Music[link]

• DJ Jazzy Jeff, an American DJ/turntablist record producer
• Jeff Beck, an electric guitarist
  • Jeff, an instrumental album by Jeff Beck
• Jeff Buckley, an American singer-songwriter
• Jeff Current, lead singer of American alternative rock band Against All Will
• Jeff Dandurand, an American radio DJ, comedian, musician and former child actor
• Jeff Graham, a Canadian Radio DJ
• Jeff Hanneman, guitarist for U.S. thrash metal band Slayer
• Jeff Healey, a Canadian blues-rock guitarist
• Jeff Loomis, lead guitarist for heavy metal band Nevermore
• Jeff Lynne, a British singer-songwriter and record producer
• Jeff Mangum, an American singer-songwriter and founder of Neutral Milk Hotel
• Jeff Porcaro, highly regarded session drummer and founding member of Toto
• Jeff Stinco, lead guitarist for pop-punk band Simple Plan
• Jeff Tweedy, an American singer-songwriter and founding member of Wilco
• Jazz Etno Funky Festival - JEFF, a music festival in Slovenia

Sports[link]

• Jeff Adrien, former college basketball player
• Jeff Bagwell, a baseball player
• Jeff Bes, a Canadian ice hockey player
• Jeff Burton, a NASCAR racer
• Jeff Chandler (boxer), a boxing champion
• Jeff Cirillo, a retired baseball player
• Jeff Conine, a retired baseball player
• Jeff Elliott, a British decathlete and pole vaulter
• Jeff Fenech, a boxer
• Jeff Francis, a baseball player
• Jeff Francoeur, a baseball player
• Jeff Friesen, former NHL player
• Jeff Garcia, an American football player
• Jeff George, an American football player
• Jeff Gordon, a NASCAR racer
• Jeff Guiel, a Canadian baseball player
• Jeff Halpern, American NHL hockey player
• Jeff Hardy, a professional wrestler
• Jeff Jarrett, an American professional wrestler
• Jeff Kent, a baseball player
• Jeff Newman, an American baseball player
• Jeff Norton, former National Hockey League player
• Jeff Otis, an American football player
• Jeff Pain, American-born, Canadian skeleton racer
• Jeff Parker (wrestler), a Canadian professional wrestler
• Jeff Reed, a retired baseball player
• Jeff Reed, an American football player
• Jeff Shantz, former National Hockey League player
• Jeff Simmons (driver), an American race car driver
• Jeff Speakman, American actor
• Jeff Stork, an American volleyball player
• Jeff Thomson, an Australian cricketer
• Jeff Van Gundy, a former NBA coach and current broadcaster
• Jeff Williams, pitcher for the Hanshin Tigers
• Jeff Williams, British cyclist
• Jeff Nielsen Pro hockey player

Literature[link]

• Jeff Noon, a novelist, short story writer and playwright
• Jeff VanderMeer, an American writer

Politics[link]

• Jeff Bingaman, the junior U.S. Senator from New Mexico
• Jeff Flake, a U.S. Representative from Arizona
• Jeff Kennett, former Premier of Victoria, Australia
• Jeff Seemann, a United States Democratic candidate in Ohio for Congress
• Jeff Sessions, the junior U.S. Senator from Alabama

Television and film[link]

• Jeff Anderson, an American actor who appeared as Randal Graves in Kevin Smith's Clerks series
• Jeff Bollow, an American writer/director
• Jeff Bridges, an American actor
• Jeff Chandler (actor), a 1950s American film actor
• Jeff Cohen, child actor who appeared as Chunk in the 1985 movie The Goonies
• Jeff Conaway, American actor
• Jeff Corwin, American animal and nature conservationist, host of The Jeff Corwin Experience and Corwin's Quest
• Jeff Daniels, an American actor
• Jeff B. Davis, an American actor, comedian and singer
• Jeff Dunham, an American ventriloquist
• Jeff East, American actor, appeared in Superman as the young Clark Kent
• Jeff Foxworthy, an American comedian and actor
• Jeff Garlin, an American comedic actor
• Jeff Goldblum, an American film actor
• Jeff Maxwell, American actor (Igor from M.A.S.H.)
• Jeff McCarthy, American character actor who has appeared in television, theatre and films
• Jeff Osterhage, American film and television actor
• Jeff Probst, American television personality
• Jeff Stelling, British sports journalist, sport television presenter and gameshow host
• Jeff Thisted, American game show host
• Jeff Yagher, American actor

Programming[link]

• Jeff Minter, a British computer and video game designer and programmer

Fiction[link]

• Jeff Boomhauer, fictional character from King of the Hill
• Jeff (EarthBound), a character in the video game EarthBound
• Mutt and Jeff, comic strip
• Jeff K., fictional character created by Richard Kyanka
• Jeff Colby, character on the American TV series Dynasty, and its spin-off The Colbys.
• Jeff Albertson, a character from The Simpsons, more commonly known as Comic Book Guy.
• Jeff Isaacs, a character in Degrassi: The Next Generation
• Jeff Murdock, a character in the first three seasons of the sitcom Coupling
• Jeff Reinhart, a character in the Saw movie series

Other fields[link]

• Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com
• Jeff Cooper (colonel), a former United States Marine and firearms expert
• Jeff Hawkins, founder of Palm Computing and Handspring
• Jeff Luers, an American anarchist, environmental activist, and arsonist
• Jeff Nuttall, a British 1960s counter-culture figure
• Jeph Jacques, webcomic maker, creator of Questionable Content

See also[link]

• Geoffrey
• Jeffrey (name)

Jeffrey H. Birnbaum (born 1955) is an American journalist and television commentator. He previously worked for the Washington Post and Washington Times. He also regularly appears as a political analyst for the Fox News Channel and long appeared as a regular panelist on Washington Week. He is currently the head of the public relations division of the lobbying firm Barbour, Griffith & Rogers.

Personal life[link]

Birnbaum was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1955.^[1] He graduated as an English major from the University of Pennsylvania in 1977. Birnbaum is married with three children.^[2]

Career[link]

Early in his career, Birnbaum worked for The Wall Street Journal, working 16 years in variety of positions, and leaving the Journal as White House correspondent. He then spent seven years as the chief of Fortune magazine's Washington bureau and two years, beginning in 1995, as a senior political correspondent for Fortune’s sister publication, Time. Birnbaum then worked as a columnist and feature writer at The Washington Post from 2004 to 2008. Birnbaum then joined the Washington Times as Managing Editor of Digital in 2008.^[3][4] In January 2010, Birnbaum left the Times and went to work for the lobbying firm Barbour, Griffith, and Rogers (BGR)^[5][6]

Publications[link]

Birnbaum is the author of four books. His latest, The Money Men, examines campaign fund-raising and was published in 2000. His first book, Showdown at Gucci Gulch, was written with Alan Murray in 1987. This classic chronicle of the Tax Reform Act of 1986, won the American Political Science Association's coveted Carey McWilliams Award in 1988. In 1992, Birnbaum's second book, The Lobbyists, was a Washington Post best seller. Madhouse, Birnbaum's third book, about President Clinton’s White House, was published in 1996.^[7][8]

References[link]

External links[link]

Biography portal

• Booknotes interview with Birnbaum on The Lobbyists, January 10, 1993.

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