Ernst is both a surname and a given name, the German, Dutch, and Scandinavian form of

Ernest Ernest is a given name derived from Germanic languages, Germanic word ''ernst'', meaning "serious". Notable people and fictional characters with the name include: People *Archduke Ernest of Austria (1553–1595), son of Maximilian II, Holy Roman ...

. 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 Britta Ernst (born 23 February 1961) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany who has served as Education Minister of Brandenburg since 2017. She was a member of the Hamburg Parliament from 1997 to 2011, served as School ...

(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 Edzard Ernst (born 30 January 1948) is a retired British-German academic physician and researcher specializing in the study of complementary and alternative medicine. He was Professor of Complementary Medicine at the University of Exeter, alleged ...

, German-British Professor of Complementary Medicine *

Emil Ernst Emil Ernst (6 June 1889– 26 June 1942) was a German astronomer and discoverer of a minor planet. He did his PhD dissertation in 1918 at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl (Heidelberg Observatory) at the Ruprecht Karl University of ...

, 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 Gustav Ernst (born 23 August 1944) is an Austrian playwright, novelist and screenwriter. He has also founded and edited two literary journals, ''Wespennest'' and ''kolik''. Ernst was born in Vienna, where he read Philosophy, Psychology and Histor ...

, 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 Joni Kay Ernst (née Culver; born July 1, 1970) is an American former military officer and politician serving as the Seniority in the United States Senate, junior United States Senate, United States senator from Iowa since 2015. A member of the ...

, 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 Kenneth Frederic Ernst (1918 – August 6, 1985) was a US comic book and comic strip artist. He is most notable for his work on the popular and long-running comic strip ''Mary Worth'' from 1942 to 1985.''Contemporary Graphic Artists'' By Gale Rese ...

, U.S. comics artist *

Klaus Ernst Klaus Ernst (born 1 November 1954 in Munich) is a left-wing German politician and was a leading member of the Labour and Social Justice Party and now The Left. The certified political economist has served as a member of The Left in the Bundest ...

, 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 Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German (naturalised American in 1948 and French in 1958) painter, sculptor, printmaker, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism ...

, (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 Ole Ernst Pedersen (16 May 1940 – 1 September 2013) was a Danish actor, active on stage, TV and film. He appeared in 95 films and television shows from 1967 to 2013. He starred in the 1983 film '' Der er et yndigt land'', which won an Hono ...

(1940–2013), Danish actor *

Oswald Herbert Ernst Oswald Herbert Ernst (June 27, 1842 – March 21, 1926) was an astronomer, engineer, military educator, and career officer in the United States Army who became superintendent of the United States Military Academy. Over a forty-year career, Erns ...

, American general and engineer *

Paul Ernst (American writer) Paul Frederick Ernst (November 7, 1899 – September 21, 1985) was an American pulp fiction writer. He is best known as the writer of the original 24 "Avenger" novels, published by Street & Smith under the house name Kenneth Robeson. Biography ...

, pulp novelist *

Richard R. Ernst Richard Robert Ernst (14 August 1933 – 4 June 2021) was a Swiss physical chemist and Nobel Laureate. Ernst was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1991 for his contributions towards the development of Fourier transform nuclear magnetic re ...

(1933–2021), Swiss chemist *

Sipke Ernst Sipke Ernst (born 8 January 1979), is a Dutch chess Grandmaster, Dutch Chess Championship medalist, and FIDE Trainer. Biography In the 2000s, Sipke Ernst was one of the leading Dutch chess players. He won four medals in the Dutch Chess Champion ...

(born 1979), Dutch chess grandmaster * Susan G. Ernst, American developmental biologist *

Tony Ernst Tony Nicolai Ernst (born 31 October 1966) is a journalist and writer about Swedish hip hop, based in Malmö, Sweden. He is the founder of '' Gidappa'', which describes itself as "The Only Swedish Magazine about Black Music". Jan Majlard rivalry I ...

, Swedish journalist * W. Gary Ernst, American geologist specializing in petrology and geochemistry *

Walter Ernst Walter Ernst (6 April 1899 – March 1945) was a German lawyer, ''Gauleiter'' of Gau Halle-Merseburg and later ''Bürgermeister'' of Schneidemühl and Bromberg. Early Nazi career Not much is known about Ernst's early life. In February 1925, t ...

, German lawyer and Nazi politician *

Wolfgang Ernst Wolfgang Hermann Wernher Ernst (born 1956 in Bonn, Germany) is a German lawyer and Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford. Life Ernst studied from 1976 to 1980 at the University of Bonn and the Goethe University Frankfurt ...

