Jaffe (surname)
Jaffe and its variant spellings Jaffé and Yaffe is a Hebrew-language surname. Notable people with this surname include:
- Aaron Jaffe, American politician
- Allan Jaffe, American jazz musician
- Andrew Jaffe, journalist
- Aniela Jaffé,, Swiss analyst who for many years was a co-worker of Carl Jung
- Arthur Jaffe, mathematical physicist
- Ben Jaffe, American jazz musician
- Billy Jaffe, color analyst for the Boston Bruins on NESN
- Chapelle Jaffe, Canadian actress
- Charles Jaffe, Belarusian-American chess master
- Charles Jaffe , American conductor and musical director
- Daniel Jaffe, American astronomer
- David Jaffe, video game designer and director
- David Yaffe, music critic
- David A. Jaffe, composer of contemporary classical and electronic/computer music
- Deborah Yaffe, author
- Dov Yaffe, Lithuanian-born Israeli rabbi
- Elaine Jaffe, American pathologist, expert in hematopathology
- Eliezer Jaffe, professor
- Elisha Yaffe, comedian, actor and writer
- Frederick S. Jaffe,, vice president of Planned Parenthood and founder of the Guttmacher Institute
- James Yaffe, American businessman, executive leader and investor
- Jerome H. Jaffe, psychiatrist
- Leib Yaffe, Hebrew poet, journalist and editor
- Leo Yaffe, Canadian nuclear chemistry scientist
- Marielle Jaffe, American model and actress
- Matt Jaffe, American singer-songwriter
- Michael Jaffé, British art historian and curator
- Michael B. Yaffe, scientific editor
- Moe Jaffe, American songwriter and band leader
- Naomi Jaffe, activist
- Nat Jaffe, American jazz pianist
- Nicole Jaffe, American actress
- Norman Jaffe, American architect
- Sir Otto Jaffe, Jewish businessman, High Sheriff and Lord Mayor of Belfast
- Peter Jaffe, British sailor and Olympic silver medalist
- Philipp Jaffé, German historian and philologist
- Philip Jaffe, left-wing American editor and writer
- Richard Yaffe, Journalist
- Rivke Jaffe, Dutch anthropologist and professor
- Robert Jaffe, physicist and professor
- Robert Jaffe , associate of Bernard Madoff
- Rona Jaffe, U.S. author
- Sam Jaffe , American film actor
- Sam Jaffe , American film producer later in England
- Sarah Jaffe, American singer-songwriter
- Scott Jaffe, American freestyle swimmer
- Stanley R. Jaffe, American film producer
- Stephen Jaffe, American composer
- Taliesin Jaffe,, American voice actor
- Theodor Julius Jaffé, German actor
- Werner Jaffé, German chemist and university professor
- William Jaffé, American economist and historian of economic thought
