Chernoff may be either a
Jewish surname
Jewish surnames are family names used by Jews and those of Jewish origin. Jewish surnames are thought to be of comparatively recent origin; the first known Jewish family names date to the Middle Ages, in the 10th and 11th centuries.
Jews have ...
, meaning "descendent of
Charna"
or a German-language transliteration of the Russian surname
Chernov. Notable people with the surname include:
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Herman Chernoff
Herman Chernoff (born July 1, 1923) is an American applied mathematician, statistician and physicist. He was formerly a professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Stanford, and MIT, currently emeritus at Harvard University.
Early lif ...
(born 1923), American applied mathematician, statistician and physicist
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Maxine Chernoff (born 1952), American novelist, writer, poet, academic and literary magazine editor
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Mike Chernoff (disambiguation), multiple people
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Paul Chernoff (1942–2017), American mathematician
See also
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References
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Jewish matronymic surnames