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Jack Ryan (politician)
Jack Ryan, American former Goldman Sachs partner and teacher, Republican nominee for the 2004 Illinois U.S. Senate race; withdrew in June 2004 after sealed divorce records from Jeri Ryan were unsealed; replaced by Alan Keyes, who lost to Barack Obama.
Jack Ryan (TV series)
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan is a Prime Video action-thriller series (2018-2023, four seasons, 30 episodes) starring John Krasinski as the CIA analyst, created by Carlton Cuse and Graham Roland, followed by the 2026 film Ghost War.
Jack Ryan: Ghost War
Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: Ghost War is a 2026 Prime Video spy thriller, the sixth Jack Ryan film, directed by Andrew Bernstein and starring John Krasinski, Wendell Pierce, Michael Kelly, and Sienna Miller; it scored 39% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit is a 2014 action thriller directed by Kenneth Branagh, starring Chris Pine as Tom Clancy's CIA analyst Jack Ryan; the first original-story reboot of the franchise, released January 17, 2014, grossing over $130 million worldwide.
Jack Ryder (actor)
Jack Seigfried Ryder (born 1981, Woolwich, London) is an English actor, director, writer, and acting coach, known for Jamie Mitchell in EastEnders (1998–2002), Holby City, directing The Band, and children's books including Jack's Secret Summer.
Jack S. Remington
Jack S. Remington was an American infectious diseases physician-researcher and Stanford professor who studied toxoplasmosis, developed the neonatal IgM diagnostic test known in Europe as the Remington test, and died in 2021 aged 90.
Jack Sandweiss
Jack Sandweiss (1930–2020) was an American experimental particle and nuclear physicist at Yale University from 1957, a National Academy of Sciences member, and editor of Physical Review Letters for 25 years.
Jack Savoretti
Jack Savoretti, born Giovanni Savoretti in 1983, is a British-Italian singer-songwriter whose acoustic pop album Singing to Strangers reached number one in the UK in 2019.
Jack Schlossberg
Jack Schlossberg (John Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg, born 1993) is JFK's only grandson, a Yale- and Harvard-educated writer and social media personality who ran for Congress in New York's 12th district in 2026 and lost the Democratic primary to Micah Lasher.
Jack Schumacher (actor)
Jack Schumacher (born 1993) is an American actor from Palatine, Illinois, who played Lt. Neil 'Omaha' Vikander in Top Gun: Maverick (2022) and stars as Yancy Grey in Netflix's Ransom Canyon (2025–2026).
Jack Sharkey
Jack Sharkey (Joseph Paul Zukauskas, 1902-1994), Lithuanian-American heavyweight boxer, world champion 1932-33; beat Schmeling, lost to Dempsey, Carnera, and Louis; only man to fight Dempsey and Louis.
Jack Shea
Jack Shea (John Amos Shea) was an American speed skater who won multiple gold medals at the 1932 Winter Olympics, also serving on the 1980 organizing committee.
Jack Shep
Jack Shep, British comedian, actor, and writer, core cast member of Saturday Night Live UK on Sky, breakout for his viral Princess Diana impression; former toddler football coach, BBC New Comedy Awards 2023 finalist, TikTok comedian.
Jack Shephard
Jack Shephard is the fictional protagonist of Lost (ABC, 2004–2010), played by Matthew Fox in 121 episodes. A spinal surgeon and de facto leader of the Oceanic 815 survivors, he arcs from man of science to man of faith.
Jack Shepherd (actor)
Jack Shepherd (John Shepherd, 1940–2025), English actor, playwright, and director; star of ITV's Wycliffe and Trevor Griffiths' Bill Brand; won a 1984 Olivier Award for Glengarry Glen Ross.
Jack Sherman
Jack Sherman (1956–2020) was an American guitarist, the Red Hot Chili Peppers' second guitarist, who played on their 1984 debut album, co-wrote Freaky Styley material, and later recorded with Bob Dylan and Peter Case.
Jack Sikma
Jack Sikma (born 1955, Kankakee, IL) is an American Hall of Fame center, 1979 NBA champion and 7x All-Star with Seattle, later Milwaukee; only center to lead NBA in FT% (.922, 1988).
Jack Silver
Jack Silver is an immunologist known for amino acid sequencing of transplantation antigens at Caltech in the mid-1970s, Thy-1 gene transgenic studies, and later molecular medicine work at North Shore University Hospital.
Jack Simons
Jack Simons (Jack Peter Simons, born 1945) is a theoretical chemist at the University of Utah known for his work on negative molecular ions and electron affinities.
Jack Skellington
Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King, is the skeleton hero of The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), created by Tim Burton, directed by Henry Selick, voiced by Chris Sarandon and sung by Danny Elfman.
Jack Smethurst
Jack Smethurst (John Smethurst, 1932-2022), English actor, starred as bigot Eddie Booth in ITV's Love Thy Neighbour (1972-76), also For the Love of Ada, Coronation Street, Chariots of Fire.
Jack Smith (lawyer)
Jack Smith (John L. Smith) is the American federal prosecutor appointed Special Counsel by Merrick Garland in November 2022 to investigate Donald Trump's classified documents and 2020 election cases; formerly Kosovo Specialist Prosecutor.
Jack Sock
Jack Sock (born 1992), American tennis player, career-high No. 8 singles and No. 2 doubles; 2017 Paris Masters champion, four Grand Slam doubles titles, two 2016 Olympic medals; retired 2023 for pro pickleball.
Jack Soo
Jack Soo (Goro Suzuki, 1917–1979), Japanese American actor and comedian, interned at Topaz, star of Broadway's Flower Drum Song and Detective Nick Yemana on Barney Miller; first Japanese American in the Smithsonian's entertainment collections.
Jack Sparrow
Captain Jack Sparrow, Disney's fictional pirate captain of the Black Pearl in Pirates of the Caribbean, played by Johnny Depp; created by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, inspired by Keith Richards and Pepé Le Pew, star of a $4.5 billion franchise.
Jack Spicer
Jack Spicer, born John Lester Spicer, was an American poet of the San Francisco Renaissance who assembled his poems into "books" and described poetry as "dictation."
Jack Starrett
Jack Starrett (Claude Ennis Starrett Jr., 1936-1989), American actor and director of low-budget exploitation films; directed Cleopatra Jones and Race with the Devil, played Gabby Johnson in Blazing Saddles and Deputy Galt in First Blood.
Jack Stauber
Jack Stauber (born 1996) is a Pittsburgh musician and animator known for VHS-styled surreal YouTube videos, albums Pop Food and HiLo, the Micropop project, and Adult Swim's Shop: A Pop Opera and Opal.
Jack Steinberger
Jack Steinberger, born Hans Jakob Steinberger, was a German-born American physicist at CERN who shared the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering the muon neutrino.
Jack Strand
Jack Strand (born 2004, Bloomer, WI) is an Atlanta Falcons quarterback, No. 18, signed as a 2026 undrafted free agent from Division II Minnesota State Moorhead, where he set program passing records (13,161 yards) and was a Campbell Trophy finalist.