Jaffe

Jaffe and its variant spellings Jaffé, Yaffe and Yaffé () are Hebrew-language surnames.

The surname was recorded in Prague in the 16th century. It was recorded in the United Kingdom in the 1881 census, mostly in London.

The Jaffe family (Hebrew: יפה) is a distinguished Ashkenazi Jewish Rabbinic family, members of which have produced numerous famous rabbis, court Jews, Talmudic scholars, scientists, businessmen, academics and politicians.

Other notable people with this surname include:

Jaffe

• Aaron Jaffe (born 1930), American politician
• Allan Jaffe (1935–1987), American jazz musician
• Andrew Jaffe (1938–2010), American journalist
• Aniela Jaffé, (1903–1991), Swiss analyst who was a co-worker of Carl Jung
• Arthur Jaffe (born 1937), American mathematical physicist
• Ben Jaffe (born 1971), American jazz musician
• Bernard Jaffe (1896–1986), American chemist and historian of chemistry
• Billy Jaffe (born 1969), color analyst for the Boston Bruins on NESN
• Chapelle Jaffe, Canadian actress
• Charles Jaffe (–1941), Belarusian-American chess master
• Charles Jaffe (conductor) (–2011), American conductor and musical director
• Daniel Jaffe, American astronomer
• David Jaffe (born 1971), American video game designer and director
• David A. Jaffe (born 1955), American composer of contemporary classical and electronic/computer music
• Edgar Jaffé (1866–1921), German economist and politician
• Elaine Jaffe (born 1943), American pathologist, expert in hematopathology
• Eliezer Jaffe (1933–2017), Israeli professor
• Frederick S. Jaffe, (1925–1978), vice president of Planned Parenthood and founder of the Guttmacher Institute
• Herb Jaffe (1921–1991), American film producer
• Ina Jaffe (1948—2024), American journalist
• Jeffrey M. Jaffe (born 1954), computer scientist and Jewish philosopher
• Jerome Jaffe (born 1933), psychiatrist
• Louis Isaac Jaffe (1888–1950), American journalist
• Marielle Jaffe (born 1989), American model and actress
• Matt Jaffe (born 1995), American singer-songwriter
• Max Jaffa, born Max Jaffe (1911–1991), British violinist and bandleader
• Michael Jaffé (1923–1997), British art historian and curator
• Michael Jaffe (born 1945), American television producer
• Moe Jaffe (1901–1972), American songwriter and band leader
• Naomi Jaffe (born 1943), American activist
• Nat Jaffe (1918–1945), American jazz pianist
• Nicole Jaffe (born 1941), Canadian actress
• Noah Jaffe (born 2003), American Paralympic swimmer
• Norman Jaffe (1932–1993), American architect
• Otto Jaffe (1846–1929), German-born British Jewish businessman, High Sheriff and Lord Mayor of Belfast
• Peter Jaffe (1913–1982), British sailor and Olympic silver medalist
• Philipp Jaffé (1819–1870), German historian and philologist
• Philip Jaffe (1895–1980), American left-wing editor and writer
• Rivke Jaffe (born 1978), Dutch anthropologist and professor
• Robert Jaffe (physicist) (born 1946), American physicist and professor
• Robert Jaffe (stockbroker) (born 1944), American associate of Bernard Madoff
• Rona Jaffe (1931–2005), American author
• Sam Jaffe (1891–1984), American film actor
• Sam Jaffe (producer) (1901–2000), American film producer later in England
• Sarah Jaffe (born 1986), American singer-songwriter
• Scott Jaffe (born 1969), American freestyle swimmer
• Stanley R. Jaffe (1940–2025), American film producer
• Stephen Jaffe (born 1954), American composer
• Taliesin Jaffe, (born 1977), American voice actor
• Theodor Julius Jaffé (1823–1898), German actor
• Werner Jaffé (1914–2009), German chemist and university professor

Yaffe

• David Yaffe (music critic) (1973–2024), American music critic
• Deborah Yaffe (born 1965), author
• Dov Yaffe (1928–2017), Lithuanian-born Israeli rabbi
• Elisha Yaffe, comedian, actor and writer
• Eyal Yaffe (born 1960), Israeli basketball player
• Leib Yaffe (1876–1948), Hebrew poet, journalist and editor
• Leo Yaffe (1916–1997), Canadian nuclear chemistry scientist
• Martin Yaffe (born 1942), American philosopher
• Maurice Yaffé (1944/45–1989), British psychologist
• Michael B. Yaffe, American scientist, professor, surgeon and retired colonel
• Richard Yaffe (1903–1986), journalist

See also

• Jaffee
• Joffe
• Yoffe
• Ioffe

References