, (1956), German lawyer and legal historian

Given name

Ernst Anders Ernst Anders (26 March 1845, Magdeburg – 1911, Mölln) was a German painter. He began his artistic education as a private student of Andreas Müller then, in 1863, enrolled at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, where he studied with Rudolf Wie ...

, German painter *

Ernest August (disambiguation) Ernest Augustus or Ernst August may refer to: Royalty House of Hanover *Ernest Augustus, Elector of Hanover (1629–1698), father of King George I of Great Britain *Ernest Augustus, Duke of York and Albany, Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück, son of the ...

, multiple people *

Ernst Balz Ernst Balz (24 February 1904 – 31 December 1945) was a German sculptor. His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics. He went missing in action during World War II World War II or ...

, German sculptor *

Ernst Stavro Blofeld Ernst Stavro Blofeld is a fictional character and villain from the James Bond series of novels and films, created by Ian Fleming. A criminal mastermind with aspirations of world domination, he is the archenemy of the British Secret Service agen ...

, evil genius from the

James Bond The ''James Bond'' series focuses on a fictional British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections. Since Fleming's death in 1964, eight other authors have ...

novels and films *

Ernst Boepple '' SS-Oberführer'' Ernst Boepple (30 November 1887 – 15 December 1950) was a Nazi official and SS officer, serving as deputy to Josef Bühler in occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust, who was executed for war crimes. Life Boeppl ...

(1887–1950), German Nazi official and SS officer executed for war crimes *

Ernst Cassirer Ernst Alfred Cassirer ( , ; July 28, 1874 – April 13, 1945) was a German philosopher. Trained within the Neo-Kantian Marburg School, he initially followed his mentor Hermann Cohen in attempting to supply an idealistic philosophy of science. Aft ...

, German Jewish philosopher. *

Ernst Chain Sir Ernst Boris Chain (19 June 1906 – 12 August 1979) was a German-born British biochemist best known for being a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on penicillin. Life and career Chain was born in Be ...

, German-born British biochemist *

Ernst Cohen Ernst Julius Cohen Fellow of the Royal Society, ForMemRS (7 March 1869 – 6 March 1944) was a Dutch Jewish chemist known for his work on the allotropy of metals. Cohen studied chemistry under Svante Arrhenius in Stockholm, Henri Moissan at ...

, Dutch Jewish chemist known for his work on the allotropy of metals *

Ernst Gebauer Ernst Gebauer (23 May 1782 – 7 July 1865) was a Germans, German painter. His works from the War of the Sixth Coalition, War of Liberation against Napoleon's rule are particularly well known. Gallery File:Alena Radzivił (Praździeckaja). Ал ...

, German painter *

Ernst Haeckel Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (; 16 February 1834 – 9 August 1919) was a German zoologist, naturalist, eugenicist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist and artist. He discovered, described and named thousands of new sp ...

, German biologist and illustrator *

Ernst Happel Ernst Franz Hermann Happel (29 November 1925 – 14 November 1992) was an Austrian football player and manager. Happel is regarded as one of the greatest managers of all time, winning both league and domestic cup titles in the Netherlands, Belg ...

, Austrian football (soccer) manager *

Ernst Reinhold von Hofmann Ernst Reinhold von Hofmann ( rus, Эрнст Ка́рлович Го́фман, Ernst Karlovich Hofmann, 8 January 1801 – 23 May 1871) was a Russians, Russian geologist, geographer, explorer, and lecturer. He was a geologist who accompanied Otto ...

, Russian geologist and mineralogist *

Ernst Jaakson Ernst Rudolf Jaakson (11 August 1905, Riga, Livonia (then Russian Empire) – 4 September 1998, New York, United States) was an Estonian diplomat whose contribution was to maintain Estonia's legal continuity with his uninterrupted diplomatic servi ...

, Estonian diplomat *

Ernst Jansz Ernst Gideon Jansz (born May 24, 1948 in Amsterdam) is one of the founding members and frontmen of Doe Maar. Doe Maar is a Dutch 1980s ska/reggae band, and is considered one of the most successful bands in Dutch pop history. His father, born in ...

, Dutch musician and founding member of Doe Maar *

Ernst Jünger Ernst Jünger (; 29 March 1895 – 17 February 1998) was a German author, highly decorated soldier, philosopher, and entomologist who became publicly known for his World War I memoir '' Storm of Steel''. The son of a successful businessman and ...

(1895-1998), German writer *

Ernst Kaltenbrunner Ernst Kaltenbrunner (4 October 190316 October 1946) was a high-ranking Austrian SS official during the Nazi era and a major perpetrator of the Holocaust. After the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich in 1942, and a brief period under Heinrich ...

