Biff (name)

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

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 (1926–2021), American stage and film actor
 * Biff Rose (1937–2023), 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 (1953–2020), American baseball player
 * 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
 * Biff Wellington (1964–2007), Canadian wrestler

Fictional characters

 * 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 Grimes, in The Strawberry Blonde
 * 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 McIntosh, love interest for Quinn Fabray in the TV series Glee
 * Biff Robinson, a character in the book series The Magic Key by Roderick Hunt and Alex Brychta.
 * Biff Tannen, in the Back to the Future film trilogy
 * 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
 * Sully and Biff, from Sesame Street

Animals

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