List of Famous people named Ernest

Often it's a shorthand for Ernst. Similar names: Ernst, Ernesto. Here are some famous Ernests:

Ernest Corominas

First Name Ernest
Last Name Corominas
Born on April 13, 1913
Died on January 24, 1992 (aged 78)
Born in Spain, Catalonia

Ernest Corominas i Vigneaux was a Spanish-French mathematician.

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Ernest I

First Name Ernest
Last Name I
Born on November 30, 0983
Died on May 31, 1015 (aged 31)

Ernest I was the Duke of Swabia (1012–1015). He was a younger son of Leopold I, the Babenberg Margrave of Austria. His mother was called Richardis of Sualafeldgau.

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Ernest Thiel

First Name Ernest
Last Name Thiel
Born on August 18, 1859
Died on January 6, 1947 (aged 87)

Ernest Jacques Thiel was a Swedish financier and art collector whose former villa in the Stockholm park area Djurgården today houses the Thiel Gallery.

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Ernest Boulanger

Henri Alexandre Ernest Boulanger
First Name Ernest
Last Name Boulanger
Born on September 16, 1815
Died on April 14, 1900 (aged 84)

Ernest Henri Alexandre Boulanger was a French composer of comic operas and a conductor. He was more known, however, for being a choral music composer, choral group director, voice teacher, and vocal contest jury member.

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Ernest Augustus Curran

First Name Ernest
Last Name Curran
Born on September 18, 1834
Died on May 9, 1911 (aged 76)
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Ernest Crosbie Trench

First Name Ernest
Last Name Trench
Born on August 6, 1869
Died on September 15, 1960 (aged 91)

Ernest Frederic Crosbie Trench CBE, TD was a British civil engineer.

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Ernest Daudet

First Name Ernest
Last Name Daudet
Died on August 21, 1921
Born in France, Occitania

Louis-Marie Ernest Daudet was a French journalist, novelist and historian. Prolific in several genres, Daudet began his career writing for magazines and provincial newspapers all over France. His younger brother was Alphonse Daudet.

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Ernest Wilberforce

Ernest Roland Wilberforce
First Name Ernest
Last Name Wilberforce
Born on January 22, 1840
Died on September 9, 1907 (aged 67)

Ernest Roland Wilberforce was an Anglican clergyman and bishop. From 1882 to 1896 he was the first Anglican Bishop of Newcastle upon the diocese's creation, and from 1896 to 1907 he was Bishop of Chichester.

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Ernest Beckett, 2nd Baron Grimthorpe

First Name Ernest
Last Name Grimthorpe
Born on November 25, 1856
Died on April 29, 1917 (aged 60)

Ernest William Beckett, 2nd Baron Grimthorpe was a British banker and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 until 1905 when he inherited the Grimthorpe peerage.

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Ernest II, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen

First Name Ernest
Born on January 1, 1418
Died on January 1, 1466 (aged 48)

Duke Ernest II of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (1418–1466) was the second son of Duke Eric I of Brunswick-Grubenhagen and his wife, Elisabeth of Brunswick-Göttingen.

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