// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhat did Chernoff say to his face? You're off.
Chernoff may be either a Jewish surname, meaning "descendant of Charna"[1] or a German-language transliteration of the Russian surname Chernov. Notable people with the surname include:
- Herman Chernoff (1923–2026), American applied mathematician, statistician and physicist
- Maxine Chernoff (born 1952), American novelist, writer, poet, academic and literary magazine editor
- Mike Chernoff (disambiguation), multiple people
- Paul Chernoff (1942–2017), American mathematician
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ Kaganoff, B. C. (1996). A Dictionary of Jewish Names and Their History. J. Aronson. p. 144. ISBN 978-1-4616-2720-3.
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