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Ernő Kiss
Ernő Kiss (Kiss Ernő) was a Hungarian lieutenant general of Armenian descent who led the first honvéd forces in the 1848–1849 Revolution and was one of the thirteen Martyrs of Arad, executed on 6 October 1849.
Ernő Nagy
Ernő Nagy (Nagy Ernő, 1898–1977) was a Hungarian fencer and army officer who won gold in the men's team sabre at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Erno Nosko
Ernő Noskó (Noskó Ernő), born 1945 in Cserhátszentiván, Hungarian footballer, right back for Újpesti Dózsa; 1968 Mexico City Olympic gold medalist, seven-time Hungarian champion, 15 caps for Hungary.
Ernő Poeltenberg
Ernő Poeltenberg (Ernst Poelt, Ritter von Poeltenberg) was an Austrian-born cavalry officer who became a Hungarian general and was hanged at Arad on 6 October 1849.
Ernő Rubik
Ernő Rubik (born 1944, Budapest) is the Hungarian architect and professor who invented the Rubik's Cube (Bűvös kocka) in 1974, patented it in 1975, and saw it sell over 500 million copies worldwide.
Ernodorum
Ernodorum, an ancient Gallic road station attested in the Antonine Itinerary and Tabula Peutingeriana, located near Saint-Ambroix-sur-Arnon, France, at the Arnon crossing between Avaricum and Argentomagus.
Ernolatia
Ernolatia, a Roman road station in Noricum on the Tabula Peutingeriana, placed at Sankt Pankraz or Dirnbach in Upper Austria between Tutastione and Gabromagi on the Pyhrn route to Ovilavis (Wels).
Ernst & Young
Ernst & Young, branded EY, is a global professional services network and one of the Big Four accounting firms, with about 415,000 employees and US$57 billion in fiscal 2026 revenue.
Ernst Abbe
Ernst Abbe was a German physicist who created the diffraction theory of microscope imaging, designed Zeiss microscopes scientifically from 1872, and gave the company to a foundation with pioneering labor rules.
Ernst Albrecht (politician, born 1930)
Ernst Carl Julius Albrecht (1930-2014), CDU politician, was Minister-President of Lower Saxony 1976-1990, its first CDU head of government, elected via SPD/FDP defectors; former EEC Competition Director General, lost the 1979 Union chancellor candidacy to Strauß and the 1990 election to Schröder; father of Ursula von der Leyen.
Ernst Alexander Homén
Ernst Alexander Homén (1851–1926) was a Finnish physician and pathologist, professor at Helsinki, who founded clinical neurology in Finland and first described Wilson's disease in 1890.
Ernst Alexanderson
Ernst Alexanderson, born Ernst Frederik Werner Alexanderson, was a Swedish-born American electrical engineer at General Electric whose high-frequency alternator made radio transmission practical; he held over 300 US patents.
Ernst August von Hannover (born 1983)
Ernst August von Hannover (Ernst August Erbprinz von Hannover; born 1983) is head of the German and Austrian properties of the former royal House of Hanover.
Ernst Baier
Ernst Baier (1905–2001), German figure skater with Berliner Schlittschuhclub; 1936 Olympic silver in men's singles and pairs gold with Maxi Herber; four World and five European pairs titles; first side-by-side jumps in competition.
Ernst Bamberg
Ernst Bamberg is a German biophysicist regarded as a founder of optogenetics, honored with the 2013 Brain Prize and the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Ernst Barlach
Ernst Barlach was a German sculptor and printmaker known for his bulky peasant figures and monuments. His style was shaped by a 1906 journey to Russia and Ukraine.
Ernst Bessel Hagen
Ernst Bessel Hagen (1851–1923) was a German physicist who directed the technical department of the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt and, with Heinrich Rubens, confirmed Maxwell's theory of light.
Ernst Casparsson
Ernst Gustaf Casparsson (1886–1973), Swedish cavalry officer and equestrian; won team eventing gold at Stockholm 1912 on Irmelin, fifth individually, sixth in show jumping on Kiriki.
Ernst Chain
Ernst Chain, also known as Sir Ernst Boris Chain, was a German-born British biochemist who shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the Oxford work proving penicillin's therapeutic power.
Ernst Cloos
Ernst Cloos (1898–1974) was a German-American structural geologist who spent his career at Johns Hopkins University and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1950.
Ernst Cohen
Ernst Julius Cohen was a Dutch physical chemist, professor at Utrecht University, known for his work on the allotropy of metals and tin pest; he was murdered at Auschwitz in March 1944.
Ernst Dryander
Ernst Dryander, from 1918 Ernst von Dryander, was a German Protestant theologian and church official, the last chief court preacher of the Prussian Hohenzollerns, serving Wilhelm II until his death.
Ernst Emil Alexander Back
Ernst Emil Alexander Back (1881–1959) was a German experimental physicist at the University of Tübingen, co-discoverer of the Paschen–Back and Back–Goudsmit effects, whose spectra fed Landé's g-factor formula.
Ernst Enno
Ernst Enno (1875–1934) was an Estonian poet and short prose writer, one of the first Estonian symbolists, founder of the mystical tradition in Estonian poetry, and a notable children's poet.
Ernst equation
The Ernst equation is a nonlinear partial differential equation, introduced by Frederick J. Ernst in 1968, that encodes stationary axisymmetric vacuum spacetimes in general relativity.
Ernst Fehr
Ernst Fehr, born 1956 in Hard, Austria, is a behavioral economist at the University of Zurich whose research shows fairness and reciprocity, not pure self-interest, shape economic behavior.
Ernst Franz Max Sellin
Ernst Franz Max Sellin (1867–1946) was a German Protestant Old Testament scholar and biblical archaeologist who led excavations at Taanach and Jericho and argued that Moses died violently, a thesis Freud took up.
Ernst Fuchs (ophthalmologist)
Ernst Fuchs (1851–1930) was an Austrian ophthalmologist who founded the pathological anatomy of the eye and gave his name to roughly thirty diseases, including Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy.
Ernst G. Straus
Ernst G. Straus (1922–1983) was a German-born American mathematician at UCLA who worked in number theory and combinatorics, assisted Einstein at Princeton, and co-authored the still-open Erdős–Straus conjecture.
Ernst Gaber
Ernst Gaber (Ernst Ludwig Gaber, "Mampe"), German rower (1907–1975) of MRV Amicitia Mannheim; three-time Olympian, silver in coxless fours 1932 and gold in coxed fours at Berlin 1936.