List of Famous people named Ernest

Ernest William Brown FRS was an English mathematician and astronomer, who spent the majority of his career working in the United States and became a naturalised American citizen in 1923.

Ernest William Hobson FRS was an English mathematician, now remembered mostly for his books, some of which broke new ground in their coverage in English of topics from mathematical analysis. He was Sadleirian Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Cambridge from 1910 to 1931.

Ernest Roscoe Dickerson, A. S. C. also known as Ernest R. Dickerson, Roscoe, and Ernest Dickerson, is an American director, cinematographer, and screenwriter of film, television, and music videos.

Ernest Jacob Haller, sometimes known as Ernie J. Haller, was an American cinematographer.

Sir Ernest Scott was an Australian historian and professor of history at the University of Melbourne from 1913 to 1936.

Amédée-Ernest Chausson was a French Romantic composer who died just as his career was beginning to flourish.

Ernest William Goodpasture was an American pathologist and physician. Goodpasture advanced the scientific understanding of the pathogenesis of infectious diseases, parasitism, and a variety of rickettsial and viral infections. Together with colleagues at Vanderbilt University, he invented methods for growing viruses and rickettsiae in chicken embryos and fertilized chicken eggs. This enabled the development of vaccines against influenza, chicken pox, smallpox, yellow fever, typhus, Rocky mountain spotted fever, and other diseases. He also described Goodpasture syndrome.

Ernest Christopher, Count of Rietberg was a member of the house of Cirksena and was Count of Rietberg from 1625 to 1640.