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"Ernst" as a surname

  • Adolf Ernst
    Adolf Ernst
    Adolf Ernst was a Prussian born scientist. Ernst settled in Venezuela in 1861, where he taught at the Central University of Venezuela...

     (1832–1899) German botanist known by the author abbreviation "Ernst"
  • Edzard Ernst
    Edzard Ernst
    Edzard Ernst is the first Professor of Complementary Medicine in the world, at the University of Exeter, England....

    , German-British Professor of Complementary Medicine
  • Fabian Ernst
    Fabian Ernst
    Fabian Ernst is a German footballer who plays for Beşiktaş J.K. as a midfielder.- Career :He started his career with Hannover 96. From 1998 to 2000 he played for Hamburger SV in the Bundesliga, playing in 48 games, but scoring no goals. The midfielder turned then to Werder Bremen. In 152 games in...

    , German soccer player
  • Emil Ernst
    Emil Ernst
    Emil Ernst was a German astronomer.He did his Ph.D. dissertation in 1918 at the Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl at the University of Heidelberg....

    , astronomer
  • Gustav Ernst
    Gustav Ernst
    Gustav Ernst is an Austrian playwright, novelist and screenwriter. He has also founded and edited two literary journals, Wespennest and kolik....

    , Austrian writer
  • Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst
    Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst
    Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst was a Moravian-Jewish violinist, violist and composer. Ernst was widely seen as the outstanding violinist of his time and one of Paganini's greatest successors....

    , Moravian violinist and composer
  • Jim Ernst
    Jim Ernst
    Jim Ernst directs here. For the painter, see Jimmy Ernst.James Arthur Ernst is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a municipal councillor in Winnipeg from 1973 to 1986 and a member of the Manitoba legislature from 1986 to 1997...

    , Canadian politician
  • Jimmy Ernst
    Jimmy Ernst
    Jimmy Ernst was an American painter born in Germany.-Early life:Jimmy Ernst was born in 1920 in Cologne, Germany, the son of surrealist painter Max Ernst and Luise Straus, a well-known art historian and journalist. His parents divorced in 1922 and Ernst staying with his mother in Cologne...

    , American painter, son of Max Ernst
  • Karl Friedrich Paul Ernst
    Karl Friedrich Paul Ernst
    Paul Ernst was a German writer, dramatist, critic and journalist.-Novels:*Der schmale Weg zum Glück*Das Glück von Lautenthal*Der Schatz im Morgenbrotstal*Saat auf Hoffnung...

    , German writer (1866–1933)
  • Klaus Ernst
    Klaus Ernst
    Klaus Ernst is a left-wing German politician and was a leading member of the Labour and Social Justice Party and now The Left...

    , German politician
  • Max Ernst
    Max Ernst
    Max Ernst was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was one of the primary pioneers of the Dada movement and Surrealism.-Early life:...

    , German artist
  • Morris Ernst
    Morris Ernst
    Morris Leopold Ernst was an American lawyer and co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union.He was born in Uniontown, Alabama on Aug. 23, 1888, to a Czech-born father and German mother. He lived in various locations around New York City from the age of 2...

    , American attorney
  • Paul Ernst
    Paul Ernst (Avenger writer)
    Paul Frederick Ernst was an American pulp fiction writer. He is best known as the author of the original 24 "Avenger" novels, published by Street and Smith Publications under the house name Kenneth Robeson.-Biography:Paul Ernst was born between 1899 and 1902, and "[took] up fiction writing in his...

    , pulp novelist
  • Richard R. Ernst
    Richard R. Ernst
    Richard Robert Ernst is a Swiss physical chemist and Nobel Laureate.Born in Winterthur, Switzerland, Ernst was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1991 for his contributions towards the development of Fourier Transform nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy while at Varian Associates, Palo...

    , Swiss chemist
  • Tony Ernst
    Tony Ernst
    Tony Nicolai Ernst, born 31 October 1966, is a journalist and writer of Swedish hip hop, based in Malmö. He is the founder of the "Only Swedish Magazine about Black Music", Gidappa.-Jan Majlard rivalry:...

