Ernst Waldschmidt (July 15, 1897, Lünen, Province of Westphalia – February 25, 1985, Göttingen) was a German orientalist and Indologist. He was a pupil of German indologist Emil Sieg.

He taught at Berlin University and began teaching at the University of Göttingen in 1936. Waldschmidt joined the Nazi party in May 1937 and became a member of the National Socialist German Lecturers League in 1939.^{[1][page needed]}

He was a specialist on Indian philosophy, and archaeology of India and Central Asia. He also founded Stiftung Ernst Waldschmidt.

• Buddhistische Kunst in Indien, 1932
• Die buddhistische Spätantike in Mittelasien (the 7th Volume), 1933
• Gandhara, Kutscha, Turfan, 1925
• Die Überlieferung vom Lebensende des Buddha, 2 Vols., 1944-1948