| hoffa | (n) United States labor leader who was president of the Teamsters Union; he was jailed for trying to bribe a judge and later disappeared and is assumed to have been murdered (1913-1975), Syn. Jimmy Hoffa, James Riddle Hoffa |
| hoffman | (n) United States sculptor (1887-1966), Syn. Malvina Hoffman |
| hoffman | (n) versatile United States film actor (born in 1937), Syn. Dustin Hoffman |
| hoffmann | (n) Austrian architect known for his use of rectilinear units (1870-1956), Syn. Josef Hoffmann |
| hoffmann | (n) German chemist (1818-1892), Syn. August Wilhelm von Hoffmann |
| hoffmann | (n) United States chemist (born in Poland) who used quantum mechanics to understand chemical reactions (born in 1937), Syn. Roald Hoffmann |
| hoffmann | (n) German writer of fantastic tales (1776-1822), Syn. Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann |
| hoffmannsthal | (n) German poet who wrote libretti for operas by Richard Strauss (1874-1929), Syn. Hugo von Hoffmannsthal |