Chaffee or Chafee is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Ada Gilmore Chaffee (1883–1955), American watercolorist and printmaker * Adna Chaffee (1842–1914), American lieutenant general * Adna R. Chaffee Jr. (1884–1941), American major general, son of Adna *

Cathleen Chaffee Cathleen Chaffee is an American curator, writer, and art historian specializing in contemporary art. She currently serves as the chief curator of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum (formerly the Albright–Knox Art Gallery) in Buffalo, New York, where s ...

, American curator, art historian * Calvin C. Chaffee (1811–1896), American doctor, politician and abolitionist * Emory Leon Chaffee (1885–1975), American physicist and engineer * George D. Chafee (1839–1927), American politician and lawyer * Harold G. Chaffee (1926-2020), American football player and coach * Jerome B. Chaffee (1825–1886), American entrepreneur and senator from Colorado *

John Chafee John Lester Hubbard Chafee ( ; October 22, 1922 – October 24, 1999) was an American politician and officer in the United States Marine Corps. A member of the Republican Party (United States), he served as the 66th Governor of Rhode Island, as ...

(1922–1999), American politician and Secretary of the Navy *

Judith Chafee Judith Chafee nee Davidson Bloom (1932–1998) was an American architect known for her work on residential buildings in Arizona and for being a professor of architecture at the University of Arizona. She was a recipient of the National Endowment o ...

(1932–1998), American architect *

Lincoln Chafee Lincoln Davenport Chafee ( ; born March 26, 1953) is an American politician. He was mayor of Warwick, Rhode Island from 1993 to 1999, a United States Senator from 1999 to 2007, and the 74th Governor of Rhode Island from 2011 to 2015. He was a m ...

(born 1953), Rhode Island governor and U.S. Senator; son of John * Oliver Newberry Chaffee (1910–1944), American painter and printmaker * Rick Chaffee (born 1945), American skier, brother of Suzy *

Roger B. Chaffee Roger Bruce Chaffee (; February 15, 1935 – January 27, 1967) was an American Officer (armed forces), naval officer, United States naval aviator, aviator and Aeronautical engineering, aeronautical engineer who was a NASA astronaut in the Apoll ...

(1935–1967), American Apollo astronaut * Suzy Chaffee (born 1946), American skier and actress *

Zechariah Chafee Zechariah Chafee Jr. (December 7, 1885 – February 8, 1957) was an American judicial philosopher and civil rights advocate, described as "possibly the most important First Amendment scholar of the first half of the twentieth century" by Richa ...

(1885–1957), American free speech and legal scholar ;Fictional characters: * Alan Chaffee, in the 1995 film ''Village of the Damned''

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