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), ...

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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 (born 1987), German politician * Britta Ernst (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 (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 (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 (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

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* Count Ernst of Lippe-Biesterfeld, 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 Ernst Stavro Blofeld is a fictional supervillain in 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 British MI6 agent James Bond. Blofel ...

, evil genius from the

James Bond The ''James Bond'' franchise focuses on James Bond (literary character), the titular character, a fictional Secret Intelligence Service, British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels ...

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

(1874–1945), German Jewish philosopher. *

Ernst Chain Sir Ernst Boris Chain (19 June 1906 – 12 August 1979) was a German-born British biochemist and co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on penicillin. Life and career Chain was born in Berlin, the son of Marg ...

(1906–1979), 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 Hof ...

(1869–1944), Dutch Jewish chemist known for his work on the allotropy of metals * Ernst Gebauer (1799–1865), German painter *

Ernst Haeckel Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (; ; 16 February 1834 – 9 August 1919) was a German zoologist, natural history, naturalist, eugenics, eugenicist, Philosophy, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biology, marine biologist and artist ...

(1834–1919), German biologist and illustrator * Ernst Hammerschmidt (1928–1993), Austrian / German scholar of Ethiopia *

Ernst Happel Ernst Franz Hermann Happel (29 November 1925 – 14 November 1992) was an Austrian football player and manager. Happel is regarded as one of the greatest managers of all time, winning both league and domestic cup titles in the Netherlands, Bel ...

(1925–1992), Austrian football (soccer) manager * Ernst Harmse, a Darksouls III enjoyer * Ernst Reinhold von Hofmann (1801–1871), Russian geologist and mineralogist * Ernst Jaakson (1905–1998), Estonian diplomat *

Ernst Jansz Ernst Gideon Jansz (born 24 May 1948 in Amsterdam) is one of the founding members and frontmen of Doe Maar. Doe Maar is a Dutch 1980s ska/reggae band, and is considered one of the most successful bands in Dutch pop history. His father, born in ...

(born 1948), Dutch musician and founding member of Doe Maar *

Ernst Jünger Ernst Jünger (; 29 March 1895 – 17 February 1998) was a German author, highly decorated soldier, philosopher, and entomology, entomologist who became publicly known for his World War I memoir ''Storm of Steel''. The son of a successful busin ...

(1895-1998), German writer *

Ernst Kaltenbrunner Ernst Kaltenbrunner (4 October 1903 – 16 October 1946) was an Austrian high-ranking SS official during the Nazi era, major perpetrator of the Holocaust and convicted war criminal. After the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in 1942, and a ...

(1903-1946), Austrian-German Nazi SS police chief and war criminal, executed for war crimes *

Ernst Keil Ernst Victor Keil (6 December 1816 – 23 March 1878) was a Germans, German bookseller, journalist, editor and publisher. His early publications promoted liberal views and satirized famous politicians leading up to the German revolutions of 1848� ...

(1816–1878), German publisher * Ernst af Klercker (1881–1955), Swedish general *

Ernst Kummer Ernst Eduard Kummer (29 January 1810 – 14 May 1893) was a German mathematician. Skilled in applied mathematics, Kummer trained German army officers in ballistics; afterwards, he taught for 10 years in a '' gymnasium'', the German equivalent of h ...

(1810–1893), German mathematician * Ernst Laraque (born 1970), Haitian judoka * Ernst Larsen (1926–2015), Norwegian athlete *

Ernst Lauda Ernst Ritter von Lauda (born Ernst Philipp Johann Lauda, 15 August 18593 July 1932), was an Austrian Hydraulic engineering, hydraulic and bridge engineer who was an adviser to Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. He was awarded the Order of Franz ...

(1859–1932), Austrian engineer *

Ernst Lubitsch Ernst Lubitsch (; ; January 29, 1892November 30, 1947) was a German-born American film director, producer, writer, and actor. His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; a ...

(1892–1947), German-born Jewish film director *

Ernst Mach Ernst Waldfried Josef Wenzel Mach ( ; ; 18 February 1838 – 19 February 1916) was an Austrian physicist and philosopher, who contributed to the understanding of the physics of shock waves. The ratio of the speed of a flow or object to that of ...

(1838–1916), physicist, coined the term "

mach number The Mach number (M or Ma), often only Mach, (; ) is a dimensionless quantity in fluid dynamics representing the ratio of flow velocity past a boundary to the local speed of sound. It is named after the Austrian physicist and philosopher Erns ...

" *

Ernst Mayr Ernst Walter Mayr ( ; ; 5 July 1904 – 3 February 2005) was a German-American evolutionary biologist. He was also a renowned Taxonomy (biology), taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, Philosophy of biology, philosopher of biology, and ...

(1904–2005), evolutionary biologist, influential in the philosophy of biology * Ernst Neizvestny (1925–2016), Russian

sculptor Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

* Ernst Öpik (1893–1985), Estonian astronomer * Ernst Heinrich Roth, (1877–1948), German

luthier A luthier ( ; ) is a craftsperson who builds or repairs string instruments. Etymology The word ' is originally French and comes from ''luth'', the French word for "lute". The term was originally used for makers of lutes, but it came to be ...

