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

• 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.

• 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

• Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich (born 1987), American visual artist and filmmaker
• Ehrich (disambiguation), a similarly spelled surname