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Jeff Hornacek
Jeff Hornacek (born 1963, Elmhurst, Illinois) is a former NBA guard, 1992 All-Star, two-time Finals participant with Utah, and later head coach of the Phoenix Suns (101-112) and New York Knicks (60-104).
Jeff Horwitz
Jeff Horwitz: American investigative journalist, WSJ technology reporter in San Francisco and former AP reporter. Led the Facebook Files from Frances Haugen leaks, wrote Broken Code (2023), won a Pulitzer Prize.
Jeff Hostetler
Jeff Hostetler (born 1961) is a former NFL quarterback who replaced the injured Phil Simms in 1990 and won Super Bowl XXV with the New York Giants, later starting for the Raiders and Washington.
Jeff Huber
Jeff Huber is a technology executive and founding CEO of GRAIL, the cancer blood-test company spun out of Illumina in 2016, after leading Google Ads, Apps, and Maps.
Jeff Hurd
Jeff Hurd (born 1979) is the Republican U.S. Representative for Colorado's 3rd Congressional District since 2025, a Grand Junction attorney; not to be confused with former Texas congressman Will Hurd.
Jeff Iliff
Jeff Iliff is an American neuroscientist who led the team that discovered the glymphatic system, the brain's waste-clearance pathway, and now researches it at the University of Washington.
Jeff Immelt
Jeffrey Robert "Jeff" Immelt was CEO and chairman of General Electric from 2001 to 2017, succeeding Jack Welch and leading GE through the 2008 financial crisis.
Jeff Jackson (politician)
Jeff Jackson (born 1982) is a Democratic politician and Army National Guard major serving as North Carolina's attorney general since January 2025, after one term in the U.S. House for the 14th District and eight years in the state Senate.
Jeff Jarrett
Jeff Jarrett (Jeffrey Leonard Jarrett), "Double J," American wrestler and promoter; four-time WCW World Champion, six-time WWE Intercontinental Champion, co-founder of TNA/Impact Wrestling, WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2018, now with AEW.
Jeff Jones (music industry executive)
Jeff Jones (Jeffrey Vaughan Jones), music executive, CEO of Apple Corps Ltd. 2007-2024, succeeding Neil Aspinall; brought Beatles music to iTunes, produced Beatles documentaries and 'Now And Then'; succeeded by Tom Greene.
Jeff Kahn (mathematician)
Jeffry Kahn, also known as Jeff Kahn, is a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Rutgers University working in discrete mathematics, graph theory, and probabilistic methods.
Jeff Kaplan
Jeff Kaplan is an American game designer, former World of Warcraft lead designer and Overwatch game director and VP at Blizzard, who left in April 2021 and now runs Kintsugiyama, making The Legend of California.
Jeff Kent
Jeff Kent (Jeffrey Franklin Kent, born 1968) is a former MLB second baseman, 2000 NL MVP, and Class of 2026 Hall of Famer elected by the Contemporary Baseball Era Committee with 14 of 16 votes; his 377 home runs and 351 as a second baseman are position records.
Jeff Kinney
Jeff Kinney (born 1971, Maryland) is the American author-illustrator of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, creator of Poptropica, and owner of the bookstore An Unlikely Story in Plainville, Massachusetts; over 300 million copies in print.
Jeff Klemp
Jeff Klemp, Kansas Republican state senator for District 5 (Leavenworth and Wyandotte counties) since 2025, won by 31 votes over Jeff Pittman; Century Van Lines CEO; 2026 Republican nominee for lieutenant governor on the Masterson ticket.
Jeff Kober
Jeff Kober (born 1953, Billings, Montana) is an American character actor known for China Beach's Dodger, Sons of Anarchy's Jacob Hale Jr., Walking Dead's Joe, and Emmy-winning General Hospital role Cyrus Renault; also a Vedic meditation teacher.
Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons (born 1955, York, Pennsylvania) is an American artist known for kitsch-to-high-art sculpture: Rabbit ($91.1M record, 2019), Balloon Dog ($58.4M, 2013), Puppy, and the 2014 Whitney retrospective; Gagosian represents him since 2025.
Jeff Kostoff
Jeff Kostoff (Jeffrey James Kostoff, born 1965) is an American swimmer, two-time Olympian in the 400 IM (1984, 1988), five-time NCAA champion at Stanford, and later coach at Indiana and Stanford.
Jeff Landry
Jeff Landry, Louisiana Republican governor since January 2024, former state attorney general 2016–2024 and one-term U.S. congressman, won the 2023 primary outright with 51.6% and enacted Ten Commandments, school voucher, tax, and tough-on-crime laws.
Jeff LaRe
Jeff LaRe is an American Republican politician and member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 73rd district after being selected to fill the 77th.
Jeff Leach
Jeff Leach is an American politician and Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from the 67th district, based in Plano, serving his seventh term.
Jeff Lewis (real estate speculator)
Jeff Lewis is an American real estate speculator, interior designer, and television personality, star of Bravo's Flipping Out and host of a daily SiriusXM show.
Jeff Lichtman
Jeff W. Lichtman is an American neuroscientist and Harvard professor known for the Brainbow method of labeling neurons and for connectomics, mapping neural connections in the mammalian brain.
Jeff Lieberman
Jeff Lieberman is a New York venture capitalist and managing director at Insight Partners since 1998, known for early growth investments in Qualtrics and Udemy.
Jeff Loomis
Jeff Loomis (born 1971, Appleton, Wisconsin) is an American metal guitarist, lead guitarist of Nevermore and Arch Enemy (2014-2023), with instrumental solo albums Zero Order Phase and Plains of Oblivion; he now leads the 2026 Nevermore reunion.
Jeff Lovell
Jeff Lovell is a private equity investor who co-founded Lovell Minnick Partners, a Radnor, Pennsylvania financial services buyout firm, in 1999, after co-founding Putnam Lovell Group in 1987.
Jeff Lowe
Jeff Lowe (1950–2018), American alpinist and ice climber from Ogden, Utah; Bridalveil Falls first ascent 1974, Latok I 1978, Eiger solo Metanoia 1991, Octopussy dry tooling, M-grading inventor, 2017 Piolet d'Or Lifetime Achievement.
Jeff Lynne
Jeff Lynne: Birmingham-born English singer, songwriter, and producer; co-founder of Electric Light Orchestra (1970), member of the Traveling Wilburys, producer of Cloud Nine, Full Moon Fever, and the Beatles' Anthology tracks.
Jeff Mangum
Jeff Mangum is the Louisiana-born singer-songwriter behind Neutral Milk Hotel and a founder of the Elephant 6 collective; his 1998 album In the Aeroplane Over the Sea became a cult classic before he withdrew from music.
Jeff Mayweather
Jeff "Jazzy" Mayweather, American boxer from Grand Rapids, Michigan, based in Las Vegas; youngest Mayweather brother, IBO super featherweight champion 1994–1995, 32-10-5 record, later trainer of Sultan Ibragimov and uncle of Floyd Mayweather Jr.