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Jack Daniel
Jack Daniel (Jasper Newton Daniel, c. 1846-1850 to 1911) was the Tennessee distiller who founded Jack Daniel's Distillery in Lynchburg in 1866, learned charcoal mellowing from Nearest Green, and left the brand to nephew Lem Motlow.
Jack Daniel's
Jack Daniel's is a Tennessee whiskey brand from Lynchburg, Tennessee, owned by Brown-Forman since 1956. Flagship Old No. 7, 40% ABV, charcoal-mellowed through sugar maple (Lincoln County Process); founding date contested (1866 label vs 1872-1875 sources).
Jack Daniels (Ohio politician)
Jack Daniels is an American Republican politician appointed to the Ohio House of Representatives in 2024, representing the 32nd district in southern Summit County and eastern Akron after serving on the New Franklin City Council.
Jack Davenport
Jack Davenport (born 1973) is an English actor, son of Maria Aitken and Nigel Davenport, known for This Life, Coupling, James Norrington in Pirates of the Caribbean, FlashForward, Smash, and The Morning Show.
Jack Davies
Jack Davies (John Francis Davies, 1928–2009), Canadian ice hockey defenseman from Edmonton; won gold with the Edmonton Mercurys-based Team Canada at Oslo 1952, Canada's last hockey gold for 50 years. Distinct from Colonel Jack Davies and swimmer John Davies.
Jack Davis
Jack Wells Davis (1930-2012), American high hurdler, two-time Olympic 110m hurdles silver medalist (Helsinki 1952, Melbourne 1956), world record holder at 13.4, three-time NCAA champion for USC.
Jack Deam
Jack Deam (Ian Deam, born 1972, Oldham) is an English actor known as Marty Fisher in Shameless, Inspector Mallory in Father Brown, and DC Ken Blackstone in DCI Banks.
Jack Dee
Jack Dee (James Andrew Innes Dee, born 1962, Bromley) is an English deadpan stand-up comedian, Lead Balloon star, and chairman of I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue since 2009; 1991 British Comedy Award winner touring Jack's Joke Show in 2027.
Jack Del Rio
Jack Del Rio (born 1963) is a former NFL linebacker and head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars (2003-11) and Oakland Raiders (2015-17), later defensive coordinator in Denver and Washington, with a 93-94 regular-season head coaching record.
Jack Della Maddalena
Jack Della Maddalena (Giacomo Della Maddalena, born 1996) is an Australian welterweight MMA fighter from Perth who won the UFC welterweight title from Belal Muhammad at UFC 315 in 2025, lost it to Islam Makhachev at UFC 322, and is 18-4-0.
Jack Dempsey
Jack Dempsey (William Harrison Dempsey, 1895–1983), American heavyweight boxing champion 1919–1926, the 'Manassa Mauler'; Toledo 1919 win over Willard, five million-dollar gates, Tunney rivalry, the 1927 Long Count.
Jack Dennis
Jack Bonnell Dennis (1931–2026) was an MIT computer science professor known for the Multics operating system and pioneering dataflow models of computation, winning the Eckert-Mauchly Award.
Jack DeSena
Jack DeSena (John Patrick De Sena, born 1987, Boston) is an American actor and comedian, an All That regular and the voice of Sokka in Avatar: The Last Airbender and Prince Callum in The Dragon Prince.
Jack Deveraux
Jack Deveraux, born Billy Johnson, is a Days of Our Lives character introduced in 1987; a villain redeemed into half of supercouple Jack and Jennifer, portrayed chiefly by Matthew Ashford.
Jack Dodson
Jack Dodson (born John Smeaton Dodson, 1931-1994) was an American character actor known as Howard Sprague on The Andy Griffith Show and Mayberry R.F.D., with stage credits in Hughie and over 150 TV guest appearances.
Jack Doherty (YouTuber)
Jack Doherty (Jack Colin Doherty, born 2003) is an American YouTuber and Kick streamer known for prank and stunt content, the 2024 livestreamed McLaren crash and Kick ban, and arrests in 2025 and 2026.
Jack Dolman
Jack Dolman (born 1988, Toronto) is a Canadian music and sound editor, son of Andrea Martin, brother of Joe Dolman; supervising music editor on Wicked and Wicked: For Good, Oscar-nominated for Best Sound for Wicked. Not the actor Jack Doolan.
Jack Donaghy
Jack Donaghy (John Francis Donaghy) is the fictional GE and Kabletown television executive in NBC's 30 Rock, played by Alec Baldwin; mentor and conservative foil to Liz Lemon, modeled partly on Lorne Michaels and GE culture.
Jack Dongarra
Jack Dongarra, born in 1950, is an American computer scientist whose numerical libraries and the TOP500 supercomputer benchmark shaped high-performance computing, earning him the 2021 Turing Award.
Jack Donnelly
Jack Donnelly (born 1985) is a British actor, writer, and director from Bournemouth, best known for playing Jason in the BBC fantasy series Atlantis (2013–2015) and for films including Friendsgiving.
Jack Dorsey
Jack Patrick Dorsey is an American technology executive who co-founded Twitter, led it as chief executive twice, and co-founded Square, now Block, Inc., in 2009.
Jack Dragna
Jack Dragna (Ignazio Dragna, 1891–1956) was an Italian-American mobster who led the Los Angeles crime family from 1931 until his death; a commission called him the "Al Capone of Los Angeles."
Jack Draper
Jack Draper, British left-handed tennis player from Sutton, England; 2024 US Open semi-finalist, 2025 Indian Wells Masters 1000 champion, career-high ATP No. 4 (June 2025), son of former LTA chief executive Roger Draper.
Jack Dreyer
Jack Dreyer (Jacob Andrew Dreyer, born 1999) is a left-handed relief pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers; undrafted from Iowa in 2021, MLB debut 2025, 2025 World Series champion, ninth in NL Rookie of the Year voting.
Jack Dunphy
Jack Dunphy (1914-1992), American novelist, playwright, and former Broadway dancer in Oklahoma!; author of John Fury (1946) and Dear Genius (1987); Truman Capote's companion for about thirty-five years and heir.
Jack Dylan Grazer
Jack Dylan Grazer (born 2003) is an American actor from Los Angeles, known as Eddie in It (2017/2019), Freddy Freeman in Shazam!, and the voice of Alberto in Pixar's Luca.
Jack E. Buffington
Jack E. Buffington was an American civil engineer and Navy rear admiral who commanded the Naval Facilities Engineering Command and later taught at the University of Arkansas.
Jack E. Cermak
Jack E. Cermak, also known as Jack Edward Cermak, was an American civil engineer at Colorado State University known as the father of wind engineering.
Jack E. Dixon
Jack E. Dixon, born in 1943, is an American biochemist whose laboratory defined protein tyrosine phosphatases, showed the tumor suppressor PTEN acts on a lipid, and discovered bacterial virulence factors.
Jack E. McLaughlin
Jack E. McLaughlin (1923–2001) was an American mathematician at the University of Michigan who discovered the McLaughlin group, one of the 26 sporadic finite simple groups.