Jeff

Jeff is a masculine given name, often a short form (hypocorism) of the English given name Jeffrey, which derives from a medieval variant of Geoffrey.^[1] Jeff is especially used in the US and Canada.

Music

• DJ Jazzy Jeff, American DJ/turntablist record producer Jeffrey Allen Townes (born 1965)
• Excision (musician), Canadian dubstep producer and DJ Jeff Abel
• 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, electric guitarist
• Jeff Buckley, American singer-songwriter
• Jeff Coffin, saxophonist, bandleader, composer and educator
• Jeff Current, lead singer of American alternative rock band Against All Will
• Jeff Fatt, Australian musician and actor, formerly with the children's band The Wiggles.
• Jeff Gillan, an American journalist
• Jeff Graham, Canadian radio DJ
• Jeff Hanneman, guitarist for U.S. thrash metal band Slayer
• Jeff Healey, Canadian blues-rock guitarist
• Jeff Loomis, lead guitarist for heavy metal band Nevermore
• Jeff Lynne, British singer-songwriter and record producer
• Jeff Mangum, American singer-songwriter and founder of Neutral Milk Hotel
• Jeff Mills, American techno DJ and producer
• Jeff Porcaro, 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, American singer-songwriter and founding member of Wilco
• Jeff Waters, Canadian thrash metal guitarist for band Annihilator

Sports

• Jeff Abbott (baseball), American retired 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 (baseball), 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
• 3.0 (professional wrestling), Canadian professional wrestler Jeff Parker
• 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
• Charles Jeff Tesreau (1888-1946), American Major League Baseball pitcher
• 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, novelist, short story writer, and playwright
• Jeff Smith (cartoonist), American cartoonist
• Jeff VanderMeer, American writer

Politics

• Jeff Adachi, elected U.S. San Francisco Public Defender, pension reform advocate, and former San Francisco mayoral candidate
• Jeff Bingaman, junior U.S. Senator from New Mexico
• Jeff Flake, U.S. Representative from Arizona
• Jeff Kennett, former premier of Victoria, Australia
• Jeff Seemann, United States Democratic candidate in Ohio for Congress
• Jeff Sessions, United States Attorney General

Television and film

• Jeff Alexander (1910–1989), American conductor, arranger, and composer of film, radio, and television scores
• Jeff Anderson, American actor
• Jeff Bennett, American voice actor and singer
• Jeff Bollow, American writer and director
• Jeff Bridges, American actor
• Jeff Chandler (actor) (1918–1961), American film actor
• Jeff Cohen (actor), American attorney and former child actor who appeared as Chunk in the 1985 movie The Goonies
• Jeff Conaway (1950–2011), American actor
• Jeff Coopwood, American actor, singer, broadcaster and educator
• 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, American actor
• Jeff B. Davis, American actor, comedian and singer
• Jeffery Dimitriou, Canadian artist, choreographer and director
• Jeff Dunham, American ventriloquist
• Jeff East, American actor
• Jeff Foxworthy, American comedian and actor
• Jeff Garlin, American comedic actor
• Jeff Goldblum, American film actor
• Jeff Maxwell, American actor
• Jeff McCarthy, American character actor
• Jeff Osterhage, American film and television actor
• Jeff Probst, American television personality, host of Survivor
• Jeff Stelling, British sports journalist, sport television presenter and game show host
• Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, American television director, writer, producer, storyboard artist, and actor
• Jeff Thisted, American game show host
• Jeff Yagher, American actor

Programming

• Jeff Dean (computer scientist), a senior fellow at Google and inventor of many of Google's core technologies
• Jeff Minter, British computer and video game designer and programmer

Fictional characters

• Jeff (EarthBound), in the video game EarthBound
• Jeff Albertson, from The Simpsons, more commonly known as Comic Book Guy
• Jeff Boomhauer, from the American television series King of the Hill
• Jeff Colby, on the American television series Dynasty and The Colbys
• Jeff Isaacs, on Degrassi: The Next Generation
• Jeff K., created by Richard Kyanka
• Jeff the Killer, a character from the creepypasta of the same name
• Jeff Murdock, in the first three seasons of the sitcom Coupling
• Jeff Reinhart, in the Saw film series
• Jeff Winger, main character in the NBC sitcom Community

Other fields

• Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com
• Jeff Kaplan, Vice President of Blizzard Entertainment
• Jeff Cooper (1920–2006), 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, American anarchist, environmental activist, and arsonist
• Jeff Nuttall, British 1960s counter-culture figure
• Jeff S. Shamma, professor of Electrical Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
• Jeff Wooller, British accountant

See also

• Jef, short form of Josef/Jozef

References