Jeffrey Patrick Atkinson (born February 24, 1963) is a male former middle-distance runner from the United States.

[1] He competed at the Summer Olympics in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea, and came in tenth place in the 1500m race.

At Mira Costa, Atkinson worked with the head coach of cross country, Roberto Calderon, starting in 2015.

Along with fellow head coach Brian Shapiro, he coached both the boys' and girls' cross country program at Palos Verdes to much success in 2007, when both varsity teams competed in both the Division III CIF Southern Section Finals and State Championships.

The boys have since won a CIF-SS title and a CIF State Championship titles in 2009 and 2011 (setting record team times for Division III) and gone on to compete at the Nike Cross Nationals in 2009.