Steinert is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:Damián Steinert, Argentine football winger Kristin Steinert, German bobsledder Otto Steinert (1915–1978), German photographer Scott Steinert (1962–1997), American gangster Vida Steinert (1903/5–1976), New Zealand painter Wolfgang Steinert (1940–2010), German electrical engineer Hans Gustav Wilhelm Steinert (1875–1911), German physician who first described Myotonic dystrophy, also known as Curschmann-Batten-Steinert syndrome