Ernst
Ernst is both a surname and a given name, the German, Dutch, and Scandinavian form of Ernest. Notable people with the name include:
Surname
- Adolf Ernst German botanist known by the author abbreviation "Ernst"
- Anton Ernst, South African film producer
- Alice Henson Ernst, American writer and historian
- Bastian Ernst, German politician
- Britta Ernst, German politician
- Cornelia Ernst, German politician
- Cornelius Ernst, Sri Lankan theologian.
- Edzard Ernst, German-British academic
- Emil Ernst, astronomer
- Ernie Ernst, American judge
- Eugen Ernst, German politician
- Fabian Ernst, German soccer player
- Fedir Ernst, Ukrainian art historian
- Gustav Ernst, Austrian writer
- Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, Moravian violinist and composer
- Jim Ernst, Canadian politician
- Jimmy Ernst, American painter, son of Max Ernst
- Joni Ernst, American politician
- K.S. Ernst, American visual poet
- Karl Ernst, German politician
- Karl Friedrich Paul Ernst, German writer
- Ken Ernst, American comics artist
- Klaus Ernst, German politician
- Konstantin Ernst, Russian media manager, producer and TV host
- Max Ernst,, German artist and painter
- Mensen Ernst, Norwegian road runner and ultramarathonist and one of the first sport professionals
- Morris Ernst, American attorney
- Ole Ernst, Danish actor
- Oswald Herbert Ernst, American general and engineer
- Paul Ernst , pulp novelist
- Richard R. Ernst , Swiss chemist
- Siegrid Ernst, German composer
- Sipke Ernst, Dutch chess grandmaster
- Susan G. Ernst, American developmental biologist
- Tony Ernst, Swedish journalist
- W. G. Ernst, American geologist specializing in petrology and geochemistry
- Walter Ernst, German lawyer and Nazi politician
- Wolfgang Ernst,, German lawyer and legal historian
Given name
- Count Ernst of Lippe-Biesterfeld, regent of Lippe
- Ernst Anders, German painter
- Ernest August, multiple people
- Ernst Balz, German sculptor
- Ernst Stavro Blofeld, evil genius from the James Bond novels and films
- Ernst Boepple, German Nazi official and SS officer executed for war crimes
- Ernst Brun Jr., American football player
- Ernst Cassirer, German Jewish philosopher
- Ernst Chain, German-born British biochemist
- Ernst Cohen, Dutch Jewish chemist known for his work on the allotropy of metals
- Ernst Gebauer, German painter
- Ernst Haeckel, German biologist and illustrator
- Ernst Hammerschmidt, Austrian / German scholar of Ethiopia
- Ernst Happel, Austrian football manager
- Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg, Austrian writer and traveller
- Ernst Reinhold von Hofmann, Russian geologist and mineralogist
- Ernst Jaakson, Estonian diplomat
- Ernst Jandl, Austrian writer, poet, and translator
- Ernst Jansz, Dutch musician and founding member of Doe Maar
- Ernst Jünger, German writer
- Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian-German Nazi SS police chief and war criminal, executed for war crimes
- Ernst Keil, German publisher
- Ernst af Klercker, Swedish general
- Ernst Kummer, German mathematician
- Ernst von der Lancken, Swedish Army major general
- Ernst Laraque, Haitian judoka
- Ernst Larsen, Norwegian athlete
- Ernst Lauda, Austrian engineer
- Ernst Lubitsch, German-born Jewish film director
- Ernst Mach, physicist, coined the term "mach number"
- Ernst Mayr, evolutionary biologist, influential in the philosophy of biology
- Ernst Neizvestny, Russian sculptor
- Ernst Öpik, Estonian astronomer
- Ernst vom Rath, Nazi German diplomat
- Ernst Röhm, German military officer and co-founder of the Nazi SA
- Ernst Rolf, Swedish artist
- Ernst Heinrich Roth, German luthier
- Ernst Ruska, a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986
- Ernst "Fritz" Sauckel, known as Fritz Sauckel, German Nazi politician, executed for war crimes
- Ernst Scholz , German lawyer and politician
- Ernst Scholz , German diplomat and politician
- Ernst Sieber, Swiss pastor, social worker, writer, politician and founder of the Sozialwerke Pfarrer Sieber relief organisation
- Ernst Jansen Steur, Dutch neurologist convicted on over twenty counts of harm
- Ernst Stromer, German palaeontologist
- Ernst Thälmann, German communist politician and revolutionary
- Ernst Troeltsch, German Protestant theologian
- Ernst Udet, German flying ace
- Ernst van de Wetering, Dutch art historian considered to be the world's foremost expert on Rembrandt
- Ernst Zacharias, German musician
- Ernst Zermelo, set theorist
- Ernst Ziegler, German actor
- Ernst Zündel, German neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier
Pseudonym
- Ernst, pseudonym used by Matthias Jakob Schleiden