Ernst is both a surname and a given name, the German, Dutch, and Scandinavian form of Ernest. Notable people with the name include:
Given name
Count Ernst of Lippe-Biesterfeld, regent of Lippe Ernst Anders (1845–1911), German painter Ernest August (disambiguation), multiple people Ernst Balz (1904–1945), German sculptor
Ernst Stavro Blofeld, evil genius from the James Bond novels and films Ernst Boepple (1887–1950), German Nazi official and SS officer executed for war crimes Ernst Brun Jr. (born 1990), American football player Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945), German Jewish philosopher Ernst Chain (1906–1979), German-born British biochemist Ernst Cohen (1869–1944), Dutch Jewish chemist known for his work on the allotropy of metals
Ernst Gebauer (1799–1865), German painter Ernst Gombrich (1909–2001), Austrian art historian Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919), German biologist and illustrator Ernst Hammerschmidt (1928–1993), Austrian / German scholar of Ethiopia Ernst Happel (1925–1992), Austrian football (soccer) manager Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg (1851–1918), Austrian writer and traveller Ernst Reinhold von Hofmann (1801–1871), Russian geologist and mineralogist Ernst Jaakson (1905–1998), Estonian diplomat Ernst Jandl (1925–2000), Austrian writer, poet, and translator Ernst Jansz (born 1948), Dutch musician and founding member of Doe Maar Ernst Jünger (1895–1998), German writer Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903–1946), Austrian-German Nazi SS police chief and war criminal, executed for war crimes Ernst Keil (1816–1878), German publisher
Ernst af Klercker (1881–1955), Swedish general
Ernst Kummer (1810–1893), German mathematician Ernst von der Lancken (1841–1902), Swedish Army major general Ernst Laraque (born 1970), Haitian judoka Ernst Larsen (1926–2015), Norwegian athlete Ernst Lauda (1859–1932), Austrian engineer Ernst Lubitsch (1892–1947), German-born Jewish film director Ernst Mach (1838–1916), physicist, coined the term "mach number" Ernst Mayr (1904–2005), evolutionary biologist, influential in the philosophy of biology Ernst Neizvestny (1925–2016), Russian sculptor Ernst Öpik (1893–1985), Estonian astronomer Ernst vom Rath (1909–1938), Nazi German diplomat Ernst Röhm (1887–1934), German military officer and co-founder of the Nazi SA (Stormtroopers) Ernst Rolf (1891–1932), Swedish artist Ernst Heinrich Roth (1877–1948), German luthier Ernst Ruska (1906–1988), a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 Ernst "Fritz" Sauckel, known as Fritz Sauckel (1894–1946), German Nazi politician, executed for war crimes Ernst Scholz (politician, born 1874) (1874–1932), German lawyer and politician Ernst Scholz (politician, born 1913) (1913–1986), German diplomat and politician Ernst Sieber (1927–2018), Swiss pastor, social worker, writer, politician and founder of the Sozialwerke Pfarrer Sieber relief organisation Ernst Jansen Steur (1945–2023), Dutch neurologist convicted on over twenty counts of harm Ernst Stimmel (1891–1978), German actor Ernst Stromer (1871–1952), German palaeontologist Ernst Thälmann (1886–1944), German communist politician and revolutionary Ernst Troeltsch (1865–1923), German Protestant theologian Ernst Udet (1896–1941), German flying ace Ernst van de Wetering (1938–2021), Dutch art historian considered to be the world's foremost expert on Rembrandt Ernst Zacharias (1924–2020), German musician Ernst Zermelo (1871–1953), set theorist Ernst Ziegler (1894–1974), German actor Ernst Zündel (1939–2017), German neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier
Surname
A–J
Joseph Roland Ernst (1937–1962), Second-to-last person executed in New Jersey
K–W
Oswald Herbert Ernst (1842–1926), Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1914 to 1917
Paul Ernst (German writer) (1866–1933), German writer, dramatist, critic, and journalist Paul Ernst (American writer) (1899–1985), American novelist
Paul Ernst (pathologist) (1859–1937), Swiss pathologist Peyton Ernst (born 1997), American artistic gymnast
Ricardo Ernst (born 1959), Venezuelan-American academic and author
Ronny Ernst (born 1976), German former footballer Rudolf Ernst (1854–1932), Austro-French painter and printmaker
Sebastian Ernst (born 1984), German sprinter
Tiarna Ernst (born 1988), Australian rules footballer
Tony Ernst (born 1966), Swedish journalist and writer
William Gordon Ernst (1897–1939), Canadian politician
Wolfgang Ernst (media theorist) (born 1959), German media scholar and historian
Pseudonym Ernst, pseudonym used by Matthias Jakob Schleiden
See also
Ernest (disambiguation)