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Jefferies
Jefferies is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alan Jefferies (born 1957), Australian writer * Annalee Jefferies (born 1954), American actress * Chris Jefferies (born 1980), American basketball player * Cindy Jefferies, English writer of fiction for children * Darren Jefferies (born 1993), English footballer * Daulton Jefferies (born 1995), American baseball player * Dinah Jefferies (born 1948), English writer * Gregg Jefferies (born 1967), American baseball infielder * Jim Jefferies (comedian) (born 1977), Australian comedian * Jim Jefferies (footballer) (born 1950), Scottish football player and manager * Jim Jeffries (baseball) (1893–1938), American baseball player * Matt Jefferies (1921–2003), American artist, set designer and writer * Richard Jefferies (1848–1887), English nature writer * Thomas Jeffries, also known as Thomas Jefferies (died 1826), Australian outlaw & prisoner See also * Jefferies Financial Group, American financial services holding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annalee Jefferies
Annalee Jefferies is an American stage actress. Early years Jefferies' father was a ranch manager, and her mother was artistically inclined. She lived in Texas her first 11 years, then moved with her family to Australia. They returned to the United States when she was 15. She was active in drama in high school and college before refining her talent at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Career Jefferies was in the nine-hour trilogy of Horton Foote's ''Orphan’s Home Cycle'' in New York, directed by Michael Wilson, which won the Drama Desk Award for Theatrical Event of the Season of 2010. She played Blanche in ''Streetcar Named Desire'', Violet in ''Suddenly Last Summer'', Hannah in ''Night of the Iguana'', Carol in ''Orpheus Descending'', and Amanda in ''The Glass Menagerie'', which was among the ''Wall Street Journal''’s best 10 productions of 2009. She toured England in John Barton’s ten hour epic ''Tantalus'', directed by Sir Peter Hall. She spent 20 years as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Jefferies
Alan Jefferies (born 1957) is an Australian poet and children's author currently living in Brisbane. Biography Alan Jefferies grew up in Cleveland on the Queensland coast. He published his first poems in 1976 and since then his work has appeared in magazines and newspapers in Australia and overseas. He holds degrees in Communication and Writing from the University of Technology, Sydney and for many years worked as a librarian and teacher at the Workers’ Educational Association, Sydney. Between 1982 and 1992 he lived in Coalcliff south of Sydney in a house which was a meeting place for writers, poets, artists and musicians. In 1998 he moved to Hong Kong where he lived for almost ten years. He was one of the initiators of a spoken word event called OutLoud, which takes place on the first Wednesday of each month at the Fringe Club in the Lan Kwai Fong District on Hong Kong Island Hong Kong Island () is an island in the southern part of Hong Kong. The island, known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English-language Surnames
English is a West Germanic language that developed in early medieval England and has since become a global lingua franca. The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the Germanic peoples that migrated to Britain after its Roman occupiers left. English is the most spoken language in the world, primarily due to the global influences of the former British Empire (succeeded by the Commonwealth of Nations) and the United States. English is the third-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese and Spanish; it is also the most widely learned second language in the world, with more second-language speakers than native speakers. English is either the official language or one of the official languages in 57 sovereign states and 30 dependent territories, making it the most geographically widespread language in the world. In the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, it is the dominant language for historical reasons without being explicitl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeffries
Jeffries is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Adam Jeffries (born 1976), American actor * Ben Jeffries (born 1980), Australian rugby league footballer * Bill Jeffries (born 1945), former New Zealand politician * Chad Jeffries (born 1992), American football player * Charles Jeffries (1864–1936), British Salvation Army officer * Charles Adams Jeffries (1869–1931), Australian journalist * Chris Jeffries (born 1978), Canadian cross-country skier * Clarence Smith Jeffries (1894–1917), Australian Victoria Cross recipient * Darren Jeffries (born 1982), British actor * Dean Jeffries (1933–2013), American stunt performer and coordinator * Derek Jeffries (born 1951), English former footballer * D. J. Jeffries (born 1999), American basketball player * Donald Jeffries (1941–2011), British virgilist and academic * Edward Jeffries (1900–1950), Mayor of Detroit, Michigan (1940–48) *Fran Jeffries (1937–2016), American singer, actress and model * Glenn Jeffries (b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeffreys
Jeffreys is a surname that may refer to the following notable people: * Alec Jeffreys (born 1950), British biologist and discoverer of DNA fingerprinting * Anne Jeffreys (1923–2017), American actress and singer * Arthur Frederick Jeffreys (1848–1906), British politician * Bertha Jeffreys (1903–1999), British physicist a.k.a. Bertha Swirles * Charles Jeffreys (1877 – unknown), South African shooter * Edmund Jeffreys (1846–1925), British Royal Navy admiral * Elizabeth Jeffreys (1941–2023), British Byzantinist * Ellen Penelope Jeffreys (1827–1904), New Zealand artist * Garland Jeffreys (born 1943), American musician * George Jeffreys (composer) (c.1610–1685), composer and organist to Charles I * George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys (1645–1689), British jurist & politician * George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys (British Army officer) (1878–1960), British soldier & politician * George Jeffreys (pastor) (1889–1962), British religious leader * Gina Jeffr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jefferys
