August von Gneisenau was a Prussian general.

Two naval ships of Germany were named after the general:

• SMS Gneisenau was an armored cruiser of World War I, sunk at the Battle of the Falkland Islands.

• The battlecruiser (or light battleship) Gneisenau was launched in 1936 and saw some action in World War II.

• there is also a Gneisenau concentration camp , where the children from Lidice were taken