Johannes Bouwmeester (4 November 1634 - buried 22 October 1680) was a Dutch physician, philosopher and a founding member of the literary society Nil volentibus arduum.
He was a close friend of Lodewijk Meyer, co-founder of Nil volentibus arduum, and acquainted with the philosophers Benedictus de Spinoza and Adriaen Koerbagh.
His father, Claes Bouwmeester, was tailor by trade and several family members were builders of musical instruments.
[2] In 1663 he wrote a Latin poem for Spinoza's Renati Descartes principia philosophiae and he is also believed to be the author of the small poem under the engraved portrait of Spinoza found in some editions of the Opera posthuma (1677).
In the second half of the 1660s he traveled to Italy, where on 30 September 1667 he enrolled in law at the University of Padua.