Biff (name)
Appearance
Biff is a given name, a nickname or part of a stage name.
People
[edit]Nickname
[edit]- 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–?), 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.
- 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), 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
[edit]- Biff Mitchell (born 1947), Canadian novelist, satirist and humorist
- Biff Pocoroba (1953–2020), American baseball player
- Biff Yeager, American actor
Stage name
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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 Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal
- "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
Animals
[edit]- Biff, the Michigan Wolverine, a mascot for Michigan Wolverines football in the 1920s and 1930s