Harnack is the surname of a German family of intellectuals, artists, mathematicians, scientists, theologians and those in other fields. Several family members were executed by the Nazis during the last years of the Third Reich.

  • Anna Harnack (1849–?)
  • Adolf von Harnack (1851–1930), German liberal theologian and historian of religion
  • Agnes von Zahn-Harnack (1884–1950), German writer and women's rights activist
  • Ernst von Harnack (1888–1945), German anti-Nazi resistance fighter
  • Gustav-Adolf von Harnack (1917–2010), German pediatrician
  • Elisabet von Harnack (1892–1976), German social worker
  • Axel von Harnack (1895–1974), German historian and philologist
  • Carl Gustav Axel Harnack (1851–1888), German mathematician
  • Erich Harnack, professor of pharmacology
  • Otto Harnack, literature historian
  • Clara Harnack, painter and wife of Otto
  • Mildred Harnack (1902–1943), American anti-Nazi resistance fighter, wife of Arvid
  • Falk Harnack (1913–1991), German anti-Nazi resistance fighter, film and stage director, brother of Arvid Harnack

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