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Archduke Ernest of Austria (1553–1595), son of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor •
Ernest, Margrave of Austria (1027–1075) •
Ernest, Duke of Bavaria (1373–1438) •
Ernest, Duke of Opava (c. 1415–1464) •
Ernest, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (1482–1553) •
Ernest, Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels (1623–1693) •
Ernest Augustus, Elector of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1629–1698) •
Ernest, Count of Stolberg-Ilsenburg (1650–1710) •
Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover (1771–1851), son of King George III of Great Britain •
Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1818–1893), sovereign duke of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha •
Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover (1845–1923) •
Ernest, Landgrave of Hesse-Philippsthal (1846–1925) •
Ernest Augustus, Prince of Hanover (1914–1987) •
Prince Ernst August of Hanover (born 1954) •
Prince Ernst August of Hanover (born 1983) •
Saint Ernest (died 1148), German abbot •
Ernest Adams (disambiguation) •
Ernest Guy Amsler (1895–1986), associate justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court •
Ernie Anderson (1923–1997), American radio and television announcer •
Ernie Banks (1931–2015), American baseball player •
Ernest Benach (born 1959), President of the Catalan parliament •
Ernest Bernea (1905–1990), Romanian sociologist •
Ernest Bevin (1881–1951), British Labour politician •
Ernest Bohr (1924–2018), Danish lawyer, former barrister, and field hockey player •
Ernest Broșteanu (1869–1932), Romanian general during World War I •
Ernest Buckmaster (1897–1968), Australian artist •
Ernest Radcliffe Bond (1919–2003), British police officer and soldier •
Ernie Bond (footballer) (born 1929), English footballer •
Ernie Bond (politician) (1897–1984), Australian politician •
Ernest Borgnine (1917–2012), American actor •
Ernie Calloway (born 1948), American football player •
Ernie Cooksey (1980–2008), English footballer •
Ernest Corea (1932–2017), Sri Lankan Sinhala journalist,
Ambassador of Sri Lanka to the United States from 1981 to 1986 • Sir
Ernest Marshall Cowell (1886–1971), British surgeon and military officer •
Ernie Cox (1894–1962), Canadian football player •
Ernest S. Croot III (born 1972), American mathematician •
Ernest Dale (1917–1996), American academic and writer •
Ernest Daltroff (1867–1941), French perfumer, and founder of Parfums Caron •
Ernest de Munck (1840–1915), Belgian cellist and composer •
Ernest Dickerson (born 1951), American director, cinematographer, and screenwriter •
Ernie DiGregorio (born 1951), American basketball player •
Ernest Duff (1931-2016), American businessman, lawyer and Mormon bishop •
Ernie Els (born 1969), South African golfer •
Ernest Evans (cricketer) (1861–1948), English cricketer who played for Somerset •
Ernest Evans (politician) (1885–1965), Welsh politician •
Ernest Everett Just (biologist) (1883-1941), American biologist •
Ernest E. Evans (1908–1944), officer of the United States Navy in WWII •
Ernest Peter Arnold Fernando (1919–1957), Sri Lankan Sinhala businessman and mine owner •
Ernie Fletcher (born 1952), American physician and politician, 60th Governor of Kentucky •
Tennessee Ernie Ford (1919–1991), American country singer •
Ernest Gold (composer) (1921–1999), American composer •
Ernest Gold (meteorologist) (1881–1976), British meteorologist •
Ernest Gjoka (born 1970), Albanian football coach •
Ernie Green (born 1938), American football player •
Ernesto "Che" Guevara (1928–1967), Argentine physician, author and Marxist revolutionary •
Ernest Gugenheim (1916–1977), French rabbi •
Ernie Harwell (1918–2010), American baseball broadcaster •
Ernest Haycox (1899–1950), American writer of Westerns •
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), American writer •
Ernest Hendricks, South African politician •
Ernest George Horlock (1885–1917), English recipient of the
Victoria Cross •
E. W. Hornung (1866–1921), English author and poet •
Ernie Hughes (born 1955), American football player •
Ernie Isley (born 1952), American musician, the Isley Brothers •
Ernest Johnson (disambiguation), multiple people •
Ernest Jones (disambiguation), multiple people •
Ernest Juvara (1870–1933), Romanian physician •
Ernest Koliqi (1903–1975), Albanian writer •
Ernie Kovacs (1919–1962), American comedian, actor and writer •
Ernest Krausz (1931–2018), Israeli professor of sociology and President at
Bar Ilan University •
Ernest Lawrence (1901–1958), American nuclear scientist •
Ernest Lluch (1937–2000), Catalan-Spanish politician •
Ernest Earl Lockhart (1912-2006), American chemist and explorer •
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 Perera (1932-2013,
Inspector-General of Sri Lanka Police from 1988 to 1993 •
Ernie Phythian (1942–2020), English footballer •
Ernest Victor Pieris (1926-1991), Sri Lankan Sinhala physician, medical educator, cricketer, and rugby union player •
Ernest Poruthota (1931–2020), Sri Lankan Sinhala Roman Catholic priest and author •
Ernest Prakasa (born 1982), Indonesian comedian, stand up performer, writer, and actor •
Ernie Price (1926–2013), English footballer •
Ernest Prodolliet (1905-1984), Swiss diplomat •
Ernst Reuter (1889–1953), German politician and mayor of Berlin •
Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937), New Zealand chemist and nuclear physicist •
Ernest Shackleton (1874–1922), Anglo-Irish explorer •
Ernest de Silva (1887–1957), Sri Lankan philanthropist •
Ernest (musician) (K. Smith), American country music artist •
Ernest Spybuck (1883–1949), American Indian autoethnographer •
Ernest Thayer (1863–1940), American poet •
Ernest William Tristram (1882-1952), British art historian, artist and conservator •
Ernest Troubridge (1862–1926), British naval officer •
Ernest Tubb (1914–1984), American country music singer and songwriter •
Ernest Veuve (1843–1916), American Civil War soldier •
Ernest Vinberg (1937–2020), Russian mathematician •
Ernest Walker (disambiguation) •
Ernest Walton (1903–1995), Irish physicist and Nobel laureate •
Ernie Watts (born 1945), American saxophonist •
Ernie Watts (Small Heath footballer), English footballer •
Ernie Watts (footballer, born 1872) (1872–1???), English footballer •
Ernie Wise (1925–1999), stage name of English comedian Ernest Wiseman (1925–1999), Morecambe and Wise •
Ernest Ailred Worms (1891–1963), German Pallottine missionary, linguist, and anthropologist in Australia •
Ernie Zalejski (1925–2012), American football player == Fictional characters==