Ernestine

Ernestine Rose (1810 – 1892) was a suffragist, abolitionist, and freethinker who has been called the “first Jewish feminist.” She was active in England and the United States. Her career spanned from the 1830s to the 1870s, making her a contemporary to the more famous suffragists Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. Largely forgotten in contemporary discussions of the American women's rights movement, she was one of its major intellectual forces in nineteenth-century America. Her relationship with Judaism is a debated motivation for her advocacy. Although less well remembered than her fellow suffragists and abolitionists, in 1996, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame, and in 1998 the Ernestine Rose Society was founded to “revive the legacy of this important early nineteenth century reformer by recognizing her pioneering role in the first wave of feminism.”.

Ernestine Fu is an American venture capital investor and author.

Ernestine Bonita Mabo AO, known as Bonita Mabo (c. 1943 - 2018), was an Australian educator and activist for Aboriginal Australians, Torres Strait Islanders, and Australian South Sea Islanders. She was the wife of the Torres Strait Islander and land rights activist for indigenous Australians Eddie Mabo. She was an Australian South Sea Islander of Ni-Vanuatu descent whose ancestors were "blackbirded" to work in the sugar cane industry in Queensland.

Ernestine Jane Geraldine Russell was the birth name of American actress Jane Russell.

A famous bearer is American blues/jazz singer Ernestine Anderson (born November 11, 1928). Referred to as "the best-kept jazz secret in the land" by TIME magazine in 1959, she's noted for a number of award-winning recording over a five-decade career, including "The Toast of the Nation's Critics", "Never Make Your Move Too Soon", and "Blues, Dues & Love News", amongst many others.

The co-author of "Cheaper by the Dozen" and "Belles on Their Toes," Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, was the third of twelve children born to Frank and Lillian Gilbreth.