Chernoff
Chernoff may be either a Jewish surname, meaning "descendant of Charna" or a German-language transliteration of the Russian surname Chernov. Notable people with the surname include:
- Herman Chernoff, American applied mathematician, statistician and physicist
- Maxine Chernoff, American novelist, writer, poet, academic and literary magazine editor
- Mike Chernoff, multiple people
- Paul Chernoff, American mathematician