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surname meaning " ship". The Schiffs are known from "about 1370, the earliest date to which any contemporary Jewish family can be definitely traced". It may refer to:

People

* Adam Schiff (born 1960), American politician, California state Senator and US Representative *

András Schiff Sir András Schiff (; born 21 December 1953) is a Hungarian-born British classical pianist and conductor, who has received numerous major awards and honours, including the Grammy Award, Gramophone Award, Mozart Medal, and Royal Academy of Musi ...

(born 1953), Hungarian pianist *

Arthur Schiff Arthur Schiff (1 May 1940 – 24 August 2006) was one of the least known but most influential promoters of American kitsch products. Schiff ran his own company and ingenious marketing campaigns for 23 years. During his long career in advertising, h ...

(1940–2006), American infomercial copywriter *

Barry Schiff Barry Schiff is an American pilot and author of more than 1,800 articles published in 111 aviation magazines, notably AOPA Pilot of which he is a contributing editor. Schiff has been an aviation media consultant and technical advisor for motion ...

(born 1938), American pilot and journalist *

David Schiff David Schiff (born August 30, 1945 in New York City) is an American composer, writer and conductor whose music draws on elements of jazz, rock, and klezmer styles, showing the influence of composers as diverse as Stravinsky, Mahler, Charles Min ...

(born 1945), American composer * Don Schiff (born 1955), American composer and musician *

Dorothy Schiff Dorothy Schiff (March 11, 1903 – August 30, 1989) was an American businesswoman who was the owner and then publisher of the ''New York Post'' for nearly 40 years. She was a granddaughter of financier Jacob Schiff. Schiff was interested in soci ...

(1903–1989), American newspaper proprietor * Frieda Warburg (1876–1958), American philanthropist * Gary Schiff (born 1972), American politician * Heinrich Schiff (1951–2016), Austrian cellist *

Hugo Schiff Hugo (Ugo) Schiff (26 April 1834 – 8 September 1915) was an Italian naturalized chemist. The son of a Jewish businessman and brother of the physiologist Moritz Schiff was German by nationality. He discovered Schiff bases and other imines, ...

(1834–1915), German chemist who discovered Schiff base and

Schiff test : The Schiff test is an early organic chemistry named reaction developed by Hugo Schiff, and is a relatively general chemical test for detection of many organic aldehydes that has also found use in the staining of biological tissues. The Schiff ...

* Irwin Schiff (born 1928), American tax protestor * Jacob Schiff (1847–1920), German-born American banker *

Jeffrey Schiff Jeffrey Schiff is an artist working in Brooklyn, New York. He currently teaches at Wesleyan University. Selected exhibitions *2003, Wesleyan University, Olin Memorial Library, The Library Project *2000, Bose Pacia Modern, NY, Boundlessly Various an ...

, American artist *

John M. Schiff John Mortimer Schiff (August 26, 1904 – May 9, 1987) was an American investment banker and philanthropist. He was a partner in the firm Kuhn, Loeb & Co., as well as a trustee of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, a breeder of champi ...

(1904–1987), American banker and leader of the Boy Scouts of America *

Karenna Gore Schiff Karenna Aitcheson Gore (born August 6, 1973) is an American author, lawyer, and climate activist. She is the eldest daughter of former U.S. vice president Al Gore and Tipper Gore and the sister of Kristin Gore, Sarah Gore Maiani, and Albert Gore ...

(born 1973), American author and journalist *

Leonard I. Schiff Leonard Isaac Schiff was born in Fall River, Massachusetts on March 29, 1915 and died on January 21, 1971 in Stanford, California. He was a physicist best known for his book ''Quantum Mechanics'', originally published in 1949 (a second edition appe ...

(1915–1971), American physicist *

Lonny Schiff Lonny Schiff (born 1929) is an American artist. Her work is included in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Harvard Art Museums The Harvard Art Museums are part of Harvard University and comprise three museums: the ...

(born 1929), American artist *

Moritz Schiff Moritz Schiff (28 January 1823, Frankfurt – 6 October 1896, Geneva) was a German physiologist and the elder brother of the chemist Hugo Schiff (1834-1915), particularly known for his staining technique. He made major contributions to human physio ...

(1823–1896), German biologist *

Mortimer L. Schiff Mortimer Loeb Schiff (June 5, 1877 – June 4, 1931), sometimes Mortimer Leo Schiff, was an American banker and notable early Boy Scouts of America (BSA) leader. His son, John Mortimer Schiff, was also involved with the BSA. He was also the fath ...

(1877–1931), American banker and leader of the Boy Scouts of America *

Nadine Schiff Nadine Schiff is a Canadian film producer, screenwriter, author and philanthropist from Los Angeles, California. Early life Nadine Schiff was born in Toronto, Ontario.

, Canadian film producer and writer *

Naftali Schiff Naftali Schiff is the Founder and Chief Executive of Jewish Futures, also known as Jewish Futures Trust, a not-for-profit international organisation, which creates, incubates and scales dynamic educational organisations and initiatives, propellin ...

, British rabbi *

Nathan Schiff Nathan Schiff is a Long Island, New York filmmaker best known for low-budget horror features he shot in Super 8mm while in his teens. Image Entertainment, a leading DVD distributor, held these films in such high regard that they restored and rel ...

(born 1963), American filmmaker *

Otto Schiff Otto Schiff (26 April 1892 – 9 July 1978) was a Dutch fencer. He competed in the team foil Foil may refer to: Materials * Foil (metal), a quite thin sheet of metal, usually manufactured with a rolling mill machine * Metal leaf, a very ...

(1892–1978), Dutch fencer *

Paul Schiff Paul Schiff is an American film producer. Early life and education Schiff was raised in Bethesda, Maryland, one of three sons of Charlotte, a television and publishing executive, and Edward Schiff, a real estate lawyer. He graduated in film stud ...

, American film producer *

Pearl Schiff Pearl Schiff (May 12, 1916 – July 28, 2005) was an American author from Boston, Massachusetts. She is best known for her first novel, ''Scollay Square'', which made ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list in 1952. The novel, about an upp ...

(1916–2005), American author * Peter Schiff (born 1963), American stock broker, financial analyst, and author * Richard Schiff (born 1955), American actor * Robert Schiff (1854–1940), Italian chemist * Robin Schiff, American writer and producer *

Sol Schiff Solomon Joseph Schiff (June 28, 1917 – February 26, 2012) was a Jewish-American table tennis player from New York. He attended Textile High School in New York City. Table tennis career Schiff was a six-time U.S. Open Men's Doubles champion, a ...

(1917–2012), American table tennis player *

Stacy Schiff Stacy Madeleine Schiff (born October 26, 1961) is an American former editor, essayist, and author of five biographies. Her biography of Vera Nabokov won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in biography. Schiff has also written biographies of French aviator ...

(born 1961), American writer *

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, American writer *

Steven Schiff Steven Harvey Schiff (March 18, 1947 – March 25, 1998) was an American politician. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the first district of New Mexico from 1989 until his death in 1998. Schiff was ...

(1947–1998), American politician and US Representative * Tevele Schiff (died 1791), British rabbi *

Ze'ev Schiff Ze'ev Schiff ( he, זאב שיף‎; 1 July 1932 - 19 June 2007) was an Israeli journalist and military correspondent for ''Haaretz''. Schiff moved to Mandatory Palestine with his family in 1935. He studied Middle Eastern affairs and military hi ...

(1932–2007), Israeli journalist

Fictional characters

* Adam Schiff (''Law & Order''), a character in the ''Law & Order'' franchise *

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, a species of characters in the anime series ''Blood+''

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