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Jeffrey Gale Williamson

Jeffrey Gale Williamson (1935–2026) was an American economic historian and Laird Bell Professor of Economics at Harvard who showed how 19th-century trade booms and mass migration shaped global inequality.

Jeffrey Garten

Jeffrey Garten, born 1946, is an American economist and author who served as Under Secretary of Commerce and dean of the Yale School of Management.

Jeffrey Gibson

Jeffrey Gibson (born 1972) is an American multidisciplinary artist of Choctaw and Cherokee descent who combines Indigenous materials, text, and popular culture across painting, sculpture, and performance.

Jeffrey Goldberg

Jeffrey Goldberg (born 1965, Brooklyn) is editor in chief of The Atlantic since 2016, moderator of PBS Washington Week, author of Prisoners, and the journalist inadvertently added to the 2025 Trump administration Signal war-plans chat.

Jeffrey Goldstone

Jeffrey Goldstone is a British theoretical physicist, emeritus professor at MIT, best known for the Nambu–Goldstone boson and the Goldstone theorem proved with Salam and Weinberg in 1962.

Jeffrey Graham

Jeffrey Graham is an American Democratic politician representing the 35th district in the South Carolina Senate, after serving as Mayor of Camden and on the Camden City Council.

Jeffrey Greeley

Jeffrey Greeley is a computational electrochemist who uses density functional theory to screen and design catalysts for fuel cells, electrolyzers, and batteries; he joined UW-Madison in 2025.

Jeffrey H. Kordower

Jeffrey H. Kordower is a neuroscientist studying Parkinson's disease in nonhuman primate models, and founding director of the ASU-Banner Neurodegenerative Disease Research Center at Arizona State University.

Jeffrey Hammond

Jeffrey Hammond, also Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond, English painter and Jethro Tull bassist 1971-1975, played on Aqualung and Thick as a Brick, then returned to painting.

Jeffrey Hayden

Jeffrey Hayden (1926-2016), American television and stage director, husband of Eva Marie Saint; directed over 60 series including The Andy Griffith Show, Peyton Place, Quincy M.E., and Knight Rider.

Jeffrey Hudson

Jeffrey Hudson (1619–1682), Oakham-born English court dwarf of Henrietta Maria, presented in a pie, performed in Caroline masques 1626–1640, killed Charles Crofts in a 1644 horseback duel, was enslaved in Barbary, and died in 1682.

Jeffrey Hulum III

Jeffrey Hulum III is an American Democratic politician and Mississippi State Representative who is the 2026 Democratic nominee for the US House in Mississippi's 4th district.

Jeffrey Hunter

Jeffrey Hunter (Henry Herman McKinnies Jr.), 1926-1969, American actor known for The Searchers, King of Kings as Jesus, and Captain Pike in Star Trek's first pilot.

Jeffrey Hutchinson

Jeffrey Glenn Hutchinson, Gulf War Army veteran with Gulf War Illness and delusional disorder, convicted in 2001 of the 1998 Crestview, Florida shotgun murders of Renee Flaherty and her three children, found competent, executed May 1, 2025.

Jeffrey Hyman

Jeffrey Hyman was a London food-industry businessman who founded the original Pret A Manger shop in Hampstead in October 1984, during a long career at Rank Hovis McDougall.

Jeffrey I. Cohen

Jeffrey I. Cohen is an American physician-scientist and virologist who has been chief of NIAID's Laboratory of Infectious Diseases since 2010, known for Epstein-Barr virus vaccine candidates and identifying the varicella-zoster virus receptor.

Jeffrey I. Cummings

Jeffrey I. Cummings, born 1962 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, is a United States district judge for the Northern District of Illinois, appointed by President Biden in 2023.

Jeffrey I. Gordon

Jeffrey I. Gordon (born 1947) is an American physician and microbiome scientist who pioneered the study of the human gut microbiome and its role in childhood undernutrition.

Jeffrey I. Weitz

Jeffrey I. Weitz, also known as Jeffrey Weitz, is a Canadian hematologist at McMaster University who studies blood coagulation and led trials of anticoagulant drugs including milvexian.

Jeffrey I. Zink

Jeffrey I. Zink is a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA and a California NanoSystems Institute member, known for mesoporous silica nanoparticles and nanomachines that control drug release; he received the 2017 Tolman Medal.

Jeffrey J. Fredberg

Jeffrey J. Fredberg is a Harvard professor of bioengineering and physiology, emeritus, known for applying soft-matter physics to cells, especially the jamming and unjamming transition in asthma.

Jeffrey J. Helmick

Jeffrey James Helmick, born in 1960 in Toledo, Ohio, is a United States district judge of the Northern District of Ohio, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2012.

Jeffrey J. Siirola

Jeffrey J. Siirola is an American chemical engineer known for process synthesis and computer-aided process design, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1994.

Jeffrey J. Urban

Jeffrey J. Urban is a materials chemist who directs the Inorganic Nanostructures Facility at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry, known for hydrogen storage nanocomposites and gas separation membranes.

Jeffrey J. Wine

Jeffrey J. Wine, also published as J. J. Wine, is an emeritus Stanford professor who studies cystic fibrosis and directed its Cystic Fibrosis Research Laboratory.

Jeffrey Jones

Jeffrey Jones, born Jeffrey Duncan Jones, is an American character actor known for playing Dean Rooney in Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Emperor Joseph II in Amadeus.

Jeffrey Jordan

Jeffrey Michael Jordan (born 1988), eldest son of Michael Jordan and Juanita Vanoy; walk-on guard at Illinois 2007-2010 (92 games), then UCF 2011-12 with brother Marcus; later a businessman.

Jeffrey Kahn

Jeffrey Kahn is an American bioethicist who has directed the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics since 2016 and is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Jeffrey Karp

Jeffrey Karp, also known as Jeffrey M. Karp, is a Canadian-born American bioengineer known for a gecko-inspired surgical tape and for turning his lab's inventions into medtech companies.

Jeffrey Karpicke

Jeffrey D. Karpicke is an American cognitive psychologist of learning and memory at Purdue University, known for research showing that actively recalling information improves long-term retention more than restudying.