Jeff
Jeff is a short form of the English given name Jeffrey, which derives from a medieval variant of Geoffrey.[1] Jeff is especially used in the USA and Canada.
Music
- DJ Jazzy Jeff, an American DJ/turntablist record producer
- Jazz Etno Funky Festival - JEFF, a music festival in Slovenia
- Jeff "Excision" Abel, Canadian dubstep producer and DJ
- Jeff Abercrombie, bassist for American rock band Fuel
- Jeff Ament, bassist for American rock band Pearl Jam
- Jeff Barry, American pop music singer, songwriter, and record producer
- Jeff Baxter, American guitarist for rock bands Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers
- Jeff Beck, an electric guitarist
- Jeff, an instrumental album by Jeff Beck
- Jeff Buckley, an American singer-songwriter
- Jeff Coffin, saxophonist, bandleader, composer, and educator
- Jeff Current, lead singer of American alternative rock band Against All Will
- Jeff Fatt, Chinese Australian musician and actor
- Jeff Gillan, an American journalist
- Jeff Graham, a Canadian Radio DJ
- Jeff Hanneman, guitarist for U.S. thrash metal band Slayer
- Jeff Healey, a Canadian blues-rock guitarist
- Jeff Loomis, lead guitarist for heavy metal band Nevermore
- Jeff Lynne, a British singer-songwriter and record producer
- Jeff Mangum, an American singer-songwriter and founder of Neutral Milk Hotel
- Jeff Porcaro, highly regarded session drummer and founding member of Toto
- Jeff Scott Soto, American rock singer of Puerto Rican descent
- Jeff Stinco, lead guitarist for pop-punk band Simple Plan
- Jeff Timmons, American pop singer, producer, and pop group 98 Degrees founding member
- Jeff Tweedy, an American singer-songwriter and founding member of Wilco
- Jeff Waters, a Canadian thrash metal guitarist for band Annihilator
Sports
- Jeff Abbott (baseball), retired American professional baseball player
- Jeff Abbott (racing driver), American professional motorsport drifter
- Jeff Adams, Canadian Paralympian and wheelchair sport world champion
- Jeff Adrien, former college basketball player
- Jeff Agoos, retired Swiss-born American soccer defender
- Jeff Allam, former British racing driver
- Jeff Altenburg, American professional race car driver
- Jeff Andretti, former American race car driver
- Jeff Astle (1942–2002), English footballer
- Jeff Bagwell, baseball player
- Jeff Bes, Canadian ice hockey player
- Jeff Burton, NASCAR racer
- Jeff Chandler (boxer), boxing champion
- Jeff Cirillo, retired baseball player
- Jeff Coetzee, South African professional tennis player
- Jeff Conine, retired baseball player
- Jeff Elliott, British decathlete and pole vaulter
- Jeff Fenech, boxer
- Jeff Ferguson (ice hockey) (born 1969), Canadian ice hockey and roller hockey goaltender
- Jeff Francis, baseball player
- Jeff Francoeur, baseball player
- Jeff Friesen, former NHL player
- Jeff Garcia, American football player
- Jeff George, American football player
- Jeff Gordon, NASCAR racer
- Jeff Graham, American football player
- Jeff Graham (quarterback), American football player
- Jeff Green (basketball), American professional basketball forward
- Jeff Guiel, Canadian baseball player
- Jeff Halpern, American NHL hockey player
- Jeff Hardy,American professional wrestler
- Jeff Jarrett, American professional wrestler
- Jeff Kent, baseball player
- Jeff Leiding, American football player
- Jeff Loots, American football player
- Jeff Mills (American football), American football player
- Jeff Newman, American baseball player
- Jeff Nielsen, professional hockey player
- Jeff Norton, former National Hockey League player
- Jeff Otis, American football player
- Jeff Pain, American-born, Canadian skeleton racer
- Jeff Parker (wrestler), Canadian professional wrestler
- Jeff Reed (American football), American football player
- Jeff Reed (baseball), retired baseball player
- Jeff Shantz, former National Hockey League player
- Jeff Simmons (driver), American race car driver
- Jeff Skinner, Canadian National Hockey League player
- Jeff Speakman, American actor
- Jeff Stork, American volleyball player
- Jeff Thomson, Australian cricketer
