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Scaife is an Old Norse patronymic surname meaning "boat-born". This first recorded instance of this surname was in the Old English epic Beowulf. Notable people with the surname include:
- Adam Scaife (born 1970), British Physicist and Meteorologist
- Brendan Scaife (born 1928), Irish Academic Engineer and Physicist
- Bo Scaife (born 1981), American professional football player
- Bobby Scaife (born 1955), English professional football player
- Cordelia Scaife May (1928–2005), American wealthy philanthropist; sister of Richard Mellon Scaife
- Michael Scaife (1948-2001), British biologist and psychologist
- Nicky Scaife (born 1975), English professional footballer
- Richard Mellon Scaife (born 1932–2014), American newspaper publisher; heir to the Mellon fortune
- Ross Scaife (1960–2008), American academic and scholar
Usage examples of "scaife".
He reportedly paused at the door of the Sarah Scaife Foundation, pressed his face against the glass, then moved on.
That job fell to civic-minded patricians such as Richard Mellon Scaife and James Dale Davidson.
Newspaper mogul Richard Mellon Scaife invited Ruddy to write for one of his papers, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
Upon hiring him, Scaife confided to Ruddy that he had called editorial page editor Eric Breindel at the Post for a reference.
But in real life, it turned out to be men such as Scaife who gave Ruddy sanctuary.
Richard Mellon Scaife was there, having traveled to Washington, ironically, to attend a White House dinner-dance that night, hosted by Hillary Clinton.
Ruddy recalls how easily Scaife made the mental leap from print media to Internet.
Seeded with small donations from the Olin, Bradley, and Scaife foundations, the Center quickly acquired a large network of grassroots contributors.
The press said it looked bad because his Pepperdine position had been funded by Richard Mellon Scaife, whose funding of the Arkansas Project was not yet public knowledge, but who was widely recognized as an extreme right-winger with an animus toward me.
Richard Mellon Scaife, an ultraconservative who funded many projects at Pepperdine, including the new public policy school that Starr was to head.
In 1997, Wolfowitz and a coterie of neo-cons formed the Project for a New American Century, funded by money from Richard Mellon Scaife and his nutty, ultra-right-wing friends, the Olins and the Bradleys.
These industries are run by some of the richest and most radically conservative people in the country, men like Richard Mellon Scaife, Charles Koch, and Joseph Coors.
Radical ideologues, faced with Niagara-size flows of polluter money from Coors, Olin, Scaife, and others, set up magazines and newspapers and cultivated a generation of young pundits, writers and propagandists, giving them lucrative sinecures inside right-wing think tanks, now numbering more than 560, from which they bombard the media with carefully honed messages justifying corporate profit-taking.
In looking at the anti-Clinton sentiment sloshing around the country, one first has to separate out the well-financed propaganda machine funded largely by Richard Mellon Scaife of Pittsburgh.
The press said it looked bad because his Pepperdine position had been funded by Richard Mellon Scaife, whose funding of the Arkansas Project was not yet public knowledge, but who was widely recognized as an extreme right-winger with an animus toward me.