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
- 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
| Pronunciation | English: /ɜːrnst, ɛərnst/ URNST, AIRNST German: [ɛʁnst] |
|---|---|
| Gender | male |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Germanic |
| Meaning | "serious" (person) |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Ernest, Ernie |
- 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 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 Happel, Austrian football (soccer) manager
- 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
See also
- Herzog Ernst, German medieval epic
- Ernst & Young, professional services and accounting firm
- Ernst Home Centers, a defunct hardware chain
- Ernest (disambiguation)
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