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Horst is a male given name used mostly in German-speaking countries.

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.^{[citation needed]}

• Horst Ademeit (1912-1944), German Luftwaffe fighter ace
• Horst Arndt (1934-2014), West German rower
• Horst Assmy (1933-1972), German footballer
• Horst Astroth (1923-2017), German track and field athlete
• Horst Antes (born 1936), German artist and sculptor
• Horst Bellingrodt (born 1958), Colombian Olympic sports shooter
• Horst Bischof (born 1967), Austrian computer scientist
• Horst Buchholz (1933–2003), German actor
• Horst Bulau (born 1962), Canadian ski jumper
• Horst Dassler (1936-1987), German businessman
• Horst Eckel (1932–2021), German footballer
• Horst Faas (1933-2012), German photojournalist^[1]
• Horst Feistel (1915–1990), German cryptographer
• Horst Fischer (1912–1966), German SS concentration camp doctor executed for war crimes
• Horst Frank (1929–1999), German actor
• Horst P. Horst (1906–1999), German photographer^[2]
• Horst Hrubesch (born 1951), German footballer
• Horst Jankowski (1936–1998), German pianist
• Horst Janssen (1929-1995), German draftman
• Horst Janson (actor) (born 1935), German actor
• Horst Kasner (1926-2011), German Protestant theologian
• Horst Köhler (born 1943), former Federal President of Germany
• Horst Lademacher (born 1931), German historian
• Horst Lichter (born 1962), German cook and television presenter
• Horst Ludwig Störmer (born 1949), German physicist and Nobel laureate
• Horst Mahler (born 1936), German rightist and ex-Rote Armee Fraktion member^[3]
• Horst Mahseli (1934–1999), Polish footballer
• Horst Muhlmann (1940–1991), German-born American football player
• Horst Peissker (1927–?), German biochemist
• Horst Rechelbacher (1941–2014), Austrian-American businessman
• Horst Rosenthal (1915–1942), German-born French cartoonist of Jewish descent
• Horst Salomon (1929–1972), German novelist and screenwriter
• Horst Seehofer (born 1949), minister-president of Bavaria
• Horst Simco (born 1982), American rapper also known as Riff Raff (rapper)
• Horst Sindermann (1915–1990), German politician
• Horst Tappert (1923–2008), German actor
• Horst Tüller (1931-2001), former road and track cyclist
• Horst von Möllendorff (1906-1992), German cartoonist
• Horst Wessel (1907–1930), German National Socialist political activist, assassinated in Weimar Germany
• Horst Zuse (born 1945), German computer scientist

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