Horst (given name)
Horst is a male given name used mostly in German-speaking countries.
Etymology/meaning
The name is of Old High German origin, meaning "man from the forest", "bosk" or "brushwood".In modern German, "Horst" is also a translation of English aerie, the nest of an eagle or other bird.
Notable people named Horst
- Horst Ademeit, German Luftwaffe fighter ace
- Horst Antes, German artist and sculptor
- Horst Arndt, West German rower
- Horst Assmy, German footballer
- Horst Astroth, German track and field athlete
- Horst Bellingrodt, Colombian Olympic sports shooter
- Horst Bienek, German writer and poet
- Horst Bischof, Austrian computer scientist
- Horst Buchholz, German actor
- Horst Bulau, Canadian ski jumper
- Horst Dassler, German businessman
- Horst Eckel, German footballer
- Horst Faas, German photojournalist
- Horst Feistel, German cryptographer
- Horst Fischer, German SS concentration camp doctor executed for war crimes
- Horst Frank, German actor
- Horst P. Horst, German photographer
- Horst Hrubesch, German footballer
- Horst Jankowski, German pianist
- Horst Janson (actor), German actor
- Horst Janssen, German draftsman
- Horst Kasner, German Protestant theologian
- Horst Köhler, Federal President of Germany
- Horst Krause, German actor
- Horst Krüger, German writer
- Horst Lademacher, German historian
- Horst Lichter, German cook and television presenter
- Horst Mahler, German rightist, previously lawyer and Rote Armee Fraktion member
- Horst Mahseli, Polish footballer
- Horst Muhlmann, German-born American football player
- Horst Peissker, German biochemist
- Horst Queck, East German ski jumper
- Horst Rechelbacher, Austrian-American businessman
- Horst Rosenthal, German-born French cartoonist of Jewish descent
- Horst Salomon, German novelist and screenwriter
- Horst Seehofer, minister-president of Bavaria
- Horst Simco, American rapper also known as Riff Raff (rapper)
- Horst Sindermann, German politician
- Horst Ludwig Störmer, German physicist and Nobel laureate
- Horst Tappert, German actor
- Horst Tüller, former road and track cyclist
- Horst von Möllendorff, German cartoonist
- Horst Wessel, German National Socialist political activist, assassinated in Weimar Germany
- Horst Zuse, German computer scientist