Arts and Music

• Ernest Alexandre Ansermet

  Swiss conductor.

  • Founded Geneva''s Orchestra de la Suisse Romande in 1918, and led it until 1967 (see list of Conductors)
• Ernest Bloch (born 1880, died 1959)

  Swiss-American composer.

  • Composed Macbeth (see list of Composers of the 20th Century)
• Ernest Evans (born 1941)

  Rock-and-roll singer.

  • Chubby Checker (see list of Nicknames of Musicians)
• Ernest Kador
  • Ernie K-Doe (see list of Nicknames of Musicians)
• Ernest Toch
  • 1956 Pulitzer Prize winner for Music Composition (see list of Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Music)
• Ernest Tubb (born 1914, died 1984)

  American singer and songwriter.

  • Country Music Hall of Fame (see list of Country Music Hall of Fame)

Leadership

• Ernest J. King (born 1878, died 1956)

  American admiral.

  • America''s leading naval strategist in WWII (see list of Miscellaneous Military Leaders)

Miscellaneous

• J. Ernest Browning
  • National Cowboy Hall of Fame (see list of National Cowboy Hall of Fame)
• Madame Ernest Calvat
  • Variety of rose (see list of Rose Names)
• Ernest E. Just

  First recipient of the NAACP's Spingarn Medal.

  • 1915 Spingarn Medal winner (see list of Spingarn Medal Winners)

Science and Philosophy

• Ernest Orlando Lawrence (born 1901, died 1958)

  American physicist who invented the cyclotron.

  • 1939 Nobel Prize winner in Physics (see list of Winners of the Nobel Prize for Physics)
  • Founding director of the Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley (see list of Mathematicians, Physicists & Astronomers)
• Ernest Rutherford (born 1871, died 1937)

  British physicist.

  • 1908 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry (see list of Winners of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry)
  • Known for his work on atomic structure and radioactive decay (see list of Mathematicians, Physicists & Astronomers)
• Ernest T.S. Walton

  Irish physicist known for his work with artifically accelerated atomic particles.

  • 1951 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, with John Cockroft (see list of Winners of the Nobel Prize for Physics)
• Ernest Weber
  • 1987 National Medal of Science winner (see list of National Medal of Science Winners)

Sports

• Ernest Blood

  American basketball coach.

  • Elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1960 (see list of Basketball Hall of Fame)
• Ernest Cadine

  French athlete.

  • 1920 Olympic weightlifting gold medal winner for 82.5kg (see list of Olympic gold medalists in weightlifting)
• Ernest Quigley

  American basketball referee.

  • Chosen for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1961 (see list of Basketball Hall of Fame)
• Ernest Renshaw
  • 1888 Wimbledon tennis champion (see list of Wimbledon Tennis Champions)
• Ernest J. Schmidt

  American basketball player.

  • Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1973 (see list of Basketball Hall of Fame)

Stage and Screen

• Ernest T. Bass

  Fictional character.

  • Portrayed by Howard Morris (see list of Characters on ''The Andy Griffith Show'')
• Ernest Borgnine (born 1917)

  American actor.

  • 1955 Academy Award winner for his performance in Marty (see list of Oscar Winners for Best Actor)
  • Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Picture (see list of Movie Personalities with Stars in the Hollywood Walk of Fame)
• Ernest Schoedsack
  • Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Picture (see list of Movie Personalities with Stars in the Hollywood Walk of Fame)
• Ernest Torrence
  • Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Picture (see list of Movie Personalities with Stars in the Hollywood Walk of Fame)
• Ernest Truex (born 1890, died 1973)

  American actor.

  • Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television (see list of Television Personalities with Stars in the Hollywood Walk of Fame)
• Ernest Tubb (born 1914, died 1984)

  American singer and songwriter.

  • Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording (see list of Recording Personalites with Stars in the Hollywood Walk of Fame)

The Literary World

• Ernest Becker
  • 1974 Pulitzer Prize winner for General Nonfiction, for The Denial of Death (see list of Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction)
• Ernest Hemingway (born 1899, died 1961)

  American novelist and short-story writer.

  • 1954 Nobel Prize winner for Literature (see list of Winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature)
  • 1953 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for The Old Man and the Sea (see list of Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
  • Wrote A Farewell to Arms (see list of Prose Writers of the 20th Century)
• Ernest Poole (born 1880, died 1950)

  American novelist.

  • 1918 Pulitzer Prize winner for Fiction, for His Family (see list of Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
• Ernest Taylor Pyle
  • 1944 Pulitzer Prize winner for Correspondence (see list of Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Correspondence)
• Ernest Samuels (born 1903, died 1996)

  American biographer.

  • 1965 Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography/Autobiography, for Henry Adams (see list of Winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography)