# 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 (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, German politician
* Edzard Ernst, German-British academic
* Emil Ernst, astronomer
* Ernie Ernst (1924/25–2013), American judge
* Eugen Ernst (1864–1954), 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, American politician
* K.S. Ernst, American visual poet
* Karl Friedrich Paul Ernst, German writer (1866–1933)
* Ken Ernst, American comics artist
* Klaus Ernst, German politician
* Konstantin Ernst, 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, American attorney
* Ole Ernst (1940–2013), Danish actor
* Oswald Herbert Ernst, American general and engineer
* Paul Ernst (American writer), pulp novelist
* Richard R. Ernst (1933–2021), Swiss chemist
* Sipke Ernst (born 1979), Dutch chess grandmaster
* Susan G. Ernst, American developmental biologist
* Tony Ernst, Swedish journalist
* W. G. Ernst, American geologist specializing in petrology and geochemistry
* Walter Ernst, German lawyer and Nazi politician
* Wolfgang Ernst, (1956), German lawyer and legal historian

## Given name

* Count Ernst of Lippe-Biesterfeld, regent of Lippe
* Ernst Anders, German painter
* Ernest August (disambiguation), multiple people
* Ernst Balz, 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., American football player
* 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 Hammerschmidt (1928–1993), Austrian / German scholar of Ethiopia
* Ernst Happel, Austrian football (soccer) manager
* Ernst Harmse, a Darksouls III enjoyer
* 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 SA (Stormtroopers)
* Ernst Rolf, Swedish artist
* Ernst Ruska, 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, Dutch notorious former neurologist convicted on over twenty counts of harm
* Ernst Stromer, German palaeontologist
* Ernst Troeltsch, German Protestant theologian
* 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

## Pseudonym

* Ernst, pseudonym used by Matthias Jakob Schleiden