Schaefer
Schaefer is an alternative spelling and cognate for the German word "", meaning, which itself descends from the Old High German . Variants "Shaefer", "Schäfer", the additional alternative spelling "Schäffer", and the anglicised forms "Schaeffer", "Schaffer", "Shaffer", "Shafer", and "Schafer" are all common surnames.
Schaefer
;Born in 1800–1899- Arnold Schaefer, German historian
- Germany Schaefer, American professional baseball player
- Jacob Schaefer Sr, American professional billiards player
- Jacob Schaefer Jr American professional billiards player
- Marie Charlotte Schaefer, American physician
- Rudolph Jay Schaefer I, American businessman
- Walter V. Schaefer, American jurist and educator
- Vincent Schaefer, American chemist and meteorologist who developed cloud seeding
- Jack Warner Schaefer, American fiction author
- Milner Baily Schaefer, American fisheries biologist
- William Donald Schaefer, American politician
- Udo Schaefer, German Bahá'í author
- Will Schaefer, American composer
- Bill Schaefer , New Zealand field hockey player
- Kermit Schaefer, American writer, broadcast producer and blooper aficionado
- Daniel Schaefer, American politician
- James Schaefer, American politician and rancher
- Bob Schaefer, American professional baseball coach
- Henry F. Schaefer, III, American computational and theoretical chemist, academic and Protestant educator
- Gerard John Schaefer, American killer, rapist, and suspected serial killer
- Ronald P. Schaefer, American academic linguist and university professor.
- Vic Schaefer, American basketball coach
- Peter Schaefer , Canadian professional ice hockey player
- Jarrett Schaefer, America film director and screenwriter
- Nolan Schaefer, Canadian professional ice hockey player
- Bradley E. Schaefer, American physics academic
- Kurt Schaefer, American academic
- Peter Schaefer , American academic and religious history author
- Brenda Sue Schaefer, murder victim
- Andrew JP Schaefer,. American business leader
Schaeffer
Schäfer
;Born after 1800- Wilhelm Schäfer, German Naturalist writer and magazine publisher
- Dirk Schäfer, Dutch pianist and composer
- Karl Emil Schäfer, German World War I pilot, recipient of the Pour le Mérite
- Emanuel Schäfer, officer in the German SS, head of Serbian security police during World War II
- Gustav Schäfer , German Olympic rower
- Karl Schäfer, Austrian Olympic figure skater
- Ernst Schäfer, German hunter, zoologist and ornithologist
- Willy Schäfer , Swiss Olympic field handball player
- Paul Schäfer, German-Chilean cult leader
- Hans Schäfer, German retired footballer
- Karl Heinz Schäfer, German-born composer and arranger working in France
- Willy Schäfer, German actor
- Hans-Bernd Schäfer, German economist and scholar
- Manfred Schäfer, German-Australian retired professional footballer
- Wolfgang Schäfer, German choral conductor and academic
- Winfried Schäfer, German football manager
- Klaus Schäfer SAC, German catholic Theologian, Priest and Author
- Michael Schäfer, Danish football manager
- Markus Schäfer, German tenor
- Thomas Schäfer German lawyer and politician, Minister of Finance in Hesse
- Bärbel Schäfer, German television presenter
- Christine Schäfer, German soprano
- Jan Schäfer, German Olympic canoer
- Raphael Schäfer, German footballer
- Marcel Schäfer, German footballer
- Sakura Schafer-Nameki, German physicist
Schäffer
- Saint Anna Schäffer, German mystic, canonized by Pope Benedict in 2012
- Charles Schäffer, American physician and botanist
- Fritz Schäffer, German politician
- Julius Schäffer, German mycologist
- Mary T. S. Schäffer, American naturalist, illustrator, and explorer in Canada
- Andreas Schäffer, German footballer
Schafer
- Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, formerly Edward Albert Schäfer, English physiologist
- Natalie Schafer, American actress
- Harold Schafer, American entrepreneur
- Alice Turner Schafer, American mathematician
- Richard D. Schafer, American mathematician
- Roy Schafer, American psychologist-psychoanalyst
- R. Murray Schafer, Canadian composer, writer, music educator and environmentalist
- Ronald W. Schafer, American electrical engineer and academic
- Ed Schafer, American state politician and United States Secretary of Agriculture
- Avi Schafer, Japanese professional basketball player
- Tim Schafer, American computer game designer
- Arthur Schafer, Canadian ethicist and academic
- Eric Schafer, American mixed martial artist
- Jordan Schafer, American baseball player
- Hunter Schafer, American model, activist, and actress
- Andrew Schaefer, American business leader
- Károly Schaffer, Hungarian anatomist and neurologist
- Alfréd Schaffer, Hungarian footballer
- Jimmie Schaffer, American professional baseball player
- Janne Schaffer, Swedish songwriter and guitarist
- Simon Schaffer, English academic
- Frank Schaffer, retired East German Olympic athlete
- Bob Schaffer, American state politician
- Jon Schaffer, American guitarist and songwriter
- Daniel Schaffer, British graphic novelist
- Akiva Schaffer, American comedy writer and songwriter
- Denny Schaffer, American radio personality
- Gail Schaffer, American state politician
- Ken Schaffer, American inventor
- Lewis Schaffer, American comedian
- Jonathan Schaffer, American-Australian philosopher
Shafer
- Jacob K. Shafer, American national politician
- Orator Shafer, American professional baseball player
- John Adolph Shafer, American botanist
- Taylor Shafer, American professional baseball player
- George F. Shafer, American state politician
- Tillie Shafer, American professional baseball player
- Phil Shafer, American racecar driver
- Paul W. Shafer, American national politician
- Raymond P. Shafer, American state politician
- Whitey Shafer, American country songwriter and musician
- Ruth Shafer, American engineer
- Ross Shafer, American comedian and motivational speaker
- Robert R. Shafer, American actor
- Dirk Shafer, American model, actor, screenwriter and director
- Scott Shafer, American college football coach
- David Shafer , American state politician
- Glenn Shafer, American mathematician, co-developer of Dempster-Shafer theory
- Jack Shafer, American journalist and columnist
- Jeremy Shafer, American entertainer and oragamist
- Justin Shafer, American baseball player
Shaffer
- Shaffer, baseball player
- John Shaffer, American territorial governor
- Joseph Crockett Shaffer, American national politician
- Harry G. Shaffer , American state politician
- Jack Shaffer, American professional basketball player
- Leland Shaffer, American professional football player
- Robert H. Shaffer, American educator
- Earl Shaffer, American outdoorsman and author
- Harry G. Shaffer, Austrian-American economics academic
- John H. Shaffer, American government administrator
- Elaine Shaffer, American flutist
- Anthony Shaffer , English playwright, novelist, and screenwriter
- Sir Peter Shaffer, English dramatist and playwright
- Juliet Popper Shaffer, American psychologist and statistician
- David Shaffer, American physician
- Lee Shaffer, American professional basketball player
- Louise Shaffer, American actress, script writer, and author
- Jim G. Shaffer, American archeology and anthropology academic
- Mary Shaffer, American artist
- Paul Shaffer, Canadian-American musician, actor, author, comedian and composer
- Anthony Shaffer , American Reserve Army Lieutenant Colonel and CIA intelligence officer
- Erica Shaffer, American actress
- James Shaffer, American guitarist
- Matthew Shaffer, American musical theatre, television, and film actor
- Brian Shaffer, missing American medical student
- Kevin Shaffer, American professional football player
- Atticus Shaffer, American actor
- Brenda Shaffer, American political science author
- Chris Shaffer, American singer-songwriter