Wolff is a variant of the

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surname which is derived from the baptismal names

Wolfgang Wolfgang is a German male given name traditionally popular in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The name is a combination of the Old High German words ''wolf'', meaning "wolf", and ''gang'', meaning "path", "journey", "travel". Besides the regula ...

Wolfram Wolfram may refer to: * Wolfram (name) * Wolfram, an alternative name for the chemical element tungsten * Wolfram Research, a software company known for the symbolic computation program Mathematica ** Wolfram Language, the programming language use ...

List of people surnamed Wolff

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* Albert Wolff (disambiguation), several people * Alex Wolff, American actor *

Alexander Wolff Alexander Wolff is a writer for ''Sports Illustrated'' and former owner of the Vermont Frost Heaves of the Premier Basketball League (PBL). He has written several books about basketball, among them ''Big Game, Small World'' (), a look at basketb ...

, American writer *

Alexander Wolff (soldier) Lt. Col. Alexander Joseph Wolff (1788–1863) was a British officer who served under the Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Duke of Wellington. Lt. Col. Alexander Joseph Wolff was born in Baden, Austria in 1788. His father, an army offi ...

, (1788–1863), British officer who served under the Duke of Wellington * Auguste Wolff (1821–1887), French piano maker

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Betje Wolff Elizabeth ("Betje") Wolff-Bekker (24 July 17385 November 1804) was a Dutch novelist who, with Agatha "Aagje" Deken, wrote several popular epistolary novels such as ''Sara Burgerhart'' (1782) and ''Willem Levend'' (1784). Biography Betje Bekker w ...

(1738–1804), Dutch writer *

Bernard Wolff Bernhard Wolff (3 March 1811 – 11 May 1879) was a German media mogul. He was editor of the ''Vossische Zeitung'', founder of the '':de:National-Zeitung (19. Jahrhundert), National Zeitung'' (1848–1938), and founder of Wolffs Telegraphisches ...

(1811–1879), German media mogul *

Bernard Wolff Beffie Bernard (''Bernhard'') is a French and West Germanic masculine given name. It is also a surname. The name is attested from at least the 9th century. West Germanic ''Bernhard'' is composed from the two elements ''bern'' "bear" and ''hard'' "brav ...

(1872–1943), Dutch chess master and dermatologist *

Beverly Wolff Beverly Wolff (November 6, 1928 – August 14, 2005) was an American mezzo-soprano who had an active career in concerts and operas from the early 1950s to the early 1980s. She performed a broad repertoire which encompassed operatic and concert ...

(1928–2005), American mezzo-soprano *

Bobby Wolff Robert S. (Bobby) Wolff (born October 14, 1932, San Antonio, Texas) is an American bridge player, writer, and administrator. He is the only person to win world championships in five different categories. He is a graduate of Trinity University. ...

(born 1932), American bridge player

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Carl Gustaf Wolff Carl Gustaf Wolff (28 October 1800 - 19 July 1868) was a prominent Finnish shipowner and businessman during his time. He was born in either Noormarkku (''Sw. Norrmark'') or Suomenlinna (''Sw. Sveaborg'') in Finland, when it still was a part of ...

, a prominent Finnish shipowner and businessman *

Caspar Friedrich Wolff Caspar Friedrich Wolff (18 January 1733 – 22 February 1794) was a German physiologist and one of the founders of embryology. Life Wolff was born in Berlin, Brandenburg. In 1759 he graduated as an M.D. from the University of Halle with his disse ...

(1734–1794), founder of embryology *

Christian Wolff (disambiguation) Christian Wolff may refer to: People * Christian Wolff (philosopher) (1679–1754), German philosopher and mathematician * Christian Wolff (baroque composer) (1705–1773), German composer * Christian Wolff (composer) (born 1934), American composer ...

, several people * Christoph Wolff (born 1940), German-born musicologist *

Cynthia Griffin Wolff Cynthia Griffin Wolff (née Griffin; born August 20, 1936) is an American literary historian and editor known for her biographies of Edith Wharton and Emily Dickinson. She has served as Class of 1922 Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts ...

