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Jeffrey Tong

Jeffrey Tong is a life-sciences venture capitalist and Partner at Third Rock Ventures, who joined in 2016 and held company-building roles at Delinia, Nora Therapeutics, and Infinity Pharmaceuticals.

Jeffrey Toobin

Jeffrey Toobin (born 1960) is an American lawyer, journalist, and author, longtime New Yorker staff writer and CNN chief legal analyst, author of The Run of His Life and The Nine, fired from the New Yorker after a 2020 Zoom incident.

Jeffrey Trail

Jeffrey Trail (1969–1997) was a U.S. Naval Academy graduate, Gulf War veteran, and gay naval officer, the first of Andrew Cunanan's five murder victims, killed April 27, 1997, in Minneapolis.

Jeffrey Tyner

Jeffrey Tyner is an American hematology and oncology researcher at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, known for the Beat AML drug-profiling program in acute myeloid leukemia.

Jeffrey U. Beaverstock

Jeffrey U. Beaverstock is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of Alabama since 2018 and its chief judge since 2021.

Jeffrey Ullman

Jeffrey David Ullman is an American computer scientist at Stanford University, co-winner of the 2020 Turing Award and author of influential textbooks on compilers and databases.

Jeffrey V. Brown

Jeffrey Vincent Brown, born 1970, is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the Southern District of Texas since 2019, appointed by President Trump.

Jeffrey V. Lazarus

Jeffrey V. Lazarus is an American epidemiologist who heads the Public Health Liver Group at ISGlobal in Barcelona, known for COVID-19 vaccine surveys and liver disease policy.

Jeffrey W. Banks

Jeffrey W. Banks is an American applied mathematician and computational plasma physicist, formerly a Lawrence Livermore staff scientist and now a full professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Jeffrey W. Bode

Jeffrey W. Bode, born 1974 near Los Angeles, is an American chemist and professor at ETH Zürich known for chiral NHC catalysis and the KAHA ligation.

Jeffrey W. Book

Jeffrey W. Book is an American physical oceanographer at the Naval Research Laboratory in Mississippi, known for shallow-sea and strait circulation research and a 2011 Presidential Early Career Award.

Jeffrey W. Kysar

Jeffrey W. Kysar is an American mechanical engineer at Columbia University who has chaired its mechanical engineering department since 2014 and won a 2006 Presidential Early Career Award.

Jeffrey W. Moses

Jeffrey W. Moses is an American interventional cardiologist, Professor of Cardiology at Columbia University, who led the SIRIUS drug-eluting stent trial and served on the PARTNER transcatheter aortic valve trials.

Jeffrey W. Olin

Jeffrey W. Olin is an American vascular medicine physician, Professor of Cardiology at Mount Sinai, known for fibromuscular dysplasia research and past president of the Society for Vascular Medicine.

Jeffrey W. Pollard

Jeffrey W. Pollard (1950–2023) was a British biologist who showed that macrophages help cancers spread, and founded the immuno-oncology company Macomics. He led the MRC Centre for Reproductive Health at the University of Edinburgh.

Jeffrey W. Smith

Jeffrey W. Smith is an American cell biologist known for integrin ligand binding research and for discovering that orlistat inhibits fatty acid synthase and slows tumor growth.

Jeffrey Wadsworth

Jeffrey Wadsworth is an English-born American metallurgist known for research on superplasticity, high-temperature materials, and Damascus steels, who directed Oak Ridge National Laboratory from 2003.

Jeffrey Weissman

Jeffrey Weissman (born 1958, Santa Monica, California) is an American character actor known as George McFly in Back to the Future Parts II and III and Teddy Conway in Pale Rider; his casting triggered the Crispin Glover likeness case and a SAG rule change.

Jeffrey Wigand

Jeffrey Wigand, American biochemist and former vice president of research and development at Brown & Williamson Tobacco, whistleblower on nicotine manipulation exposed in 60 Minutes and The Insider.

Jeffrey Wooldridge

Jeffrey M. Wooldridge is an econometrician at Michigan State University since 1991, author of Introductory Econometrics and Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data, and a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher in 2025.

Jeffrey Wright

Jeffrey Wright is an American actor known for Angels in America, Basquiat, Westworld, and three James Bond films, earning an Oscar nomination for American Fiction (2023).

Jeffries Wyman

Jeffries Wyman (1814–1874) was an American comparative anatomist, physiologist, and anthropologist, first Hersey Professor of Anatomy at Harvard, whose 1847 gorilla memoir with Thomas Savage gave science its first full account of the ape.

Jeffry Picower

Jeffry Picower (1942–2009) was an American accountant, attorney, and investor, the largest beneficiary of Madoff's Ponzi scheme; his estate forfeited $7.2 billion after his 2009 death.

Jeffry S. Isaacson

Jeffry S. Isaacson is an American neuroscientist and Emeritus Professor of Neurosciences at UC San Diego who studies how inhibition shapes sensory processing in the olfactory system.

Jefry Yan

Jefry Yan (La Sentencia), Dominican left-handed reliever born 1996, New York Mets; MLB debut August 5, 2026 at age 29 after Tommy John surgery, three years out of baseball, Marlins, Seibu Lions, and Rockies stops.

JEG-3

JEG-3 (CVCL_0363, ATCC HTB-36) is a human gestational choriocarcinoma cell line isolated by Kohler and Bridson in 1971, a BeWo subclone expressing hCG and progesterone, widely used as a placental trophoblast model.

Jegrlići

Jegrlići (Jegrlici) is a destroyed locality in Višegrad Municipality, Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, near Kabernik and Holijaci, at 43.78°N 19.27°E, 578 m elevation, GeoNames ID 3298954.

Jeh Johnson

Jeh Charles Johnson, American lawyer, DoD General Counsel 2009-2012 and fourth U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security 2013-2017; later Paul, Weiss partner and Columbia Board of Trustees co-chair.

Jehan Daruvala

Jehan Daruvala (born 1998) is an Indian racing driver, the first and only Indian to win a Formula 2 race, with four F2 wins and 18 podiums; he races in Formula E for Maserati MSG Racing.

Jehan Gordon-Booth

Jehan Gordon-Booth is a Democratic member of the Illinois House of Representatives representing the 92nd district and an Assistant Majority Leader, best known for the Clean Slate Act signed in 2026.