List of Famous people named Ernst

Ernst Schwarz was a German zoologist, mammalogist, and herpetologist.

Ernst Fuchs was an Austrian ophthalmologist, physician and researcher.

Ernst Gabor Straus was a German-American mathematician of Jewish origin who helped found the theories of Euclidean Ramsey theory and of the arithmetic properties of analytic functions. His extensive list of co-authors includes Albert Einstein, Paul Erdős, Richard Bellman, Béla Bollobás, Sarvadaman Chowla, Ronald Graham, Lee Albert Rubel, Mathukumalli V Subbarao, László Lovász, Carl Pomerance, Moshe Goldberg, and George Szekeres.

Ernst Pöhner was Munich's Chief of Police from 1919 to 1922. A vigorous nationalist and anti-communist, he was instrumental in mounting terror and in supporting the Organisation Consul paramilitary units. Confronted with the charge that entire groups of right-wing political assassins were at large and working in and around Munich, he is reported to have said: "Yes ... but too few of them."

Ernst Waldow was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 160 films during his career.

Ernst Mielck was a Finnish composer.

Ernst Sprockhoff was a German prehistorian and inventor of the Sprockhoff numbering system for megalithic monuments in Germany.