# Ehrlich

Ehrlich is a German/Yiddish surname, meaning "honest" or "honorable". Notable people with the surname Ehrlich or Erlich include:

## Ehrlich

* Abel Ehrlich (1915–2003), Israeli composer of symphony music
* Aline Ehrlich (1928–1991), German-born Israeli biologist
* Alojzy Ehrlich (1914–1992), Polish table tennis player
* Anne H. Ehrlich (born 1933), U.S. author of books on overpopulation and ecology
* Arnold Ehrlich (1848–1919), biblical and rabbinical scholar who was born in Poland and immigrated to the U.S.
* Dieter Ehrlich (born 1941), German field hockey player
* Eugen Ehrlich (1862–1922), Austrian legal scholar
* Eugene Ehrlich (1922–2008), U.S. lexicographer and author
* Felix Ehrlich (1877–1942), German chemist and biochemist
* Franz Ehrlich (1907–1984), German architect
* Gertrude Ehrlich (born 1923), Austrian-American mathematician
* Georg Ehrlich (1897–1966), Austrian-born sculptor, also active in the UK
* Gretel Ehrlich (born 1946), U.S. travel writer
* Howard J. Ehrlich, U.S. sociologist and anarchist activist
* Isaac Ehrlich, Israeli-American economist
* Jacques Ehrlich, (1893–1953), World War I flying ace
* Jake Ehrlich, (1900–1971), U.S. attorney and author who was the model for Perry Mason and Sam Benedict
* Jakob Ehrlich (1877–1938), Austrian Zionist killed in the Nazi concentration camp, Dachau
* Jon Ehrlich, American television and film composer
* Jonathan Erlich (born 1977), Israeli tennis player
* Joseph Ehrlich (1914–2003) (Dr Joe Ehrlich), founded EMC Motorcycles after emigrating from Austria to Great Britain in 1930s
* Kendel Ehrlich (born 1961), former first lady of Maryland
* Lambert Ehrlich (1878–1942), Slovene Roman Catholic priest, political figure, and ethnologist
* Marty Ehrlich (b. 1955), U.S. jazz musician
* Max Ehrlich (1892–1944), German actor, director and master of ceremony
* Meshullam Ehrlich (1818–1861), Polish-Jewish philologist
* Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915), German scientist who won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and developed the ehrlich reagent
* Paul R. Ehrlich (born 1932), U.S. biologist and Professor of Population Studies at Stanford University
* Ricardo Ehrlich, (born 1948), Uruguayan politician
* Robert Ehrlich (born 1957), U.S. politician and former governor of Maryland
* Robert Ehrlich (physicist) (born 1938)
* Rotem Erlich (born 1969), Israeli basketball player
* Simon M. Ehrlich (1852–1895), American lawyer and judge
* S. Paul Ehrlich Jr. (1937–2005), acting Surgeon General of the United States from 1973 to 1977
* Steven Ehrlich (born 1946), American architect
* Thomas Ehrlich (born 1934) consulting professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, president of Indiana University 1987-1994
* Walter Ehrlich (1896–1968), German philosopher
* William Ehrlich (1894–1923), German Nazi who was killed in the attempted coup of 1923 called the Beer Hall Putsch
* Yakov Ehrlich (born 1988), Russian professional football (soccer) player
* Yom-Tov Ehrlich (1914–1990), Hasidic musician born in Poland who immigrated to the U.S.

## Erlich

* Dennis Erlich, U.S. scientologist
* Esther Erlich, Australian artist
* Jonathan Erlich (born 1977), Israeli tennis player
* Leandro Erlich, Argentine conceptual artist
* Paul Erlich (born 1972), American music theorist