Albert Hoffa (31 March 1859 – 31 December 1907) was a German surgeon, orthopedist and physiotherapist born in Richmond, Cape of Good Hope.

He studied medicine at the Universities of Marburg and Freiburg, earning his doctorate with a thesis on nephritis saturnina.

In 1886, he opened a private clinic for orthopedics, physiotherapy and massage in Würzburg,[1] where in 1895 he became an associate professor at the university.

In 1902 he succeeded Julius Wolff (1836-1902) at the department of orthopedics in Berlin.

[4] His name is further associated with an anatomical structure, Hoffa's fat pad, and a condition affecting it, known as "Hoffa's fat pad disease", characterized by chronic knee pain primarily beneath the patella.