Ernest James Norman (12 October 1912 – 3 August 1993) was an Australian rugby league player – a state and national representative centre or five-eighth.

He played over 100 matches for that club and was a member of the Easts sides that won consecutive premierships in seasons 1935, 1936 and 1937.

Norman was born in Paddington, New South Wales in 1912 and was an Eastern Suburbs junior.

Throughout his career he made fifteen state representative appearances for New South Wales and played in twelve Tests for the Australia national rugby league team.

By this time Easts had fallen into the cellar – they had been bottom for the first time in the 1949 season under Ray Stehr – and although Norman improved the Tricolours to seventh in 1950 with seven wins and fifth with nine victories (including premiers South Sydney's solitary home-and-away defeat) in 1951, a lapse to eighth in 1952 prevented him keeping the job.