Birkhoff is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

George David Birkhoff (1884–1944), American mathematician Garrett Birkhoff (1911–1996), American mathematician, son of George D.

See also Birkhoff (crater) Birkhoff interpolation Birkhoff's axioms Birkhoff's theorem (disambiguation), multiple theorems Birkhoff decomposition, two different decompositions Birkhoff algorithm Poincaré–Birkhoff–Witt theorem