Scharnhorst
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Scharnhorst may refer to:
- Gerhard von Scharnhorst (1755-1813), a Prussian general
- four ships of Germany named after the general:
- SS Scharnhorst (1904), a passenger steamer built in 1904
- SMS Scharnhorst (1907), an armored cruiser of World War I, sunk at the Battle of the Falkland Islands
- SS Scharnhorst (1934), German ocean liner, eventually purchased by Japan and converted into the escort carrier Shinyo
- German warship Scharnhorst (1936), famous German warship, alternately described as a battleship or battlecruiser, saw action in World War II and was sunk at the Battle of North Cape
- Scharnhorst, Lower Saxony, a municipality in the district of Celle, Lower Saxony, Germany
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