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Notable Namesakes
- Ernest Hemingway - Nobel Prize-winning author.
- Ernest Shackleton - Antarctic explorer and leader.
- Ernest Borgnine - Actor known for "Marty" and "McHale's Navy."
- Ernest Rutherford - Physicist, known for nuclear structure discovery.
- Ernest Thayer - Wrote "Casey at the Bat" poem.
- Ernest Bevin - British politician and trade union leader.
- Ernest Tubb - Country music singer and songwriter.
- Ernest Lawrence - Physicist, invented the cyclotron.
- Ernest Angley - Televangelist and faith healer.
- Ernest Moniz - Physicist, U.S. Secretary of Energy.
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