Voit
Voit is a family name that is mostly used in southern Germany.
Origin and meaning
Voit is a spelling of Vogt . It is derived from the Latin advocatus (German: "administrator").
Name bearer
- Albert Voit (≈1550–1606), German educator and literary scholar
- August von Voit (1801–1870), German architect
- Augustin Voit (≈1643–1704), German Benedictine abbot
- Brigitte Voit (* 1963), German chemist and university professor at the Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research Dresden
- Carl von Voit (1831–1908), German physiologist and nutritionist
- Carl Friedrich Voit (1774–1854), German instrument maker
- David Voit (around 1529–1589), German Protestant theologian
- Edmund Voit (1707–1780), German priest, Jesuit and university professor
- Ernst Voit (1838–1921), German physicist
- Erwin Voit (1852–1932), German physiologist
- Fritz Voit (1863–1944), German internist
- Hartmut Voit (* 1944), German historian and history educator
- Heinrich Voit (1834–1914), German organ builder
- Jochen Voit (* 1972), German historian and journalist
- Johannes Voit (* 1980), German music teacher and composer
- Johann Michael Voit (1771–1846), German architect
- Kurt Voit (1895–1978), German physician
- Ludwig Voit (1906–2001), German classical philologist
- Marlies Voit (* 1941), German badminton player
- Max Voit (1876–1949), German anatomist
- Mieczysław Voit (1928–1991), Polish actor
- Renate Stark-Voit (* 1953), German musicologist
- Robert Voit (1889–1963), Austrian painter, see Robert Foit
- Robert Voit (entrepreneur) , American pilot, computer scientist, entrepreneur and founder of Jasc Software
- Robert Voit (photographer) (* 1969), German photographer
- Rudolf Voit-Nitschmann (* 1950), German aircraft designer and university professor
- Stephanie Voit (* 1977), German actress
- Viktor Voit (1888–1948), Austrian politician (Landbund)
- Wolfgang Voit (* 1961), German lawyer and university professor
Noble family
- Voit von Rieneck , Franconian noble family
- Voit of Salzburg , Franconian noble family
Others
- Voit Automotive , German automotive supplier
- Voit Peak , mountain in Graham Land, Antarctica