In Nazi Germany, the Aryan certificate or Aryan passport (German: Ariernachweis) was a document which certified that a person was a member of the presumed Aryan race. Beginning in April 1933, it was required from all employees and officials in the public sector, including education, according to the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service. It was also a primary requirement to become a Reich citizen for those who were of German or related blood (Aryan) and wanted to become Reich citizens after the Nuremberg Laws were passed in 1935. A "Swede or an Englishman, a Frenchman or Czech, a Pole or Italian" was considered to be of related blood to the Germans, that is, "Aryan".

There were two main types:

The Nazis justified their racial legalisation by stating:

In line with National Socialist thinking which does full justice to all other peoples, there is never the expression of superior or inferior, but alien racial admixtures.

Like other documents issued by public authorities at the time, the Aryan certificate was an official government document. As such, it still has evidentiary value in legal proceedings today, similar to how an expired East German passport can be used to support a claim of German citizenship.