Ernst

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

A–J

Adolf Ernst (1832–1899), Venezuelan botanist

Alfred Ernst (1875–1968), Swiss botanist

Alice Henson Ernst (1880–1980), American dramatist

Alwin C. Ernst (1881–1948), American businessman

Andy Ernst, American musician

Annika Ernst (born 1982), German actress

Anton Ernst, South African-born film producer

Austin Ernst (born 1992), American professional golfer

Bastian Ernst (born 1987), German politician

Bernard M. L. Ernst (1879–1938), American lawyer and magician

Bettina Ernst (born 1968), Swiss gymnast

Bob Ernst, American rowing coach

Britta Ernst (born 1961), German politician

Carl H. Ernst (1938–2018), American herpetologist

Carl W. Ernst (born 1950), American Islamic studies scholar

Carley Ernst (born 1994), Australian basketball player

Caroline Ernst (1819–1902), American settler

Charlie Ernst, American soccer player

Chris Ernst (born 1953/54), American rower

K–W

K.S. Ernst (born 1946), American poet and artist

Kajsa Ernst (born 1962), Swedish actress

Karl Ernst (1904–1934), German SA leader

Ken Ernst (1918–1985), American cartoonist

Klaus Ernst (born 1954), German politician

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

Lajos Ernst (1872–1937), Hungarian collector

Leila Ernst (1920–1970), American actress

Lillie Rose Ernst (1870–1943), American educator

Manuela Ernst (born 1985), Swiss politician

Max Ernst (1891–1976), German artist

Meinrad Ernst (1925–2019), Swiss wrestler

Mensen Ernst (1795–1843), Norwegian distance runner

Mike Ernst (born 1950), American football player

Morris Ernst (1888–1976), American attorney

Norbert Ernst (born 1977), Austrian operatic tenor

Ole Ernst (1940–2013), Danish actor

Oswald Herbert Ernst (1842–1926), Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1914 to 1917

Otto Ernst (1898-1940), Chilean footballer

Pseudonym

Ernst, pseudonym used by Matthias Jakob Schleiden