Jefferys is a surname. Notable people with the name include: * Charles Jefferys (1807–1865), English music publisher and composer * Charles William Jefferys (1869–1951), Canadian historical illustrator * Eddie Jefferys (fl. 2010s), English music producer * Edward Jefferys (1936–1998), South African sprinter * John Jefferys (fl. mid-18th century), British game designer * John Jefferys (clockmaker) (1701–1754), English horologist * Margot Jefferys (1916–1999), British medical sociologist * Steve Jefferys, Australian horse trainer, appeared in the 2000 Sydney Olympics Opening Ceremony * Thomas Jefferys (c. 1719–1771), English cartographer * William H. Jefferys (born 1940), American astronomer See also * Jefferys Allen (1760–1844), British politician, MP for Bridgwater * Jefferies {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jefferies Group
Jefferies Group LLC is an American multinational independent investment bank and financial services company that is headquartered in New York City. The firm provides clients with capital markets and financial advisory services, institutional brokerage, securities research, and asset management. This includes mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, and other financial advisory services. The Capital Markets segment also includes its securities trading (including the results of its indirectly partially owned subsidiary, Jefferies High Yield Trading, LLC) and investment banking activities. On November 12, 2012, Jefferies announced its merger with Leucadia National Corporation, its largest shareholder. At that time, Leucadia common shares were trading at $21.14 per share. As of December 31, 2015, Leucadia shares were trading at $17.39 per share. Jefferies remains independent and is the largest operating company within the Jefferies Financial Group, as Leucadia was renamed in May ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jefferies Financial Group
Jefferies Financial Group Inc. is an American financial services company based in New York City. It is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and is a part of the ''Fortune'' 1000. Investments The company's major holdings are as follows: Financial Services * Jefferies Group (100%) - investment banking & capital markets * Berkadia Commercial Mortgage (50/50 joint venture with Berkshire Hathaway) - commercial mortgage banking, investment sales and servicing *HomeFed (65% ownership) - Builder of Master Planned Communities, Income Properties, Land Holdings * FXCM (49.9%) - online foreign exchange trading *Foursight Capital (100%) - vehicle finance Others * HRG Group (23%) - insurance and consumer products * Vitesse Energy (96%) - oil and gas exploration and development * Juneau Energy (98%) - oil and gas exploration and development * Garcadia Holdings (75%, Joint venture with Ken Garff Automotive Group) - automobile dealerships * Linkem (57%) - fixed wireless broadband services ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Jeffries
Thomas Jeffrey (surname also recorded as Jeffery, Jeffries, Jeffreys or Jefferies; – 4 May 1826) was a convict bushranger, murderer, and Human cannibalism, cannibal in the mid-1820s in Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania, Australia). In contemporary newspaper reports of his crimes, he was frequently described as a 'monster'. Jeffrey and three other convicts absconded from custody in Launceston, Tasmania, Launceston in December 1825 and were subsequently responsible for five murders characterised by extreme violence, including the killing of a five-month-old infant. Another victim was a member of the gang, killed while he slept and his flesh consumed by his companions. Jeffrey was captured in January 1826; he was tried in Hobart and convicted of various of his crimes. Jeffrey was executed by hanging at Hobart in May 1826. Biography Background Thomas Jeffrey was born in about 1791 in Bristol, England, the son of a butcher. He received seven years of schooling, after which he ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Jefferies
John Richard Jefferies (6 November 1848 – 14 August 1887) was an English nature writer, noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels. His childhood on a small Wiltshire farm had a great influence on him and provides the background to all his major works of fiction. Jefferies's corpus of writings covers a range of genres and topics, including ''Bevis'' (1882), a classic children's book, and ''After London'' (1885), a work of science fiction. For much of his adult life he suffered from tuberculosis, and his struggles with the illness and with poverty also play a role in his writing. Jefferies valued and cultivated an intensity of feeling in his experience of the world around him, a cultivation that he describes in detail in ''The Story of My Heart'' (1883). This work, an introspective depiction of his thoughts and feelings about the world, gained him the reputation of a nature mystic at the time, but it is his success in conveyi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Jeffries (baseball)
James Courtney Jeffries (May 18, 1893 – November 28, 1938) was an American pitcher and outfielder in Negro league baseball and the pre-Negro leagues. He was a southpaw pitcher and batter and played almost exclusively for the Indianapolis ABCs The Indianapolis ABCs were a Negro league baseball team that played both as an independent club and as a charter member of the first Negro National League (NNL). They claimed the western championship of black baseball in 1915 and 1916, and fin .... Jeffries died at the age of 45 in Pulaski, Tennessee. References External links anBaseball-Reference Black Baseball statsanSeamheads 1893 births 1938 deaths Baseball outfielders Baseball pitchers Baseball players from Louisville, Kentucky Baltimore Black Sox players Birmingham Black Barons players Harrisburg Giants players Indianapolis ABCs players 20th-century American sportsmen {{US-baseball-pitcher-1890s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Jefferies
Walter Matthew Jefferies (August 12, 1921 – July 21, 2003) was an American aviation and mechanical artist, set designer, and writer. He is best known for his work on the original ''Star Trek'' television series, where he designed many of the sets and props, including the original Starship ''Enterprise'', and the bridge and sick bay. Early life Jefferies was born in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. He had three brothers, John, Richard and Philip, the latter two of whom would become production designers. Their father was chief engineer at a power plant in Virginia. Matt's younger brother John worked with him as his chief draftsman. He served in Europe in World War II, was inside of B-17, B-24, B-25 bombers and had four years as a flight test engineer. ''Star Trek'' Besides creating interiors and exterior of the ''Enterprise'', Jefferies was responsible for designing props (including phasers), sets, the Klingon logo and D-7 battlecruiser. Years later, his concept sketches were revis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
