Ernst is both a surname and a given name, the German, Dutch, and Scandinavian form of Ernest. Notable people with the name include:
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Given name
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 Evald Bergroth (1857–1925), Finnish entomologist
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 Ewald (1836–1904), German painter
Ernst Gebauer (1799–1865), German painter
Ernst Gombrich (1909–2001), Austrian art historian
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 von Hesse-Wartegg (1851–1918), Austrian writer and traveller
Ernst Reinhold von Hofmann (1801–1871), Russian geologist and mineralogist
Ernst Jaakson (1905–1998), Estonian diplomat
Ernst Jandl (1925–2000), Austrian writer, poet, and translator
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 Klenk (1896–1971), German biochemist
Ernst af Klercker (1881–1955), Swedish general
Ernst Koerner (1846–1927), German painter
Ernst Kummer (1810–1893), German mathematician
Ernst von der Lancken (1841–1902), Swedish Army major general
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 vom Rath (1909–1938), Nazi German diplomat
Ernst Röhm (1887–1934), German military officer and co-founder of the Nazi SA (Stormtroopers)
Ernst Rolf (1891–1932), Swedish artist
Ernst Heinrich Roth (1877–1948), German luthier
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 (politician, born 1874) (1874–1932), German lawyer and politician
Ernst Scholz (politician, born 1913) (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 neurologist convicted on over twenty counts of harm
Ernst Stimmel (1891–1978), German actor
Ernst Stromer (1871–1952), German palaeontologist
Ernst Thälmann (1886–1944), German communist politician and revolutionary
Ernst Troeltsch (1865–1923), German Protestant theologian
Ernst Udet (1896–1941), German flying ace
Ernst van de Wetering (1938–2021), Dutch art historian considered to be the world's foremost expert on Rembrandt
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
Surname
Ernst (surname)
Pseudonym
Ernst, pseudonym used by Matthias Jakob Schleiden



