Jefferson (surname)

Individuals with the surname "Jefferson" include the following:

Music

• Blind Lemon Jefferson – Blues musician.
• Marshall Jefferson – American musician.
• Eddie Jefferson – America Jazz vocalist

Sports

• Al Jefferson – American basketball player.
• Brandon Jefferson – American basketball player.
• Jesse Jefferson (1949–2011) – American baseball player.
• John Jefferson – A retired football player.
• Reggie Jefferson – A retired American baseball player.
• Richard Jefferson – American basketball player.
• Will Jefferson – English cricketer.

Government

• Anna V. Jefferson (1926–2011), New York politician
• Mose Jefferson – New Orleans politician, older brother of William J. Jefferson
• Roberto Jefferson – Brazilian politician
• Thomas Jefferson – 3rd President of the United States of America
• Wallace B. Jefferson – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas
• William J. Jefferson – Louisiana politician, younger brother of Mose Jefferson

Other

• Ann Jefferson (b. 1949), British scholar of French literature
• Arthur Stanley Jefferson (or Stan Laurel), English comic actor.
• Charles Edward Jefferson (b. 1860), American Congregational clergyman
• Francis Arthur Jefferson, Victoria Cross awardee.
• Geoffrey Jefferson (1886–1961), British neurologist and pioneering neurosurgeon.
• Jane Randolph Jefferson, mother of the President.