Leading Figures in History

Discover the people who shaped our world — from rulers and scientists to artists and activists.

24408 persons found

Ernst A. Lehmann

German Zeppelin captain

Ernst Albrecht (politician, born 1930)

b. 1930

German politician (1930–2014)

Ernst Bacon

b. 1898

American composer and musician (1898–1990)

Ernst Bakker

b. 1946

Dutch politician

Ernst Bloch

b. 1885

German Marxist philosopher (1885–1977)

Ernst Bresslau

German zoologist

Ernst Busch (field marshal)

b. 1885

German field marshal (1885–1945)

Ernst Chain

b. 1906

German-born British biochemist (1906–1979)

Ernst Felle

b. 1876

German rower

Ernst Florian Winter

American historian and politologist (1923–2014)

Ernst Haefliger

b. 1919

Swiss tenor

Ernst Heinrich Weber

b. 1795

German psychologist

Ernst Hinterberger

Austrian writer

Ernst II of Saxony

b. 1464

Archbishop of Magdeburg and Administrator of Halberstadt

Ernst Kummer

German mathematician (1810–1893)

Ernst Laas

b. 1837

German philosopher (1837–1885)

Ernst Lindemann

German naval officer (1894–1941)

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

b. 1880

German expressionist painter (1880–1938)

Ernst Marcus (zoologist)

b. 1893

German zoologist

Ernst Mayr

b. 1904

German-American evolutionary biologist (1904–2005)

Ernst Messerschmid

b. 1945

German physicist and astronaut (born 1945)

Ernst Niekisch

b. 1889

German National-Bolshevik politician (1889–1967)

Ernst Otto Schlick

b. 1840

German naval engineer

Ernst Põdder

Estonian military commander