Jennifer Allen is an American author, commentator, and daughter of football coach George Allen.

Jennifer Allen grew up the only daughter of a professional football coach who was known for total commitment to his team and sport. She has three brothers. George is a former Republican United States Senator and former governor of Virginia. Bruce is an executive for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the NFL.

She wrote a book describing her childhood as a coach's daughter entitled Fifth Quarter: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach's Daughter. She claimed that George attacked his younger siblings during his childhood. The memoir claims that George held her by her feet over Niagara Falls, struck her boyfriend in the head with a pool cue, threw his brother Bruce through a glass sliding door, tackled his brother Gregory, breaking his collarbone, and dragged Jennifer upstairs by her hair. In the book, she wrote, "George hoped someday to become a dentist...George said he saw dentistry as a perfect profession – getting paid to make people suffer." She also wrote about the closeness that her family had with the members of the Los Angeles Rams and the Washington Redskins that her father coached.