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Jeff



Jeff is a common given name for a male. It comes from Gaelic originally from "Godfrey", then "Geoffrey". Original meaning is "God's peace". Popular variations include "Jeffrey" and "Jeffery", although the latter is actually a bastardization of the original word, not a true derivation. Jeff may refer to:

Music

* DJ Jazzy Jeff, an American DJ/turntablist record producer
* Jeff Beck, an electric guitarist
* Jeff Buckley, an American singer-songwriter
* Jeff Graham, a Canadian Radio DJ
* 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 Porcaro, highly regarded session drummer and founding member of Toto
* Jeff Tweedy, an American singer-songwriter and founding member of Wilco

Sports

* Jeff Bagwell, a baseball player
* Jeff Bes, a Canadian ice hockey player
* Jeff Chandler (boxer), a former boxing champion
* Jeff Fenech, former boxer
* Jeff Gordon, a NASCAR racer
* Jeff Guiel, a Canadian baseball player
* Jeff Hardy, a professional wrestler
* Jeff Jarrett, an American professional wrestler
* Jeff Speakman, American actor and accomplished martial artist in the art of kenpo
* Jeff Thomson, a former Australian cricketer
* Jeff Williams, Australian-born, left-handed pitcher for the Hanshin Tigers baseball team

Literature

* Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com
* Jeff Noon, a novelist, short story writer and playwright
* Jeff Somers, New Jersey author and publisher of the zine The Inner Swine
* Jeff VanderMeer, an American writer

Politics

* Jeff Bingaman, the junior U.S. Senator from New Mexico
* Jeff Flake, a U.S. Respresentative 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 Bridges, an American actor
* Jeff Chandler (actor), a 1950s American film actor
* Jeff Cohen, child actor whose claim to fame is appearing as Chunk in the 1985 classic The Goonies
* Jeff Conaway, American actor
* Jeff Daniels, an American actor
* Jeff Foxworthy, an American comedian and actor
* Jeff Garlin, an American comedic actor
* Jeff Goldblum, an American film actor
* Jeff McCarthy, American character actor who has appeared in television, theatre and films
* Jeff Probst, American television personality
* Jeff Yagher, American actor

Programming

* Jeff Hawkins, founder of Palm Computing and Handspring
* Jeff Minter, a British computer and video game designer and programmer

Fiction

* Jeff (EarthBound), a character in the video game EarthBound
* Mutt and Jeff, comic strip
* Jeff K., fictional character created by Richard Kyanka

Other fields

* Jeff Cooper (colonel), a former United States Marine and firearms expert
* Jeff Luers, an American anarchist and environmental activist
* Jeff Nuttall, a British 1960s counter-culture figure

See also

* Geoffrey
* Jeffrey (name)



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