Martin Joseph Hoffman (15 November 1929 – 15 May 2018) was a Czech-born British professional bridge player and writer.

While on a holiday from there, in Torquay in south-west England, he was befriended by a family from Finchley, north London; they offered him a job as a diamond cutter, took him in, and taught him to play whist.

The diamond trade was not good in the 1950s, and he turned to card-playing for a living; he was a host, that is, a player retained by a bridge club proprietor to make up a table whenever needed but who kept some share of his winnings.

He and his partner won the event by a wide margin; and he realised for the first time that this was a game he could succeed in as well as enjoy.

[4][5] His autobiography, Bridging Two Worlds, which includes many terrible details about his Holocaust experiences, was originally circulated privately, but has been published by Masterpoint Press.