    , Swedish journalist
  • W. Gary Ernst
    W. G. Ernst
    W. Gary Ernst is an American geologist specializing in petrology and geochemistry. He currently is the Benjamin M. Page Professor Emeritus in Stanford University's Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences....

    , American geologist specializing in petrology and geochemistry
  • Susan Ernst
    Susan G. Ernst
    Susan G. Ernst is a professor of Biology at Tufts University and was the first Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences. Her research is in Developmental biology and primarily focuses on the role of the Endo16 gene in embryogenesis. She uses the sea urchin as her model system for research.-...

    , American developmental biologist

"Ernst" as a given name

  • Ernst August (disambiguation page)
  • Ernst Stavro Blofeld
    Ernst Stavro Blofeld
    Ernst Stavro Blofeld is a fictional character and a supervillain from the James Bond series of novels and films, who was created by Ian Fleming and Kevin McClory. An evil genius with aspirations of world domination, he is the archenemy of the British Secret Service agent James Bond and is arguably...

    , evil genius from the James Bond
    James Bond
    James Bond, code name 007, is a fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short story collections. There have been a six other authors who wrote authorised Bond novels or novelizations after Fleming's death in 1964: Kingsley Amis,...

     films
  • Ernst Boris Chain
    Ernst Boris Chain
    Sir Ernst Boris Chain was a German-born British biochemist, and a 1945 co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his work on penicillin.-Biography:...

    , German-born British biochemist
  • Ernst Cassirer
    Ernst Cassirer
    Ernst Cassirer was a German philosopher. He was one of the major figures in the development of philosophical idealism in the first half of the 20th century...

    , German Jewish philosopher.
  • Ernst Haeckel
    Ernst Haeckel
    The "European War" became known as "The Great War", and it was not until 1920, in the book "The First World War 1914-1918" by Charles à Court Repington, that the term "First World War" was used as the official name for the conflict.-Research:...

    , German biologist and illustrator
  • Ernst Happel, Austrian football (soccer) manager
  • Ernst Jaakson
    Ernst Jaakson
    Ernst Jaakson was an Estonian diplomat whose unique contribution was to keep Estonia's legal continuity with his uninterrupted diplomatic service for 69 years.-Education:...

    , Estonian diplomat
  • Ernst Jünger
    Ernst Jünger
    Ernst Jünger was a German writer. In addition to his novels and diaries, he is well known for Storm of Steel, an account of his experience during World War I. Some say he was one of Germany's greatest modern writers and a hero of the conservative revolutionary movement following World War I...

    , German writer
  • Ernst Laraque
    Ernst Laraque
    Ernst Laraque is a male judoka from Haiti, who won the bronze medal in the men's lightweight division at the 2003 Pan American Games. He represented his native country at two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 2000 in Sydney, Australia.-References:*...

    , Haitian judoka
  • Ernst Larsen
    Ernst Larsen
    Ernst Larsen was a Norwegian athlete, who competed mainly in the 3000 metre steeplechase. He represented Ranheim IL....

    , Norwegian athlete
  • Ernst Lubitsch
    Ernst Lubitsch
    Ernst Lubitsch was a German-born film director. His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; as his prestige grew, his films were promoted as having "the Lubitsch touch."In 1947 he received an Honorary Academy Award for his...

     (1892–1947), German-born Jewish film director
  • Ernst Mach
    Ernst Mach
    Ernst Mach was an Austrian physicist and philosopher, noted for his contributions to physics such as the Mach number and the study of shock waves...

    , physicist, coined the term "mach number
    Mach number
    Mach number is the speed of an object moving through air, or any other fluid substance, divided by the speed of sound as it is in that substance for its particular physical conditions, including those of temperature and pressure...

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  • Ernst Mayr
    Ernst Mayr
    Ernst Walter Mayr was one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists. He was also a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, historian of science, and naturalist...

