Ervin (given name)

Ervin is a given name. Notable people with the name include:

• Ervin Acél (conductor) (1935–2006), distinguished conductor and pedagogue, a Romanian of Hungarian descent
• Ervin Acel (fencer) (1888–1958), American fencer
• Ervin Baktay (1890–1963), author noted for popularizing Indian culture in Hungary
• Ervin Baldwin (born 1986), American football defensive end
• Ervin Bauer (1890–1938), Hungarian biologist
• Ervin Bossányi (1891–1975), Hungarian artist, worked mainly in northern Germany until his emigration in 1934
• Ervin Bulku (born 1981), Albanian football player
• Ervin Burrell, fictional character on the HBO drama The Wire, played by actor Frankie Faison
• Ervin Cseh (1838–1918), Hungarian politician from Slavonia, served as Minister without portfolio of Croatian Affairs
• Ervin Drake (1919–2015), American songwriter whose works include such American Songbook standards as "It Was a Very Good Year"
• Ervin Eleskovic (born 1987), professional tennis player from Sweden
• Ervin Fakaj (born 1976), former Albanian footballer
• Ervin Y. Galantay, Professor Emeritus (architecture and planning) of the Swiss Federal Technical University of Lausanne
• Ervin Gashi (born 1990), Swiss footballer of Albanian descent
• Ervin González (born 1985), Colombian football forward
• Ervin Hall (born 1947), American athlete who competed mainly in the 110 metre hurdles
• Ervin Hatibi, Albanian poet, essayist and painter
• Ervin Hoffmann, Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s
• Ervin Hunt, former defensive back in the National Football League
• Ervin Johnson (born 1967), American former professional basketball player
• Ervin Kassai (1925–2012), retired Hungarian basketball referee
• Ervin Katona, (born 1977), Serbian strongman competitor and regular entrant to the World's Strongest Man competition
• Ervin Kovács (born 1967), Hungarian football player
• Ervin László (born 1932), Hungarian philosopher of science, systems theorist, integral theorist, originally a classical pianist
• Ervin Lázár (1936–2006), Hungarian author
• Ervin Llani (born 1983), Albanian footballer
• Ervin Mészáros (1877–1940), Hungarian Olympic fencer
• Ervin McSweeney (born 1957), New Zealand cricketer
• Ervin Memetov (born 1990), Ukrainian footballer
• Ervin Nagy, Hungarian pianist and composer
• Ervin Nyiregyházi (1903–1987), Hungarian-born American pianist
• Ervin Pringle (1910–1991), Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons
• Ervin Randle (born 1962), former American football linebacker in the NFL
• Ervin J. Rokke, retired lieutenant general and retired President of Moravian College
• Ervin Roszner (1852–1928), Hungarian politician, served as Minister besides the King between 1915 and 1917
• Ervin Rustemagić, Bosnian comic producer and distributor, born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina currently based in Slovenia
• Ervin Santana (born 1982), Major League Baseball right-handed starting pitcher
• Ervin Schiffer, Hungarian born professional violist and pedagogue
• Ervin Skela (born 1976), Albanian footballer
• Ervin Somogyi (born 1944), pioneer of steel string guitar making
• Ervin Sotto (born 1981), Filipino professional basketball player
• Ervin Staub, Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Ervin Szörenyi, Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed in the mid 1950s
• Ervin Szerelemhegyi (1891–1969), Hungarian track and field athlete, competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics
• Ervin Zádor (born 1935), Hungarian retired water polo player and former member of the Hungarian national team