Herman Frederick Ferdinand Thorup (1849-1929) was a Mormon ecclesiastical leader in Utah. He served two missions for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to Denmark.

Herman Thorup was born in Fredriksborg, Denmark on April 19, 1849. He was baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1916, serving his first mission to South Sjcelland, Denmark from 1867 to 1868. At the age of twenty, he arrived in Utah to live with the main body of the Saints in 1869. Three years later, he was ordained a seventy. He married to Sophie Johnson on May 28, 1872. She died six years later, leaving three children behind her. The next year, Thorup served a second mission to Denmark. Shortly after his mission, he met and married Anna Christina Andersen in 1881. A year later, he also married Jensine Jensen. In April 1901, Thorup was set apart as one of the Presidents of the 138th Quorum of the Seventies and was a Senior President for thirteen years and a Seventy for thirty nine years. Thorup went blind in his final years, dying on September 9, 1929.