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 (born 1951), British lead singer of the heavy metal band Saxon
• Frank Dunlap (1924–1993), Canadian Football League player
• James T. Ellison (c. 1861–1920s), New York City gangster
• William Grimes (journalist) (born 1950), former magazine writer, culture reporter, theater columnist, restaurant critic, book reviewer and a current obituary writer for The New York Times
• Biff Henderson (born 1946), American stage manager and television personality on the Late Show with David Letterman
• Biff Jones (1895–1980), former college football head coach and member of the College Football Hall of Fame
• Biff Liff (1919–2015), born Samuel Liff, Tony Award-winning American Broadway manager and producer.
• William Q. MacLean Jr. (1934–2026), American politician
• Biff McGuire (1926–2021), American stage and film actor
• Biff Rose (1937–2023), American comedian and singer-songwriter
• Biff Schaller (1889–1939), Major League Baseball player
• Biff Schlitzer (1884–1948), Major League Baseball pitcher
• Biff Sheehan (1868–1923), Major League Baseball player
• Richard Stannard (songwriter) (born 1966), British songwriter
• Claude Taugher (1897–1963), National Football League player and decorated World War I US Marine Corps officer
• Biff Wysong (1905–1951), Major League Baseball pitcher

Given name

• Biff Mitchell (1947–2025), Canadian novelist, satirist and humorist
• Biff Pocoroba (1953–2020), American baseball player
• Biff Wiff (1956–2025), American actor
• Biff Yeager (born 1942), American actor

Stage name

• Biff Debrie, stage name of Don Preston (born 1932), American jazz and rock and roll musician
• Biff Elliot (1923–2012), American actor
• Biff Wellington (1964–2007), 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 '
• "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