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Ernesto Bertarelli

Ernesto Bertarelli is a Swiss businessman who built Serono into Europe's largest biotech, sold it to Merck KGaA in 2007, and won the America's Cup twice with Alinghi.

Ernesto Canalis

Ernesto Canalis is a Peruvian-trained American physician-scientist in endocrinology and bone biology, known for discovering skeletal growth factors and for work on anabolic osteoporosis therapies.

Ernesto Canto

Ernesto Canto, also known as Ernesto Canto Gudiño, was a Mexican race walker and central figure in Mexico's golden era, winning Olympic gold at the 1984 Los Angeles Games.

Ernesto Carafoli

Ernesto Carafoli (born 1932) is an Italian biochemist known for his work on calcium signaling and calcium transport, at ETH Zurich and then the University of Padua.

Ernesto Cardenal

Ernesto Cardenal (Ernesto Cardenal Martinez, 1925–2020) was a Nicaraguan poet, Catholic priest, and Sandinista Minister of Culture 1979–1988, founder of exteriorismo and the Solentiname community, suspended by the Vatican and rebuked by Pope John Paul II in 1983.

Ernesto Castro

Ernesto Castro (Ernesto Castro Córdoba) is a Spanish philosopher, essayist, and poet who teaches Aesthetics at the Autonomous University of Madrid and created the system he calls generic naturalism.

Ernesto Cesàro

Ernesto Cesàro (1859–1906) was an Italian mathematician, professor of mathematical analysis at Naples from 1891, known for Cesàro summation of divergent series, the Cesàro equation, and intrinsic geometry.

Ernesto Estrada (mathematician)

Ernesto Estrada, born 1966 in Sancti Spíritus, Cuba, is a Cuban-born mathematician and network scientist known for the Estrada index and communicability, and a research professor at IFISC in Palma de Mallorca.

Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo

Ernesto Fonseca Carrillo, alias Don Neto, Mexican drug lord and co-founder of the Guadalajara Cartel; convicted for the 1985 murder of DEA agent Kiki Camarena, sentenced to 40 years, released April 2025.

Ernesto Formenti

Ernesto Formenti (1927-1989), Italian featherweight boxer, Olympic gold medalist at London 1948, beating Dennis Shepherd; later Italian professional featherweight champion and boxing instructor in Lombardy.

Ernesto Guccione

Ernesto Guccione is a molecular biologist studying epigenetics and RNA splicing in cancer, a professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York since 2019.

Ernesto Hoost

Ernesto Hoost, nicknamed "Mr. Perfect", is a retired Dutch kickboxer who won the K-1 World Grand Prix four times (1997, 1999, 2000, and 2002) and is regarded as one of the greatest heavyweights.

Ernesto Joselevich

Ernesto Joselevich is an Israeli materials scientist and Drake Family Professor of Nanotechnology at the Weizmann Institute, known for guided growth of nanowires and self-organized carbon nanotube serpentines.

Ernesto Medina

Ernesto Medina is a Venezuelan tropical plant ecophysiologist based at IVIC in Caracas, known for research on photosynthesis and nutrient availability, elected to the US National Academy of Sciences in 1992.

Ernesto Mejía Sánchez

Ernesto Mejía Sánchez was a Nicaraguan poet, essayist, critic, and philologist (1923–1985) who spent most of his career in Mexico and became a leading scholarly editor of Rubén Darío and Alfonso Reyes.

Ernesto Miranda

Ernesto Arturo Miranda, Phoenix defendant in Miranda v. Arizona (1966), whose unwarned two-hour confession led to the 5-4 Supreme Court ruling requiring Miranda warnings; retried, paroled 1972, killed 1976.

Ernesto Rivera (racing driver)

Ernesto Rivera Pavlovich (born 2008, Mexico City) is a Mexican racing driver, Red Bull Junior and Campos Racing FIA Formula 3 driver; 2026 F3 rookie, seventh with 87 points and two wins (Red Bull Ring sprint, Spa feature).

Ernesto Sabato

Ernesto Sabato was an Argentine novelist, essayist, and trained physicist whose three novels on solitude include El túnel (1948), and who led the 1984 Nunca Más report.

Ernesto Samper

Ernesto Samper Pizano (born 1950, Bogotá) is a Colombian Liberal politician, president 1994–1998. His term was dominated by the Proceso 8.000 scandal over Cali cartel financing of his 1994 campaign; the House absolved him 111–43 in 1996, and the US revoked his visa.

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

Ernesto Teodoro Moneta was a Milanese journalist and Risorgimento veteran who won the 1907 Nobel Peace Prize for building the Italian peace movement and editing Il Secolo.

Ernesto Valverde

Ernesto Valverde Tejedor, known as Txingurri, is a Spanish football manager and former forward for Athletic Club and Barcelona who won two La Liga titles as Barcelona's coach.

Ernesto Zedillo

Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León, Mexican economist and PRI politician, president of Mexico 1994–2000; faced the December 1994 peso crisis and IMF-led rescue, passed the 1996 electoral reform, and later joined Yale.

Ernests Gulbis

Ernests Gulbis, Latvian tennis player born 1988 in Riga, career-high ATP No. 10 in June 2014 after the Roland Garros semifinal; won 6 ATP titles in 6 finals, retired 2024.

Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz

The Erneuerbare-Energien-Gesetz (EEG) is Germany's Renewable Energy Sources Act, first enacted in 2000, which supports wind, solar, biomass, and other renewable electricity through feed-in tariffs and auctions.

ERNIE (robot)

ERNIE is a planar five-link, electrically powered bipedal robot testbed developed at Ohio State University for research on dynamic walking, best known for studying parallel knee compliance.

ERNIE (文心) (model family)

ERNIE (文心), or Enhanced Representation through kNowledge IntEgration, is Baidu's family of large language models, begun in 2019 for Chinese text and now powering Ernie Bot, with open-weight ERNIE 4.5 released in 2025.

Ernie & Emma

Ernie & Emma is a 2026 American comedy-drama written, directed by, and starring Bruce Campbell as widowed pear salesman Ernie Tyler, who scatters his wife's ashes across Oregon following her instructions; self-financed with Ida Gearon, premiered February 14, 2026 in Medford.

ERNIE 4.5 open-weight release

Baidu's June 30, 2025 open-weight release of ten ERNIE 4.5 multimodal models, 0.3B to 424B parameters, on Hugging Face under the permissive Apache License 2.0.

Ernie Anderson

Ernie Anderson (Ernest Earle Anderson, 1923–1997) was an American announcer known nationally as the voice of ABC television from the 1970s through the 1980s and regionally as Ghoulardi.

Ernie Banks

Ernie Banks (1931-2015), "Mr. Cub," Hall of Fame shortstop and first baseman who played his entire 1953-1971 career with the Chicago Cubs; two-time NL MVP, 512 home runs, first Black Cubs player, number 14 retired in 1982.