- Jeff Van Gundy, former NBA coach and current broadcaster
- Jeff Walz (born 1971), American basketball coach
- Jeff Williams (baseball), pitcher for the Hanshin Tigers
- Jeff Williams (cyclist), British cyclist
Literature
- Jeff Abbott, American suspense novelist
- Jeff Kinney (writer), American game designer, cartoonist, producer, actor, and children's book author
- Jeff Koons, American artist
- Jeff Noon, a novelist, short story writer, and playwright
- Jeff Smith (cartoonist), American cartoonist
- Jeff VanderMeer, an American writer
Politics
- Jeff Adachi, elected U.S. San Francisco Public Defender, pension reform advocate, and former San Francisco Mayor candidate
- Jeff Bingaman, the junior U.S. Senator from New Mexico
- Jeff Flake, a U.S. Representative from Arizona
- Jeff Kennett, former Premier of Victoria, Australia
- Jeff Seemann, a United States Democratic candidate in Ohio for Congress
- Jeff Sessions, the junior U.S. Senator from Alabama
Television and film
- Jeff Alexander (1910–1989), American conductor, arranger, and composer of film, radio, and television scores
- Jeff Anderson, an American actor who appeared as Randal Graves in Kevin Smith's Clerks series
- Jeff Bollow, an American writer/director
- Jeff Bridges, an American actor
- Jeff Chandler (actor), a 1950s American film actor
- Jeff Cohen (born 1974), American attorney and former child actor who appeared as Chunk in the 1985 movie The Goonies
- Jeff Conaway, American actor
- Jeff Corey (1914–2002), American stage and screen actor and director
- Jeff Corwin, American animal and nature conservationist, host of The Jeff Corwin Experience and Corwin's Quest
- Jeff Daniels, an American actor
- Jeff B. Davis, an American actor, comedian and singer
- Jeff Dunham, an American ventriloquist
- Jeff East, American actor, appeared in Superman as the young Clark Kent
- Jeff Foxworthy, an American comedian and actor
- Jeff Garlin, an American comedic actor
- Jeff Goldblum, an American film actor
- Jeff Maxwell, American actor (Igor from M.A.S.H.)
- Jeff McCarthy, American character actor who has appeared in television, theatre and films
- Jeff Osterhage, American film and television actor
- Jeff Probst, American television personality, host of Survivor
- Jeff Stelling, British sports journalist, sport television presenter and gameshow host
- Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, American television director, writer, producer, storyboard artist, and actor
- Jeff Thisted, American game show host
- Jeff Yagher, American actor
- Jeff the Diseased Lung, a fake tobacco industry mascot created by Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Programming
- Jeff Dean, a senior fellow at Google and inventor of many of Google's core technologies
- Jeff Minter, a British computer and video game designer and programmer
Fiction
- Jeff (EarthBound), a character in the video game EarthBound
- Jeff (film), an independent documentary film about Jeffrey Dahmer
- Jeff Albertson, a character from The Simpsons, more commonly known as Comic Book Guy
- Jeff Boomhauer, fictional character from King of the Hill
- Jeff Colby, character on the American television series Dynasty and The Colbys
- Jeff Isaacs, a character in Degrassi: The Next Generation
- Jeff K., fictional character created by Richard Kyanka
- Jeff the Killer, a character from the creepypasta of the same name
- Jeff Murdock, a character in the first three seasons of the sitcom Coupling
- Jeff Reinhart, a character in the Saw film series
- Jeff Winger, main character in the NBC sitcom Community
- Mutt and Jeff, comic strip
Other fields
- Jeff Bezos (born 1964), founder of Amazon.com
- Jeff Cooper (1920–2006), a former United States Marine and firearms expert
- Jeff Hawkins, founder of Palm Computing and Handspring
- Jeph Jacques, webcomic maker, creator of Questionable Content
- Jeff Luers, an American anarchist, environmental activist, and arsonist
- Jeff Nuttall, a British 1960s counter-culture figure
- Jeff Wooller, a British accountant
Places
- A local nickname for Jeffersonville, Indiana