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Jack Nance
Jack Nance (Marvin John Nance, 1943-1996), American character actor, star of David Lynch's Eraserhead as Henry Spencer and Pete Martell in Twin Peaks; also Dune, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Lost Highway; died of subdural hematoma after a 1996 doughnut-shop fight.
Jack Needleman
Jack Needleman is an American health economist and UCLA professor known for studies linking hospital nurse staffing to patient mortality and for the quality measures built on that work.
Jack Nelson
Jack Nelson: primarily Juan Diego Nelson y Duggan (1891-1983), Argentine polo captain, 1924 Olympic gold, three-time Argentina Polo Association president; also an American swimmer-coach and an NFL offensive tackle.
Jack Nicholson
Jack Nicholson (John Joseph Nicholson, born 1937) is a retired American actor, a three-time Academy Award winner known for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Shining.
Jack Nicholson filmography
Jack Nicholson filmography: screen credits of the American actor (born 1937) from The Cry Baby Killer (1958) to How Do You Know (2010), 105 AFI-listed titles, 12 Oscar nominations, 3 wins, plus writing, producing, and directing credits.
Jack Nicklaus
Jack Nicklaus, nicknamed the Golden Bear, is an American golfer and course designer whose record 18 professional major championships, won between 1962 and 1986, remains the standard in men's golf.
Jack Niflot
Jack Niflot, full name Isidor Gadar Niflot, was an American wrestler who won the 1904 Olympic freestyle bantamweight gold in St. Louis and later coached at Columbia and Princeton.
Jack Nitzsche
Jack Nitzsche (Bernard Alfred Nitzsche, 1937–2000), American arranger, producer, and composer; Phil Spector's Wall of Sound arranger, Rolling Stones and Neil Young collaborator, co-writer of "Needles and Pins" and Oscar-winning "Up Where We Belong".
Jack Northrop
Jack Northrop, born John Knudsen Northrop (1895 to 1981), was an American aircraft designer and founder of the Northrop Corporation, known for the Lockheed Vega's monocoque fuselage and his flying-wing aircraft.
Jack O'Callahan
Jack O'Callahan (John J. O'Callahan, born 1957, Charlestown, Massachusetts), American defenseman, 1980 "Miracle on Ice" Olympic gold medalist, Boston University All-American, later NHL player with Chicago Black Hawks and New Jersey Devils, retired 1989.
Jack O'Connell (actor)
Jack O'Connell (born 1990, Derby) is a British actor known for This Is England, Skins, Starred Up, '71, Unbroken, Sinners, and 28 Years Later; BAFTA Rising Star 2015.
Jack O'Halloran
Jack O'Halloran (John O'Halloran), American heavyweight boxer 1966–1974 (34-21-2, 17 KOs, California State Heavyweight Title 1972) and actor, best known as the mute Kryptonian villain Non in Superman (1978) and Superman II (1980).
Jack O'Neill
Jack O'Neill (1923-2017), American surfer and founder of O'Neill, Inc., popularized the neoprene wetsuit via nylon lamination and built the world's leading wetsuit brand; not the wetsuit's inventor, credit usually given to Hugh Bradner.
Jack of Diamonds (art group)
Jack of Diamonds (Бубновый валет) was a society of Moscow painters of the early Russian avant-garde, founded in 1911 and the largest such creative association.
Jack of Spades (2027 film)
Jack of Spades is Joel Coen's upcoming 2027 gothic mystery set in 1880s Scotland, written with Eleanor Catton, starring Josh O'Connor, Damian Lewis, Lesley Manville, and Frances McDormand; shot in Glasgow and Culross in 2025, delayed from 2026.
Jack of the United States
The US jack (Naval Jack of the United States) is the 50-star blue union of the national ensign flown at Navy ships' bow jackstaffs in port; alternated with the striped First Navy Jack 1975–76 and 2002–2019, restored 4 June 2019.
Jack Oliver (seismologist)
Jack Oliver, born John Ertle Oliver (1923–2011), was an American seismologist at Columbia and Cornell whose earthquake evidence helped establish plate tectonics, and who pioneered deep seismic imaging of the continents.
Jack Orloff
Jack Orloff was an American kidney physiologist at NIH who showed how antidiuretic hormone acts through cyclic AMP and led NHLBI research from 1974 to 1988.
Jack Osbourne
Jack Osbourne, youngest child of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, starred on MTV's The Osbournes (2002-2005), became a TV producer and documentarian, disclosed multiple sclerosis in 2012, and now manages his father's legacy.
Jack P. Antel
Jack P. Antel is a Canadian neurologist and neuroimmunologist at McGill University and the Montreal Neurological Institute, known for multiple sclerosis research and the 2005 Dystel Award.
Jack P. Shepherd
Jack P. Shepherd (born 1988, Pudsey) is an English actor who has played David Platt in ITV's Coronation Street since April 2000; British Soap Best Actor 2018 and Celebrity Big Brother 2025 winner.
Jack Paar
Jack Paar (1918–2004), American talk show host and comedian, hosted NBC's The Tonight Show 1957–62, renamed The Jack Paar Show; walked off in 1960 over a censored joke, hosted JFK in 1960, and was succeeded by Johnny Carson.
Jack Palance
Jack Palance (Volodymyr Palahniuk, 1919–2006) was an American actor of Ukrainian descent, a screen villain in Shane and Sudden Fear who won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for City Slickers (1991) and did one-armed push-ups at the 1992 Oscars.
Jack Parsons
Jack Parsons, born Marvel Whiteside Parsons (1914–1952), was an American rocket propulsion engineer who co-founded Aerojet and JPL and invented the first castable composite solid rocket propellant.
Jack Patrick
Jack Patrick (John Clarence Patrick, 1898-1959) was an American rugby union player who won Olympic gold with the USA at Antwerp 1920 and Paris 1924, and a Stanford football fullback and captain who later became a San Francisco insurance broker.
Jack Patterson (songwriter)
Jack Robert Patterson is a British songwriter, producer, and Clean Bandit founding member (bass, turntables, 2008–). Principal writer of Rather Be, Rockabye, Symphony, Solo, and Señorita; Grammy and two 2015 Ivor Novello winner.
Jack Porter
Jack Porter (John Chester Porter, 1904–1997), Canadian ice hockey defenseman nicknamed Red, captained the Toronto Graduates, won the 1927 Allan Cup, and took 1928 Olympic gold with Canada while serving as flagbearer and referee.
Jack Porter (footballer)
Jack Porter (born 2008, Chelmsford) is an Arsenal goalkeeper, squad number 78, who at 16 years 72 days became Arsenal's youngest-ever starter in a 5-1 Carabao Cup win over Bolton in September 2024, an England U19 international.
Jack Posobiec
Jack Posobiec, American conservative influencer, Navy intelligence veteran, senior editor of Human Events and host of Human Events Daily; known for Pizzagate promotion, disinformation record, and close Trump administration ties.
Jack Pumpkinhead
Jack Pumpkinhead is an Oz character from L. Frank Baum's The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904), a wooden man with a carved pumpkin head brought to life by Mombi's Powder of Life; star of Thompson's Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz (1929) and Disney's Return to Oz (1985).