Hofmeister may refer to:
, medieval and early modern court position, drama by Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz

Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz

Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz was a Baltic German writer of the Sturm und Drang movement.-Life:...

• Hofmeister Lager, a UK lager brand
• Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag
  Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag
  Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag is a publisher of classical music, founded by Friedrich Hofmeister in Leipzig in 1807. Early listings included composers Ludwig van Beethoven, Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt. Hofmeister was the first to publish Mahler's Second Symphony. Pedagogical works, such as...
  
  , German music publisher, short: Hofmeister

Family name

(1883 - 1956), German historian (1891 - 1966), German Benedictine abbot

• Franz Hofmeister
  Franz Hofmeister
  Franz Hofmeister was an early protein scientist, and is famous for his studies of salts that influence the solubility and conformational stability of proteins...
  
   (1850, Prague - 1922), Bohemian-German doctor, physiologist, chemist and pharmacologist, early protein scientist
• the Hofmeister series
  Hofmeister series
  The Hofmeister series or lyotropic series is a classification of ions in order of their ability to salt out or salt in proteins. The effects of these changes were first worked out by Franz Hofmeister, who studied the effects of cations and anions on the solubility of proteins.Hofmeister discovered...
  
   of ion classification he discovered (1867 - 1926), German surgeon
• Franz-Peter Hofmeister
  Franz-Peter Hofmeister
  Franz-Peter Hofmeister was a West German athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metres.He competed for West Germany in the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, Canada in the 4 x 400 metre relay where he won the bronze medal with his team mates Lothar Krieg, Harald Schmid and Bernd...
  
   (born 1951, Kerpen), West German-German athlete

(1782 - 1864), German publisher

• Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag
  Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag
  Friedrich Hofmeister Musikverlag is a publisher of classical music, founded by Friedrich Hofmeister in Leipzig in 1807. Early listings included composers Ludwig van Beethoven, Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt. Hofmeister was the first to publish Mahler's Second Symphony. Pedagogical works, such as...
  
  

(1945 - 1994), Austrian legal historian (1878 - 1936), German historian and archaeologist

• John Hofmeister, American businessman, president of Shell Oil Company
  Shell Oil Company
  Shell Oil Company is the United States-based subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, a multinational oil company of Anglo Dutch origins, which is amongst the largest oil companies in the world. Approximately 22,000 Shell employees are based in the U.S. The head office in the U.S. is in Houston, Texas...
  
  , member of the board of directors of the Foreign Policy Association
  Foreign Policy Association
  The Foreign Policy Association is a non-profit organization dedicated to inspiring the American public to learn more about the world. Founded in 1918, it serves as a catalyst for developing awareness, understanding of, and providing informed opinions on global issues...
  
  

(1887 - 1959), German footballer

• Max Hofmeister
  Max Hofmeister
  Max Hofmeister was an Austrian football player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.He was part of the Austrian team, which won the silver medal in the football tournament. He played all four matches as midfielder. Hofmeister died in the early-to-mid 1940s, most probably in combat during World...
  
   (1913, ? - ?), Austrian soccer player (1871 - 1937), German photographer (1814 - 1887), Swiss physicist and meteorologist (born 1975, München), German-Austrian rabbi, Viennese Vize Rabbi (Gemeinderabbiner) of the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien
  Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien
  The Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien is the body that represents Vienna’s Jewish community. Today, the IKG has around 7000 members...
  
  
• Sebastian Hofmeister
  Sebastian Hofmeister
  Sebastian Hofmeister , known in writing as Oeconomus or Oikonomos, was a Swiss monk and religious Reformer who was prominent in early debates of the Reformation....
  
   (1494, Schaffhausen - 1533), Swiss Christian monk and Christian religious reformer (1868-1943), German photographer

(1902 - 1984), German politician

• Wilhelm Hofmeister
  Wilhelm Hofmeister
  Wilhelm Friedrich Benedikt Hofmeister was a German biologist and botanist. He "stands as one of the true giants in the history of biology and belongs in the same pantheon as Darwin and Mendel." He was largely self-taught....
  
   (1824, Leipzig - 1877), German biologist and botanist
• Wilhelm Hofmeister (automobile designer)
  Wilhelm Hofmeister (automobile designer)
  Wilhelm Hofmeister was the BMW design chief from 1955 to 1970.The Hofmeister kink is named after him. Hofmeister's successor at BMW was Paul Bracq.- External links :* An overview of automotive designers working for BMW....
  
   (1912, ? - 1978), German automobile designer, the design chief of BMW
  BMW
  Bayerische Motoren Werke AG is a German automobile, motorcycle and engine manufacturing company founded in 1916. It also owns and produces the Mini marque, and is the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. BMW produces motorcycles under BMW Motorrad and Husqvarna brands...
  
  
• the Hofmeister kink
  Hofmeister kink
  The Hofmeister kink is an automobile design feature seen on modern BMWs. It is a low forward bend in the C-pillar of the car, which is the piece of metal that separates the rear side windows from the rear glass...
  
   automobile design feature that he invented
• Willy Hofmeister
  Willy Hofmeister
  Willy Hofmeister was a German rugby union player who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.He was a member of the German rugby union team, which won the silver medal. Germany was represented at the tournament by the FC 1880 Frankfurt rather than an official national team.-External links:* *...
  
  , a German rugby union international player