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occupational surname In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give ...

, which means a "boatman", "bargee" or "skipper". Alternative spellings include Schifer and Schiffers. The name may refer to: *

András Schiffer András Schiffer (born 19 June 1971 in Budapest) is a Hungarian lawyer and former politician, who served as co-president of the Politics Can Be Different and leader of its parliamentary group. Schiffer announced his retirement from politics on ...

(born 1971), Hungarian politician *

Adolf Schiffer Adolf Schiffer (1873–1950) was a Hungarian-bor Czechs, Czech cellist and teacher of Jewish heritage, who for many years served as professor in cello at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest. He is best remembered as being the link between ...

(1873–1950), Hungarian cellist *

Ben Schiffer Ben Schiffer (born 12 July 1983) is a British television screenwriter and playwright. He is married to actress Emily Taaffe. Early life and education Schiffer was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, the second son of Jewish American emigrants. ...

(born 1983), British writer *

Claudia Schiffer Claudia Maria Schiffer, Lady Vaughn (; born 25 August 1970) is a German model and actress. She rose to fame in the 1990s as one of the world's most successful models, attaining supermodel status. Born in Rheinberg, Germany, she initially asp ...

(born 1970), German model *

Craig Schiffer Craig Schiffer (August 25, 1956 – December 23, 2014) was the former chief executive officer of the Americas of Dresdner Kleinwort, based in New York, from 2003 to 2006. (In September 2009, after Dresdner Kleinwort was merged into Commerzbank, ...

(1956–2014), American businessman *

Emanuel Schiffers Emanuel (Emmanuel) Stepanovich Schiffers (; – ) was a Russian chess player and chess writer. For many years he was the second leading Russian player after Mikhail Chigorin. Schiffers parents emigrated from Germany. He was born in Saint Pet ...

(1850–1904), Russian chess player and writer * Ervin Schiffer (1932–2015), Hungarian musician *

Eugen Schiffer Eugen Schiffer (14 February 1860 – 5 September 1954) was a German lawyer and liberal politician. He served as Minister of Finance and deputy head of government in the Weimar Republic from February to April 1919. From October 1919 to March 192 ...

(1860–1954), German politician *

Hubert Schiffer Father Hubert Friedrich Heinrich Schiffer, S.J. (July 15, 1915 in Gütersloh, Province of Westphalia, Prussia, German Empire – March 27, 1982 in Frankfurt, West Germany) was a German Jesuit who survived the atomic bomb "Little Boy" dropped on H ...

(1915–1982), German priest *

John Schiffer John C. Schiffer (August 17, 1945 - June 19, 2014) was a Wyoming rancher and statesman. He represented the 22nd district in the Wyoming Senate for 21 years, and served in several Senate leadership positions, including President of the Senate in ...

(1945–2014), American politician *

Menahem Max Schiffer Menahem Max Schiffer (24 September 1911, Berlin – 11 November 1997)) was a German-born American mathematician who worked in complex analysis, partial differential equations, and mathematical physics. Biography Menachem Max Schiffer studied p ...

(1911–1997), American mathematician *

Michael Brian Schiffer Michael Brian Schiffer (born October 4, 1947, in Winnipeg, Canada) is an American archaeologist and one of the founders and pre-eminent exponents of behavioral archaeology. Schiffer's earliest ideas, set out in his 1976 book ''Behavioral Archeolog ...

(born 1947), American archaeologist *

Paul Schiffer Paul Schiffer is a native of Canton, Ohio. He is the host of the political talk show, ''The Schiffer Report''. Paul was a nationally syndicated conservative talk show host on the Radio America network, and more recently was broadcast on WERE ( ...

(born 1959), American radio host * Roy Schiffer Pinney (1911–2010), American photographer and writer *

Sharon Hammes-Schiffer Sharon Hammes-Schiffer (born May 27, 1966) is a physical chemist who has contributed to theoretical and computational chemistry. She is currently the A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University. She has served as senior edit ...

(born 1966), American chemist *

Stephen Schiffer Stephen Schiffer (born 1940) is an American philosopher and currently Silver Professor of Philosophy at New York University. He is a specialist in the philosophy of language. Education and career Schiffer was awarded a Bachelor of Arts in philo ...

(born 1940), American philosopher

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Schiffer Publishing Schiffer Publishing Ltd. (also known for its imprints Schiffer, Schiffer Craft, Schiffer Military History, Schiffer Kids, REDFeather MBS, Cornell Maritime Press, Tidewater Publishers, Thrums Books, and Geared Up Publications) is a family-owned p ...

, Pennsylvania * Schiffers & Co., Poland

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