Werner Robert Voigts (March 29, 1916 – December 7, 2000) was an American football and basketball player and coach.

Voigts led the 1948 Northwestern Wildcats team to the Rose Bowl, the first in school history, where they defeated California, 20–14.

In his sophomore year, the Wildcats won the Big Ten Conference, and Voigts was named an All-American tackle.

He entered the U.S. Navy during World War II in 1942 and was stationed outside of Chicago where he met Paul Brown, the head coach of the base's football team.

[2] That year, the Northwestern Wildcats posted a 7–1 win–loss record under coach Pappy Waldorf and were champions of the Big Ten Conference, a grouping of large schools from the Midwestern United States.

His most successful year was his second season, when the Wildcats finished with an 8–2 record and won the Rose Bowl 20–14 over a University of California, Berkeley team coached by Waldorf.

[17][18][19] While Voigts's tenure at Northwestern started successfully, he came under increasing pressure in the early 1950s after posting a string of losing records.

[21] Lou Saban, a former Browns lineman who had served as assistant to Voigts, replaced him as head coach.

[22] Voigts stayed in Evanston after resigning and operated a real estate business out of an office across the street from Northwestern's Dyche Stadium for 30 years.