Jeffreys
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Jeffreys is a surname, which may refer to:
People: (See also the common variants Jeffries
and Jefferies
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People: (See also the common variants Jeffries
Jeffries
Jeffries is a surname and may refer to :* Adam Jeffries , American actor* Ben Jeffries , Australian rugby league footballer* Bill Jeffries , former New Zealand politician* Chris Jeffries Jeffries is a surname and may refer to :* Adam Jeffries (b. 1974), American actor* Ben Jeffries (b. 1980),...
and Jefferies
Jefferies
Jefferies may refer to:Companies:* Jefferies & Company, a global investment bank and institutional securities firmPeople:* Alan Jefferies , Australian writer* Chris Jefferies , American basketball player...
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- George Jeffreys (composer)George Jeffreys (composer)George Jeffreys was an English composer during the period that saw the introduction of the Italian seconda pratica to northern Europe.Peter Aston, Jeffeys, George in New Grove-External links:...
(c1610-1685) composer and organist to Charles I - George Jeffreys, 1st Baron JeffreysGeorge Jeffreys, 1st Baron JeffreysGeorge Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem, PC , also known as "The Hanging Judge", was an English judge. He became notable during the reign of King James II, rising to the position of Lord Chancellor .- Early years and education :Jeffreys was born at the family estate of Acton Hall, near Wrexham,...
(1645–1689), British jurist & politician - Julius JeffreysJulius JeffreysJulius Jeffreys was a British surgeon, writer, was the inventor of the respirator, and was a pioneer in the development of early air conditioning systems.-Early life:...
(1800-1877), British physician - Arthur Frederick JeffreysArthur Frederick JeffreysArthur Frederick Jeffreys PC , of Burkham House in Hampshire, was a British Conservative politician.Jeffreys was the son of Arthur Jeffreys, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, who had emigrated to Australia in 1839...
(1848-1906), British politician - Charles JeffreysCharles JeffreysCharles Alfred Jeffreys was a South African sport shooter who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.In the 1912 Summer Olympics he participated in the following events:* Team military rifle - fourth place...
(born 1877), South African shooter - John R. F. JeffreysJohn R. F. JeffreysJohn R.F. Jeffreys was a British mathematician and World War II codebreaker.A research fellow at Downing College, Cambridge, Jeffreys joined the codebreaking efforts at Bletchley Park in September 1939 alongside fellow Cambridge mathematicians Gordon Welchman, with whom he had previously worked...
(died 1941), British mathematician - George Darell Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys (1878-1960), British soldier & politician
- George Jeffreys (pastor)George Jeffreys (pastor)George Jeffreys was a Welsh minister who founded the Elim Pentecostal Church, one of the first Pentecostal organisations.As a fifteen-year-old from Nantyffylon, Maesteg, Wales, George became a Christian during the 1904-1905 Welsh Revival, along with his older brother Stephen...
(1889-1962), British religious leader - Harold JeffreysHarold JeffreysSir Harold Jeffreys, FRS was a mathematician, statistician, geophysicist, and astronomer. His seminal book Theory of Probability, which first appeared in 1939, played an important role in the revival of the Bayesian view of probability.-Biography:Jeffreys was born in Fatfield, Washington, County...
(1891–1989), British mathematician, statistician, geophysicist and astronomer - J. G. JeffreysJ. G. JeffreysJ. G. Jeffreys was an Australian schoolteacher who moved to England and founded Bryanston School in Dorset.Jeffreys first taught in Australia. He came to England in 1921 to teach chemistry at Westminster School in London. The headmaster of the school encouraged him to take a second degree at...
(born 1893), Australian-born educator - John Gwyn JeffreysJohn Gwyn JeffreysJohn Gwyn Jeffreys was a British conchologist and malacologist.He was born in Swansea into a propertied Welsh family and educated at Swansea Grammar School. He went to London to qualify as a barrister, which he did. His greater passion however was for conchology...
(1809-1885), British malacologist - Bertha Jeffreys (1903–1999), British physicist a.k.a. Bertha SwirlesBertha SwirlesBertha Swirles, Lady Jeffreys , carried out research on quantum theory, particularly in its early days. She was associated with Girton College, University of Cambridge, as student and Fellow, for over 70 years....
- Herb Jeffries (born 1911), American musician
- Anne JeffreysAnne JeffreysAnne Jeffreys is an American actress and singer.- Career :Born Anne Carmichael in Goldsboro, North Carolina, Jeffreys entered the entertainment field at a young age; her initial training was in voice , but she decided as a teenager to sign with the John Robert Powers agency as a junior model.Her...
(born 1923), American actress & singer - Rhodri Jeffreys-JonesRhodri Jeffreys-JonesRhodri Jeffreys-Jones is professor of American history emeritus and an honorary fellow in History at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He is an authority on American intelligence history, having written two American intelligence history surveys and studies of the CIA and FBI...
(born 1942), British historian - Garland JeffreysGarland JeffreysGarland Jeffreys is a part African-American, and Puerto Rican American, singer and songwriter, transversing the musical genres of rock and roll, reggae, blues and soul.-Career:...
(born 1943/44), American musician - Elizabeth JeffreysElizabeth JeffreysElizabeth Jeffreys is the former Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Literature at the University of Oxford. She was a Professorial Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford from 1996 to 2006, and a Professor Emerita from 2006 to present....
(fl. late 20th century), British academic - Sheila JeffreysSheila JeffreysSheila Jeffreys is a lesbian feminist scholar and political activist, known for her analysis of the history and politics of sexuality in Britain. She is a professor in Political Science at the University of Melbourne in Australia...
(born 1948), British-born political scientist, academic, & activist - Alec JeffreysAlec JeffreysSir Alec John Jeffreys, FRS is a British geneticist, who developed techniques for DNA fingerprinting and DNA profiling which are now used all over the world in forensic science to assist police detective work, and also to resolve paternity and immigration disputes...
(born 1950), British biologist and discoverer of DNA fingerprinting - Stephen JeffreysStephen JeffreysStephen Jeffreys is a British playwright.His plays include Like Dolls or Angels ; Carmen 1936 ; Valued Friends ; The Clink ; The Libertine - also a screenplay filmed with Johnny Depp; A Going...
(born c. 1950), British playwright - Gina JeffreysGina JeffreysGina Jeffreys is an Australian country singer. She was born on 1 April 1968 at Toowoomba, Queensland. She has often been called Australia's "Queen of Country" and has won numerous Australian country music awards....
(born 1968), Australian singer
Other:
- Baron JeffreysBaron JeffreysBaron Jeffreys is a title that has been created twice, once in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The first creation came in the Peerage of England on 16 May 1685 when the lawyer and later Lord Chancellor, Sir George Jeffreys, 1st Baronet, was made Baron Jeffreys,...
, a title
See also:
- Jeffrey's sketch, on television
- Jefferies (disambiguation)
- Jeffrey (disambiguation)