Jeffery is a given name or a surname. As a surname, it is a Cornish variant of the more commonly spelled given name
Jeffrey.
It may refer to:
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Aaron Jeffery (born 1970), New Zealand-born actor
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Alshon Jeffery (born 1990), American football player
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Arthur Jeffery (1892–1959), Australian-born professor of Semitic languages
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Clara Jeffery
Clara Jeffery (born August 25, 1967) is an American journalist who is the editor-in-chief of ''Mother Jones (magazine), Mother Jones'' and The Center for Investigative Reporting.
Career
Jeffery was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and was raised in A ...
(born 1967), American journalist
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Darren Jeffery (born 1976), English opera singer
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George Barker Jeffery (1891–1957), English mathematical physicist
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George H. Everett Jeffery (1855–1935), English architect and historian, curator of ancient monuments in Cyprus
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Isadore Gilbert Jeffery (1840–1919), American poet, lyricist
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Joseph Jeffery (1829–1894), Canadian cabinet-maker
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Keith Jeffery (1952–2016), Northern Irish historian
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Margaret Jeffery (1920–2004), British swimmer and Olympian
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Michael Jeffery (Australian Army officer)
Major general (Australia), Major General Philip Michael Jeffery, (12 December 1937 – 18 December 2020) was a senior Australian Army officer and vice-regal representative. He was the 28th governor of Western Australia from 1993 to 2000, and ...
(1937–2020), Australian soldier and Governor-General
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Michael Jeffery (manager) (1933–1973), English manager of musicians including Jimi Hendrix
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Paul Jeffery, alias of author F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre (1948–2010)
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Ralph Lent Jeffery, Canadian mathematician
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Simon Jeffery (
fl. 2000s), business manager in the video games industry
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Thomas B. Jeffery (1845–1910), British-born entrepreneur and inventor in the United States
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Tony Jeffery (born 1964), American football player
Given name
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Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, officer in the British Army
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Jeffery Deaver, American mystery/crime novelist
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Jeffery Demps, American track and field athlete and American football player
* Jeffery Lamar Williams, better known under his stage name
Young Thug (born 1991), American rapper
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Jeffery Simmons (born 1997), American football player
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Jeffery Taylor (born 1989), Swedish basketball player
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Jeffery Xiong, American chess grandmaster
See also
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Jeff, a given name (and list of people with the name)
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Jeffrey (name)
Jeffrey is a common English language, English given name, and a variant form of the name Geoffrey (given name), Geoffrey (itself from a Middle French variant of Godfrey (name), Godfrey, Gottfried).
It has been argued that the common derivation of ...
, a more commonly spelled variant of the name
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Jeffry, a given name
{{Given name, type=both
English masculine given names
Masculine given names
English-language surnames