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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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 Anton Ernst is a South African-born film producer who has produced numerous movies in South Africa and also across Europe and North America. In 2012, his movie '' Little One'' was chosen as the South African entry to the Academy Awards. The film ...

(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 * Britta Ernst (born 1961), German politician *

Cornelia Ernst Cornelia Ernst (born 30 November 1956) is a German politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Germany. She is a member of The Left Party, part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left. She was elected to the European Parl ...

, German politician * Edzard Ernst, German-British Professor of Complementary Medicine * Emil Ernst, astronomer *

Ernie Ernst Erwin "Ernie" Goree Ernst (July 27, 1924 – July 24, 2013) was an American assistant district attorney, and district judge for Walker County, Texas, Walker County, Texas. During a legal career spanning six decades, Ernst presided over several nota ...

(1924/25–2013), former District Judge in Walker County, Texas *

Eugen Ernst Eugen Oswald Gustav Ernst (20 September 1864 – 31 May 1954) was a German Social Democrat and Socialist politician. His appointment as President of the Police of Berlin in January 1919 prompted the Spartacist uprising in Berlin. Biography Eu ...

(1864–1954), German politician *

Fabian Ernst Fabian Ernst (; born 30 May 1979) is a German former professional association football, 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 midfi ...

, German soccer player * Gustav Ernst, Austrian writer *

Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (8 June 18128 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 playin ...

, 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 C ...

, 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 Str ...

, American painter, son of Max Ernst * Joni Ernst, U.S. Senator from Iowa *

K.S. Ernst K.S. (Kathy) Ernst (born 1946) is an American poet and artist best known for her work in visual poetry and three-dimensional object poems. While she has created over 500 physical works, she works extensively in digital art as well. Although bo ...

, American visual poet *

Karl Friedrich Paul Ernst (Karl Friedrich) Paul Ernst (7 March 1866, Elbingerode, Kingdom of Hanover – 13 May 1933, aged 67) was a German writer, dramatist, critic and journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, ...

, German writer (1866–1933) * Ken Ernst, U.S. comics artist * Klaus Ernst, German politician *

Konstantin Ernst Konstantin Lvovich Ernst (russian: Константин Львович Эрнст; 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 ...

* Max Ernst, (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 in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. He was a road runner and ultramarathonist ...

(1795–1843), Norwegian road runner and ultramarathonist and one of the first sport professionals *

Morris Ernst Morris 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 censorshi ...

, 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, W. Gary Ernst, American geologist specializing in petrology and geochemistry * Walter Ernst, German lawyer and Nazi politician * Wolfgang Ernst, (1956), German lawyer and legal historian

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* 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 Sturmabteilung, SA (Stormtroopers) * Ernst Rolf, Swedish artist * Ernst Ruska, a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 *Fritz Sauckel, Ernst "Fritz" Sauckel (1894-1946), German Nazi politician, executed for war crimes * Ernst Sieber (born 1927), 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 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 * Count Ernst of Lippe-Biesterfeld, regent of Lippe

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