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 (1832–1899) German botanist known by the author abbreviation "Ernst" * Anton Ernst (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 Professor of Complementary Medicine * Emil Ernst, astronomer * Ernie Ernst (1924/25–2013), former District Judge in Walker County, Texas * 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, U.S. Senator from Iowa * K.S. Ernst, American visual poet * Karl Friedrich Paul Ernst, German writer (1866–1933) * Ken Ernst, U.S. comics artist * Klaus Ernst, German politician * Konstantin Ernst * 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, 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

Given name

* 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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