Bonhoeffer (surname) explained

Bonhoeffer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945), German pastor, theologian, spy, anti-Nazi dissident, and key founding member of the Confessing Church
• Karl Bonhoeffer (1868–1948), German neuroscientist and physician
• Klaus Bonhoeffer (1901–1945), German jurist and resistance fighter against the Nazi régime who was executed after the July 1944 plot to kill Hitler
• Emmi Bonhoeffer (1905–1991), wife of anti-Hitler activist Klaus Bonhoeffer
• Tobias Bonhoeffer (born 1960), German neurobiologist

See also

• Bonhoeffer family, a German family originally descending from Nijmegen
• Bonhoeffer Botanical Gardens, botanical garden north of Seattle on the premises of the Freeborn Lutheran Church. They are named in honor of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran pastor and scholar, who was executed in April, 1945, in Nazi Germany's Flossenburg concentration camp
• Bonhoeffer-van der Pol model named after Karl Friedrich Bonhoeffer and Balthasar van der Pol. Now known as FitzHugh–Nagumo model