Pfaff (disambiguation)
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The surname Pfaff may refer to:
- Alfred PfaffAlfred PfaffAlfred Pfaff was a German football player and World Cup winner with West Germany in 1954.- Life :Pfaff was capped seven times between 1953 and 1956 for the West German national team, scoring two goals as an inside forward....
, German football player - Anita Bose PfaffAnita Bose PfaffAnita Bose Pfaff is the daughter of Indian freedom fighter and nationalist leader Subhas Chandra Bose and his Austrian wife, Emilie Schenkl....
, economist - Chris Pfaff, American television actor
- Eva PfaffEva PfaffEva Pfaff is a former German tennis player.During her career she won 5 doubles WTA titles. Her peak world rankings in the sport were 17th in singles and 16th in doubles ....
, German tennis player - Ferenc PfaffFerenc PfaffFerenc Pfaff was a famous Hungarian architect and academic.-Career:Pfaff received his degree in 1880 after studying under Imre Steindl at the Jozsef Nador Technical University in Budapest...
, Hungarian architect - Jean-Marie PfaffJean-Marie PfaffJean-Marie Pfaff is a Belgian former football goalkeeper.-Biography:At the age of 16, Pfaff joined K.S.K. Beveren with whom he won a Belgian champions title and a Belgian Cup . The same year, he received the Belgian Golden Shoe...
, Belgian football player - Debby Pfaff, reality show personality
- Lyndsey PfaffLyndsey PfaffDe Phaffs is a Flemish reality show revolving around the family of former football goalkeeper Jean-Marie Pfaff.-Lyndsey Pfaff:Lyndsey Linda Marc Pfaff is a Belgian TV-personality....
, reality show personality - Johann Friedrich PfaffJohann Friedrich PfaffJohann Friedrich Pfaff was a German mathematician. He was described as one of Germany's most eminent mathematicians during the 19th century...
, German mathematician- Concepts named after him include the PfaffianPfaffianIn mathematics, the determinant of a skew-symmetric matrix can always be written as the square of a polynomial in the matrix entries. This polynomial is called the Pfaffian of the matrix, The term Pfaffian was introduced by who named them after Johann Friedrich Pfaff...
, Pfaffian functionPfaffian functionIn mathematics, the Pfaffian functions are a certain class of functions introduced by Askold Georgevich Khovanskiǐ in the 1970s. They are named after German mathematician Johann Pfaff.-Basic definition:...
s, and the Pfaff problem - 29491 Pfaff29491 Pfaff29491 Pfaff is a main-belt asteroid discovered on November 23, 1997 by P. G. Comba at Prescott.It is named after the German mathematician Johann Friedrich Pfaff.- External links :*...
, a main-belt asteroid named in his honour
- Concepts named after him include the Pfaffian
- Kristen PfaffKristen PfaffKristen Marie Pfaff was an American bass guitarist, best known for her work with Hole.-Early life and career:Pfaff was born and raised in Buffalo, New York, attending Buffalo Academy of the Sacred Heart. She spent a short time in Europe and briefly attended Boston College before ultimately...
, American musician - Petra PfaffPetra PfaffPetra Pfaff is a retired East German hurdler.In 1980, a special edition of the World Championships was staged in Sittard, holding events not yet on the Olympic programme. Pfaff won the bronze medal in the 400 m hurdles behind compatriots Bärbel Broschat and Ellen Neumann...
, East German hurdler - William PfaffWilliam PfaffWilliam Pfaff is an American author, op-ed columnist for the International Herald Tribune and frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books. He was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and is of German, English, and Irish origin...
, American author