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

German: [ɛʁnst]GendermaleOriginWord/nameGermanicMeaning"serious" (person)Other namesRelated namesErnest, Ernie

Pseudonym

See also

Name list
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