Ernst

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

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
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

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 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 (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 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 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

Surname

Given name

Pseudonym

See also