Biff (name)
Biff is a primarily masculine given name, a nickname or part of a stage name. It originated as a nickname for names starting with the letter B. It came to be considered a stereotypical preppy nickname during the 1980s.
People
Nickname
- Biff Byford, British lead singer of the heavy metal band Saxon
- Frank Dunlap, Canadian Football League player
- James T. Ellison, New York City gangster
- William Grimes (journalist), former magazine writer, culture reporter, theater columnist, restaurant critic, book reviewer and a current obituary writer for The New York Times
- Biff Henderson, American stage manager and television personality on the Late Show with David Letterman
- Biff Jones, former college football head coach and member of the College Football Hall of Fame
- Biff Liff, born Samuel Liff, Tony Award-winning American Broadway manager and producer.
- Biff McGuire, American stage and film actor
- Biff Rose, American comedian and singer-songwriter
- Biff Schaller, Major League Baseball player
- Biff Schlitzer, Major League Baseball pitcher
- Biff Sheehan, Major League Baseball player
- Richard Stannard (songwriter), British songwriter
- Claude Taugher, National Football League player and decorated World War I US Marine Corps officer
- Biff Wysong, Major League Baseball pitcher
Given name
- Biff Mitchell, Canadian novelist, satirist and humorist
- Biff Pocoroba, American baseball player
- Biff Wiff, American actor
- Biff Yeager, American actor
Stage name
- Biff Debrie, stage name of Don Preston, American jazz and rock and roll musician
- Biff Elliot, American actor
- Biff Wellington, Canadian wrestler
Fictional characters
- Biff Baker, Cold War spy in the American TV series Biff Baker, U.S.A., played by Alan Hale, Jr.
- Biff Brannon, a character in Carson McCullers's novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
- Biff Brewster, teenage hero of 13 adventure and mystery novels in the 1960s
- Biff Fowler, in the ITV soap Emmerdale
- Biff Grimes, in The Strawberry Blonde
- Biff Hooper, friend of the Hardy Boys in the novel series The Hardy Boys
- Biff Loman, son of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
- Biff McIntosh, love interest for Quinn Fabray in the TV series Glee
- Biff Robinson, a character in the book series The Magic Key by Roderick Hunt and Alex Brychta.
- Biff Tannen, in the Back to the Future film trilogy
- Biff Wilcox, in the S. E. Hinton novel Rumble Fish
- "Biff", a nickname of George Costanza in the TV series Seinfeld, named after Loman
- "Biff", nickname of Levi, Jesus' best friend in Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
- "Biff", nickname of Major General Gordon Cresswell, Judge Advocate General of the United States Navy on the fictional television series JAG
- Sully and Biff, from ''Sesame Street''
Animals
- Biff, the Michigan Wolverine, a mascot for Michigan Wolverines football in the 1920s and 1930s