Jeff
Jeff is a masculine name, often a short form of the English given name Jefferson or Jeffrey, which comes from a medieval variant of Geoffrey. Jeff is especially used in the US and Canada.
Music
- DJ Jazzy Jeff, American DJ/turntablist record producer Jeffrey Allen Townes
- Excision, Canadian dubstep producer and DJ Jeff Abel
- Jeff Abercrombie, bassist for American rock band Fuel
- 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, American guitarist, founding member of the thrash metal band Slayer
- Jeff Hartford, Canadian DJ and producer
- Jeff Healey, Canadian blues-rock guitarist and songwriter
- 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, American session drummer and member of the rock band 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, American retired professional baseball player
- Jeff Abbott, 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, English footballer
- Jeff Bagwell, American baseball player
- Jeff Bes, Canadian ice hockey player
- Jeff Blake, American football player
- Jeff Burton, NASCAR racer
- Jeff Chandler, 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 , Canadian ice hockey and roller hockey goaltender
- Jeff Foster , American basketball player
- Jeff Francis, baseball player
- Jeff Francoeur, baseball player
- Jeff Friesen, former NHL player
- Jeff Garcia, American football player
- Jeff George, American football player
- Jeff Gladney, American football player
- Jeff Gordon, NASCAR racer
- Jeff Graham, American football player
- Jeff Graham, American football player
- Jeff Green, American professional basketball forward
- Jeff Guiel, Canadian baseball player
- Jeff Halpern, American NHL hockey player
- Jeff Hardy,American professional wrestler
- Jeff Holland, American football player
- Jeff Jarrett, American professional wrestler
- Jeff Kent, baseball player
- Jeff Leiding, American football player
- Jeff Locke, American football player
- Jeff Lockie, American football player
- Jeff Loots, American football player
- Jeff Luc, American football player
- Jeff Mills, American football player
- Jeff Newman , American baseball player
- Jeff Nielsen, professional hockey player
- Jeff Norton, former National Hockey League player
- Jeff Okudah, American football player
- Jeff Otis, American football player
- Jeff Overbaugh, American football player
- Jeff Pain, American-born, Canadian skeleton racer
- 3.0, Canadian professional wrestler Jeff Parker
- Jeff Reed, American football player
- Jeff Reed, retired baseball player
- Jeff Shantz, former National Hockey League player
- Jeff Simmons, American race car driver
- Jeff Skinner, Canadian National Hockey League player
- Jeff Speakman, American actor
- Jeff Stevenson , English rugby league footballer
- Jeff Stork, American volleyball player
- Charles Jeff Tesreau, American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Jeff Thomson, Australian cricketer
- Jeff Van Gundy, American former NBA coach and current broadcaster
- Jeff Walz, American basketball coach
- Jeff Williams, pitcher for the Hanshin Tigers
- Jeff Williams, British cyclist
- Jeff Wilson , American football player
- Jeff Withey, American basketball player
Literature
- Jeff Abbott, American suspense novelist
- Jeff Kinney, 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, 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 Sessions, United States Attorney General
Film and television
- Jeff Alexander, 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, American film actor
- Jeff Cohen, American attorney and former child actor who appeared as Chunk in the 1985 movie The Goonies
- Jeff Conaway, American actor
- Jeff Coopwood, American actor, singer, broadcaster and educator
- Jeff Corey, 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
- 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 Loveness, American screenwriter and television producer
- 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, 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
- Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com
- Jeff Cooper, United States Marine and firearms expert
- Jeff Fairburn, 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 Stevenson , English
- Jeff Wooller, British accountant
Fictional characters
- Jeff, Jenko's alter ego, in the film 22 Jump Street
- Jeff, 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
- Jeff, an enemy in the 2020 VR game