Commander Andreas Peter Hovgaard (1 November 1853 – 15 March 1910) was a Royal Danish Navy officer and explorer.

In 1878 Hovgaard, as a young lieutenant, became a member of Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld's Vega Expedition, in which he was in charge of making meteorological as well as geomagnetic observations.

[1] Shortly after returning to Denmark, he married Sophie Christiane Nielsen (1856–1934) and published his report Nordenskiölds rejse omkring Asien og Europa about the first Arctic expedition to have navigated successfully through the Northeast Passage.

The Dijmphna became stuck in the ice off Dikson while trying to rescue the Dutch Polar Expedition's ship Varna,[3] which was surveying the mouth of the Yenisei.

From 1890 to 1893 Hovgaard was the captain of the mail steamer Thyra, which plied the route to the Faroe Islands and Iceland.