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Jack Carter (politician)
Jack Carter (John William Carter, born 1947) is the eldest son of President Jimmy Carter, a Navy veteran, lawyer, and Nevada investor who was the 2006 Democratic U.S. Senate nominee against John Ensign.
Jack Cartwheel
Jack Cartwheel (Jack Cartwright, also Jack Summit), American high-flying wrestler born 2000 in Sacramento; debuted 2019, GCW regular, WWE ID/Evolve 2024, Demand Lucha and SPW champion, AAA full-time from 2026.
Jack Casady
Jack Casady, also known as John William Casady, is an American bass guitarist known for his melodic, jazz-influenced approach with Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna.
Jack Cassidy
Jack Cassidy (John Joseph Edward Cassidy, 1927–1976), American stage, film, and TV actor and baritone; 1964 Tony winner for She Loves Me, three-time Columbo murderer, husband of Shirley Jones, father of David and Shaun Cassidy; died in a West Hollywood apartment fire.
Jack Catterall
Jack Catterall, Chorley southpaw super lightweight boxer; lost his 2022 undisputed title bid to Josh Taylor by disputed split decision, avenged it in 2024, and later won the WBA world title.
Jack Chabala
Jack Chabala is a pharmaceutical chemist who left Bristol-Myers Squibb to lead Pharmacopeia, a Princeton, New Jersey drug discovery company, as president and chief scientific officer in the 1990s.
Jack Chambers (Irish politician)
Jack Chambers is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician, TD for Dublin West since 2016, who served as Minister for Finance and now holds the public expenditure portfolio.
Jack Champion
Jack Champion (born 2004) is an American actor who plays Spider (Miles 'Javier' Socorro) in James Cameron's Avatar sequels and Ethan Landry in Scream VI (2023), after early roles in The Night Sitter and Avengers: Endgame.
Jack Charlton
Jack Charlton (1935-2020), "Big Jack", English defender, Leeds United record 773 appearances, 1966 World Cup winner with brother Bobby, and Republic of Ireland manager 1986-1995 who took Ireland to Euro 88 and the 1990 and 1994 World Cups.
Jack Churchill
Jack Churchill (1906–1996), 'Mad Jack' or 'Fighting Jack', a British Army officer who fought World War II with a longbow, broadsword, and bagpipes, won the MC and DSO twice, escaped Sachsenhausen, and died in Surrey.
Jack Ciattarelli
Jack Ciattarelli (Giacchino Michael Ciattarelli, born 1961) is a New Jersey Republican former assemblyman who ran for governor three times, losing in 2017, narrowly to Murphy in 2021, and to Sherrill in 2025.
Jack Clark
Jack Clark is an American technology executive and writer who co-founded Anthropic in 2021, led its policy work, and writes the weekly AI newsletter Import AI.
Jack Clarke (footballer, born 2000)
Jack Raymond Clarke (born 2000, York) is an English left winger at Ipswich Town; ex-Leeds, Tottenham (€11m, 2019), Sunderland (114 apps, 28 goals), signed by Ipswich in 2024 for £15m plus £5m add-ons. Not the 1999-born namesake.
Jack Codiga
Jack Codiga is an American politician and finance professional who is the 2026 Republican nominee for the U.S. House in North Carolina's 12th District, challenging incumbent Alma Adams.
Jack Cohen (businessman)
Jack Cohen, born John Edward Cohen, was a British grocer who built Tesco from a single East End market stall into one of Britain's largest retailers.
Jack Colback
Jack Colback (born 1989, Killingworth) is an English retired defensive midfielder. He played for Sunderland (136 apps), Newcastle United (102 apps), Nottingham Forest (2022 promotion), QPR (55 apps), and Anstey Nomads, retiring in March 2026.
Jack Coleman (actor)
Jack Coleman (John MacDonald Coleman, born 1958) is an American actor known as Steven Carrington on Dynasty (1982-88) and Noah Bennet/HRG on Heroes (2006-10) and Heroes Reborn, with later recurring roles on The Office, Burn Notice, Scandal, and Chicago P.D.
Jack Conklin
Jack Conklin, NFL offensive tackle, Michigan State walk-on turned All-American, drafted No. 8 overall by the Titans in 2016, two-time AP first-team All-Pro (2016, 2020), later Cleveland Browns right tackle.
Jack Conte
Jack Conte (born 1984) is an American musician and entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Patreon (founded 2013 with Sam Yam), which has paid creators over $10 billion, and half of the YouTube band Pomplamoose with Nataly Dawn; he also co-founded Scary Pockets.
Jack Cope
Jack Cope (Robert Knox Cope, 1913–1991) was a South African novelist, short story writer, poet, and editor known for fiction about South Africa's racial history.
Jack Cork
Jack Frank Porteous Cork (born 1989, Carshalton) is an English former defensive midfielder, Chelsea academy product, later Southampton, Swansea, and Burnley (250+ apps, 2022/23 Championship), one England cap, now a Burnley coach.
Jack County power station
The Jack County power station, formally the Jack County Generation Facility, is a natural gas-fired plant near Jacksboro, Texas, with two combined cycle blocks totaling about 1,280 MW.
Jack Crawford (character)
Jack Crawford is Thomas Harris's fictional FBI Behavioral Science Unit chief from Red Dragon and The Silence of the Lambs, based on profiler John Douglas, who recruits Will Graham and sends Clarice Starling to Hannibal Lecter; played by Farina, Glenn, Keitel, and Fishburne.
Jack Cropp
Jack Cropp (John Urquhart Cropp, 1927–2016), New Zealand sailor and boatbuilder who with Peter Mander won gold in the 12 m² Sharpie at Melbourne 1956 in the boat Jest, New Zealand's first Olympic sailing medal, decided on a countback after Australia's disqualification.
Jack Cuzick
Jack Cuzick is a British cancer epidemiologist and statistician at Queen Mary University of London who led the IBIS breast cancer prevention trials and was knighted in 2025.
Jack D. Barchas
Jack D. Barchas is an American psychiatrist and behavioral neurochemist whose research showed how stress alters neuroregulators, the brain chemicals that shape behavior and pain.
Jack D. Dunitz
Jack D. Dunitz (1923–2021) was a Scottish chemical crystallographer and professor of chemical crystallography at ETH Zurich from 1957 to 1990, known for the Bürgi–Dunitz angle.
Jack D. Griffith
Jack D. Griffith, born 1942, is an American biochemist and molecular biologist at UNC Chapel Hill who pioneered electron microscopy of DNA-protein complexes and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018.
Jack D. Keene
Jack D. Keene is a molecular biologist who spent 47 years at Duke University, defined the RNA recognition motif, and proposed the RNA regulon model.
Jack D. Sobel
Jack D. Sobel, known as Jack Sobel, is a South African–trained American infectious-diseases physician who has led the infectious-diseases division at Wayne State University in Detroit since 1985.