Antonius Jacobus Leonardus (Anton) van Hooff is a Dutch historian and author. He specializes in classical antiquity.

In 1971 Van Hooff obtained his doctorate with a dissertation "Pax romana: a study of Roman imperialism". Van Hooff worked untill 2008 as professor of ancient history at the Dutch Radboud University in Nijmegen. He regularly publishes in several newspapers and magazines. He has written, among other books Nero and Seneca, Athens and Marcus Aurelius.

From 2009 to 2015 he was chairman of a Dutch atheistic free-thinkers association "De vrije gedachte" (The Free Thought). In the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Van Hooff is an outspoken republican and a member of the Dutch Republican Society.