Chernoff may be either a Jewish surname, meaning "descendent of Charna"[1] 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
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