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
See also Chaffey (surname)