Horst (given name)
Horst is a male given name found 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 the equivalent of English aerie, the nest of an eagle.
Notable people named Horst
- Horst Buchholz (1933–2003), German actor
- Horst Bulau (born 1962), Canadian ski jumper
- Horst Christian Simco (born 1982), American rapper
- Horst Feistel (1915-1990), German cryptographer
- Horst P. Horst (1906–1999), German photographer
- Horst Jankowski (1936–1998), German pianist
- Horst Janson (actor) (born 1935), German actor
- Horst Köhler (born 1943), former Federal President of Germany
- Horst Mahler (born 1936), German rightist and ex-Rote Armee Fraktion member
- Horst Mahseli (1934–1999), Polish footballer
- Horst Muhlmann (1940–1991), German-born American football player
- Horst Wessel (1907–1930), right-wing political activist, assassinated in pre-Nazi-Germany
- Horst Baron (born 1962), German pornographic film actor
- Horst Rechelbacher (born 1941), founder of Aveda Corporation
- Horst Seehofer (born 1949), minister-president of Bavaria
- Horst Simco (born 1982), also known as Riff Raff (rapper)
- Horst Sindermann (1915–1990), German politician
- Horst Tappert (1923-2008), German actor.
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