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 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 *

Bastian Ernst Bastian Alfons Ernst (born 30 January 1987) is a German politician from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Ernst is from Delmenhorst. See also * List of members of the 21st Bundestag The 21st Bundestag, the federal parliament of German ...

(born 1987), German politician *

Britta Ernst Britta Ernst (born 23 February 1961) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) who served as the State Minister for Education and Youth of Brandenburg from 2017 to 2023. She was a member of the Hamburg Parliament from ...

(born 1961), German politician * Cornelia Ernst (born 1956), 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, the wo ...

(born 1948), German-British academic * Emil Ernst (1889–1942), astronomer *

Ernie Ernst Erwin "Ernie" Goree Ernst (July 27, 1924 – July 24, 2013) was an American assistant district attorney, and district judge for Walker County, Texas. During a legal career spanning six decades, Ernst presided over several notable criminal cases, i ...

(1924/25–2013), American judge *

Eugen Ernst Eugen Oswald Gustav Ernst (20 September 1864 – 31 May 1954) was a German Social Democratic Party of Germany, Social Democrat and Socialist Unity Party of Germany, Socialist politician. His appointment as President of the Police of Berlin in J ...

(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 Born ...

(born 1979), German soccer player *

Fedir Ernst Fedir Ernst (; born Theodor Richard Eduard Ernst, 9 November ( O.S. 28 October) 1891 - 28 October 1942) was a Ukrainian art historian, museologist and cultural activist. Among his most notable works is a tour guide around Kyiv published in 1930. ...

(1891-1942), Ukrainian art historian *

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 His ...

(born 1944), Austrian writer *

Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (8 June 1812 – 8 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 ...

(1812–1865), 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 ...

(born 1942), 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 St ...

(1920–1984), American painter, son of Max Ernst *

Joni Ernst Joni Kay Ernst (née Culver; born July 1, 1970) is an American politician and retired military officer serving since 2015 as the Seniority in the United States Senate, junior United States Senate, United States senator from Iowa. A member of the ...

(born 1970), American politician * K.S. Ernst, American visual poet *

Karl Ernst Karl Ernst (1 September 1904 – 30 June 1934) was an SA- who, from March 1933, was the SA commander in Berlin. Prior to joining the Nazi Party, he had been a hotel bellhop and a bouncer at gay nightclubs. He was one of the chief participants ...

(1904–1934), German politician *

Karl Friedrich Paul Ernst Karl Friedrich Paul Ernst (7 March 1866, Elbingerode – 13 May 1933, Styria) was a German writer, dramatist, critic and journalist A journalist is a person who gathers information in the form of text, audio or pictures, processes it into ...

, German writer (1866–1933) *

Ken Ernst Kenneth Frederick 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 ...

(1918–1985), American comics artist *

Klaus Ernst Klaus Ernst (born 1 November 1954) is a German politician and was a leading member of the Labour and Social Justice Party, later The Left and switched to BSW in October 2023. He is political economist has served as a member of The Left in ...

(born 1954), German politician *

Konstantin Ernst Konstantin Lvovich Ernst (; 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 father Lev Konstantinovich Ernst, of History of Germa ...

(born 1961), Russian media manager, producer and TV host *

Max Ernst Max Ernst (; 2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German-born painter, sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and surrealism in Europe. He had no formal artistic trai ...

, (1891-1976), German artist and painter *

Mensen Ernst Mensen Ernst (1795 – 22 January 1843) was born as Mons Monsen Øyri, in the summer of 1795 in the village of Fresvik along the Sognefjord, in the municipality of Vik, Sogn, Vik in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. He was a road running, road run ...

(1795–1843), Norwegian road runner and ultramarathonist and one of the first sport professionals *

Morris Ernst Morris Leopold Ernst (August 23, 1888 – May 21, 1976) was an American lawyer and prominent attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). In public life, he defended and asserted the rights of Americans to privacy and freedom from c ...

(1888–1976), American attorney *

Ole Ernst Ole Ernst Pedersen (16 May 1940 – 1 September 2013) was a Danish actor, active on stage, TV and film. He appeared in 95 films and television shows from 1967 to 2013. He starred in the 1983 film ''Der er et yndigt land'', which won an Honou ...

(1940–2013), Danish actor *

Oswald Herbert Ernst Oswald Herbert Ernst (June27, 1842March21, 1926) was an engineer, military educator, and career officer in the United States Army who became superintendent of the United States Military Academy. Over a forty-year career, Ernst served as an eng ...

(1842–1926), American general and engineer *

Paul Ernst (American writer) Paul Frederick Ernst (November 7, 1899 – September 21, 1985) was an American Pulp fiction (genre), pulp fiction writer. He is best known as the writer of the original 24 "Avenger (pulp-magazine character), Avenger" novels, published by Street ...

(1899–1985), pulp novelist * Richard R. Ernst (1933–2021), Swiss chemist *

Siegrid Ernst Siegrid Ernst (3 March 1929 – 20 March 2022) was a German pianist, music educator and composer. Biography Siegrid Ernst was born in Ludwigshafen am Rhein and studied piano, violin and music theory as a child. She later studied piano and com ...

(1929–2022), German composer *

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 Champion ...

(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 In ...

(born 1966), Swedish journalist *

W. G. Ernst W. Gary Ernst (born December 14, 1931) is an American geologist specializing in petrology and geochemistry. He currently is the Benjamin M. Page Professor Emeritus in Stanford University's department of geological sciences. Career Ernst was ...

(born 1931), American geologist specializing in petrology and geochemistry *

Walter Ernst Walter Ernst (6 April 1899 – March 1945) was a German lawyer and early member of the Nazi Party who became the ''Gauleiter'' of Gau Halle-Merseburg and, later, the '' Bürgermeister'' of Schneidemühl and Bromberg. Fleeing from his city befor ...

(1899–1945), German lawyer and Nazi politician * Wolfgang Ernst, (1956), German lawyer and legal historian

Given name

Count Ernst of Lippe-Biesterfeld Ernst, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld (''Ernst Kasimir Friedrich Karl Eberhard''; 9 June 1842 – 26 September 1904) was the head of the Lippe-Biesterfeld line of the House of Lippe. From 1897 until his death he was the regent of the Principality o ...

, regent of

Lippe Lippe () is a ''Kreis'' (district) in the east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring districts are Herford, Minden-Lübbecke, Höxter, Paderborn, Gütersloh, and district-free Bielefeld, which forms the region Ostwestfalen-Lippe. ...

Ernst Anders Ernst Anders (26 March 1845, Magdeburg – 1911, Mölln, Schleswig-Holstein, Mölln) was a German painter. He began his artistic education as a private student of Andreas Müller (painter), Andreas Müller then, in 1863, enrolled at the Kunstaka ...

(1845–1911), German painter *

Ernest August (disambiguation) Ernest Augustus or Ernst August may refer to: Royalty House of Hanover *Ernest Augustus, Elector of Hanover (1629–1698), father of King George I of Great Britain * Ernest Augustus, Duke of York and Albany, Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück, son of the ...

, 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