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Jeff Smith

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ14947420 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jeff Smith or Jeffrey Smith may refer to:

Sports

Combat sports

Jeff Smith (boxer) (1891–1962), American boxer

Jeff Smith (1948–2019), American professional wrestling manager best known as Izzy Slapawitz

Jeff Smith (martial arts) (born 1963), American martial artist

Gridiron football

Jeff Smith (linebacker) (born 1943), linebacker for the New York Giants

Jeff Smith (defensive end) (born 1962), defensive end, played for the Cincinnati Bengals

Jeff Smith (running back) (born 1962), running back, played for the Chiefs and Buccaneers

Jeff Smith (tight end) (born 1962), tight end, played for the New York Giants

Jeff Smith (wide receiver, born 1962), gridiron football player, notably in the Canadian Football League

Jeff Smith (offensive lineman) (born 1973), played for the Chiefs, Jaguars and Steelers

Jeff Smith (wide receiver, born 1997), wide receiver for the New York Giants

Other sports

Jeff Smith (motorcyclist) (1934–2026), English world champion motocross racer

Jeff Smith (footballer, born 1935), English football full back (Lincoln City)

Jeff Smith (British racing driver) (born 1966), British racing car driver and businessman

Jeff Smith (American racing driver) (born 1963), American stock car racing driver

Jeff Smith (baseball) (born 1974), coach in the Minnesota Twins' organization

Jeff Smith (darts player) (born 1975), Canadian darts player

Jeff Smith (footballer, born 1980), English football defender/midfielder (Port Vale, Carlisle United and Darlington)

Jeff Smith (shot putter) (born 1943), American shot putter, 1965 All-American for the USC Trojans track and field team

Politics and government

Jeff Smith (British politician) (born 1963), MP for Manchester Withington 2015–

Jeff Smith (Mississippi politician) (born 1949), Republican (formerly Democratic) legislator

Jeff Smith (Wisconsin politician) (born 1955), Wisconsin legislator

Jeff Smith (Iowa politician) (born 1967), Iowa State Representative

Jeff Smith (Missouri politician) (born 1973), former State Senator, convicted of crimes related to federal election law violations

Jeffrey H. Smith (lawyer) (born 1944/1945), former General Counsel of the CIA

Other

Jeff Smith (cartoonist) (born 1960), creator of the comic book Bone

Jeff Smith, comedy musician from duo Raymond and Scum

Jeff Smith (chef) (1939–2004), host of The Frugal Gourmet TV program

Jefferson "Jeff" Smith, the protagonist in the 1939 film Mr.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Jeff Smith” is wikimedia disambiguation page. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Jeff, Smith and Wikimedia, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1891, 1962, 1948, 2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Jeff, Smith and Wikimedia is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “wikimedia disambiguation page” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q14947420. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1891, 1962, 1948 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jeff Smith” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.