Ernst

For the municipality in the Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, see Ernst, Germany. For the album by Matt Nathanson, see Ernst (album).

Ernst is both a surname and a given name, the German, Dutch, and Scandinavian form of Ernest. 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 (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) (1899–1985), pulp novelist
• Richard R. Ernst (1933–2021), Swiss chemist
• Siegrid Ernst (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

Ernst

Pronunciation	English: /ɜːrnst,ɛərnst/ URNST, AIRNST German: [ɛʁnst]
Gender	male
Origin
Word/name	Germanic
Meaning	"serious" (person)
Other names
Related names	Ernest, Ernie

• Count Ernst of Lippe-Biesterfeld, regent of 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 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 von Hesse-Wartegg (1851–1918), Austrian writer and traveller
• Ernst Reinhold von Hofmann (1801–1871), Russian geologist and mineralogist
• Ernst Jaakson (1905–1998), Estonian diplomat
• Ernst Jandl (1925–2000), Austrian writer, poet, and translator
• Ernst Jansz (born 1948), 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 (1810–1893), German mathematician
• Ernst von der Lancken (1841–1902), Swedish Army major general
• 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
• Ernst Öpik (1893–1985), Estonian astronomer
• Ernst vom Rath (1909–1938), Nazi German diplomat
• Ernst Röhm (1887–1934), German military officer and co-founder of the Nazi SA (Stormtroopers)
• Ernst Rolf (1891–1932), Swedish artist
• Ernst Heinrich Roth (1877–1948), German luthier
• 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 (politician, born 1874) (1874–1932), German lawyer and politician
• Ernst Scholz (politician, born 1913) (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 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 van de Wetering (1938–2021), Dutch art historian considered to be the world's foremost expert on Rembrandt
• 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

See also

• Herzog Ernst, German medieval epic
• Ernst & Young, professional services and accounting firm
• Ernst Home Centers, a defunct hardware chain
• Ernest (disambiguation)