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Jack Stratton (musician)
Jack Stratton, also known as Vulfmon, is an American producer, audio engineer, and musician who founded the funk band Vulfpeck in Ann Arbor, playing keyboards, drums, and guitar while mixing the band's records.
Jack Straw
Jack Straw (John Whitaker Straw, born 1946) is a British Labour politician, MP for Blackburn 1979–2015 and a Cabinet minister 1997–2010 as Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary, Leader of the Commons, and Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary.
Jack Swigert
Jack Swigert, born John Leonard Swigert Jr., was an American astronaut, test pilot, and politician who flew Apollo 13 in 1970 and was elected to Congress from Colorado in 1982.
Jack Talos
Jack Talos (Zechariah Smith, born 1991), also Talos, Jake Talos, Painful Paul, is a 7 ft American pro wrestler; 2x NWA US Tag Team Champion and AJPW World Tag Team Champion with Ren Ayabe.
Jack Tar
Jack Tar was a generic English nickname for an ordinary British seaman below officer rank, naval or merchant, probably from tarred tarpaulin clothing, and a British cultural icon of the long eighteenth century.
Jack Tatum
Jack Tatum (John David Tatum), 'The Assassin,' Raiders free safety 1971–79; three Pro Bowls, 37 career interceptions, Super Bowl XI champion, and the 1978 hit that paralyzed Darryl Stingley.
Jack Taylor (businessman)
Jack Taylor was an American businessman who founded the company that became Enterprise Rent-A-Car in St. Louis in 1957, building it into the world's largest rental fleet.
Jack Taylor (TV series)
Jack Taylor: Irish crime drama TV series (2010-2016) adapted from Ken Bruen's novels, starring Iain Glen as a Galway ex-Garda turned private investigator; three seasons of nine 90-minute films, produced by Telegael with ZDF.
Jack Thayer
Jack Thayer, born John Borland "Jack" Thayer Jr., was an American first-class Titanic passenger, 17 when the ship sank in 1912, whose 1940 memoir described the breakup.
Jack the Giant Slayer
Jack the Giant Slayer is a 2013 American fantasy adventure film directed by Bryan Singer, based on the fairy tales "Jack and the Beanstalk" and "Jack the Giant Killer".
Jack the Ripper
Jack the Ripper, also known as the Whitechapel Murderer, is the unidentified serial killer who murdered five women in Whitechapel, London, in autumn 1888; the name came from a hoax letter, and the case remains unsolved.
Jack the Ripper suspects
Jack the Ripper suspects: the named candidates for the unsolved 1888 Whitechapel murders, led by Macnaghten's 1894 trio Druitt, Kosminski, and Ostrog, plus Tumblety, Chapman, Sickert, Maybrick, and disputed 2014 shawl DNA claims.
Jack Thompson (activist)
Jack Thompson (John Bruce Thompson), American former Florida attorney and anti-video-game activist who sued over Grand Theft Auto and other violent games, called them murder simulators, and was permanently disbarred by the Florida Supreme Court in 2008.
Jack Thompson (actor)
Jack Thompson AM (born 31 August 1940, John Hadley Pain) is an Australian actor of the 1970s film renaissance, star of Spyforce, Wake in Fright, Sunday Too Far Away, and Breaker Morant, winner of AFI and Cannes acting awards, later a UNHCR ambassador and AM.
Jack Thorne
Jack Thorne (born 1978, Bristol) is a British playwright and screenwriter known for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, His Dark Materials, Help, Emmy-winning Adolescence, the 2026 Lord of the Flies series, and as president of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain.
Jack Torrance
Jack Torrance (John Daniel Edward Torrance) is Stephen King's protagonist in The Shining (1977): an alcoholic ex-teacher and writer, winter caretaker of the Overlook Hotel, famously played by Jack Nicholson in Kubrick's 1980 film.
Jack Tuttle (American football)
Jack Tuttle (born 1999) is a former college football quarterback who played for Utah, Indiana, and Michigan, retiring in October 2024 after a fifth concussion; career 1,337 passing yards, 7 TDs, 8 INTs.
Jack Twist
Jack Twist is a fictional character created by Annie Proulx in "Brokeback Mountain", a Wyoming ranch hand portrayed by Jake Gyllenhaal in Ang Lee's 2005 film adaptation.
Jack Ü
Jack Ü: electronic music duo of Skrillex and Diplo, formed 2013. Debut album Skrillex and Diplo Present Jack Ü (2015) with Where Are Ü Now won two 2016 Grammys.
Jack Unterweger
Jack Unterweger (1950–1994), Austrian writer and serial killer; life sentence for a 1974 murder, released as a "prison poet" in 1990, then killed prostitutes in Austria, Prague, and Los Angeles; convicted 1994, died by suicide.
Jack V. Tu
Jack V. Tu (1965–2018) was a Canadian cardiologist at the University of Toronto and ICES who measured and improved the quality of cardiac care in Ontario.
Jack Van Impe
Jack Van Impe (1931-2020), American televangelist and independent Baptist minister, hosted Jack Van Impe Presents, a weekly end-times news commentary show with wife Rexella, nicknamed the Walking Bible for memorizing over 22,000 Bible verses.
Jack van Lint
Jack van Lint (1932–2004) was an Indonesian-born Dutch mathematician, professor at Eindhoven University of Technology, known for proving which perfect codes exist, the van Lint–MacWilliams conjecture, and influential textbooks.
Jack Vanbebber
Jack VanBebber, nicknamed Blackjack, was an American freestyle wrestler from Perry, Oklahoma, who won welterweight gold at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics after three NCAA titles at Oklahoma State.
Jack Vance
Jack Vance (John Holbrook Vance, 1916–2013), American science fiction, fantasy, and mystery author of The Dying Earth, Demon Princes, and Lyonesse; Hugo, Nebula, Edgar, and World Fantasy winner, SFWA Grand Master.
Jack Vance bibliography
Jack Vance bibliography: complete works of John Holbrook Vance (1916–2013), American SF and fantasy author of The Dying Earth, Demon Princes, Lyonesse; over 60 books, Hugo, Nebula, Edgar winner.
Jack Vettriano
Jack Vettriano (born Jack Hoggan; 1951–2025), Scottish self-taught figurative painter of Methil, Fife. His The Singing Butler (1992) became Britain's bestselling art print and set a £744,800 auction record for a Scottish painting in 2004; he died in Nice, France, in 2025.
Jack Vidgen
Jack Vidgen (born 1997) is an Australian singer who won Australia's Got Talent in 2011 at 14, released the gold albums Yes I Am and Inspire, and later appeared on The Voice, The Masked Singer, and I'm a Celebrity.
Jack W. Coburn
Jack W. Coburn (1932–2004) was an American nephrologist at UCLA and the VA Greater Los Angeles system whose research defined treatment of bone and mineral disorders in kidney failure.
Jack W. Szostak
Jack W. Szostak is a chemical biologist at the University of Chicago who studies the origin of life and shared the 2009 Nobel Prize for telomere research.