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Geoffrey

American  
[jef-ree] / ˈdʒɛf ri /

noun

  1. a male given name: from Germanic, meaning “divine peace.”


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Geoffrey is British Intelligence in the book and works as an aerial photographer.

From Salon Jul. 28, 2026

Sir Geoffrey blamed a "directionless bureaucracy" for leaving asylum seekers either "in limbo, or lost".

From BBC Jun. 5, 2026

Geoffrey Yang pitched 6 1/3 innings of relief after Rolling Hills Prep opened the game with four runs in the first.

From Los Angeles Times May 30, 2026

The study also builds on earlier work by Caltech physicist Steven Frautschi and UC Berkeley physicist Geoffrey Chew, who pioneered the bootstrap approach in particle physics during the 1960s.

From Science Daily May 19, 2026

Just as we might call Dunstaple’s contemporary Geoffrey Chaucer the father of English literature, so we should call John Dunstaple the father of the triad, and therefore of the Western harmonic system.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

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