Scaife is a surname meaning "Boat born" in English. It is derived from

Old Norse Old Norse, also referred to as Old Nordic or Old Scandinavian, was a stage of development of North Germanic languages, North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants ...

. Other references include "awry, difficult".Scaife
at the Internet Surname Database The first recorded instance of this surname was in the

Old English Old English ( or , or ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. It developed from the languages brought to Great Britain by Anglo-S ...

epic Epic commonly refers to: * Epic poetry, a long narrative poem celebrating heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation * Epic film, a genre of film defined by the spectacular presentation of human drama on a grandiose scale Epic(s) ...

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''. Notable people with the surname include: * Adam Scaife (born 1970), British physicist and meteorologist *

Anna Scaife Anna Margaret Mahala Scaife (born 20 May 1981) is a Professor of Radio Astronomy at the University of Manchester and Head of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics Interferometry Centre of Excellence.Anna Scaife's She is the co-director of P ...

(born 1981), radio astronomer *

Brendan Scaife Brendan Kevin Patrick Scaife FTCD, MRIA, Boyle Laureate (; born 19 May 1928), is an Irish academic engineer and physicist who carried out pioneering work on the theory of dielectrics. Scaife founded the Dielectrics Group in Trinity College Dub ...

(born 1928), Irish engineer and physicist *

Bo Scaife Oliver Edward "Bo" Scaife, III (born January 6, 1981) is a former American football tight end. He was selected by the Tennessee Titans in the sixth round of the 2005 NFL draft. He played college football at Texas. Early life Scaife attended Mul ...

(born 1981), American football player * Bobby Scaife (born 1955), English football player * Cordelia Scaife May (1928–2005), American philanthropist; sister of Richard * J. G. Scaife (1934–1991) British molecular biologist * John Scaife (1908–1995) Australian cricketer *

Michael Scaife Michael Scaife (24 March 1948 – 18 December 2001) was a British biologist, psychologist, and reader at the University of Sussex, known for his early work in developmental psychology and his later interdisciplinary study in cognitive and comput ...

(1948–2001), British biologist and psychologist * Nicola Scaife, Australian balloonist * Nicky Scaife (born 1975), English footballer *

Richard Mellon Scaife Richard Mellon Scaife (; July 3, 1932 – July 4, 2014) was an American billionaire, a principal heir to the Mellon family, Mellon banking, oil, and aluminum fortune, and the owner and publisher of the ''Pittsburgh Tribune-Review''. In 2005 ...

(1932–2014), American newspaper publisher *

Ross Scaife Allen Ross Scaife (March 31, 1960 – March 15, 2008) was a Professor of Classics at the University of Kentucky. Life Ross Scaife was born on March 31, 1960, in Fredericksburg, Virginia, to William and Sylvia Scaife, one of four children. He was ...

(1960–2008), American academic and scholar Other uses: *

Scaife Foundations The Scaife Foundations refer collectively to three foundations in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: the Allegheny Foundation, the Sarah Scaife Foundation, and the Scaife Family Foundation. A fourth foundation, the Carthage Foundation, was folded into the ...

Scaife Mountains The Scaife Mountains () is a group of mountains rising west of Prehn Peninsula and between the Ketchum Glacier and Ueda Glacier, at the base of the Antarctic Peninsula. Location The Scaife Mountains are in Ellsworth Land. They are southwest of ...

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