Chaffee (surname)

Chaffee or Chafee is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:


 * Ada Gilmore Chaffee (1883–1955), American watercolorist and printmaker
 * Adna Chaffee (1842–1914), American lieutenant general
 * Adna R. Chaffee Jr. (1884–1941), American major general, son of Adna
 * Cathleen Chaffee, American curator, art historian
 * Calvin C. Chaffee (1811–1896), American doctor, politician and abolitionist
 * Emory Leon Chaffee (1885–1975), American physicist and engineer
 * George D. Chafee (1839–1927), American politician and lawyer
 * Harold G. Chaffee (1926-2020), American football player and coach
 * Jerome B. Chaffee (1825–1886), American entrepreneur and senator from Colorado
 * John Chafee (1922–1999), American politician and Secretary of the Navy
 * Judith Chafee (1932–1998), American architect
 * Lincoln Chafee (born 1953), Rhode Island governor and U.S. Senator; son of John
 * Oliver Newberry Chaffee (1910–1944), American painter and printmaker
 * Rick Chaffee (born 1945), American skier, brother of Suzy
 * Roger B. Chaffee (1935–1967), American Apollo astronaut
 * Suzy Chaffee (born 1946), American skier and actress
 * Zechariah Chafee (1885–1957), American free speech and legal scholar


 * Fictional characters:
 * Alan Chaffee, in the 1995 film Village of the Damned