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Henny Wolff (3 February 1896 – 29 January 1965) was a German soprano concert singer and voice teacher. She made an international career, known for performing music by Bach and Handel, but also performing contemporary classical music. Composers wrote music for her and performed with her, such as Hermann Reutter. She was a voice teacher at the Bonn Conservatory, in Berlin, and from 1950 to 1964 at the Musikhochschule Hamburg. She was awarded the city's Johannes Brahms Medal.
Wolff was a voice teacher at the Bonn Conservatory from 1914 to 1916. She moved to Berlin in 1922, where she also worked as a voice pedagogue. After World War II, she moved to Hamburg. She served as a voice instructor at the first Ferienkurse für internationale neue Musik in Darmstadt in 1946, and presented lieder by Gustav Mahler, Ernst Krenek and Reutter. Wolff was a voice teacher at the Musikhochschule Hamburg from 1950, when it was founded, to 1964, as a professor from 1952. She was awarded the Johannes Brahms Medal from the city of Hamburg in 1958, on the occasion of the composer's 125th anniversary. Among her students were Judith Beckmann, Ingeborg Reichelt and Elisabeth Schärtel.
She died in Hamburg on 29 January 1965. She was buried on the Hauptfriedhof Ohlsdorf. When the grave site expired, her remains were transferred to the , a memorial site for women.
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