Hofstadter is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Albert Hofstadter (1910–1989), American philosopher, brother of Robert and uncle of Douglas Douglas Hofstadter (born 1945), American professor, author of Gödel, Escher, Bach, nephew of Albert and son of Robert Richard Hofstadter (1916–1970), American historian, nephew of Samuel Robert Hofstadter (1915–1990), American Nobel Prize-winner in physics, brother of Albert and father of Douglas Samuel H. Hofstadter (1894–1970), New York politician and judge, uncle of Richard
Fictional characters: Beverly Hofstadter, a character in the television series The Big Bang Theory, mother of Leonard Leonard Hofstadter, a character in the television series The Big Bang Theory Penny Hofstadter, a character in the television series The Big Bang Theory, wife of Leonard
See also Hofstadter's butterfly, a fractal Hofstadter Committee, a joint legislative investigating committee in New York 1931–1932 Hofstadter's law, "It always takes longer than you expect ..." Hofstadter-Moebius loop, a condition that affected HAL 9000, a fictional computer Hofstadter points, in triangle geometry Hofstadter sequence, an integer sequence Geert Hofstede tramscultural social psychologist