(1903-1946), Austrian-German Nazi SS police chief and war criminal, executed for war crimes *

Ernst Keil Ernst Victor Keil (6 December 1816 – 23 March 1878) was a German bookseller, journalist, editor and publisher. His early publications promoted liberal views and satirized famous politicians leading up to the German revolutions of 1848–49, resul ...

(1816-1878), German publisher *

Ernst af Klercker Lieutenant General Achates Ernst Wilhelm af Klercker (28 December 1881 – 18 May 1955) was a senior Swedish Army officer. His senior commands include postings as chief of the Military Office of the Land Defence and Acting Chief of the Army Sta ...

(1881-1955), Swedish general *

Ernst Kummer Ernst Eduard Kummer (29 January 1810 – 14 May 1893) was a German mathematician. Skilled in applied mathematics, Kummer trained German army officers in ballistics; afterwards, he taught for 10 years in a '' gymnasium'', the German equivalent of ...

, German mathematician *

Ernst Laraque Ernst Laraque (born November 16, 1970) is a male judoka from Haiti, who won the bronze medal in the men's lightweight division (– 73 kg) at the 2003 Pan American Games. He represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympi ...

, Haitian judoka *

Ernst Larsen Ernst Willy Larsen (18 July 1926 – 2 December 2015) was a Norwegian athlete, who competed mainly in the 3000 metre steeplechase. He represented Ranheim IL. Larsen won the bronze medal in this event at the 1956 Summer Olympics held in Melbo ...

, Norwegian athlete *

Ernst Lauda Ernst Ritter von Lauda (born Ernst Philipp Johann Lauda, 15 August 18593 July 1932), was an Austrian hydraulic and bridge engineer who was an adviser to Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. He was awarded the Order of Franz Joseph and the second ...

(1859 - 1932), Austrian engineer *

Ernst Lubitsch Ernst Lubitsch (; January 29, 1892November 30, 1947) was a German-born American film director, producer, writer, and actor. His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; as ...

(1892–1947), German-born Jewish film director *

Ernst Mach Ernst Waldfried Josef Wenzel Mach ( , ; 18 February 1838 – 19 February 1916) was a Moravian-born Austrian physicist and philosopher, who contributed to the physics of shock waves. The ratio of one's speed to that of sound is named the Mach ...

, physicist, coined the term "

mach number Mach number (M or Ma) (; ) is a dimensionless quantity in fluid dynamics representing the ratio of flow velocity past a boundary to the local speed of sound. It is named after the Moravian physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach. : \mathrm = \frac ...

" *

Ernst Mayr Ernst Walter Mayr (; 5 July 1904 – 3 February 2005) was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists. He was also a renowned Taxonomy (biology), taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, Philosophy of biology, philosopher o ...

, evolutionary biologist, influential in the philosophy of biology *

Ernst Neizvestny Ernst Iosifovich Neizvestny (russian: Эрнст Ио́сифович Неизве́стный; 9 April 1925 – 9 August 2016) was a Russian sculptor, painter, graphic artist, and art philosopher. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1976 and lived and ...

, Russian

sculptor Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

Ernst Öpik Ernst Julius Öpik ( – 10 September 1985) was an Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist who spent the second half of his career (1948–1981) at the Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland. Education Öpik was born in Kunda, Estonia, Kunda, Lä ...

, Estonian astronomer *

Ernst Heinrich Roth Ernst Heinrich Roth (1877–1948), also often referred to as Ernst Heinrich Roth I to distinguish him from later family members of the same name, was a German luthier and master of a large and successful violin-making workshop in the East German ...

, (1877–1948), German

luthier A luthier ( ; AmE also ) is a craftsperson who builds or repairs string instruments that have a neck and a sound box. The word "luthier" is originally French and comes from the French word for lute. The term was originally used for makers o ...

Ernst Röhm Ernst Julius Günther Röhm (; 28 November 1887 – 1 July 1934) was a German military officer and an early member of the Nazi Party. As one of the members of its predecessor, the German Workers' Party, he was a close friend and early ally ...

, (1887-1934), German military officer and co-founder of the Nazi SA (Stormtroopers) *

Ernst Rolf Ernst Ragnar Johansson (20 January 1891– 25 December 1932), professionally known as Ernst Rolf was a Swedish actor, singer and composer and musical revue artist. Ernst Rolf. ''sv.wikipedia.org''. Retrieved: March 10, 2013. Rolf was born in Falun ...

, Swedish artist *

Ernst Ruska Ernst August Friedrich Ruska (; 25 December 1906 – 27 May 1988) was a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 for his work in electron optics, including the design of the first electron microscope. Life and career Erns ...

