Ernst Schneider may refer to:
Ernst Schneider (communist) (1883–1963), German sailor who played an active part in the German Revolution of November 1918 and who participated in the Hamburg Uprising of October 1923 Ernst Schneider, Austrian engineer and inventor of the Voith Schneider Propeller Ernst-Schneider-Preis, a German journalism prize Hans Ernst Schneider (athlete), see Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metres