Ernest Albert Toovey MBE, OAM (16 May 1922 – 18 July 2012) was an Australian cricketer and baseball player.

Toovey served in the Royal Australian Navy during World War II, enlisting for service when he was seventeen.

"[2] His time as a prisoner saw Toovey put to work as part of the forced labour constructing the Thai-Burma Railway.

[3] Following the end of the war and his release from Japanese captivity, Toovey stuck by his wartime aim of playing cricket for Queensland by making his first-class debut for the state against South Australia in the 1949–50 Sheffield Shield.

[3] He was also prominent in ex-services organisations, holding executive positions in Returned and Services League of Australia and Australian Prisoners of War Association, for which he received the MBE and OAM.