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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 Jefferies Financial Group In ... [...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 convey ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Jefferies (comedian)
Geoff James Nugent (born 14 February 1977), known professionally as Jim Jefferies, is an Australian comedian, actor, and writer who holds dual Australian and American citizenship. He created and starred in the American FX sitcom ''Legit'' (2013–2014) and the Comedy Central late-night show ''The Jim Jefferies Show'' (2017–2019). Early life Jefferies was born Geoff James Nugent in Sydney on 14 February 1977, the son of a mother who worked as a substitute teacher and a father who was a cabinet maker and maintenance worker. His father was from Roma, Queensland. Jefferies grew up in Sydney before moving to Perth to study musical theatre and classical music at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. though he left several months before graduating. He has two older brothers: Scott, an investment banker, and Daniel, an inspector in the New South Wales Police Force's Public Order and Riot Squad. Career Stand-up Jefferies began his stand-up comedy career after dro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Jefferies (footballer)
James Jefferies (born 22 November 1950 in Musselburgh) is a Scottish football manager and former player. Jefferies played for Heart of Midlothian for almost his whole playing career and enjoyed a successful first managerial spell with the club, winning the 1998 Scottish Cup. Jefferies has also managed Gala Fairydean, Berwick Rangers, Falkirk, Bradford City, Kilmarnock and Dunfermline Athletic. Playing career Jefferies made more than 300 competitive appearances for Heart of Midlothian. The main highlight of his playing career was playing in the 1976 Scottish Cup Final, which Hearts lost 3–1 to Rangers.A turbulent end to otherwise tranquil and successful eight years for Jim Jefferies '' |
Daulton Jefferies
Daulton Compton Jefferies (born August 2, 1995) is an American professional baseball pitcher in the Oakland Athletics organization. He played college baseball for the California Golden Bears. He was selected by the Athletics with the 37th overall pick of the 2016 Major League Baseball draft and he made his major league debut in 2020. Career Jefferies attended Buhach Colony High School in Atwater, California, where he both pitched and played shortstop. As a junior in high school, Jefferies was named the Most Valuable Player award in the Central California Conference after pitching to a 8–0 win–loss record with a 1.26 earned run average and putting up a .366/.480/.505 slash line. In Jefferies's senior season, he went 10-2 with a 0.92 earned run averge and a school-record 142 strikeouts, again taking home the conference's Most Valuable Player award. Jefferies had initially verbally committed to play baseball for Stanford University during the summer of his junior year of high ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregg Jefferies
Gregory Scott Jefferies (born August 1, 1967) is a retired infielder/outfielder in Major League Baseball who had a 14-year career from 1987 to 2000. He was a highly touted prospect who became the first two-time winner of the ''Baseball America'' Minor League Player of the Year Award. In 2017, ''Baseball America'' called him their most highly regarded prospect until Andruw Jones. He went on to become a two-time All-Star. Early life Jefferies was born in Burlingame, California, to Rich and Joan Jefferies. Rich, the baseball coach at Parkside Junior High School in San Bruno, California, developed Jefferies as a baseball player by pushing him through an intense workout eight hours per day, six days per week which involved, among other things, swinging a baseball bat underwater. Jefferies attended Junípero Serra High School in San Mateo, California, where he played baseball and football. While he was in high school, his brother, Dean, was playing baseball at the University of S ... [...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. His father was chief engineer at a power plant in Virginia. He had a younger brother named John who 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. He had three brothers, John, Richard and Philip, the latter two of whom would become production designers. He was a member of the Aviation Space Writers' Association and one of the original members of the American Aviation Historical Society. Jefferies restored and flew period airplanes as a hobby. He owned a Waco YOC aircraft and stor ... [...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 and listed on 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 * Golden Queen (35%) - a gold and silver mining project * ... [...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] |
Dinah Jefferies
Dinah Mary Jefferies (born 1948) is a British novelist, and a short-story and article writer. Biography Dinah Jefferies was born in Malacca, Malaya in 1948 and moved to England in 1956 at age eight after the country became independent. She studied at the Birmingham College of Art and later at the University of Ulster, where she graduated in English literature. When her son Jamie was fourteen he was killed in an accident at school and the experience went to underpinning the emotional power of her writings including her debut 2013 work ''The Separation''. Her 2015 novel, '' The Tea Planter's Wife'' , was a choice for the Richard and Judy Book Club. and was in the Sunday Times best sellers list for 16 weeks continuously from September until Christmas 2015, topping it twice during that time. Her next novel in 2016 novel, '' The Silk Merchant's Daughter'', also entered the Sunday Times top 10. She has been a bestseller in Italy with both '' The Tea Planter's Wife'' and her 2017 b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Jefferies
Christopher Allen Jefferies (born February 13, 1980) is an American former professional basketball player. He played for the Toronto Raptors and the Chicago Bulls in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was named First Team All-Western Athletic Conference, All-Defensive Team and All-Newcomer Team as a sophomore at Fresno State University. Also named WAC Newcomer of the Year by the conference media. Jefferies had transferred from the Arkansas following his freshman year. Selected in the first round (27th overall pick) of the 2002 NBA Draft out of Fresno State by the Los Angeles Lakers, his draft rights were traded along with Lindsey Hunter to the Toronto Raptors for Tracy Murray and the draft rights to Kareem Rush. He was later traded to the Chicago Bulls during the 2003-04 season. Jefferies' final NBA game was played on April 14, 2004 in a 96 - 101 loss to the Indiana Pacers where he recorded 2 points and 5 fouls as the Bulls' starting Small Forward. In his short ... [...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 housewhich was a meeting place for writers, poets, artists and musicians. (Coalcliff days) 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 |
Darren Jefferies
Darren Jefferies (born 17 October 1993) is a professional footballer who plays as a plays as a midfielder. He resigned for Frome Town in September 2015 after a spell with BK sport in Swedish Football Division 3. He began his career with Bristol Rovers. He was awarded his first professional contract in 2010, when he was given a -year deal by Bristol Rovers on his seventeenth birthday after being a regular for the under-18s team, captaining them at the age of 17. Also a regular in the reserves sides and was an unused substitute for the first team regularly. He made his debut for ''The Pirates'' as a 67th-minute replacement for Oliver Norburn in an FA Cup second-round tie on 4 December 2011. His first goal for Frome Town came away at Cambridge City and proved to be the winning goal in a 2–1 win. He went on to net 3 times in 38 appearances for the Robins before a move to Sweden in search of full-time football in April 2013. On 2 April, he signed for division 3 side BK sport in S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
