Engineered defects in the diamond lattice hold promise for the storage and manipulation of quantum information. Entanglement between the electron and nuclear spins of two such defects is demonstrated at room temperature. Entanglement is the central yet fleeting phenomenon of quantum physics. Once being considered a peculiar counter-intuitive property of quantum theory1, it has developed into the most central element of quantum technology. Consequently, there have been a number of experimental demonstrations of entanglement between photons2, atoms3, ions4 and solid-state systems such as spins or quantum dots5,6,7, superconducting circuits8,9 and macroscopic diamond10. Here we experimentally demonstrate entanglement between two engineered single solid-state spin quantum bits (qubits) at ambient conditions. Photon emission of defect pairs reveals ground-state spin correlation. Entanglement (fidelity = 0.67±0.04) is proved by quantum state tomography. Moreover, the lifetime of electron spin entanglement is extended to milliseconds by entanglement swapping to nuclear spins. The experiments mark an important step towards a scalable room-temperature quantum device being of potential use in quantum information processing as well as metrology.