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

Ernest Ernest is a given name derived from the Germanic languages, Germanic word ''ernst'', meaning "serious", often shortened to Ernie. Notable people and fictional characters with the name include: People *Archduke Ernest of Austria (1553–1595), ...

. Notable people with the name include:

Surname

Adolf Ernst Adolf Ernst (October 6, 1832 – August 12, 1899) was a Prussian-born scientist. Ernst settled in Venezuela in 1861, where he taught at the Central University of Venezuela. He became the most important scientist in the country during the second h ...

(1832–1899) German botanist known by the author abbreviation "Ernst" * Anton Ernst (born 1975), South African film producer * Alice Henson Ernst (1880-1980), American writer and historian * Bastian Ernst (born 1987), German politician * Britta Ernst (born 1961), German politician * Cornelia Ernst (born 1956), German politician * Edzard Ernst (born 1948), German-British academic * Emil Ernst (1889–1942), astronomer * Ernie Ernst (1924/25–2013), American judge * Eugen Ernst (1864–1954), German politician * Fabian Ernst (born 1979), German soccer player * Fedir Ernst (1891-1942), Ukrainian art historian * Gustav Ernst (born 1944), Austrian writer * Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (1812–1865), Moravian violinist and composer * Jim Ernst (born 1942), Canadian politician * Jimmy Ernst (1920–1984), American painter, son of Max Ernst * Joni Ernst (born 1970), American politician * K.S. Ernst, American visual poet * Karl Ernst (1904–1934), German politician * Karl Friedrich Paul Ernst, German writer (1866–1933) * Ken Ernst (1918–1985), American comics artist * Klaus Ernst (born 1954), German politician * Konstantin Ernst (born 1961), Russian media manager, producer and TV host * Max Ernst, (1891-1976), German artist and painter * Mensen Ernst (1795–1843), Norwegian road runner and ultramarathonist and one of the first sport professionals * Morris Ernst (1888–1976), American attorney * Ole Ernst (1940–2013), Danish actor * Oswald Herbert Ernst (1842–1926), American general and engineer * Paul Ernst (American writer) (1899–1985), pulp novelist * Richard R. Ernst (1933–2021), Swiss chemist * Siegrid Ernst (1929–2022), German composer * Sipke Ernst (born 1979), Dutch chess grandmaster * Susan G. Ernst, American developmental biologist * Tony Ernst (born 1966), Swedish journalist * W. G. Ernst (born 1931), American geologist specializing in petrology and geochemistry * Walter Ernst (1899–1945), German lawyer and Nazi politician * Wolfgang Ernst, (1956), German lawyer and legal historian

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* 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 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 Harmse, a Dark Souls III, Darksouls III enjoyer * Ernst Reinhold von Hofmann (1801–1871), Russian geologist and mineralogist * Ernst Jaakson (1905–1998), Estonian diplomat * 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 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 Heinrich Roth, (1877–1948), German luthier * Ernst Röhm, (1887-1934), German military officer and co-founder of the Nazi Sturmabteilung, SA (Stormtroopers) * Ernst Rolf (1891–1932), Swedish artist * 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 (1874–1932), German lawyer and politician * Ernst Scholz (politician) (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 notorious former neurologist convicted on over twenty counts of harm * Ernst Stromer (1871–1952), German palaeontologist * Ernst Troeltsch (1865–1923), German Protestant theologian * Ernst Udet, (1896-1941), German flying ace * Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg (1851–1918), Austrian writer and traveller * Ernst van de Wetering (1938–2021), 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 (1871–1953), set theorist * Ernst Ziegler (1894-1974), German actor * Ernst Zündel (1939-2017), German neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier

Pseudonym

* Ernst, pseudonym used by Matthias Jakob Schleiden

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