(born 1936), American literary historian

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* Ed Wolff (actor) (1907–1966), American actor *

Edward Wolff Edward Nathan Wolff (April 10, 1946) is an American economist whose work concerns wealth and wealth disparity. He is a professor of economics at New York University and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He also ...

(born 1946), American economist * Elsie and Mathilde Wolff Van Sandau (''alive in'' 1914), British suffragette sisters *

Enrique Wolff Enrique Ernesto "Quique" Wolff (born 21 February 1949) is an Argentine journalist and former football defender. He represented Argentina at the 1974 World Cup. Playing career Wolff, born in Victoria, Buenos Aires, began his career with Ra ...

(born 1949), Argentine football player *

Ernst Victor Wolff Ernst Victor Wolff (August 6, 1889 – August 21, 1960) was a German-born concert pianist and harpsichordist, who maintained a career not only as a soloist but also as a respected accompanist. Singers with whom he performed included Dorothy Mayn ...

(1886–1961), German-born classical pianist and harpsichordist

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Francis Wolff Francis Wolff (April 5, 1907 – March 8, 1971) was a record company executive, photographer and record producer. Wolff's skills, as an executive and a photographer, were important contributions to the success of the Blue Note record label. Care ...

, photographer and the founder of Blue Note Records *

Francis Wolff (philosopher) Francis Wolff (April 5, 1907 – March 8, 1971) was a record company executive, photographer and record producer. Wolff's skills, as an executive and a photographer, were important contributions to the success of the Blue Note record label. Care ...

(born 1950), French philosopher, see

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Frank Wolff (disambiguation) Frank Wolff may refer to: *Frank Wolff (actor) (1928–1971), American actor * Frank Wolff (comics), fictional character from ''The Adventures of Tintin'' by Hergé See also * Franklin Merrell-Wolff (1887–1985), American mystical philosopher ...

, several people *

Franklin Merrell-Wolff Franklin Merrell-Wolff (born Franklin Fowler Wolff; 11 July 1887 – 4 October 1985) was an American mystic and esoteric philosopher. After formal education in philosophy and mathematics at Stanford and Harvard, Wolff devoted himself to the goa ...

(1887–1985), an American mystical philosopher *

Freddie Wolff Frederick Ferdinand Wolff, CBE, TD (13 October 1910 – 26 January 1988) was a British athlete, winner of gold medal in 4 × 400 m relay at the 1936 Summer Olympics. Early life On 13 October 1910, Wolff was born in British Hong Kong, the ...

(1910–1988), British sprinter

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Geoffrey Wolff Geoffrey Wolff (born 1937) is an American novelist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer. Among his honors and recognition are the Award in Literature of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1994) and fellowships of the National Endowment fo ...

(born 1937), American writer

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Hans Wolff (aviator) Leutnant Hanns Joachim Wolff was a World War I German flying ace credited with ten aerial victories.The Aerodrome website http://www.theaerodrome.com/aces/germany/wolff1.php Retrieved on 18 April 2010. Early life Hans Joachim Wolff was born in ...

(1895–1918), German flying ace *

Hans Walter Wolff Hans Walter Wolff (December 17, 1911 – October 22, 1993) was a German Protestant theologian. He was professor at the University of Mainz from 1959 to 1967, and from 1967 to 1978 he was Professor of Old Testament at the University of Heidelber ...

(1911–1993), German biblical scholar *

Hellmuth Wolff (disambiguation) Hellmuth Wolff may refer to: * Hellmuth Wolff (organ builder) Hellmuth Wolff (September 3, 1937 – November 20, 2013) was a Canadian organ builder and the founder of the firm Wolff & Associés. Under his guidance the firm set new standards in C ...

, several people * Heinz Wolff (1928–2017), German-British scientist and television and radio presenter *

Henny Wolff 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. Compose ...

