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"
- Alice Henson Ernst, American writer and historian
- Cornelia Ernst, German politician
- Edzard Ernst, German-British Professor of Complementary Medicine
- Emil Ernst, astronomer
- Ernie Ernst, former District Judge in Walker County, Texas
- Eugen Ernst, German politician
- Fabian Ernst, German soccer player
- 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, U.S. Senator from Iowa
- K.S. Ernst, American visual poet
- Ken Ernst, U.S. comics artist
- Karl Friedrich Paul Ernst, German writer
- Klaus Ernst, German politician
- 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
- Sipke Ernst, Dutch chess grandmaster
- Susan Ernst, American developmental biologist
- Tony Ernst, Swedish journalist
- W. Gary Ernst, American geologist specializing in petrology and geochemistry
- Wolfgang Ernst,, German lawyer and legal historian
Given name
- Ernst Anders, German painter
- Ernst August
- 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 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 Happel, Austrian football manager
- Ernst Jaakson, Estonian diplomat
- 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 Kummer, German mathematician
- 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 Heinrich Roth,, German luthier
- Ernst Röhm,, German military officer and co-founder of the Nazi SA
- Ernst Ruska, a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986
- Ernst "Fritz" Sauckel, German Nazi politician, executed for war crimes
- Ernst Sieber, Swiss pastor, social worker, writer, politician and founder of the Sozialwerke Pfarrer Sieber relief organisation
- Ernst Jansen Steur, Dutch notorious former neurologist convicted on over twenty counts of harm
- Ernst Stromer, German palaeontologist
- Ernst Udet,, German flying ace
- Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg, Austrian writer and traveller
- Ernst van de Wetering, Dutch art historian considered to be the world's foremost expert on Rembrandt
- Ernst vom Rath, Nazi German diplomat
- Ernst von der Lancken, Swedish Army major general
- Ernst Zermelo, set theorist
- Ernst Ziegler, German actor
- Count Ernst of Lippe-Biesterfeld, regent of Lippe
