Scharff is a surname, and may refer to:
Alexander Scharff (1904 - 1985), German historian
Anton Scharff (1845, Vienna - 1903, Brunn am Gebirge), Austrian medal maker
Benjamin Scharff (1651 - 1702), German doctor
Edwin Scharff (1887, Neu-Ulm - 1955, Hamburg), German sculptor and painter
Edwin-Scharff-Preis (English: Edwin Scharff Prize)
Gertrude Goldhaber, née Scharff (also: Gertrude Scharff-Goldhaber; 1911, Mannheim - 1998), German-US physicist, wife of Maurice Goldhaber
Gottfried Scharff (1782 - 1855), German merchant and politician
Gottfried Balthasar Scharff (1676 - 1744), German Lutheran theologian and writer
Hanns(-Joachim Gottlob) Scharff (1907 - 1992), German interrogator
Harald Scharff (1836 - 1912), Danish ballet dancer
Johannes Scharff (1595 - 1660), German Lutheran theologian and philosopher
Margi Scharff (1955, Memphis, Tennessee - 2007, Tiburon, California), American artist
Peter Scharff (born 1957), chemist
Robert Francis Scharff, (1858 -1934), British zoologist
Samantha Scharff, an American television producer and comedy writer
Scott Scharff (born 1982, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin), American football player
Thomas Scharff (disambiguation)Thomas Scharff (born 1963, Uelzen), German Medieval historian
Thomas Scharff (born 1970), German actor
Werner Scharff (1905 - 1945), German resistant
Paul Scharff (born 1970, Melrose Park, Illinois), Author Murder In McHenry
Gilbert Woodrow Scharffs (born 1930), an American Latter-day Saint religious educator and author