Bickerstaff or Bickerstaffe is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Bernie Bickerstaff (born 1944), American National Basketball Association executive and former head coach, father of J. B. Bickerstaff Edwin Bickerstaff (1920–2008), neurologist after whom Bickerstaff's encephalitis and Bickerstaff's migraine are named Elaine Bickerstaff (born 1948), birth name of Elaine Paige, English singer and actress Erik Bickerstaff (born 1980), American former National Football League running back Isaac Bickerstaff, a pseudonym used by Jonathan Swift as part of a hoax to predict the death of astrologer John Partridge Isaac Bickerstaffe (1733–after 1808), Anglo-Irish playwright J. B. Bickerstaff (born 1979), American National Basketball Association head coach, son of Bernie Bickerstaff John Bickerstaffe (1848–1930), English philanthropist Matt Bickerstaff (born 1976), Australian rugby league player Philip Bickerstaffe (1639–1714), English merchant and Member of Parliament Rodney Bickerstaffe (1945–2017), British trade unionist, General Secretary of the National Union of Public Employees and UNISON Steve Bickerstaff (1946–2019), adjunct professor of law at the University of Texas Law School in Austin, Texas Tim Bickerstaff (1942–2009), New Zealand radio talkback host and pioneer William Bickerstaff (1728–1789), English antiquarian, curate, and schoolmaster
See also Bickerstaffe, a village and civil parish in the West Lancashire district of Lancashire, England