Jeffery (name)

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:

Surname

• Aaron Jeffery (born 1970), New Zealand-born actor
• Alshon Jeffery (born 1990), American football player
• Arthur Jeffery (1892–1959), Australian-born professor of Semitic languages
• Clara Jeffery (born 1967), American journalist
• Chucky Jeffery (born 1991), American basketball player
• Darren Jeffery (born 1976), English opera singer
• Gabrielle Jeffery (1886–1940), British suffragist and founder of the Catholic Women's Suffrage Society
• George Barker Jeffery (1891–1957), English mathematical physicist
• George H. E. Jeffery (1855–1935), English architect and historian, curator of ancient monuments in Cyprus
• Isadore Gilbert Jeffery (1840–1919), American poet, lyricist
• Joseph Jeffery (1829–1894), Canadian cabinet-maker
• Keith Jeffery (1952–2016), Northern Irish historian
• Margaret Jeffery (1920–2004), British swimmer and Olympian
• Michael Jeffery (Australian Army officer) (1937–2020), Australian soldier and Governor-General
• Michael Jeffery (manager) (1933–1973), English manager of musicians including Jimi Hendrix
• Paul Jeffery, alias of author F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre (1948–2010)
• Ralph Lent Jeffery, Canadian mathematician
• Simon Jeffery (fl. 2000s), business manager in the video games industry
• Thomas B. Jeffery (1845–1910), British-born entrepreneur and inventor in the United States
• Tony Jeffery (born 1964), American football player

Given name

• Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, officer in the British Army
• Jeffery Deaver, American mystery/crime novelist
• 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
• Jeffery Simmons (born 1997), American football player
• Jeffery Taylor (born 1989), Swedish basketball player
• Jeffery Xiong, American chess grandmaster

See also

• Jeff, a given name (and list of people with the name)
• Jeffrey (name), a more commonly spelled variant of the name
• Jeffry, a given name