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Jeffrey L. Schmehl
Jeffrey L. Schmehl is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania since 2013, appointed by President Barack Obama.
Jeffrey L. Wrana
Jeffrey L. Wrana, also known as Jeff Wrana, is a molecular biologist and Senior Investigator at Toronto's Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, known for defining TGFβ signaling through Smad proteins.
Jeffrey Lagarias
Jeffrey Lagarias is an American number theorist at the University of Michigan who spent thirty years at Bell Labs, known for work on the 3x+1 problem, the Riemann hypothesis, and Keller's conjecture.
Jeffrey Laurence
Jeffrey Laurence is an American immunologist and hematologist, Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and Director of its Laboratory for AIDS Virus Research, with over 150 papers on AIDS.
Jeffrey Li
Jeffrey Li (李振福) is a Chinese private equity investor, founder and CEO of GL Capital Group, a China healthcare firm managing over $4 billion; he previously led Novartis China.
Jeffrey Lieberman
Jeffrey Lieberman is a venture capitalist who has been a Managing Director at Insight Partners since 1998, best known for investments in Qualtrics, Divvy, and Udemy.
Jeffrey Lorch
Jeffrey Lorch is a wildlife disease microbiologist at the USGS National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wisconsin, known for identifying the fungi behind white-nose syndrome and snake fungal disease.
Jeffrey Louis Goldberg
Jeffrey Louis Goldberg is an American ophthalmologist and vision scientist who chairs Ophthalmology at Stanford's Byers Eye Institute and studies retinal ganglion cell degeneration in glaucoma.
Jeffrey Lundgren
Jeffrey Lundgren (Jeffrey Don Lundgren) was an American self-proclaimed prophet and cult leader who ordered the 1989 murders of five followers in Kirtland, Ohio, and was executed in 2006.
Jeffrey Lurie
Jeffrey Robert Lurie (born 1951) is the chairman and CEO of the Philadelphia Eagles, bought in 1994 for a reported $185 million; two Super Bowl titles, Oscar-winning documentary producer, autism philanthropist.
Jeffrey M. Bryan
Jeffrey Marc Bryan (born 1976) is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Minnesota since 2023, after serving on the Minnesota Court of Appeals.
Jeffrey M. Drazen
Jeffrey M. Drazen is an American pulmonary physician-scientist whose asthma research contributed to about three licensed drugs, and who edited the New England Journal of Medicine from 2000 to 2019.
Jeffrey M. Isner
Jeffrey M. Isner (1947–2001) was an American cardiologist who pioneered cardiovascular gene therapy and therapeutic angiogenesis at Tufts University and St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Boston, reporting the first human arterial gene transfer in 1994.
Jeffrey M. Kuhlman
Jeffrey M. Kuhlman, born 1989 in Dodge City, Kansas, is a United States district judge for the District of Kansas, appointed by President Donald Trump in 2026.
Jeffrey M. Leiden
Jeffrey M. Leiden is an American physician-scientist in molecular biology, immunology, and gene therapy who cloned key transcription factors and later served as President and CEO of Vertex Pharmaceuticals.
Jeffrey M. Rosen
Jeffrey M. Rosen is an American cancer biologist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, who leads its Breast Cancer Program and studies mammary gland development and breast cancer.
Jeffrey M. Trent
Jeffrey M. Trent, born in 1952, is an American cancer geneticist known for research on melanoma genomics and as founding scientific director of NHGRI's intramural research division.
Jeffrey M'Ba
Jeffrey M'Ba, born 1999 in Libreville Gabon and raised in France, is a defensive tackle who was the top JUCO recruit, played at Auburn, Purdue, and SMU, and reached the NFL in 2026 with the Commanders and Lions practice squads.
Jeffrey Mace
Jeffrey Mace, also Jeffrey Solomon Mace, is a Marvel Comics hero, the powerless Golden Age Patriot (Human Torch Comics #4, 1941) who became the third Captain America in 1946 and later the S.H.I.E.L.D. Director Patriot in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Jeffrey Maier incident
Jeffrey Maier incident: October 9, 1996 ALCS Game 1 play in which 12-year-old Yankees fan Jeffrey Maier reached over the right-field wall, deflecting Derek Jeter's fly ball; umpire Rich Garcia ruled a game-tying home run the Yankees needed en route to the 1996 World Series title.
Jeffrey Mandula
Jeffrey Ellis Mandula is an American theoretical elementary-particle physicist, co-author with Sidney Coleman of the 1967 Coleman–Mandula theorem, which limits how spacetime and internal symmetries can combine.
Jeffrey McDonnell
Jeffrey J. McDonnell is a Canadian hydrologist at the University of Saskatchewan known for field studies of streamflow generation and a landmark 2015 Nature paper on plant water use.
Jeffrey Meldrum
Jeffrey Meldrum (1958–2025) was an American anthropologist and professor of anatomy at Idaho State University who became the leading credentialed academic advocate for Bigfoot, studying footprint casts.
Jeffrey Michael Friedman
Jeffrey M. Friedman is an American molecular geneticist at Rockefeller University who discovered the hormone leptin in 1994, showing that fat cells signal the brain to regulate body weight.
Jeffrey Milbrandt
Jeffrey Milbrandt is an American physician-scientist at Washington University School of Medicine known for discovering neurturin and showing that the enzyme SARM1 drives axon degeneration.
Jeffrey Miller (shooting victim)
Jeffrey Glenn Miller, Kent State University student, age 20, killed May 4, 1970 by Ohio National Guard fire; subject of John Filo's Pulitzer-winning photo with Mary Ann Vecchio.
Jeffrey N. Cuzzi
Jeffrey N. Cuzzi is an American planetary scientist who spent 1978 to 2023 at NASA's Ames Research Center studying Saturn's rings and the formation of chondrules and planetesimals.
Jeffrey N. Johnston
Jeffrey N. Johnston is an American organic chemist, the Stevenson Professor of Chemistry at Vanderbilt University since 2006, known for umpolung amide synthesis and chiral proton catalysis in enantioselective reactions.
Jeffrey N. Katz
Jeffrey N. Katz is an American rheumatologist and outcomes researcher at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, and a Harvard Medical School professor who led major meniscal tear trials.
Jeffrey N. Strathern
Jeffrey N. Strathern is a molecular biologist known for working out the mechanism of mating-type switching in budding yeast, at Cold Spring Harbor and the National Cancer Institute.