Scharnhorst (disambiguation)

Gerhard von Scharnhorst (1755–1813) was a Prussian general.

Scharnhorst may also refer to:

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