Chernoff
Chernoff may be either a Jewish surname, meaning "descendent of Charna" 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