Andries Gerhardus Visser (1 March 1878 – 10 June 1929) was a well-known early Afrikaans poet.

Visser was born on the farm Zaaifontein in the Fraserburg district of Cape Colony.

An intense drought drove his parents from their farm in Carnarvon and he was born in a tent in the farmyard, under the shadow of a pear tree.

He attended school in Dal Josafat at the same time as two other notable writers, Totius and D. F. Malherbe.

He received teacher's training at Normal College in Cape Town, then studied medicine in Edinburgh, Scotland, from 1901 to 1906.