For other uses, see Jeff (disambiguation).

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.

Contents

 1Music
 2Sports
 3Literature
 4Politics
 5Film and television
 6Programming
 7Other fields
 8Fictional characters
 9See also
 10References

Music[edit]
 DJ Jazzy Jeff, American DJ/turntablist record producer Jeffrey Allen Townes
 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 Hartford, Canadian DJ and producer
 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[edit]
 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 (born 1968), 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, American 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 (born 1976), American NHL hockey player
 Jeff Hardy,American professional wrestler
 Jeff Holland (born 1997), American football player
 Jeff Jarrett, American professional wrestler
 Jeff Kent, baseball player
 Jeff Leiding, American football player
 Jeff Locke (American football), American football player
 Jeff Lockie, American football player
 Jeff Loots, American football player
 Jeff Luc, American football player
 Jeff Mills (American football), American football player
 Jeff Newman (baseball) (born 1948), American baseball player
 Jeff Nielsen, professional hockey player
 Jeff Norton, former National Hockey League player
 Jeff Otis, American football player
 Jeff Overbaugh, 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, American 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
 Jeff Wilson (American football) (born 1995), American football player

Literature[edit]
 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[edit]
 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

Film and television[edit]

 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 (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[edit]
 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

Other fields[edit]
 Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com
 Jeff Cooper (1920–2006), United States Marine and firearms expert
 Jeff Fairburn (born 1966), British businessman
 Jeff Hawkins, founder of Palm Computing and Handspring
 Jeff Kaplan, vice president of Blizzard Entertainment
 Jeph Jacques, webcomic maker, 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

Fictional characters[edit]
 Jeff, Jenko's (Channing Tatum) alter ego, in the film 22 Jump Street
 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 Denlon, in the Saw film series
 Jeff Winger, main character in the NBC sitcom Community
 Jeff Fungus is Randall Boggs assistant from the 2001 Disney/Pixar film Monsters, Inc.
 Jeff Atkins, a character in the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why