Ernst is both a surname and a given name, the German, Dutch, and Scandinavian form of

Ernest Ernest is a given name derived from Germanic word ''ernst'', meaning "serious". Notable people and fictional characters with the name include: People * Archduke Ernest of Austria (1553–1595), son of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor * Ernest, ...

. Notable people with the name include:

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* Adolf Ernst (1832–1899) German botanist known by the author abbreviation "Ernst" *

Anton Ernst Anton Ernst is a South African-born film producer who has produced numerous movies in South Africa and also across Europe and North America. In 2012, his movie '' Little One'' was chosen as the South African entry to the Academy Awards. The film ...

(1975-) South African Film Producer *

Alice Henson Ernst Alice Henson Ernst (September 3, 1880 – February 12, 1980) was an American playwright, professor and author. She conducted anthropological work among the Native Americans in Oregon. Ernst was also well-known for her history and research of pione ...

(1880-1980), American writer and historian *

Britta Ernst Britta Ernst (born 23 February 1961) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany who has served as Education Minister of Brandenburg since 2017. She was a member of the Hamburg Parliament from 1997 to 2011, served as School ...

(born 1961), German politician *

Cornelia Ernst Cornelia Ernst (born 30 November 1956) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany. She is a member of The Left Party, part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left. She was elected to the European Pa ...

, German politician *

Edzard Ernst Edzard Ernst (born 30 January 1948) is a retired British-German academic physician and researcher specializing in the study of complementary and alternative medicine. He was Professor of Complementary Medicine at the University of Exeter, alleged ...

, German-British Professor of Complementary Medicine *

Emil Ernst Emil Ernst (6 June 1889– 26 June 1942) was a German astronomer and discoverer of a minor planet. He did his PhD dissertation in 1918 at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl (Heidelberg Observatory) at the Ruprecht Karl University of H ...

, astronomer * Ernie Ernst (1924/25–2013), former District Judge in Walker County, Texas * Eugen Ernst (1864–1954), German politician *

Fabian Ernst Fabian Ernst (; born 30 May 1979) is a German former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He was regarded as a two-way player who can stop the opposition and start attacks with his passing from central midfield. Club career Bo ...

, German soccer player *

Gustav Ernst Gustav Ernst (born 23 August 1944) is an Austrian playwright, novelist and screenwriter. He has also founded and edited two literary journals, '' Wespennest'' and '' kolik''. Ernst was born in Vienna, where he read Philosophy, Psychology and Hist ...

, Austrian writer *

Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (8 June 18128 October 1865) was a Moravian-Jewish violinist, violist and composer. He was seen as the outstanding violinist of his time and one of Niccolò Paganini's greatest successors. He contributed to polyphonic playi ...

, Moravian violinist and composer *

Jim Ernst James Arthur Ernst (born November 19, 1942) is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a municipal councillor in Winnipeg from 1973 to 1986 and a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1986 to 1997. From 1988 to 1997, Ernst was a C ...

, Canadian politician *

Jimmy Ernst Hans-Ulrich Ernst (June 24, 1920 – February 6, 1984), known as Jimmy Ernst, was an American painter born in Germany. Early life Jimmy Ernst was born in 1920 in Cologne, Germany, the son of German Surrealist painter Max Ernst and Luise Str ...

, American painter, son of Max Ernst *

Joni Ernst Joni Kay Ernst (née Culver; born July 1, 1970) is an American former military officer and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Iowa since 2015. A member of the Republican Party, she previously served in the Iowa State Se ...

, U.S. Senator from Iowa * K.S. Ernst, American visual poet *

Karl Friedrich Paul Ernst (Karl Friedrich) Paul Ernst (7 March 1866, Elbingerode, Kingdom of Hanover – 13 May 1933, aged 67) was a German writer, dramatist, critic and journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, ...

, German writer (1866–1933) *

Ken Ernst Kenneth Frederic Ernst (1918 – August 6, 1985) was a US comic book and comic strip artist. He is most notable for his work on the popular and long-running comic strip ''Mary Worth'' from 1942 to 1985.''Contemporary Graphic Artists'' By Gale Res ...

, U.S. comics artist *

Klaus Ernst Klaus Ernst (born 1 November 1954 in Munich) is a left-wing German politician and was a leading member of the Labour and Social Justice Party and now The Left. The certified political economist has served as a member of The Left in the Bundest ...

, German politician *

Konstantin Ernst Konstantin Lvovich Ernst (russian: Константин Львович Эрнст; born 6 February 1961) is a Russian media manager, producer and TV host. He is currently the CEO of Channel One Russia. Biography Early years and education His ...

Max Ernst Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German (naturalised American in 1948 and French in 1958) painter, sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealis ...

