German battleship Scharnhorst was a German capital ship which saw action in World War II and was sunk at the Battle of the North Cape.
Scharnhorst may also refer to:
Ships , a passenger steamer built in 1904 SMS Scharnhorst (1907), an armored cruiser of World War I, sunk at the Battle of the Falkland Islands , a German ocean liner, eventually purchased by Japan and converted into the escort carrier Shin'yō Scharnhorst, formerly , a ship of the West German Bundesmarine from 1959 until 1980
Other Gerhard von Scharnhorst (1755–1813), a Prussian general 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