Wolff

Wolff

:"Alternate spellings include Wolfe, Wolf, Wulf, and Woolf."

Wolff is the surname of:
*Albert Wolff, Dutch conductor and pianist
*Lt Col Alexander Wolff, (1788–1863), British officer who served under the Duke of Wellington
*Anna Wolff–Powęska, Polish historian and political scientist
*Betje Wolff (1738–1804), Dutch writer
*Bernard Wolff (1811-1879), German media mogul
*Beverly Wolff (1928–2005), American mezzo-soprano
*Bobby Wolff (born 1932), American bridge player
*Carl Gustaf Wolff, a prominent Finnish shipowner and businessman
*Caspar Friedrich Wolff (1734–1794), founder of embryology
*Charles Wolff, American astronomer
*Christian Wolff (philosopher) (1679–1754), German philosopher and mathematician
*Christian Wolff (composer) (born 1934), American composer of experimental classical music
*Christian Wolff (actor), German actor
*Christoph Wolff (born 1940), German-born musicologist
*David Wolff, music producer
*Magda Lupescu (1895?–1977), mistress and (after his abdication) wife of Carol II of Romania "Lupescu" is a Romanianization of "Wolff"
*Enrique Wolff (born 1949), Argentine football player
*Ernst Victor Wolff (1886–1961), German-born classical pianist and harpsichordist
*Francis Wolff, photographer and the founder of Blue Note Records
*Frank Wolff, fictional scientist in "The Adventures of Tintin" series
*Franklin Merrell-Wolff (1887–1985), an American mystical philosopher
*Frederick Wolff (1910–1988), British athlete
*Geoffrey Wolff (born 1937), American writer
*Hellmuth Wolff (born 1937), Canadian organ builder
*Henry Drummond Wolff (1830–1908), English diplomat
*Hugo Wolff (1860–1903), Austrian composer
*Jonathan Wolff (born 1959), philosopher and Marxist scholar
*Jonathan Wolff, composer of the Seinfeld TV theme
*Josh Wolff (born 1977), American soccer player
*Joseph Wolff (1795–1862), Jewish Christian missionary from Germany
*Julius Wolff (1836–1902), surgeon
*Kurt Wolff (WWI Ace) (1895–1917), German WWI pilot and Ace
*Louis Wolff (1898–1972), American cardiologist
*Karin Wolff (1959), German politician
*Karl Wolff (1900–1984), high-ranking member of the Schutzstaffel
*Maritta Wolff (1918–2002) American novelist
*Milton Wolff Commander of the Lincoln Battalion
*Nelson Wolff (born 1940), American politician
*Patrick Wolff (born 1968), American chess player
*Richard Keith Wolff (born 1947), British photographer
*Rikard Wolff (born 1958), Swedish actor
*Robert Paul Wolff, political philosopher
*Roger Wolff (1911–1994), American baseball player
*Scott Wolff Founder of WOLFF & Associates Consulting for DITA
*Stefan Wolff, German political scientist and professor living in the UK
*Tobias Wolff (born 1945), American writer
*Thomas Wolff (1954–2000), American mathematician
*Werner Wolff, musicologist

Wolff can also refer to:
*Harland and Wolff, ship-building company
*Wolff & Associés, organ building company
*Rudolf Wolff & Co, commodity broker
*Nelson W. Wolff Municipal Stadium
*Wolff-Kishner reduction
*Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome


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