(1896–1965), German soprano concert singer and voice teacher * Henry Drummond Wolff (1830–1908), English diplomat

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* Irving Wolff (1894–1982), American physicist

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* J. Scott Wolff (1878–1958), American politician from Missouri *

Johann Friedrich Wolff Johann Friedrich Wolff (1778- 1806) was a German physician, botanist, entomologist and natural history illustrator. He wrote and illustrated ''Commentatio de Lemna''. Altdorfii et Norimbergae (1801), ''Icones Cimicum descriptionibus illustratae''. ...

(1778–1806), German botanist * Jonathan Wolff (disambiguation), several people *

Josh Wolff Josh Wolff (born February 25, 1977) is an American soccer coach and former player. He is currently the head coach of Austin FC in Major League Soccer. Playing career College Born in Stone Mountain, Georgia, Wolff played three years of colle ...

(born 1977), American soccer player * Joseph Wolff (1795–1862), Jewish Christian missionary from Germany *

Joseph C. Wolff Joseph C. Wolff (January 19, 1849 in Besançon, France – November 26, 1896 in New York City) was an American lawyer and politician from New York (state), New York. Life The family emigrated to the United States in 1855, and settled in New Yo ...

(1849–1896), New York politician * Julius Wolff (disambiguation), several people * Johannes "Hans" Hermann Wolff (1896–1976), German Engineer

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Karin Wolff Karin Wolff (born 23 February 1959 in Darmstadt) is a German politician and former deputy minister president of Hesse. Wolff studied history, evangelical theology and philosophy at Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz and Philipps-Universität M ...

(1959), German politician *

Karl Wolff Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff (13 May 1900 – 17 July 1984) was a German SS functionary who served as Chief of Personal Staff Reichsführer-SS (Heinrich Himmler) and an SS liaison to Adolf Hitler during World War II. He ended the war as the Supre ...

(1900–1984), high-ranking member of the Schutzstaffel *

Karl Felix Wolff Karl Felix Wolff (Italian: Carlo Felice Wolff; 21 May 1879 – 25 November 1966) was a journalist, poet, author and self-taught folklorist of the South Tyrol who collected and published Ladinian legends. Life Karl Felix Wolff' was born in Karlst ...

(1879–1966), self-taught folklorist of the South Tyrol *

Kurt Wolff (disambiguation) Kurt Wolff may refer to: * Kurt Wolff (publisher) (1887–1963), German publisher, editor, writer and journalist * Kurt Wolff (aviator) (1895–1917), Germany World War I fighter ace * Kurt Heinrich Wolff Kurt Heinrich Wolff (May 20, 1912 – Sep ...

, several people

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Lester L. Wolff Lester Lionel Wolff (January 4, 1919 – May 11, 2021) was an American politician who served as a Democratic Party (United States), Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from New York. He also held the position of pres ...

(1919–2021), American politician *

Lewis Wolff Lewis N. Wolff (born December 13, 1935) is an American real estate developer. Wolff had been co-chairman of the Board of Sunstone Investors, Inc. from October 2004 to April 2014. Wolff owned sports franchises, serving currently as the co-owner of ...

(1935-), American billionaire real estate developer *

Louis Wolff Louis may refer to: * Louis (coin) * Louis (given name), origin and several individuals with this name * Louis (surname) * Louis (singer), Serbian singer * HMS ''Louis'', two ships of the Royal Navy See also Derived or associated terms * Lewis (d ...

(1898–1972), American cardiologist

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Maritta Wolff Maritta Martin Wolff Stegman (December 25, 1918 – July 1, 2002) was an American author. Biography Wolff was born on December 25, 1918, in Grass Lake, Michigan, Grass Lake, Jackson County, Michigan. She grew up on her grandparents' farm and att ...

(1918–2002) American novelist * Elsie and Mathilde Wolff Van Sandau (died 1926), British suffragette sisters *

Matthew Wolff Matthew Brandyn Wolff (born April 14, 1999) is an American professional golfer. He was an NCAA All-American at Oklahoma State University, and won the 2019 NCAA Division I individual championship. Wolff picked up his first win on the PGA Tour a ...

