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Jeffrey A. Engelman

Jeffrey A. Engelman is an American oncologist who studied resistance to targeted kinase inhibitors in lung cancer at Mass General, then joined Novartis in 2016 and co-founded Treeline Biosciences.

Jeffrey A. Fessler

Jeffrey A. Fessler is an electrical engineer at the University of Michigan known for statistical image reconstruction algorithms for CT, MRI, and PET, including the 1994 SAGE algorithm.

Jeffrey A. Frelinger

Jeffrey A. Frelinger is an American immunologist at the University of Arizona known for MHC research and as president of the American Association of Immunologists.

Jeffrey A. Harvey

Jeffrey A. Harvey is an American theoretical physicist, the Enrico Fermi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, known for heterotic string theory, orbifolds, and Umbral Moonshine.

Jeffrey A. Meyerhardt

Jeffrey A. Meyerhardt is an American gastrointestinal medical oncologist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, where he leads colorectal cancer research and national phase 3 clinical trials.

Jeffrey A. Norton

Jeffrey A. Norton is an American surgical oncologist who led surgical oncology at Stanford from 2003 to 2020 and established surgery as a cure for Zollinger–Ellison syndrome.

Jeffrey A. Rosen

Jeffrey A. Rosen (Jeffrey Adam Rosen), American lawyer, 38th U.S. Deputy Attorney General (2019–2021) and acting Attorney General (Dec 2020–Jan 2021); former Deputy Secretary of Transportation who resisted 2020 election overturn pressure.

Jeffrey A. Towbin

Jeffrey A. Towbin is an American pediatric cardiologist known for gene discovery in the cardiomyopathies and the "final common pathway" hypothesis of heart muscle disease.

Jeffrey A. Whitsett

Jeffrey A. Whitsett is an American physician-scientist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center whose work on surfactant proteins helped make surfactant replacement therapy routine for premature infants.

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell is an American biomaterials scientist and immunoengineer known for inverse vaccines that use the liver's tolerance pathway to halt autoimmune reactions in laboratory models.

Jeffrey Alexander Frankel

Jeffrey Alexander Frankel is an American economist at Harvard Kennedy School who studies international finance and exchange rates and served on Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers.

Jeffrey Archer

Jeffrey Archer, Lord Archer of Weston-super-Mare, British Conservative politician and bestselling novelist (Kane and Abel, 300 million books sold in 47 languages), jailed for perjury in 2001, died October 2026 aged 86.

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.