List of Famous people named Ernest

Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen was a duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen.

Ernest I of Brunswick-Grubenhagen was Prince of Brunswick-Grubenhagen.

Ernest Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, was a Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld.

Landgrave Ernest of Hesse-Rheinfels-Rotenburg was from 1649 to 1658 Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels and from 1658 until his death Landgrave of Hesse-Rheinfels-Rotenburg. Because his brothers died young, all later Landgraves in the Rotenburg Quarter are descendants of Ernest. Hence, Ernest is known as the ancestor of the Catholic Rotenburg Quarter, a group of junior lines of the House of Hesse.

Ernest Lavisse was a French historian. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature five times.

Ernest Duchesne was a French physician who noted that certain molds kill bacteria. He made this discovery 32 years before Alexander Fleming discovered the antibiotic properties of penicillin, a substance derived from those molds, but his research went unnoticed.

Ernest Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, was a duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen.

Ernst Frederick III Karl, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen, was a duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen.

Ernest Truex was an American actor of stage, film, and television.

Ernest I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, was a German prince of the House of Ascania and ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Dessau. He was the second son of George I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, yet the first born by his fourth wife Anna, daughter of Albert VIII, Count of Lindow-Ruppin.