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Ernie Bot

Ernie Bot (Chinese: Wenxin Yiyan, 文心一言) is an AI chatbot developed by Baidu, introduced in March 2023 and opened to the Chinese public in August 2023.

Ernie Bushmiller

Ernie Bushmiller (1905–1982), American cartoonist who created the comic strip Nancy, taking over Fritzi Ritz in 1925 at age 19 and building each gag backward from the final 'snapper' panel.

Ernie Clement

Ernie James Clement is an American baseball infielder for the Toronto Blue Jays, known for contact hitting, multi-position defense, and a record 30 hits in the 2025 postseason.

Ernie Collett

Ernie Collett (Ernest John Collett), Canadian amateur ice hockey goaltender, Toronto Granites; Allan Cup 1922-23, gold at Chamonix 1924 Olympics, Canada's first Winter Olympic flagbearer; distinct from footballer Ernie Collett.

Ernie Davis

Ernie Davis (1939-1963), the Elmira Express, Syracuse halfback and first Black Heisman Trophy winner (1961); first overall 1962 NFL draft pick who died of leukemia at 23 without playing professionally.

Ernie Dingo

Ernie Dingo (born 1956, Oondamooroo) is a Yamatji Australian actor and TV presenter from Bullardoo Station, WA, known for Tudawali, Crocodile Dundee II, The Great Outdoors, and the Order of Australia.

Ernie Els

Ernie Els (Theodore Ernest Els, born 1969), South African golfer nicknamed The Big Easy; four-time major champion (two US Opens, two Opens), 80 professional wins, record seven World Matchplay titles, World Golf Hall of Famer.

Ernie Goodsir Cullen

Ernie Goodsir-Cullen (Ernest John Goodsir-Cullen, 1912-1993), Indian field hockey halfback who won 1936 Berlin Olympic gold with British India; brother of 1928 gold medallist Willie; later a doctor in Northern Ireland and England.

Ernie Grunfeld

Ernie Grunfeld (Ernest Grunfeld), born 1955 in Satu Mare, Romania, is a Romanian-born American former NBA player (693 games), 1976 Olympic gold medalist, and longtime executive for the Knicks, Bucks, and Wizards (1991-2019).

Ernie Hamilton

Ernie Hamilton (Ernest Samuel Hamilton, 1883-1964), Canadian lacrosse player with the Montreal Lacrosse Club who won gold in men's lacrosse at the 1908 London Olympics, beating Great Britain 14-10; later a lacrosse and hockey administrator.

Ernie Harper

Ernie Harper (Ernest Harper, 1902-1979), English distance runner for Hallamshire Harriers; three-time Olympian, 1936 Berlin marathon silver medallist behind Sohn Kee-Chung, and world record holder at 25 km and two hours.

Ernie Hudson

Ernie Hudson (Earnest Lee Hudson, born 1945, Benton Harbor, Michigan) is an American actor known as Winston Zeddemore in the Ghostbusters films, Warden Leo Glynn on HBO's Oz, and star of Quantum Leap and Boston Blue.

Ernie Isley

Ernie Isley (born 1952) is the Isley Brothers' guitarist, drummer, and songwriter. As a child he lived with Jimi Hendrix; he joined the band in 1973 on 3+3, created the tone of "That Lady" and "Summer Breeze", later formed Isley-Jasper-Isley with "Caravan of Love", and is a 1992 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee.

Ernie Johnson Jr.

Ernie Johnson Jr. (born 1956, Milwaukee), also known as Ernest Thorwald Johnson Jr., is an American sportscaster, son of Braves broadcaster Ernie Johnson Sr., and longtime host of Inside the NBA on TNT, now ESPN and ABC.

Ernie Kovacs

Ernie Kovacs (1919–1962), American comedian and television pioneer from Trenton, New Jersey, creator of The Ernie Kovacs Show, the wordless Eugene, and Percy Dovetonsils; known for visual gags, camera experimentation, and posthumous Emmy and Hall of Fame honors.

