Earl (given name)
Earl is a popular English given name meaning "warrior" or "nobleman" . The name was sometimes used among servants of actual nobiliary earls, and instances of its usage date back to 12th-century England. Some of the holders of this name are:
- "Big" Earl, fictional alien in the video game ToeJam & Earl and its sequels
- Earl, fictional character in the animated TV series Rocko's Modern Life
- Earl Abell, American football player
- Earl E. Anderson, American general
- Earl Anthony, professional bowler
- Earl Armstrong Canadian politician
- Earl I. Anzai, American politician
- Earl Averill, professional baseball player
- Earl Edwin Austin, American criminal
- Earl Babbie, sociologist
- Earl Bakken, inventor of the transistorized pacemaker
- Earl Balfour professional ice hockey player
- Earl Balmer, former NASCAR Cup Series driver
- Earl Banks, American football coach
- Earl Barish, Canadian businessman
- Earl Barrett former footballer
- Earl Barron, professional basketball player
- Earl Bassett, fictional character in the film Tremors
- Earl Battey, professional baseball player
- Earl Beecham, American football player
- Earl Holmes Bell pole vaulter
- Earl Bennett American football player
- Earl Best, American community organizer known as the 'Street Doctor'
- Earl Derr Biggers, American novelist and playwright
- Earl Billings, Actor
- Earl Bird, fictional character in the comic strip Motley's Crew
- Earl Black, Professor
- Earl Blaik, American football coach
- Earl Blumenauer, American politician
- Earl Boen, American actor
- Earl Bostic, American saxophonist
- Earl Boykins, American basketball player
- Earl K. Brent, American songwriter and composer
- Earl Broady, American police officer, attorney, and judge
- Earl Browder, American communist
- Earl Brown , American football and basketball player and coach
- Earl Brown, Puerto Rican basketball player
- Earl Johnson, multiple people
- Earl Jolly Brown, American actor
- Earl Brydges, American politician
- Earl "Butch" Buchholz, American tennis player
- Earl Butz, American politician
- Earl Caddock, American professional wrestler
- Earl Caldwell, American journalist
- Earl Welton Caldwell, American baseball player
- Earl Camembert, fictional character in the TV series SCTV
- Earl Cameron, Canadian broadcaster
- Earl Cameron, British actor
- Earl Campbell, Canadian ice hockey player
- Earl Christian Campbell, American football player
- Earl Chudoff, American politician
- Earl "Dutch" Clark, American football player
- Earl Cochell, American tennis player
- Earl Cochran, American football player
- Earl Collins, Canadian politician
- Earl Conrad, American author
- Earl Cook, American baseball player
- Earl Cooper, American racecar driver
- Marion Earl Cooper, American football player
- Earl Cranston, American bishop
- Earl Cureton, American basketball player
- Earl Dawson, Canadian politician
- Earl Devore, American racecar driver
- Earl Dittman, American film critic and publisher
- Earl Dodge, American politician
- Earl Doherty, Canadian author
- Earl Dotson, American football player
- Earl Douglas, radio talk show producer
- Earl Durand, American mountain man
- Earl Duvall, American animator
- Earl Eby, American athlete
- Earl Edwards, multiple people
- Earl Ehrhart, American politician
- Earl Hancock Ellis, U.S. Marine Corps officer
- Earl Emerson, American novelist
- Earl Everett, American football player
- Earl Faison, American football player
- Earl Ferrell, American football player
- Earl Gillespie, American sportscaster
- Earl Grant, American pianist
- Earl G. Graves, Sr., American entrepreneur, publisher, businessman and philanthropist
- Earl G. Graves, Jr., American businessman and basketball player
- Earl Grinols, American professor
- Earl Gros, American football player
- Earl Hamner Jr., American writer and television producer
- Earl G. Harrison, American Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School; Commissioner of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1942–44
- Earl Hebner, former WWE referee
- Earl Heikka, American sculptor
- Earl Hickey, fictional character in the TV series My Name Is Earl
- Earl Hindman, American actor
- Earl F. Hilliard, American politician
- Earl Hines, jazz pianist
- Earl Gladstone Hunt Jr, Methodist pastor
- Earl Dewitt Hutto, American politician
- Earl Jones, American track and field athlete
- Earl Keeley, Canadian football player
- Earl Klugh, American jazz guitarist
- Earl Floyd Kvamme, American engineer
- Earl "Curly" Lambeau, founder of the Green Bay Packers
- Earl F. Landgrebe, American politician
- Earl C. Latourette, American judge
- Earl Levine, American entrepreneur
- Earl Lovelace, Trinidadian writer
- Earl McCarthy, Irish freestyle swimmer
- Earl D. McIntyre, Canadian politician
- Earl C. Michener, American politician
- Earl R. Miller, American diplomat
- Earl Monroe, American basketball player
- Earl "Madman" Muntz, American merchandiser
- Earl Murray, American football player
- Earl Okine, American football player
- Earl Pitts, fictional radio character
- Earl Edwin Pitts, American spy
- Earl Sande, American Hall of Fame jockey and thoroughbred horse trainer
- Earl Scruggs, American banjo player
- Earl Simmons, American rapper and actor better known as DMX
- Earl Slipher, astronomer
- Earl Smith , American baseball player
- Earl Smith , American baseball player
- Earl Smith , American baseball player
- Earl Smith , American football, basketball, and baseball coach
- Earl "Chinna" Smith, Jamaican guitarist
- Earl E. T. Smith, American politician
- Earl "J.R." Smith III, American basketball player
- Earl Stevens, American rapper better known as E-40
- Earl Stevens, Jr., E-40's son and producer better known as Droop-E
- Earl Sweatshirt, American rapper and Odd Future member
- Earl Swensson, American architect
- Earl Taft, American mathematician
- Earl Thomas Conley, American country singer
- Earl Van Dorn, former U.S Army officer
- Earl Dominic Vernius, fictional character in Prelude to Dune
- Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American psychologist
- Earl Warren, former Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
- Earl Watson, professional basketball player
- Earl Williams, "the Twirl", American-Israeli professional basketball player
- Earl Williams , former major league baseball player
- Earl Weaver, former baseball manager of the Baltimore Orioles
- Earl Irvin West, American church historian
- Earl Wild, American pianist
- Earl Wilson, former MLB pitcher
- Earl Woods, father of Tiger Woods
- James Earl Jones, American actor
- Wentworth Earl Miller, American actor
Other
- Earl, nickname of a car on MythBusters
- Fictional person on My name is Earl