Ernst

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
 * Britta Ernst (born 1961), German politician
 * Cornelia Ernst, German politician
 * Edzard Ernst, German-British academic
 * Emil Ernst, astronomer
 * Ernie Ernst (1924/25–2013), American judge
 * 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, American politician
 * K.S. Ernst, American visual poet
 * Karl Friedrich Paul Ernst, German writer (1866–1933)
 * Ken Ernst, American comics artist
 * Klaus Ernst, German politician
 * Konstantin Ernst, 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, 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, American geologist specializing in petrology and geochemistry
 * Walter Ernst, German lawyer and Nazi politician
 * Wolfgang Ernst, (1956), German lawyer and legal historian

Given name

 * Count Ernst of Lippe-Biesterfeld, regent of Lippe
 * 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 Hammerschmidt (1928–1993), Austrian / German scholar of Ethiopia
 * 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 SA (Stormtroopers)
 * Ernst Rolf, Swedish artist
 * Ernst Ruska, 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, Dutch notorious former neurologist convicted on over twenty counts of harm
 * Ernst Stromer, German palaeontologist
 * Ernst Troeltsch, German Protestant theologian
 * 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

Pseudonym

 * Ernst, pseudonym used by Matthias Jakob Schleiden