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Jeffrey Aronson

Jeffrey Kevin Aronson, born 1947, is a British clinical pharmacologist at Oxford known for work on adverse drug reactions and editing Meyler's Side Effects of Drugs.

Jeffrey B. Neaton

Jeffrey B. Neaton is an American theoretical condensed matter physicist at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, known for first-principles methods for molecular electronics.

Jeffrey Benovic

Jeffrey L. Benovic is an American biochemist at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, trained under Robert Lefkowitz, known for discovering GRK2 and β-arrestin's role in receptor endocytosis.

Jeffrey Borer

Jeffrey S. Borer (1945–2026) was an American cardiologist who developed stress radionuclide cineangiography, the first noninvasive technique for assessing cardiac function during exercise, and studied valve replacement timing in aortic regurgitation.

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman

Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman, Canadian actor and model (born 1984, Edmonton), known as Jay Carter in UnREAL, judge on Canada's Drag Race season 1, and Charles Zeller in Doogie Kamealoha, M.D.

Jeffrey Brent

Jeffrey Brent is an American emergency physician and medical toxicologist at the University of Colorado, known for clinical trials of fomepizole for toxic alcohol poisoning.

Jeffrey C Magee

Jeffrey C Magee is a cellular and synaptic neuroscientist and HHMI Investigator at Baylor College of Medicine, known for discovering behavioral timescale synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus.

Jeffrey C. Barrett

Jeffrey C. Barrett is a statistical geneticist known for the Haploview software, inflammatory bowel disease genetics, and the Deciphering Developmental Disorders study of rare disease.

Jeffrey C. Blackmon

Jeffrey C. Blackmon is an American experimental nuclear astrophysicist who measures reaction rates governing how stars burn and explode, a 2002 PECASE recipient, and chair of physics at Louisiana State University.

Jeffrey C. Grossman

Jeffrey C. Grossman is an American materials scientist and MIT professor since 2009 whose research uses computer simulation to design energy materials, including solar thermal fuels.

Jeffrey C. Hall

Jeffrey C. Hall is an American geneticist at Brandeis University who shared the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering circadian clock mechanisms.

Jeffrey C. Murray

Jeffrey C. Murray is an American pediatrician and human geneticist at the University of Iowa known for identifying the first cleft lip and palate genes.

Jeffrey Cheah

Jeffrey Cheah is a Malaysian businessman who founded Sunway Group in 1974 as a tin-mining venture and built it into a conglomerate spanning property, healthcare, and education.

Jeffrey Chua

Jeffrey Chua is a venture capital investor at Golden Gate Ventures, a Southeast Asia early-stage firm he joined as an intern in 2015 and made Partner in 2025.

Jeffrey Combs

Jeffrey Combs (born 1954) is an American character actor, Herbert West in Re-Animator (1985), and a Star Trek fixture as Weyoun, Brunt, Shran, and Agimus, plus voice roles as Ratchet and The Question.

Jeffrey D. Axelrod

Jeffrey D. Axelrod, also known as Jeffrey Axelrod, is a physician-scientist and molecular biologist who has been Professor of Pathology at Stanford since 2013, known for work on planar cell polarity.

Jeffrey D. Esko

Jeffrey D. Esko is an American cell biologist and glycobiologist at UC San Diego, known for heparan sulfate proteoglycan research and the 2020 Cell paper on SARS-CoV-2 entry.

Jeffrey D. Hartgerink

Jeffrey D. Hartgerink is an American chemist and materials scientist, Professor of Chemistry and Bioengineering at Rice University, known for multidomain peptide hydrogels for tissue repair.

Jeffrey D. Macklis

Jeffrey D. Macklis is a developmental neuroscientist at Harvard University known for work on how neocortical neurons are born and for inducing new neurons in the adult brain.

Jeffrey D. Palmer

Jeffrey D. Palmer is an American molecular biologist and Indiana University professor known for pioneering plant organelle genomics, discovering organelle-to-nucleus gene transfer, and entering the National Academy of Sciences in 2000.

Jeffrey D. Parvin

Jeffrey D. Parvin is a molecular biologist and physician-scientist, Professor of Biomedical Informatics at The Ohio State University, known for his research on BRCA1 and DNA repair.

Jeffrey D. Rothstein

Jeffrey D. Rothstein is an American neurologist and neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins whose laboratory shaped the modern understanding of ALS, contributing to the drug riluzole.

Jeffrey D. Schall

Jeffrey D. Schall, also known as Jeffrey Schall, is a neurophysiologist who studies how the brain chooses and inhibits eye movements, working at Vanderbilt and York University.

Jeffrey Dahmer

Jeffrey Dahmer, Milwaukee serial killer who murdered and dismembered 17 men and boys 1978–1991, arrested July 22, 1991, sentenced to 15 consecutive life terms, killed in prison 1994.

Jeffrey Daniel

Jeffrey Daniel, American dancer, choreographer, and Shalamar founding member; pioneered the backslide, taught Michael Jackson the moonwalk, co-choreographed Smooth Criminal and Bad, and starred in Starlight Express.

Jeffrey Daugherty

Jeffrey Joseph Daugherty, born 1955, was an American criminal from Taylor, Michigan, executed in Florida in 1988 for the 1976 murder of hitchhiker Lavonne Sailer near Melbourne.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Jeffrey Dean Morgan (born 1966, Seattle) is an American actor known for Denny Duquette on Grey's Anatomy, John Winchester on Supernatural, and Negan on The Walking Dead and Dead City, plus Watchmen and The Boys.

Jeffrey Dean Niemann

Jeffrey Dean Niemann is an American hydrologist and Faoro Professor of Water Resources at Colorado State University, known for river-network scaling research and for modeling soil moisture, snowpack, and streamflow.

Jeffrey DeMunn

Jeffrey DeMunn (born 1947) is an American character actor, Bristol Old Vic-trained, Tony-nominated for K2, a Frank Darabont regular (Shawshank, The Green Mile), Dale Horvath on The Walking Dead, and Chuck Rhoades Sr. on Billions.

Jeffrey Dinowitz

Jeffrey Dinowitz, born in 1954, is a Democratic member of the New York State Assembly representing the Bronx's 81st district since 1994, chairing the Codes Committee.