(born 1999), American golfer * Michael Wolff (disambiguation), several people * Milton Wolff (1915–2008), commander of the Lincoln Battalion

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* Nat Wolff (born 1994), American actor *

Nelson Wolff Nelson William Wolff (born October 27, 1940) is a retired American judge and Democratic politician from San Antonio, Texas. He represented Bexar County in the Texas House of Representatives from 1971 to 1973 and the Texas Senate from 1973 to 197 ...

(born 1940), American politician * Noah Wolff (1809–1907), German industrialist and community leader

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* Otto Herbert Wolff (1920–2010) German-British paediatrician

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Patrick Wolff Patrick Gideon Wolff (born February 15, 1968) is an American chess Grandmaster. He is the son of philosopher Robert Paul Wolff and brother of law professor Tobias Barrington Wolff. Wolff won the United States Chess Championship in 1992 and 1995 ...

(born 1968), American chess player * Peter Wolff (disambiguation), several people

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* Richard Wolff (disambiguation), several people * Rikard Wolff (1958–2017), Swedish actor * Robert Wolff (disambiguation), several people *

Roger Wolff Roger Francis Wolff (April 10, 1911 – March 23, 1994) was an American professional baseball player. A right-handed knuckleball pitcher, he appeared in 182 games pitched, games over all or part of seven seasons in Major League Baseball between ...

(1911–1994), American baseball player

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* S. Drummond Wolff (1916–2004), English organist, mainly active in America * Salomon (Sam) de Wolff (1878–1960), Dutch economist and politician *

Sam Wolff Samuel Taylor Wolff (born April 14, 1991) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played college baseball for the University of San Diego, College of Southern Nevada, and University of New Mexico. The Texas Rangers selected him ...

(born 1991), American baseball player * Sheldon Wolff (1928–2008), American radiobiologist and cytogeneticist * Sheldon M. Wolff (1930–1994), American physician and immunologist *

Stefan Wolff Stefan Wolff is a German political scientist. He is a specialist in international security, particularly in the management, settlement and prevention of ethnic conflicts. He is currently Professor of International Security at the University of B ...

, German political scientist and professor living in the UK *

Sula Wolff Sulammith (Sula) Wolff FRCP FRCPysch (1 March 1924 – 21 September 2009) was a prominent and pioneering British child psychiatrist. She was amongst the first in her field to identify and define the characteristics of children on the autisti ...

(1924–2009), prominent British child psychiatrist *

Susie Wolff Susie is a female name that can be a diminutive form of Susan, Susanne, Suzanne, Susannah, Susanna or Susana. Susie may refer to: Songs * "Susie Q" (song), a 1957 song by Dale Hawkins, covered by Creedence Clearwater Revival (1968) *"Wake Up ...

(born 1982), British racing driver

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* Theodor Wolff (1868–1943), German journalist *

Thomas Wolff Thomas Hartwig Wolff (July 14, 1954, New York City – July 31, 2000, Kern County) was a noted mathematician, working primarily in the fields of harmonic analysis, complex analysis, and partial differential equations. As an undergraduate at Harva ...

(1954–2000), American mathematician * Tobias Barrington Wolff (born 1970), American professor of law * Tobias Wolff (born 1945), American writer * Toto Wolff (born 1972), Austrian racing driver and investor

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* Virginia Euwer Wolff (1882–1941), English writer * Victoria Wolff (1903–1992), German born American writer and screenwriter.

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* Werner Wolff (disambiguation), several people *

William Wolff William Wolff (born Wilhelm Wolff; 13 February 19278 July 2020), also known as Willy Wolff, was a German-British journalist and rabbi. Life Wolff was born in Berlin on 13 February 1927 as one of three children of German Jews. When he was six y ...

(1927–2020), German-British journalist and rabbi