Philip Ernst (February 29, 1792 – August 5, 1868) was born in Mainz and was a flutist at the French court in the late 1820s. When Charles X of Bourbon was overthrown by the July Revolution of 1830, he moved to England. Shortly thereafter, he moved to New York, where he became the most prominent flutist in the United States and worked as a flute and guitar teacher.