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Ernest Burkhart
Ernest Burkhart, also known as Ernest George Burkhart, was a Texas man who conspired with his uncle William K. Hale to murder the Osage Kyle family in 1920s Oklahoma.
Ernest Cadine
Ernest Cadine (1893–1978) was a French weightlifter who won the light-heavyweight gold medal at the 1920 Olympics in Antwerp, then became a professional strongman and music-hall performer.
Ernest Claes
Ernest Claes (1885–1968) was a Flemish novelist and civil servant whose comic-ironic fiction about village life, especially De Witte (1920), made him one of Flanders' most widely read authors.
Ernest Cline
Ernest Cline (born 1972, Ohio) is the American novelist and screenwriter who wrote Ready Player One (2011), Armada, Ready Player Two, Bridge to Bat City, and the film Fanboys, and co-wrote the 2018 Spielberg adaptation, living in Austin, Texas.
Ernest Cole
Ernest Cole, born Ernest Levi Tsoloane Kole, was a South African documentary photographer who became the first black freelance photojournalist. His work brought international attention to life under apartheid.
Ernest Courant
Ernest Courant (1920–2020) was an American physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory who co-invented strong focusing, the principle behind the LHC and nearly all modern particle accelerators.
Ernest Craige
Ernest Craige (1918–2008) was an American cardiologist and first chief of the Division of Cardiology at UNC Chapel Hill, known for New England Journal of Medicine studies on heart sounds and echocardiography.
Ernest Cushing Richardson
Ernest Cushing Richardson (1860–1939) was an American librarian who led Princeton's library from 1890 to 1925 and wrote the first monograph on library classification theory.
Ernest D. Laue
Ernest D. Laue, also known as Ernest Laue, is a structural biologist and Emeritus Professor at Cambridge, known for NuRD chromatin studies and 3D genome structures from single cells.
Ernest Dobbert
Ernest John Dobbert Jr., Florida child murderer executed in 1984; his jury-override death sentence produced the Supreme Court ex post facto precedent Dobbert v. Florida, 432 U.S. 282 (1977).
Ernest Dowson
Ernest Christopher Dowson (1867–1900) was an English poet of the Decadent movement and a member of the Rhymers' Club, best known for the poem "Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae".
Ernest Dupré
Ernest Dupré (1862–1921) was a French psychiatrist and forensic physician who coined mythomanie and puérilisme mental, ending his career in the chair of mental diseases at Sainte-Anne.
Ernest Edward Tyzzer
Ernest Edward Tyzzer (1875–1965) was an American physician and pathologist at Harvard Medical School, known for discovering Tyzzer's disease, foundational work on bird parasites, and early tumor-immunity research.
Ernest Edwin Sechler
Ernest Edwin Sechler (1905–1979) was an American aerospace engineer and Caltech professor of aeronautics whose thin-shell buckling research shaped airplane fuselages, missiles, booster rockets, and the Palomar telescope shell.
Ernest et Célestine
Ernest et Célestine (Ernest & Celestine) is a 2012 French-Belgian-Luxembourgish hand-drawn animated film by Renner, Patar, and Aubier, adapted from Gabrielle Vincent's albums, with a César win and an Oscar nomination.
Ernest Fenollosa
Ernest Fenollosa (フェノロサ) was an American art historian who taught in Meiji Japan and helped found the Tokyo School of Fine Arts and the Imperial Museum.
Ernest Fourneau
Ernest Fourneau (1872–1949) was a French pharmacist and chemist who founded therapeutic chemistry in France, designing the anesthetic Stovaïne and directing drug research at the Institut Pasteur.
Ernest Fox Nichols
Ernest Fox Nichols was an American experimental physicist who made the first precise measurement of the pressure of light at Dartmouth, and served as president of Dartmouth College and MIT.
Ernest Fraenkel
Ernest Fraenkel is a computational systems biologist and Grover M. Hermann Professor at MIT who studies how molecular networks go wrong in diseases including ALS and cancer.
Ernest G. Cravalho
Ernest G. Cravalho (1939–2021) was an American mechanical engineer who spent 44 years on the MIT faculty and helped establish cryopreservation and biomedical heat transfer as research fields.
Ernest G. Peralta
Ernest G. Peralta (1959–1999) was an American molecular biologist and Harvard professor who cloned muscarinic receptors and showed how G proteins regulate potassium channels; he died of brain cancer at 40.
Ernest Gale
Ernest Frederick Gale (1914–2005) was a British microbiologist at Cambridge who recast bacteria as chemical machines, directing the MRC Unit for Chemical Microbiology and entering the Royal Society in 1953.
Ernest George Coker
Ernest George Coker (1869–1946) was an English engineer who turned photo-elasticity, measuring stress in structures by polarized light, into a practical method, teaching at McGill and University College London.
Ernest Goes to Camp
Ernest Goes to Camp (1987) is a Touchstone comedy, the first of eight theatrical Ernest P. Worrell films, directed by John R. Cherry III and starring Jim Varney as a camp handyman who leads juvenile delinquents and saves Kamp Kikakee from developers.
Ernest Gonzalez
Ernest Gonzalez (born 1962) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Western District of Texas since 2024, appointed by President Biden.
Ernest Green
Ernest Gideon Green (born 1941), Little Rock Nine member, only senior in the group, first African American graduate of Little Rock Central High School in May 1958, later Carter-era Assistant Secretary of Labor.
Ernest Grunwald
Ernest Grunwald (1923–2002) was a German-born American physical organic chemist who co-developed the Grunwald–Winstein equation, making solvent effects on reaction rates predictable, and taught at Brandeis University.
Ernest Harden Jr.
Ernest Harden Jr., also credited as Ernest Harden, is an American actor and producer born 1952 in Detroit, known for The Jeffersons, White Mama, and his 2026 Emmy-winning guest role as Louie Cloverfield on The Pitt.
Ernest Harry Vestine
Ernest Harry Vestine (1906–1968) was a Canadian-American geophysicist who showed that Earth's magnetic field arises from fluid circulation in the core, working at the Carnegie Institution and RAND.
Ernest Hartmann
Ernest Hartmann, also known as Ernest L. Hartmann, was an Austrian-born American psychiatrist and sleep and dream researcher, professor of psychiatry at Tufts University and creator of the Boundary Questionnaire.