Lieutenant Ludwig von Höhnel (6 August, 1857 – 23 March, 1942) was a Austrian naval officer and explorer.

von Höhnel was the second-in-command of Samuel Teleki's expedition to Northern Kenya in 1887-1888. He and Teleki were the first Europeans to see Lake Turkana which they named Lake Rudolf after the expedition's patron, Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria. von Höhnel acted as the expeditions's cartographer, scientist and diarist, and wrote a book on the expedition entitled The discovery of Lakes Rudolf and Stephanie.