List of Famous people with last name Westhoff

Clara Westhoff, also known as Clara Rilke or Clara Rilke-Westhoff was a German sculptor and the wife of poet Rainer Maria Rilke.

Johann Paul von Westhoff was a German Baroque composer and violinist. One of the most important exponents of the Dresden violin school, he was among the highest ranked violinists of his day, and composed some of the earliest known music for solo violin. He worked as musician and composer as a member of Dresden's Hofkapelle (1674–1697) and at the Weimar court (1699–1705), and was also active as a teacher of contemporary languages.

Friedrich von Westhoff was a Swedish officer who remained in Germany and became a trombonist at the Dresden court. His son Johann Paul von Westhoff became a distinguished pupil of Heinrich Schütz ; it appears that Friedrich was also a pupil of Schütz.