Ernie Ladd

Ernie "The Big Cat" Ladd (1938-2007), Grambling defensive tackle, AFL All-Star with Chargers, Oilers, Chiefs; led 1965 All-Star boycott; later star pro wrestler, WWF Hall of Fame 1995.

Ernie LaPointe

Ernie LaPointe is a Lakota sun dancer, author, and lecturer from South Dakota, a great-grandson of the Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull, whose lineage a 2021 genetic study confirmed.

Ernie Lively

Ernie Lively (Ernest Wilson Brown Jr., 1947–2021), American character actor, acting coach, and director; father of Blake Lively; known for Passenger 57, Turner & Hooch, and The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.

Ernie Nevers

Ernie Nevers (Ernest Alonzo Nevers, 1903-1976), NFL fullback for the Duluth Eskimos and Chicago Cardinals, charter Pro Football Hall of Famer (1963); scored all 40 points, six touchdowns plus four extra points, in a 1929 Thanksgiving win over the Bears, an unbroken NFL record.

Ernie Payne

Ernie Payne (Ernest Arthur Payne, 1884-1961), British track cyclist from Worcester, 1908 Olympic team pursuit gold medallist, who also played amateur football for Worcester City and Manchester United.

Ernie Pyle

Ernie Pyle (Ernest Taylor Pyle, 1900–1945) was an American Scripps-Howard columnist and WWII war correspondent, Pulitzer Prize 1944, killed by Japanese machine-gun fire on Ie Shima, Okinawa.

Ernie Reyes Jr.

Ernie Reyes Jr. (born 1972, San Jose) is an American actor, stuntman, and martial artist, son of Ernie Reyes Sr.; Donatello's stunt double in TMNT (1990), Keno in TMNT II, star of Surf Ninjas and The Rundown, 3-0 in Strikeforce, 2024 Black Belt Hall of Fame inductee.

Ernie Sabella

Ernie Sabella (born 1949, Westchester, New York) is an American actor and singer, the voice of Pumbaa in The Lion King franchise except the 2019 reboot, and a Broadway performer in Man of La Mancha, Sweet Charity, and Curtains.

Ernie Watts

Ernie Watts (Ernest James Watts), American jazz and R&B saxophonist born 1945 in Norfolk, Virginia; Tonight Show Band and Quartet West veteran, two-time Grammy winner, Flying Dolphin Records founder, over 500 recordings.

Ernie Wise

Ernie Wise, born Ernest Wiseman, was an English comedian and the straight man of Morecambe and Wise, whose 1977 Christmas show drew almost 29 million viewers.

Ernie Young

Ernie Young (Ernest Wesley Young), born 1969 in Chicago, is an American outfielder who won baseball gold at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, played parts of eight MLB seasons, and later coached the 2020 US Olympic team.

ERNIE-Image

ERNIE-Image is an open-weights text-to-image generation model developed by Baidu, released in April 2026 and built on a single-stream Diffusion Transformer with 8 billion parameters.

Erno Beres

Ernő Béres (1928–2023), Hungarian middle- and long-distance runner. Seventh in the 5,000 m at Helsinki 1952; 4x1500 m relay world record holder (15:29.2, 1953); beat Emil Zátopek; later teacher, coach, and long-serving athletics judge.

Ernő Gerő

Ernő Gerő (Gerő Ernő, born Ernő Singer, 1898–1980), Hungarian communist politician, second man of the Rákosi regime and MDP first secretary 18 July–25 October 1956; his 23 October 1956 radio speech denounced the revolution and preceded Soviet intervention.

Ernő Jendrassik

Ernő Jendrassik (1858–1921) was a Hungarian internist and neurologist, professor, and Academy member who described in 1885 the Jendrassik maneuver, a reflex-reinforcement technique still used in neurological examination.