Sofer and variants are Jewish occupational surnames derived from the occupation of sofer, is a ritual scribe in Judaism. Notable people with the surname Sofer, Sofaer, Sopher include:
Aaron Sopher (1905–1972), American painter
Abraham David Sofaer (born 1938), American judge Anna Sofaer (born 1940), American archaeologist
Avraham Shmuel Binyamin Sofer (1815–1871), Hungarian rabbi Chaim Sofer (1821–1886), Hungarian rabbi and scholar
Daniel Sofer (born 1988), Israeli footballer
Eva Sopher (1923–2018), Brazilian theatre manager
Joanna Sofaer (born 1970), British archaeologist and professor Mark Sofer (born 1954), Israeli diplomat Moses Sofer (1762–1839), Orthodox rabbi Moshe Sofer (II) (1885–1944), Hungarian rabbi
Shoval Sofer (born 1998), Israeli acrobatic gymnast
Yaakov Chaim Sofer (1870–1939), Sephardic rabbi, kabbalist, talmudist and poseq Yehoshua Sofer (born 1958), Israeli-Jamaican hip hop and martial artist Yochanan Sofer (1923–2016), Hungarian-born Israeli rabbi Yozef Yozpa Sofer (1819–1883), Jewish merchant
Fictional characters
Rube John Sofer, in the American TV series Dead Like Me
See also
Sofer of Prague (Abraham Niederländer), 16th-century Jewish-Austrian mathematician Soifer