    , evolutionary biologist, influential in the philosophy of biology
  • Ernst Neizvestny
    Ernst Neizvestny
    Ernst Iosifovich Neizvestny is a Russian sculptor. He currently lives and works in New York City. His last name in Russian literally means "unknown"....

    , Russia
    Russia
    Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

    n sculptor
  • Ernst Öpik
    Ernst Öpik
    Ernst Julius Öpik was a noted Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist who spent the second half of his career at the Armagh Observatory in Northern Ireland.-Education:...

    , Estonian astronomer
  • Ernst Röhm
    Ernst Röhm
    Ernst Julius Röhm, was a German officer in the Bavarian Army and later an early Nazi leader. He was a co-founder of the Sturmabteilung , the Nazi Party militia, and later was its commander...

    , German military officer and co-founder of the SA
    Sturmabteilung
    The Sturmabteilung functioned as a paramilitary organization of the National Socialist German Workers' Party . It played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s...

  • Ernst Ruska
    Ernst Ruska
    Ernst August Friedrich Ruska was a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1986 for his work in electron optics, including the design of the first electron microscope.Ruska was born in Heidelberg...

    , a German physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics
    Nobel Prize in Physics
    The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and...

     in 1986
  • Ernst Stromer
    Ernst Stromer
    Ernst Freiherr Stromer von Reichenbach was a German paleontologist.He described the following Cretaceous dinosaurs from Egypt: Aegyptosaurus, Bahariasaurus, Carcharodontosaurus, and the largest known theropod, Spinosaurus aegyptiacus...

    , German palaeontologist
  • Ernst Udet
    Ernst Udet
    Colonel General Ernst Udet was the second-highest scoring German flying ace of World War I. He was one of the youngest aces and was the highest scoring German ace to survive the war . His 62 victories were second only to Manfred von Richthofen, his commander in the Flying Circus...

    , German flying ace
  • Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg
    Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg
    Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg was an Austrian writer and traveller. He completed over 20 works. In 1881 or 1882, he married the opera singer Minnie Hauk.- Works :*Die Werkzeugmaschinen zur Metall- und Holzbearbeitung. Leipzig 1874...

    , Austrian writer and traveller
  • Ernst vom Rath
    Ernst vom Rath
    Ernst Eduard vom Rath was a German diplomat, remembered for his assassination in Paris in 1938 by a Jewish youth, Herschel Grynszpan. The assassination triggered Kristallnacht, the "Night of Broken Glass"....

    , a German diplomat
  • Ernst Zermelo
    Ernst Zermelo
    Ernst Friedrich Ferdinand Zermelo was a German mathematician, whose work has major implications for the foundations of mathematics and hence on philosophy. He is known for his role in developing Zermelo–Fraenkel axiomatic set theory and his proof of the well-ordering theorem.-Life:He graduated...

    , set theorist

  • Count Ernst of Lippe-Biesterfeld
    Count Ernst of Lippe-Biesterfeld
    Ernst II, Count of Lippe-Biesterfeld was the head of the Lippe-Biesterfeld line of the House of Lippe...

    , regent of Lippe
    Lippe
    Lippe is a Kreis in the east of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Neighboring districts are Herford, Minden-Lübbecke, Höxter, Paderborn, Gütersloh, and district-free Bielefeld, which forms the region Ostwestfalen-Lippe....


Other uses

  • Herzog Ernst
    Herzog Ernst
    Herzog Ernst is a German epic from the early high Middle Ages , first written down by an anonymous author from the Rhein region.-Story:...

    , German mediaeval epic
  • Ernst & Young
    Ernst & Young
    Ernst & Young is one of the largest professional services networks in the world and one of the "Big Four" accountancy firms, along with Deloitte, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers ....

    , professional services and accounting firm
  • Ernst Home Centers, A defunct hardware chain
  • Ernst, Germany
    Ernst, Germany
    Ernst is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Cochem-Zell district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany...

    , a municipality in the Rhineland-Palatinate state of Germany
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