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Jeff B. Davis
Jeff B. Davis (Jeffrey Bryan Davis, born 1973, Los Angeles) is an American actor, comedian, and singer, a recurring guest on Whose Line Is It Anyway?, star of Drew Carey's Green Screen Show and Improv-A-Ganza, Harmontown podcast comptroller, and Whose Live Anyway? touring improviser, known for Walken and Goldblum impressions.
Jeff Baena
Jeff Baena (Jeffrey Lance Baena), American screenwriter and director, born 1977 in Miami; co-wrote I Heart Huckabees (2004) and directed Life After Beth, Joshy, The Little Hours, Horse Girl, and Spin Me Round; married to Aubrey Plaza; died January 3, 2025.
Jeff Bagwell
Jeff Bagwell, born 1968, is a Hall of Fame first baseman who spent all 15 seasons (1991-2005) with the Houston Astros after the 1990 Larry Andersen trade, winning the 1991 NL Rookie of the Year and 1994 NL MVP with 449 career home runs.
Jeff Barry
Jeff Barry, sometimes listed as Jeffrey Barry, is a Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from District 29, after serving on the Pearland school board and city council.
Jeff Bauman
Jeff Bauman, Boston Marathon bombing survivor (April 15, 2013) who lost both legs, helped identify Tamerlan Tsarnaev from his hospital bed, wrote the memoir Stronger, adapted into a 2017 Jake Gyllenhaal film.
Jeff Baxter
Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, born 1948 in Washington, D.C., American guitarist, founding member of Steely Dan and member of the Doobie Brothers, first-call session player, Roland guitar-technology designer, and self-taught U.S. defense consultant.
Jeff Beck
Jeff Beck (Geoffrey Arnold Beck, 1944-2023), English rock guitarist, Yardbirds member 1965-66 replacing Eric Clapton, founder of the Jeff Beck Group with Rod Stewart, eight-time Grammy winner, twice Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, died of bacterial meningitis.
Jeff Beck discography
Jeff Beck discography: the recorded catalog of English guitarist Jeff Beck (Geoffrey Arnold Beck, 1944–2023), from Yardbirds and Jeff Beck Group albums Truth and Beck-Ola to fusion classics Blow by Blow (1975) and Wired (1976) and 2022's 18 with Johnny Depp.
Jeff Bennett
Jeff Bennett (born 1962) is an American voice actor, the voice of Johnny Bravo with an Elvis Presley impersonation, also Petrie, Kowalski, Dexter's Dad; Annie Award 2012, Emmy 2016; distinct from a British actor of the same name.
Jeff Bergman
Jeff Bergman (Jeffrey Allen Bergman, born 1960), American voice actor who replaced Mel Blanc as Bugs Bunny and other Looney Tunes voices; Space Jam: A New Legacy, Our Cartoon President, Toy Story 5.
Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos (Jeffrey Preston Bezos) is an American entrepreneur who founded Amazon in 1994, founded the spaceflight company Blue Origin, and bought the Washington Post in 2013.
Jeff Bhasker
Jeff Bhasker, American record producer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist (Berklee class of 1999) behind Kanye West's 808s & Heartbreak, fun.'s Some Nights, and Uptown Funk; five-time Grammy winner including 2016 Producer of the Year.
Jeff Blatnick
Jeff Blatnick (Jeffrey Carl Blatnick, 1957–2012), American super-heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler, 1984 Olympic gold medalist after surviving Hodgkin's disease; later UFC commentator who helped name and regulate mixed martial arts.
Jeff Brazier
Jeff Brazier (born 1979) is an English TV presenter and former footballer who began on Shipwrecked (2001), raised his sons with the late Jade Goody, wrote The Grief Survival Guide, and presents This Morning, The One Show, and TNT Sport football.
Jeff Bridges
Jeff Bridges (born 1949, Los Angeles) is an American actor, musician, and photographer, son of Lloyd Bridges, The Dude in The Big Lebowski, Oscar winner for Crazy Heart, seven-time Oscar nominee.
Jeff Bridges (Colorado politician)
Jeff Bridges is an American Democratic politician serving in the Colorado Senate from District 26, appointed in 2019 and elected in 2020 after serving in the Colorado House.
Jeff Brody
Jeff Brody is a founding partner of Redpoint Ventures whose early investments include Danger, sold to Microsoft for $500 million in 2008, and HomeAway, which went public in 2011.
Jeff Brohm
Jeff Brohm (born 1971) is an American college football coach, head coach at Louisville since 2023 after Western Kentucky (30-10) and Purdue (36-34); 97-59 career record, first coach to reach two conference title games in consecutive seasons.
Jeff Buckley
Jeff Buckley, American singer-songwriter (born 1966), known for four-octave tenor voice, 1994 album Grace, Hallelujah cover, drowned in Memphis 1997; posthumous Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk and It's Never Over documentary.
Jeff Burton
Jeff Burton, born 1967 in South Boston, Virginia, is a retired NASCAR Cup driver nicknamed "The Mayor," with 21 Cup wins, 27 Xfinity wins, NASCAR's 75 Greatest Drivers honor, and Hall of Fame Class of 2027 election; now an NBC Sports analyst.
Jeff Caldwell (American football)
Jeff Caldwell, wide receiver, Kansas City Chiefs; Louisville, KY native; played at Lindenwood then Cincinnati; 2026 undrafted free agent; 6-5, 215 lbs, 4.31-second 40-yard dash at the 2026 Combine.
Jeff Capel III
Jeff Capel III is an American college basketball coach and former Duke player, head coach of the Pittsburgh Panthers since 2018 after stints at VCU and Oklahoma.
Jeff Carter
Jeff Carter (born 1985, London, Ontario) is a Canadian former NHL forward who played 19 seasons with Philadelphia, Columbus, Los Angeles, and Pittsburgh, winning Stanley Cups in 2012 and 2014 and retiring in 2024 with 851 points in 1,321 games.
Jeff Chandler
Jeff Chandler (Ira Grossel, 1918–1961), American actor and singer, Oscar-nominated as Cochise in Broken Arrow, radio's Mr. Boynton on Our Miss Brooks and Michael Shayne, Universal star of 1950s Westerns.
Jeff Cheeger
Jeff Cheeger, born 1943 in Brooklyn, is an American mathematician at NYU's Courant Institute known for his finiteness theorem, the splitting theorem, and Ricci-limit space theory.
Jeff Clavier
Jean-Francois "Jeff" Clavier is a French-born venture capitalist in Palo Alto who founded SoftTech VC in 2004, now Uncork Capital, investing in Fitbit, Mint, and Eventbrite.
Jeff Cobb
Jeff Cobb (Jeffrey Cobb, JC Mateo, Matanza Cueto), born 1982 in Honolulu, is an American wrestler, 2004 Guam Olympian, and champion in Lucha Underground, ROH, PWG, NJPW, and WWE.
Jeff Cohen (actor)
Jeff Cohen (born 1974, Los Angeles) is the American former child actor who played Lawrence "Chunk" Cohen in The Goonies (1985), originator of the Truffle Shuffle; he left acting after puberty and became a Beverly Hills entertainment lawyer, co-founding Cohen Gardner LLP and representing Ke Huy Quan.
Jeff Coller
Jeff Coller, also known as Jeffery M. Coller, is an American molecular biologist at Johns Hopkins University known for his 2015 discovery that codon optimality determines mRNA stability.
Jeff Conaway
Jeff Conaway (1950–2011), American actor known as Kenickie in Grease (1978), Bobby Wheeler on Taxi, and Zack Allan on Babylon 5; died of pneumonia with sepsis at 60.