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 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 Emperor * 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 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 Pa ...

, 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 H ...

, astronomer * Ernie Ernst (1924/25–2013), former District Judge in Walker County, Texas * Eugen Ernst (1864–1954), German politician *

Fabian Ernst Fabian Ernst (; born 30 May 1979) is a German former professional 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 midfield. Club career Bo ...

, 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 Hist ...

, 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 playi ...

, 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 junior United States senator from Iowa since 2015. A member of the Republican Party, she previously served in the Iowa State Se ...

, U.S. Senator from Iowa * K.S. Ernst, 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 Res ...

, 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 Surrealis ...

, (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

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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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