Television and film

• Ethan Coen, film director and screenwriter, who often works with his brother Joel Coen
• Ethan Embry, an American actor in Can't Hardly Wait; as a youth credited as Ethan Randall
• Ethan Erickson, American actor
• Ethan Hawke, a two-time Oscar-nominated Hollywood actor
• Ethan Hunt, a character in the Mission: Impossible films played by Tom Cruise
• Ethan James, a character from the TV show Power Rangers: Dino Thunder
• Ethan Phillips, a playwright, author, and actor on Star Trek: Voyager
• Ethan Rayne, a character from the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Ethan Rom, a character from the TV series Lost (TV series)
• Ethan Snyder, a character from the soap opera As the World Turns
• Ethan Suplee, an American actor on My Name Is Earl and Clerks II
• Ethan Craft, a character from Disney Channels Original Series "Lizzie McGuire"

Military

• Eitan, an advanced Israeli MALE (Medium Altitude Long Endurance) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)
• Ethan Allen, an early American revolutionary and general, a leader during the era of the Vermont Republic and the New Hampsire Grants
• Ethan Allen (armsmaker), an American armsmaker from Massachusetts
• Ethan Allen class submarine, an evolutionary development from the George Washington class
• Fort Ethan Allen, U.S. army installation in Vermont
• Rafael Eitan, an Israeli general
• USS Ethan Allen (SSBN-608), the second ship of the United States Navy to be named for Ethan Allen

Places

In USA

• Ethan, South Dakota, a town
• Fort Ethan Allen (Arlington, Virginia), a fort in Virginia

In Israel

• Neve Eitan, a kibbutz in Beit She'an Valley regional council
• Eitan, Israel, a moshav in the Shafir Regional Council area.

Transportation

• Ethan Allen boating accident, a shipwreck
• Ethan Allen Express, a passenger train operated by Amtrak between New York City and Rutland, Vermont

Miscellaneous

• Ethan (Hebrew Bible), author of Psalm 89
• Ethan Albright, an American football center
• Ethan Allen (baseball), an American Major League Baseball player from 1926 to 1938
• Ethan Allen (furniture company), a furniture chain with more than 300 stores across the United States
• Ethan Allen Brown, a politician that served as the seventh governor of Ohio
• Ethan Frome, eponymous character from Edith Wharton's 1911 novel
• Ethan Leib, a professor
• Ethan Moreau, a Canadian hockey player
• Ethan Watts, an American volleyball player
• Ethan Zohn, who won an African edition of Survivor
• Ethan Zuckerman, a founder of Tripod.com
• Ethan Fitzsimons, a large nosed individual with a tendency to say "woot" rather a lot.
• Prince Ethan (comics) of the Heron Dynasty on Avalon, character from the comic book Scion from CrossGen comics
• Ethan MacManus, a character in the webcomic Ctrl+Alt+Del