List of Famous people named Ernest

Sir Ernest Ridley Debenham, 1st Baronet, was an English businessman. He was responsible for the considerable expansion of the family's retail and wholesale drapery firm between 1892 and 1927.

Ernest Louis was the last Grand Duke of Hesse and by Rhine, reigning from 1892 until 1918.

Ernest Augustus, Duke of York and Albany, was the younger brother of George I of Great Britain. Ernest Augustus was a soldier and served with some distinction under Emperor Leopold I during the Nine Years' War and the War of the Spanish Succession. In 1715, he became Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück.

The Baron Ernest-Antoine Seillière was a French writer, journalist and critic.

Admiral Sir Ernest Charles Thomas Troubridge, was an officer of the Royal Navy who served during the First World War.

Ernest I of Schauenburg became the Bishop of Hildesheim in 1458.

Ernst, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld was the head of the Lippe-Biesterfeld line of the House of Lippe. From 1897 until his death he was the regent of the Principality of Lippe.

Duke Ernest of Bavaria was the Administrator of the dioceses of Passau and Salzburg and pledge lord of Glatz.

Ernest Hoschedé was a department store magnate in Paris. Also during the successful period of his life, he was an art collector and critic. He lost his Impressionist art collection when he went bankrupt in 1877-1878. He moved his family into the home of Claude Monet in Vétheuil. He then lived in Paris and worked at Le Voltaire and then Magazine Français Illustré. His family continued to live with the Monets before and after his death. The year after his death, his wife Alice Hoschedé married Claude Monet, and was believed to have been Monet's mistress for years.