Ernest films
  • Ernest B. Raykes, in the film Cars
  • 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

    • References

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