Scharff is a surname, and may refer to: *

Alexander Scharff Alexander () is a male name of Greek origin. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants listed here are A ...

(1904 - 1985), German historian * Anton Scharff (1845, Vienna - 1903,

Brunn am Gebirge Brunn am Gebirge ( Central Bavarian: ''Brunn aum Gebiage'') is a town in the district of Mödling in the Austrian state of Lower Austria. As of the end of 2022, the population was recorded at 12,218. History Excavations from the Neolithic period ...

), Austrian medal maker * Benjamin Scharff (1651 - 1702), German doctor * Carlos Scharff (1866–1909), Peruvian rubber baron * Edwin Scharff (1887, Neu-Ulm - 1955, Hamburg), German

sculptor Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

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painter Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ...

** Edwin-Scharff-Preis () * Gertrude Goldhaber, née Scharff (also: ''Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber''; 1911, Mannheim - 1998), German-US physicist, wife of

Maurice Goldhaber Maurice Goldhaber (April 18, 1911 – May 11, 2011) was an American physicist, known for the 1957 (with Lee Grodzins and ) that established that neutrinos have negative helicity. Early life and childhood He was born on April 18, 1911, in L ...

* Gottfried Scharff (1782 - 1855), German merchant and politician * Gottfried Balthasar Scharff (1676 - 1744), German

Lutheran theologian Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestantism that emerged under the work of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German friar and Protestant Reformers, reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Church launched ...

and writer * Hanns(-Joachim Gottlob) Scharff (1907 - 1992), German interrogator * Harald Scharff (1836 - 1912), Danish ballet dancer * Johannes Scharff (1595 - 1660), German

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philosopher Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...

* Margi Scharff (1955, Memphis, Tennessee - 2007, Tiburon, California), American artist * Peter Scharff (born 1957), chemist *

Robert Francis Scharff Robert Francis Scharff (9 July 1858 – 13 September 1934) was an English zoologist, known for his lifetime of work in Ireland and contributions to the understanding of Irish flora and fauna. He was acting director of the National Museum of Ire ...

, (1858 - 1934), British zoologist * Samantha Scharff, an American television producer and comedy writer * Scott Scharff (born 1982, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin), American football player * '' Thomas Scharff'' (disambiguation) ** Thomas Scharff (born 1963, Uelzen), German Medieval historian ** Thomas Scharff (born 1970), German actor * Werner Scharff (1905 - 1945), German resistant * Paul Scharff (born 1970, Melrose Park, Illinois), Author Murder In McHenry * Gilbert Woodrow Scharffs (1930 — 2015), an American Latter-day Saint religious educator and author

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