Ernestine

Ernestine is a feminine given name. Ernest is the male counterpart of this name. Notable people with the name include:

• Ernestine Anderson (1928–2016), American jazz and blues singer
• Ernestine Bayer (1909–2006), American athlete
• Ernestine Bazemore, American politician
• Ernestine Gilbreth Carey (1908–2006), American author
• Ernestine Cannon (1904–1969), American ceramicist
• Ernestine Carter (1906–1983), American journalist
• Ernestine Chassebœuf (1910–c.2005), French letter-writer
• Ernestine Cobern Beyer (1893–1972), American poet and author
• Ernestine Eckstein (1941–1992), American LGBT activist
• Ernestine Fuchs (1885–1962), German film actress, film producer, and screenwriter
• Ernestine Fu, American venture capital investor and author
• Ernestine de Lambriquet (1778–1813) was the adopted/foster daughter of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette of France.
• Ernestine Leibovici (1918–1988), more commonly known as Eren Eyüboğlu, Romanian-born Turkish painter and mosaic artist.
• Ernestine Rengiil, Palauan lawyer
• Ernestine Rose (1810–1892), Russian-American abolitionist and feminist
• Ernestine Rose (1880–1961), American librarian
• Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell (1921-2011), American actress, singer and model
• Ernestine Schumann-Heink (1861–1936), Austrian-German-American operatic contralto

Fictional characters

• Ernestine Tomlin, a fictional telephone company operator portrayed by Lily Tomlin
• Ernestine, a character in Dorothy Cannell's book The Importance of Being Ernestine
• Ernestine, the title character in L'Histoire d'Ernestine, a short novel from the 18th century written by Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni
• Ernestine, a character on Sesame Street

See also

• Ernestine branch, a branch of the German House of Wettin
• Ernestine, a comic-opera by Choderlos de Laclos