Jefferson (surname)

Music

• Blind Lemon Jefferson – Blues musician.
• Marshall Jefferson – American musician.
• Melissa Jefferson – American singer and rapper known professionally as Lizzo
• Eddie Jefferson – America Jazz vocalist

  Sports

• Al Jefferson – American basketball player.
• Brandon Jefferson – American basketball player.
• Jesse Jefferson – American baseball player.
• John Jefferson – A retired football player.
• Julian Jefferson – English cricketer, father of Richard Jefferson, grandfather of Will Jefferson.
• Justin Jefferson – American football player
• Malik Jefferson – American football player.
• Reggie Jefferson – A retired American baseball player.
• Richard Jefferson – American basketball player.
• Richard Jefferson - English cricketer, father of Will Jefferson.
• Van Jefferson – American football player
• Will Jefferson – English cricketer, son of Richard Jefferson.

  Government

• Anna V. Jefferson, New York politician
• Mose Jefferson – New Orleans politician, older brother of William J. Jefferson
• Roberto Jefferson – Brazilian politician
• Thomas Jefferson – 3rd President of the United States of America
• Wallace B. Jefferson – Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas
• William J. Jefferson – Louisiana politician, younger brother of Mose Jefferson

  Other

• Ann Jefferson, British scholar of French literature
• Arthur Stanley Jefferson, birth name of Stan Laurel, English comic actor
• Atatiana Jefferson, shooting victim of the Fort Worth Police Department
• Charles Edward Jefferson, American Congregational clergyman
• Francis Arthur Jefferson, Victoria Cross awardee
• Geoffrey Jefferson, British neurologist and pioneering neurosurgeon.
• Jane Randolph Jefferson, mother of the President
• Joseph Jefferson, American actor
• Margo Jefferson, writer, critic, professor