List of Famous people with last name Harnack

Falk Harnack was a German director and screenwriter. During Germany's Nazi era, he was also active with the German Resistance and toward the end of World War II, the partisans in Greece. Harnack was from a family of scholars, artists and scientists, several of whom were active in the anti-Nazi Resistance and paid with their lives.

Arvid Harnack was a German jurist, Marxist economist, Communist and German resistance fighter in Nazi Germany. Harnack became a leading German resistance fighter as a member of a Berlin anti-fascist resistance group that was later called the Red Orchestra by the Abwehr. He and his American-born wife, Mildred Harnack, were executed by the Nazi regime during WWII.

Mildred ‘Mili’ Elizabeth Fish-Harnack was an American-German literary historian, philologist and translator. After meeting Arvid Harnack and getting married, the couple moved to Germany. Harnack became a resistance fighter as a member of a Berlin anti-fascist resistance group that was later called the Red Orchestra by the Abwehr. She was arrested in 1942 and executed in 1943.

Carl Gustav Adolf von Harnack was a Baltic German Lutheran theologian and prominent Church historian. He produced many religious publications from 1873 to 1912. He was ennobled in 1914.

Theodosius Andreas Harnack was a Baltic German theologian.

Rudolf Gottfried Otto Harnack was a German literary historian, best known for his writings on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Carl Gustav Axel Harnack (7 May [O.S. 25 April] 1851, Dorpat was a Baltic German mathematician who contributed to potential theory. Harnack's inequality applied to harmonic functions. He also worked on the real algebraic geometry of plane curves, proving Harnack's curve theorem for real plane algebraic curves.

Friedrich Moritz Erich Harnack was a Baltic German pharmacologist and toxicologist.

Ernst Wolf Alexander Oskar Harnack, granted the title von Harnack in 1914, was an official of the Prussian provincial government, a German politician, and a German Resistance fighter. He was arrested, tried and executed in March 1945 at Plötzensee Prison for political opposition to the Nazi Party.