, (1891-1976), German artist and painter * Mensen Ernst (1795–1843), Norwegian road runner and ultramarathonist and one of the first sport professionals * Morris Ernst, American attorney * Ole Ernst (1940–2013), Danish actor * Oswald Herbert Ernst, American general and engineer * Paul Ernst (American writer), pulp novelist *

Richard R. Ernst Richard Robert Ernst (14 August 1933 – 4 June 2021) was a Swiss physical chemist and Nobel Laureate. Ernst was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1991 for his contributions towards the development of Fourier transform nuclear magnetic re ...

(1933–2021), Swiss chemist *

Sipke Ernst Sipke Ernst (born 8 January 1979), is a Dutch chess Grandmaster, Dutch Chess Championship medalist, and FIDE Trainer. Biography In the 2000s, Sipke Ernst was one of the leading Dutch chess players. He won four medals in the Dutch Chess Champio ...

(born 1979), Dutch chess grandmaster * Susan G. Ernst, American developmental biologist *

Tony Ernst Tony Nicolai Ernst (born 31 October 1966) is a journalist and writer about Swedish hip hop, based in Malmö, Sweden. He is the founder of '' Gidappa'', which describes itself as "The Only Swedish Magazine about Black Music". Jan Majlard rivalry ...

, Swedish journalist * W. Gary Ernst, American geologist specializing in petrology and geochemistry *

Walter Ernst Walter Ernst (6 April 1899 – March 1945) was a German lawyer, ''Gauleiter'' of Gau Halle-Merseburg and later '' Bürgermeister'' of Schneidemühl and Bromberg. Early Nazi career Not much is known about Ernst's early life. In February 1925, ...

, German lawyer and Nazi politician *

Wolfgang Ernst Wolfgang Hermann Wernher Ernst (born 1956 in Bonn, Germany) is a German lawyer and Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford. Life Ernst studied from 1976 to 1980 at the University of Bonn and the Goethe University Frankfurt ...

, (1956), German lawyer and legal historian

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Ernst Anders Ernst Anders (26 March 1845, Magdeburg – 1911, Mölln) was a German painter. He began his artistic education as a private student of Andreas Müller then, in 1863, enrolled at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he studied with Rudolf Wie ...

, German painter * Ernest August (disambiguation), multiple people * Ernst Balz, German sculptor *

Ernst Stavro Blofeld Ernst Stavro Blofeld is a character (arts), fictional character and villain from the James Bond series of novels and films, created by Ian Fleming. A criminal mastermind with aspirations of world domination, he is the archenemy of the Secret In ...

, evil genius from the

James Bond The ''James Bond'' series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections. Since Fleming's death in 1964, eight other authors have ...

novels and films * Ernst Boepple (1887–1950), German Nazi official and SS officer executed for war crimes *

Ernst Cassirer Ernst Alfred Cassirer ( , ; July 28, 1874 – April 13, 1945) was a German philosopher. Trained within the Neo-Kantian Marburg School, he initially followed his mentor Hermann Cohen in attempting to supply an idealistic philosophy of science. A ...

, German Jewish philosopher. * Ernst Chain, German-born British biochemist *

Ernst Cohen Ernst Julius Cohen ForMemRS (7 March 1869 – 6 March 1944) was a Dutch Jewish chemist known for his work on the allotropy of metals. Cohen studied chemistry under Svante Arrhenius in Stockholm, Henri Moissan at Paris, and Jacobus van't ...

, 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 (soccer) manager * Ernst Reinhold von Hofmann, Russian geologist and mineralogist * Ernst Jaakson, Estonian diplomat * Ernst Jansz, 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, German mathematician * Ernst Laraque, Haitian judoka * Ernst Larsen, Norwegian athlete * Ernst Lauda (1859 - 1932), Austrian engineer * Ernst Lubitsch (1892–1947), 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, (1877–1948), German luthier * Ernst Röhm, (1887-1934), German military officer and co-founder of the Nazi Sturmabteilung, SA (Stormtroopers) * Ernst Rolf, Swedish artist * Ernst Ruska, a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 *Fritz Sauckel, Ernst "Fritz" Sauckel (1894-1946), German Nazi politician, executed for war crimes * Ernst Sieber (born 1927), 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, (1896-1941), 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 (1909-1938), Nazi German diplomat * Ernst von der Lancken (1841-1902), Swedish Army major general * Ernst Zacharias (1924–2020), German musician * Ernst Zermelo, set theorist * Ernst Ziegler (1894-1974), German actor * Ernst Zündel (1939-2017), German neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier * Count Ernst of Lippe-Biesterfeld, regent of Lippe

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