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

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

. Notable people with the name include:

Surname

* Adolf Ernst (1832–1899) German botanist known by the author abbreviation "Ernst" * Anton Ernst (born 1975), South African film producer * Alice Henson Ernst (1880-1980), American writer and historian * Bastian Ernst (born 1987), German politician * Britta Ernst (born 1961), German politician * Cornelia Ernst (born 1956), German politician * Edzard Ernst (born 1948), German-British academic * Emil Ernst (1889–1942), astronomer * Ernie Ernst (1924/25–2013), American judge * Eugen Ernst (1864–1954), German politician * Fabian Ernst (born 1979), German soccer player * Fedir Ernst (1891-1942), Ukrainian art historian * Gustav Ernst (born 1944), Austrian writer * Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst (1812–1865), Moravian violinist and composer * Jim Ernst (born 1942), Canadian politician * Jimmy Ernst (1920–1984), American painter, son of Max Ernst *

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

(born 1970), American politician * K.S. Ernst, American visual poet * Karl Ernst (1904–1934), German politician * Karl Friedrich Paul Ernst, German writer (1866–1933) * Ken Ernst (1918–1985), American comics artist * Klaus Ernst (born 1954), German politician * Konstantin Ernst (born 1961), Russian media manager, producer and TV host * 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 (1888–1976), American attorney * Ole Ernst (1940–2013), Danish actor * Oswald Herbert Ernst (1842–1926), American general and engineer *

Paul Ernst (American writer) Paul Frederick Ernst (November 7, 1899 – September 21, 1985) was an American Pulp fiction (genre), pulp fiction writer. He is best known as the writer of the original 24 "Avenger (pulp-magazine character), Avenger" novels, published by Street ...

(1899–1985), pulp novelist * Richard R. Ernst (1933–2021), Swiss chemist *

Siegrid Ernst Siegrid Ernst (3 March 1929 – 20 March 2022) was a German pianist, music educator and composer. Biography Siegrid Ernst was born in Ludwigshafen am Rhein and studied piano, violin and music theory as a child. She later studied piano and com ...

(1929–2022), German composer * Sipke Ernst (born 1979), Dutch chess grandmaster * Susan G. Ernst, American developmental biologist * Tony Ernst (born 1966), Swedish journalist * W. G. Ernst (born 1931), American geologist specializing in petrology and geochemistry * Walter Ernst (1899–1945), German lawyer and Nazi politician * Wolfgang Ernst, (1956), German lawyer and legal historian

Given name

* Count Ernst of Lippe-Biesterfeld, 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. ...

* Ernst Anders (1845–1911), German painter * Ernest August (disambiguation), multiple people * Ernst Balz (1904–1945), German sculptor * Ernst Stavro Blofeld, evil genius from the

James Bond The ''James Bond'' franchise focuses on James Bond (literary character), the titular character, a fictional Secret Intelligence Service, British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels ...

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 Gebauer (1799–1865), German painter * 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 Harmse, a Darksouls III enjoyer * Ernst Reinhold von Hofmann (1801–1871), Russian geologist and mineralogist * Ernst Jaakson (1905–1998), Estonian diplomat * Ernst Jansz (born 1948), 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 entomology, entomologist who became publicly known for his World War I memoir ''Storm of Steel''. The son of a successful busin ...

(1895-1998), German writer * Ernst Kaltenbrunner (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 Germans, German bookseller, journalist, editor and publisher. His early publications promoted liberal views and satirized famous politicians leading up to the German revolutions of 1848� ...

(1816–1878), German publisher * Ernst af Klercker (1881–1955), Swedish general * Ernst Kummer (1810–1893), German mathematician * 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 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 (1893–1985), Estonian astronomer * Ernst Heinrich Roth, (1877–1948), German luthier * Ernst Röhm, (1887-1934), German military officer and co-founder of the Nazi SA (Stormtroopers) * Ernst Rolf (1891–1932), Swedish artist * 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 (1874–1932), German lawyer and politician * Ernst Scholz (politician) (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 notorious former neurologist convicted on over twenty counts of harm * Ernst Stromer (1871–1952), German palaeontologist * Ernst Troeltsch (1865–1923), German Protestant theologian * Ernst Udet, (1896-1941), German flying ace * Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg (1851–1918), Austrian writer and traveller * Ernst van de Wetering (1938–2021), 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 (1871–1953), set theorist * Ernst Ziegler (1894-1974), German actor * Ernst Zündel (1939-2017), German neo-Nazi and Holocaust denier

Pseudonym

* Ernst, pseudonym used by Matthias Jakob Schleiden

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