Chernoff

Chernoff may be either a Jewish surname, meaning "descendent of Charna"[1] or a German-language transliteration of the Russian surname Chernov. Notable people with the surname include:

* Herman Chernoff (born 1923), 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

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* All pages with titles containing Chernoff

## References

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1. ^ 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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Surnames derived from the color Black

Celtic|

* Mac D(h)uibh
* (Mc)Duff
* Ó Dubhthaigh
* (O')Duff(e)y
* Ó Duibh
* (O')Duff
* Ó Duibhir
* (O')Dwyer

English|

* Blach
* Black

German/Yiddish|

* Schwartz
* Schwarz
* Shvarts
* Shwartz
* Shwarz
* Swartz
* Swarz
* Schwortz
* Szwarc (Polonized)
* Švarc/Svarc

Other Germanic|

* de Zwart
* Swart
* Zwart
* Zwarts

Romance|

* Del Negro
* Lenoir
* Negrão
* Negre
* Negrea
* Negrean
* Negreanu
* Negreiros
* Negrescu
* Negri
* Negro
* Negru
* Neri
* Noir
* Preto
* Prieto

Slavic|

* Cernak/Černák
* Cernat
* Černík
* Černoch
* Černý
* Chernavsky
* Cherniavsky
* Cherniavskyi
* Chernenko
* Chernev
* Cherney
* Chernov
* Chernoff
* Chernow
* Chernyaev
* Chernyak
* Chorny
* Čierny
* Chyorny
* Czarniak, Czarnik, Czarny, Czerny, Czernik/Chernik, Czerniak, Czerniawski, Chernac, Chernykh, Czarnecki, Czarnek, Czarnota, Czarnocki
* Crnić
* Črnic
* Crnković

Other|

* Arabic: Aswad
* Hungarian: Fekete
* Estonian: Must

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