The surname "Estes" originates from the Middle English word est, meaning 'east'.https://forebears.io/surnames/estes The name "Estes" may also have its roots in ancient Greece, where it comes from the Greek "esthesis", which means "sensation" or "perception." Estes is also an ancient Latin word for meaning "supper or dinner." Sources of female form: * https://firstnam.es/name-estes Notable people with the surname include: *

Addie Garwood Estes Addie Garwood Estes (1868 – November 2, 1928) was an American temperance activist. Since early adulthood, she worked for the Temperance movement in the United States, temperance movement and affiliated with the Woman's Christian Temperance Union ...

, U.S. temperance activist *

Billie Sol Estes Billie Sol Estes (January 10, 1925 – May 14, 2013) was an American businessman and financier best known for his involvement in a business fraud scandal that complicated his ties to friend and future U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, Lyndon John ...

, Texas businessman and politician *

Bob Estes Bob Alan Estes (born February 2, 1966) is an American professional golfer who plays on the PGA Tour Champions. He was previously a member of the PGA Tour, where he was a four-time champion. Early life and amateur career Estes was born in Graham, ...

, U.S. professional golf player *

Eleanor Estes Eleanor Estes (May 9, 1906 – July 15, 1988) was an American children's writer and a children's librarian. Her book '' Ginger Pye,'' for which she also created illustrations, won the Newbery Medal. Three of her books were Newbery Honor Winners, ...

, U.S. children's author * James A. Estes U.S. ecologist * Jim Estes, U.S. golfer * John Estes, U.S. football player * John Adam Estes, also known as "Sleepy John" Estes, U.S. blues musician *

Patrick Estes Patrick Brion Estes (born February 4, 1983) is an American former professional football offensive tackle. He was selected by the San Francisco 49ers in the seventh round of the 2005 NFL draft. He played college football at Virginia. Early life ...

, U.S. football player *

Richard Estes Richard Estes (born May 14, 1932, in Kewanee, Illinois) is an American artist, best known for his photorealist paintings. The paintings generally consist of reflective, clean, and inanimate city and geometric landscapes. He is regarded as one of ...

, U.S. photorealist painter * Richard Dean Estes, paleoherpetologist *

Richard Despard Estes Richard Despard Estes (December 26, 1927 - December 6, 2021) was a biologist specialising in the behaviour of mammals in mainland Africa. He was particularly interested in studying wildebeest. This interest led Rod East, the former co-chair of the ...

, biologist *

Rob Estes Rob Estes (born July 22, 1963) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Harry Wilson on the teen drama series '' 90210'', as Sgt. Chris Lorenzo on the crime drama series ''Silk Stalkings'', and as Kyle McBride on the primetime soap ...

, U.S. actor *

Ron Estes Ronald Gene Estes ( ; born July 19, 1956) is an American politician who has been the U.S. representative for since April 2017. A member of the Republican Party, he served as Kansas State Treasurer from 2011 to 2017. A fifth-generation Kansan ...

, U.S. congressman from Kansas *

Shawn Estes Aaron Shawn Estes (born February 18, 1973) is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 14 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played in MLB for the San Francisco Giants, New York Mets, Cincinnati Reds, Chicago Cubs, Colo ...

, Major League Baseball player *

Simon Estes Simon Estes (born March 2, 1938) is an operatic bass-baritone of African-American descent who had a major international opera career beginning in the 1960s. He has sung at most of the world's major opera houses as well as in front of president ...

, U.S. bass-baritone singer *

Vernon Estes Vernon "Vern" Estes (born January 4, 1930) is the founder and namesake of Estes Industries, the highly recognized model rocket production company, headquartered in Penrose, Colorado. In 1957, G. Harry Stine and Orville Carlisle founded the first ...

, U.S. businessman *

Wayne Estes Wayne Vernon Estes (May 13, 1943 – February 8, 1965) was an American basketball player. He was a All-American Forward (basketball), forward for the Utah State Aggies men's basketball, Utah State Aggies from 1962 to 1965. Wayne is the fourth ...

, U.S. basketball player *

Will Estes William Estes Nipper (; born October 21, 1978), known professionally as Will Estes, is an American actor. He is known for his role from 2010 to 2024 on CBS police drama '' Blue Bloods'' as Jameson "Jamie" Reagan, a New York City Police Departme ...

, U.S. actor *

William Kaye Estes William Kaye Estes (June 17, 1919 – August 17, 2011) was an American psychologist. A ''Review of General Psychology'' survey, published in 2002, ranked Estes as the 77th most cited psychologist of the 20th century. In order to develop a statist ...

, U.S. mathematical psychologist * W.W. Estes, U.S. businessman and farmer *

Yusuf Estes Yusuf Estes (born: Joseph Estes, 1944), is an American Islamic preacher and chaplain from Texas. Estes converted from Christianity to Islam in 1991. He served as a Muslim chaplain for the United States Bureau of Prisons during the 1990s, and as ...

, U.S. minister Estes is also less frequently found as a given name, mostly used in the U.S. as a male name. But there are occurrences of use as female name too. Therefore, it is considered unisex. For example, Czech Republic has accepted this name. There is just one, though. : * Estes Banks, American football player *

Estes Kefauver Carey Estes Kefauver ( ; July 26, 1903 – August 10, 1963) was an American politician from Tennessee. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1939 to 1949 and in the U.S. Senate from 1949 until h ...

, U.S. politician * Estes Parham, U.S. basketball player

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