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Biff (name)

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Biff is a given name, a nickname or part of a stage name.

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Nickname

  • 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 (born 1926), American stage and film actor
  • Biff Rose (born 1937), 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

  • Biff Mitchell (born 1947), Canadian novelist, satirist and humorist
  • Biff Pocoroba (born 1953), former Major League Baseball catcher
  • Biff Yeager, American actor

    • Stage name

  • Biff Debrie, stage name of Don Preston (born 1932), American jazz and rock and roll musician
  • Biff Elliot (1923–2012), American actor

    • Fictional characters

  • Sully and Biff, from Sesame Street
  • 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 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 Tannen, in the Back to the Future trilogy of films
  • 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

    • Animals

  • Biff, the Michigan Wolverine, a mascot for Michigan Wolverines football in the 1920s and 1930s

    • References

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