Ehrlich is a German/Yiddish surname, meaning "honest" or "honorable". Notable people with the surname include:Steven Ehrlich, American architect Abel Ehrlich (1915–2003), Israeli composer of symphony music Alojzy Ehrlich (1914–1992), Polish table tennis player Anne H. Ehrlich, U.S. author of books on overpopulation and ecology Arnold Bogomul Ehrlich (1848–1919), biblical and rabbinical scholar who was born in Poland and immigrated to the U.S. David Ehrlich, senior film critic at IndieWire Dieter Ehrlich, 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, Austrian-American mathematician George Ehrlich (1897-1966), Austrian-born sculptor, also active in the UK Gretel Ehrlich, U.S. travel writer Howard Ehrlich, U.S. sociologist and anarchist activist 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 Jonathan Erlich, Israeli tennis player Joseph Ehrlich (1914–2003), founded EMC Motorcycles after emigrating from Austria to Great Britain in 1930s Kendel Sibiski Ehrlich, former first lady of Maryland Lambert Ehrlich (1878–1942), Slovene Roman Catholic priest, political figure, and ethnologist Marty Ehrlich, U.S. jazz musician Max Ehrlich (1892–1944), German actor, director and master of ceremony Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915), German scientist who won the 1908 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine and developed the ehrlich reagent Paul R. Ehrlich, U.S. biologist and Professor of Population Studies at Stanford University Ricardo Ehrlich,, Uruguayan politician Robert "Bob" Leroy Ehrlich, U.S. politician and former governor of Maryland Rotem Erlich, Israeli basketball player S. Paul Ehrlich, Jr. (1937–2005), acting Surgeon General of the United States from 1973 to 1977 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, Russian professional football (soccer) player Yom Tov Ehrlich (1914–1990), Hasidic musician born in Poland who immigrated to the U.S.