Earnest
Template:Sister project Script error: No such module "other uses". Earnest is a masculine given name and a surname which may refer to:
Given name
- Earnest Andersson (1878–1943), American polymath
- Earnest Brown IV (born 1999), American football player
- Earnest Byner (born 1962), American football player
- Earnest Elmo Calkins (1868–1964), American early advertising innovator
- Earnest Sevier Cox (1880–1966), American Methodist preacher
- Earnest Frank, American football coach
- Earnest Graham (born 1980), American football player
- Earnest Gray (born 1957), American football player
- Earnest Greene (born 2003), American football player
- Earnest Hooton (1887–1954), American physical anthropologist
- Ernie Hudson (born 1945), American actor
- Earnest Jackson (born 1959), American football player
- Earnest Mudzengi, Zimbabwean politician
- Earnest Pugh, American gospel singer-songwriter
- Earnest Rhone (born 1953), former NFL linebacker
- Earnest Ross (born 1991), American professional basketball player
- Earnest James Ujaama (born 1965), American Muslim social activist
- Earnest Wilson, American football coach
Surname
- Conrad Earnest (born 1957), American soccer goalkeeper
- G. Brooks Earnest (1902–1992), American educator
- James Earnest (1818–1900), Wisconsin state legislator
- John Earnest (born 1999), perpetrator of the Poway synagogue shooting
- Josh Earnest (born 1975), American political advisor, former White House press secretary
- Les Earnest (born 1930), American computer scientist
- Matthew Earnest (born 1969), American theater director