Ernst Röhm Ernst Julius Günther Röhm (; 28 November 1887 – 1 July 1934) was a German military officer, politician and a leading member of the Nazi Party. A close friend and early ally of Adolf Hitler, Röhm was the co-founder and leader of the (SA), t ...

, (1887-1934), German military officer and co-founder of the Nazi SA (Stormtroopers) * Ernst Rolf (1891–1932), Swedish artist *

Ernst Ruska Ernst August Friedrich Ruska (; 25 December 1906 – 27 May 1988) was a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 for his work in electron optics, including the design of the first electron microscope. Life and career Ernst R ...

(1906–1988), a German physicist who won the

Nobel Prize in Physics The Nobel Prize in Physics () is an annual award given by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for those who have made the most outstanding contributions to mankind in the field of physics. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the ...

in 1986 * Ernst "Fritz" Sauckel, known as

Fritz Sauckel Ernst Friedrich Christoph Sauckel (27 October 1894 – 16 October 1946) was a German Nazi politician and convicted war criminal. As General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment ('' Arbeitseinsatz'') from March 1942 until the end of the Second Wor ...

(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 Ernst Sieber (; 24 February 1927 – 19 May 2018) was a Swiss pastor, social activist and politician who served one term as a member of the National Council (Switzerland) for the Evangelical People's Party of Switzerland, Evangelical Pe ...

(1927–2018), Swiss pastor, social worker, writer, politician and founder of the

Sozialwerke Pfarrer Sieber ''Sozialwerke Pfarrer Sieber'' (SWS) is a Swiss charitable foundation and relief organisation based the Municipalities of the canton of Zürich, municipality of Zürich. Initiated in 1963 by Ernst Sieber, a pastor associated with the Reformierte Ki ...

relief organisation * Ernst Jansen Steur (1945–2023), Dutch notorious former neurologist convicted on over twenty counts of harm *

Ernst Stromer Ernst Freiherr Stromer von Reichenbach (born on 12th of June, 1871 in Nürnberg, died on 18th of December, 1952 in Erlangen) was a German paleontologist best remembered for his expedition to Egypt, during which the discovery of the first kno ...

(1871–1952), German palaeontologist *

Ernst Troeltsch Ernst Peter Wilhelm Troeltsch (; ; 17 February 1865 – 1 February 1923) was a German liberal Protestant theologian, a writer on the philosophy of religion and the philosophy of history, and a classical liberal politician. He was a member of ...

(1865–1923), German Protestant theologian *

Ernst Udet Ernst Udet (26 April 1896 – 17 November 1941) was a German pilot during World War I and a ''Luftwaffe'' Colonel-General (''Generaloberst'') during World War II. Udet joined the Imperial German Air Service in April 1915 at the age of 19 ...

, (1896-1941), German flying ace * Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg (1851–1918), Austrian writer and traveller *

Ernst van de Wetering Ernst van de Wetering (9 March 1938 – 11 August 2021) was a Dutch art historian and an expert on Rembrandt and his work. Background Ernst van de Wetering was born in Hengelo. He was first trained as an artist at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts ...

(1938–2021), Dutch art historian considered to be the world's foremost expert on Rembrandt *

Ernst vom Rath Ernst Eduard vom Rath (3 June 1909 – 9 November 1938) was a member of the German nobility, a Nazi Party member, and German Foreign Office diplomat. He is mainly remembered for his assassination in Paris in 1938 by a Polish Jewish teenager, ...

(1909-1938), Nazi German diplomat *

Ernst von der Lancken Major General Ernst Ferdinand von der Lancken (24 August 1841 – 18 May 1902) was a Swedish Army officer. His senior commands includes the post as Inspector of the Swedish Army Service Troops (1889–1892) and Acting Chief of the General Staf ...

(1841-1902), Swedish Army major general *

Ernst Zacharias Ernst Zacharias (21 June 1924 – 6 July 2020) was a German musician and engineer. In the 1950s and 1960s, he invented various electro-mechanical musical instruments for the German musical instrument manufacturer Hohner, including the Cembalet, t ...

(1924–2020), German musician *

Ernst Zermelo Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Zermelo (; ; 27 July 187121 May 1953) was a German logician and mathematician, whose work has major implications for the foundations of mathematics. He is known for his role in developing Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory, Z ...

(1871–1953), set theorist *

Ernst Ziegler Ernst Ziegler (born Ernst Aldoff, 16 April 1894 – 11 April 1974) was a German film and television actor. Biography Ziegler began his film career in 1932, appearing in the German film '' Die verkaufte Braut'' (The Bartered Bride). He went on ...

(1894-1974), German actor *

Ernst Zündel Ernst Christof Friedrich Zündel (; 24 April 1939 – 5 August 2017) was a German neo-Nazi publisher and pamphleteer of Holocaust denial literature.

(1939-2017), German neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier

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* Ernst, pseudonym used by

Matthias Jakob Schleiden Matthias Jakob Schleiden (; 5 April 1804 – 23 June 1881) was a German botanist and co-founder of cell theory, along with Theodor Schwann and Rudolf Virchow. He published some poems and non-scientific work under the pseudonym Ernst. Career Ma ...

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