Birth Name: Jeffrey Alan Samardzija
Place of Birth: Merrillville, Indiana
Date of Birth: January 23, 1985
Ethnicity: Serbian, German
Jeff Samardzija, nicknamed The Shark, is an American professional baseball player. He is a pitcher for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball. His father is of Serbian heritage, the son of parents emigrated from Europe in the 1940s. His mother had German ancestry.
Jeff’s maternal grandparents are Donald Gene Lipke (the son of Russell W. Lipke and LaMae Blackman) and Jean Marie Kraft (the daughter of Martin Conrad Kraft and Lucille Maines).