List of Famous people named Ernest

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

Ernest Frederick Agnew

First Name Ernest
Last Name Agnew
Born on January 6, 1871
Died on August 3, 1958 (aged 87)
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Ernest Beresford-Peirse

First Name Ernest
Last Name Beresford-Peirse
Born on October 2, 1879
Died on May 16, 1961 (aged 81)
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Ernest Orde-Powlett

First Name Ernest
Last Name Orde-Powlett
Born on July 27, 1850
Died on May 7, 1926 (aged 75)
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Ernest John Frederick Irby

First Name Ernest
Last Name Irby
Born on March 30, 1864
Died on August 23, 1913 (aged 49)
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Ernest C. Southey

First Name Ernest
Last Name Southey
Born on January 1, 1877 (age 149)
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Ernest Noel

First Name Ernest
Last Name Noel
Born on August 18, 1831
Died on May 20, 1931 (aged 99)

Ernest Noel, FGS was Member of Parliament (MP) for the Scottish seat of Dumfries Burghs from 1874 to 1886. He was chairman of the Artizans, Labourers & General Dwellings Company from 1880, during the construction of a new suburb for the working classes in Wood Green which was named "Noel Park" in his honour.

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Ernest Crofton

First Name Ernest
Last Name Crofton
Born on December 6, 1878
Died on December 23, 1961 (aged 83)
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Ernest Bruce Alexander

First Name Ernest
Last Name Alexander
Born on September 13, 1849 (age 176)
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Ernest Alfred Rushbrooke

First Name Ernest
Last Name Rushbrooke
Born on June 29, 1897
Died on September 13, 1952 (aged 55)
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Ernest Thayer

First Name Ernest
Last Name Thayer
Born on August 14, 1863
Died on August 21, 1940 (aged 77)

Ernest Lawrence Thayer was an American writer and poet who wrote the poem "Casey", which is "the single most famous baseball poem ever written" according to the Baseball Almanac, and "the nation’s best-known piece of comic verse—a ballad that began a native legend as colorful and permanent as that of Johnny Appleseed or Paul Bunyan."

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