Scharnhorst (disambiguation)

Scharnhorst may refer to:

People

• Gerhard von Scharnhorst (1755–1813), Prussian general

Ships

• 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), a German ocean liner, eventually purchased by Japan and converted into the escort carrier Shinyo
• German battleship Scharnhorst, a German capital ship which saw action in World War II and was sunk at the Battle of the North Cape
• Scharnhorst, formerly HMS Mermaid (U30), a ship of the West German Bundesmarine from 1959 until 1980

Other

• Scharnhorst Order, the highest medal awarded to the East German National People's Army
• Scharnhorst, Lower Saxony, a municipality in the district of Celle, Lower Saxony, Germany
• Scharnhorst effect, a hypothetical phenomenon in which light travels faster between two closely spaced conducting plates than in a normal vacuum