, a German physicist who won the

Nobel Prize in Physics ) , image = Nobel Prize.png , alt = A golden medallion with an embossed image of a bearded man facing left in profile. To the left of the man is the text "ALFR•" then "NOBEL", and on the right, the text (smaller) "NAT•" then " ...

in 1986 * Ernst "Fritz" Sauckel (1894-1946), German Nazi politician, executed for war crimes *

Ernst Sieber Ernst Sieber (; 24 February 1927 – 19 May 2018) was a Swiss pastor and social activist who was one of the most popular and best known personalities associated with the Swiss Reformed Church. He was ordained in the Evangelical Reformed ...

(born 1927), Swiss pastor, social worker, writer, politician and founder of the

Sozialwerke Pfarrer Sieber ''Sozialwerke Pfarrer Sieber'' (SWS) is a Swiss charitable foundation and relief organisation based the municipality of Zürich. Initiated in 1963 by Ernst Sieber, a pastor associated with the Reformierte Kirche des Kantons Zürich, the relief or ...

relief organisation *

Ernst Jansen Steur Ernst Nicolaas Herman Jansen, (born 24 October 1945 in Kamperland, Netherlands), later known as Ernst Jansen Steur, is a former Dutch neurologist, who garnered notoriety for misconduct and lost his license to practice medicine. Career Ernst Nico ...

, Dutch notorious former neurologist convicted on over twenty counts of harm *

Ernst Stromer Ernst Freiherr Stromer von Reichenbach (12 June 1871 in Nürnberg – 18 December 1952 in Erlangen) was a German paleontologist. He is best remembered for his expedition to Egypt, during which the first known remains of ''Spinosaurus'' we ...

, German palaeontologist *

Ernst Udet Ernst Udet (26 April 1896 – 17 November 1941) was a German pilot during World War I and a ''Luftwaffe'' Colonel-General (''Generaloberst'') during World War II. Udet joined the Imperial German Air Service at the age of 19, and eventually ...

, (1896-1941), German flying ace *

Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg (21 February 1851 – 17 May 1918) was an Austrian – American writer and traveller. He was consul of Venezuela in Switzerland (1888–1918). He completed 29 books and close to 700 journal articles. Biography Ernst von ...

, Austrian writer and traveller *

Ernst van de Wetering Ernst van de Wetering (9 March 1938 – 11 August 2021) was a Dutch art historian and an expert on Rembrandt and his work. Background Ernst van de Wetering was born in Hengelo. He was first trained as an artist at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts ...

, Dutch art historian considered to be the world's foremost expert on Rembrandt *

Ernst vom Rath Ernst Eduard vom Rath (3 June 1909 – 9 November 1938) was a member of the German nobility, a Nazi Party member, and German Foreign Office diplomat. He is mainly remembered for his assassination in Paris in 1938 by a Polish Jews, Jewish teena ...

(1909-1938), Nazi German diplomat *

Ernst von der Lancken Major General Ernst Ferdinand von der Lancken (24 August 1841 – 18 May 1902) was a Swedish Army officer. His senior commands includes the post as Inspector of the Swedish Army Service Troops (1889–1892) and Acting Chief of the General Staff ( ...

(1841-1902), Swedish Army major general *

Ernst Zacharias Ernst Zacharias (21 June 1924 – 6 July 2020) was a German musician and engineer. In the 1950s and 1960s, he invented various electro-mechanical musical instruments for the German musical instrument manufacturer Hohner, including the Cembalet, th ...

(1924–2020), German musician *

Ernst Zermelo Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Zermelo (, ; 27 July 187121 May 1953) was a German logician and mathematician, whose work has major implications for the foundations of mathematics. He is known for his role in developing Zermelo–Fraenkel axiomatic se ...

, set theorist *

Ernst Ziegler Ernst Ziegler (born Ernst Aldoff, 16 April 1894 – 11 April 1974) was a German film and television actor. Biography Ziegler began his film career in 1932, appearing in the German film '' Die verkaufte Braut'' (The Bartered Bride). He went on ...

(1894-1974), German actor *

Ernst Zündel Ernst Christof Friedrich Zündel (; 24 April 1939 – 5 August 2017) was a German neo-Nazi publisher and pamphleteer of Holocaust denial literature.

(1939-2017), German neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier *

Count Ernst of Lippe-Biesterfeld Ernst, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld (''Ernst Kasimir Friedrich Karl Eberhard''; 9 June 1842 – 26 September 1904) was the head of the Lippe-Biesterfeld line of the House of Lippe. From 1897 until his death he was the regent of the Principality o ...

, regent of

Lippe Lippe () is a ''Kreis'' (district) in the east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring districts are Herford, Minden-Lübbecke, Höxter, Paderborn, Gütersloh, and district-free Bielefeld, which forms the region Ostwestfalen-Lippe. The d ...

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