Jeff

Jeff is a short form of the English given name Jeffrey, which derives from a medieval variant of Geoffrey. Jeff is especially used in the US 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 Mills, an American techno DJ and producer.
• 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 mayoral 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 (1918–1961), a 1950s American film actor
• Jeff Cohen, 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, 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 tobacco industry mascot introduced during a February 15, 2015 segment of 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, 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