Johann David Schoepff, or Schoepf, or Schöpf, (March 8, 1752 – September 10, 1800) was a German botanist, zoologist, and physician.He was born in Bayreuth and travelled to New York in 1777 as the chief surgeon for the Ansbach regiment of Hessian troops fighting for King George III of the United Kingdom.During the war Schoepff was stationed in Rhode Island.