Ernst
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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"
- Cornelia Ernst, German politician
- Edzard Ernst, German-British Professor of Complementary Medicine
- Emil Ernst, astronomer
- Ernie Ernst (1924/25–2013), former District Judge in Walker County, Texas
- 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, U.S. Senator from Iowa
- Karl Friedrich Paul Ernst, German writer (1866–1933)
- Klaus Ernst, German politician
- Max Ernst, German artist
- 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
- Paul Ernst (American writer), pulp novelist
- Richard R. Ernst, Swiss chemist
- Susan Ernst, American developmental biologist
- Tony Ernst, Swedish journalist
- W. Gary Ernst, American geologist specializing in petrology and geochemistry
- Wolfgang Ernst, (1956), German lawyer and legal historian
- Ernst Jean-Pierre, (1989), Baller, Player, All around G.
Given name
| Ernst | |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation |
/ˈɜːrnst/ URNST German: [ˈɛʁnst] |
| Gender | M |
| Origin | |
| Word/name | Germanic |
| Meaning | Serious (person) |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Ernest, Ernie |
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- Ernst Anders, German painter
- Ernst August (disambiguation page)
- Ernst Blofeld, evil genius from the James Bond films
- 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 Happel, Austrian football (soccer) manager
- Ernst Jaakson, Estonian diplomat
- Ernst Jansz, Dutch musician and founding member of Doe Maar
- Ernst Jünger, German writer
- Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian-German police chief
- Ernst Laraque, Haitian judoka
- Ernst Larsen, Norwegian athlete
- 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 Röhm, German military officer and co-founder of the SA
- Ernst Ruska, a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986
- Ernst Sieber (born 1927), Swiss pastor, social worker, writher, 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 Udet, 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, a German diplomat
- Ernst Zermelo, set theorist
- Ernst Ziegler (1894-1974), German actor
- Count Ernst of Lippe-Biesterfeld, regent of Lippe
See also
- Herzog Ernst, German mediaeval epic
- Ernst & Young, professional services and accounting firm
- Ernst Home Centers, a defunct hardware chain
- Ernest (disambiguation)
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