# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jan-hendrik-hofmeyr
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:42:07.367Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jan-hendrik-hofmeyr"
name: "Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr"
slug: "jan-hendrik-hofmeyr"
description: "Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr was a South African politician and intellectual in the years preceding apartheid. In his lifetime he was regarded as one of the cleverest men in the country, and it was widely expected that he would eventually become Prime Minister of South Africa. He came from a well-known Afrikaner family; his uncle, also Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr but known affectionately as \"Onze Jan\" among fellow Afrikaners, was a famous figure in the Afrikaans language movement."
tagline: "Pre-Apartheid South African minister (1894-1948)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Hofmeyr.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "South Africa"
  isoCode: "ZA"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1894-03-20"
deathDate: "1948-12-03"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.45
  momentum:             0
  historical:           8.288482666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%89%AC%C2%B7%E4%BA%A8%E5%BE%B7%E9%87%8C%E5%85%8B%C2%B7%E9%9C%8D%E5%A4%AB%E8%BF%88%E5%B0%94"
    title: "扬·亨德里克·霍夫迈尔"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jannie_Hofmeyr"
    title: "Jannie Hofmeyr"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%87%D9%88%D9%81%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "جان هندريك هوفماير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hendrik_Hofmeyr_(Politiker%2C_1894)"
    title: "Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (Politiker, 1894)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hendrik_Hofmeyr_(1894%E2%80%931948)"
    title: "Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr (1894–1948)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hendrik_Hofmeyr"
    title: "Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hendrik_Hofmeyr"
    title: "Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hofmeyr"
    title: "Jan Hofmeyr"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hofmeyr"
    title: "Jan Hofmeyr"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2045302"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump