Werner Friedrich Hoffmeister (14 March 1819 Braunschweig – 21. December 1845 Ferozeshah, Punjab) was a German physician and botanist. He accompanied his childhood friend, Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Waldemar of Prussia, (2 August 1817 – 17 February 1849), son of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1783–1851), as a personal physician on an expedition 1845-46 to India and was killed in a skirmish with the Sikhs.