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Jack E. Taunton
Jack E. Taunton is a professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology at UCSF whose laboratory's reversible covalent chemistry produced the BTK inhibitor rilzabrutinib and who co-founded biotechnology companies including Terremoto Biosciences.
Jack E. White
Jack Edward White (1921–1988) was an American cancer surgeon and Howard University professor who built its NCI-designated cancer center, becoming the first African American to lead one.
Jack Edmonds
Jack Edmonds, born 1934, is an American mathematician and computer scientist who founded modern combinatorial optimization at the National Bureau of Standards, creating the blossom algorithm for maximum matching.
Jack Eichel
Jack Eichel, American NHL center born 1996 in North Chelmsford, Massachusetts; Hobey Baker winner, 2015 second overall draft pick (Sabres), Vegas Golden Knights star, 2023 Stanley Cup champion, ADR neck surgery pioneer, $13.5M AAV extension.
Jack Elam
Jack Elam, born William Scott Elam, was an American character actor whose blind left eye made him a memorable Western villain in more than fifty Westerns.
Jack Elinson
Jack Elinson, born Israel Jack Elinson, was an American sociomedical scientist and statistician who founded the first sociomedical sciences department in a school of public health at Columbia University.
Jack Endries
Jack Endries, Cincinnati Bengals tight end (No. 84), seventh-round pick 221 of the 2026 NFL Draft from Texas via Cal; walk-on, 124 catches for 1,376 yards in college, sure-handed flex tight end.
Jack Evans (wrestler)
Jack Evans (Jack Edward Miller, born 1982) is an American high-flying professional wrestler of ROH, Dragon Gate, AAA, and AEW fame; four-time AAA World Tag Team Champion and founding member of Generation Next.
Jack F. Douglas
Jack F. Douglas is an American polymer physicist at NIST known for the string model of glass formation and a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Jack Falahee
Jack Falahee (John Ryan Falahee), American actor born 1989 in Ann Arbor, Michigan; NYU Tisch graduate known for Connor Walsh on How to Get Away with Murder (2014–2020), Frank Stringfellow on Mercy Street, and understudy in the 2026 Broadway Death of a Salesman revival.
Jack family disappearance
Jack family disappearance: Ronald, Doreen, Russell, and Ryan Jack, an Indigenous family of Prince George, British Columbia, vanished August 2, 1989 after accepting a logging-camp job offer from an unidentified man; unsolved, no trace found.
Jack Fishman
Jack Fishman, born Jacob Fiszman in Kraków, Poland, in 1930, was a Jewish American pharmaceutical chemist who co-developed naloxone, the opioid overdose antidote, and died in 2013.
Jack Fisk
Jack Fisk (born 1945, Canton, Illinois) is an American production designer known for building full-scale, 360-degree-shootable sets for Terrence Malick, David Lynch, Paul Thomas Anderson, Scorsese, and Iñárritu; four-time Oscar nominee, married to Sissy Spacek.
Jack Flaherty
Jack Rafe Flaherty (born 1995) is an MLB right-handed pitcher, 2019 Cardinals Cy Young vote-getter, 2024 Dodgers World Series champion, now with Detroit Tigers on a two-year, $35 million deal.
Jack Flett
Jack Flett (John Flett, 1871-1932), Canadian Métis lacrosse defender from Kildonan, Manitoba; won gold with the Winnipeg Shamrocks in the first Olympic lacrosse tournament at St. Louis 1904.
Jack Fox (actor)
Jack Louis Fox (born 1985, London) is a British actor of the Fox acting dynasty, known as Sir Edward Denham in Sanditon, Nico Eltham in Riviera, and for Dear Lupin with his father James Fox.
Jack Fraser
Jack Fraser (John Alexander Fraser, 1881-1959) was a Canadian halfback with Galt FC who won gold in men's football at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics, playing one match in Galt's round-robin victories; also Ontario Cup winner 1903.
Jack Frost
Jack Frost is the English folklore personification of frost, ice, snow, and winter, who draws fern-like ice patterns on windows and nips noses. Earliest print mention c. 1730 in Round About Our Coal-Fire; modern canon set by the 1944 song The Christmas Song and films of 1979, 1998, and 2012.
Jack Frost (1997 film)
Jack Frost (1997) is a direct-to-video horror comedy directed by Michael Cooney, starring Scott MacDonald as a serial killer transformed into a murderous snowman. Distinct from the 1998 Michael Keaton family film of the same name.
Jack Frost (1998 film)
Jack Frost is a 1998 American comedy-drama directed by Troy Miller, starring Michael Keaton as a musician who returns as a snowman to reconnect with his son.
Jack function
The Jack function, also called the Jack polynomial, is a symmetric polynomial depending on a partition and a parameter, introduced by Henry Jack in 1970.
Jack Garner
Jack Garner (Jack Edward Bumgarner, 1926-2011), American character actor, older brother of James Garner; appeared in Rockford Files, Bret Maverick; also the name of a Rochester film critic.
Jack Gifford
Jack Gifford, also known as John Gifford, was an American semiconductor executive who co-founded Maxim Integrated Products in 1983 and AMD in 1968, leading Maxim until 2006.
Jack Gilbert
Jack A. Gilbert is a microbial ecologist, professor of microbial oceanography at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and co-founder of the Earth Microbiome Project and American Gut Project.
Jack Gilford
Jack Gilford, born Jacob Aaron Gellman, was an American comic actor of vaudeville, Broadway, film, and television, Oscar-nominated for Save the Tiger and blacklisted in the 1950s.
Jack Gilpin
Jack Gilpin (John Mitchell Gilpin, born 1951, Boyce, Virginia) is an American actor and Episcopal priest, the butler Mr. Church in HBO's The Gilded Age, father of Betty Gilpin, and grandson of Billy Mitchell.
Jack Gleeson
Jack Gleeson (born 1992, Cork, Ireland) is an Irish actor famous as Joffrey Baratheon in Game of Thrones (2011–2014). He stepped back from screen acting in 2014, co-founded Collapsing Horse Theatre, and returned via In the Land of Saints and Sinners, The Sandman, and House of Guinness.
Jack Goody
Jack Goody, born John Rankine Goody, was a British social anthropologist who held Cambridge's William Wyse chair and studied how writing and property transmission shape societies.
Jack Gorski
Jack Gorski (1931–2006) was an American molecular endocrinologist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison whose mid-1960s work produced the first molecular characterization of a steroid hormone receptor, the estrogen receptor.
Jack Grealish
Jack Grealish, English winger born 1995 in Birmingham; Aston Villa captain, then £100m British-record move to Manchester City in 2021; 39 England caps; loans to Everton from 2025.