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Jackie Chan Adventures
Jackie Chan Adventures is an American animated series on Kids' WB, 2000 to 2005, five seasons and 93 episodes, following animated Jackie Chan, Uncle, and Jade hunting the twelve zodiac Talismans of Shendu and other magical artifacts.
Jackie Chan filmography
The Jackie Chan filmography covers the screen work of Hong Kong actor, director, singer, producer, and screenwriter Jackie Chan, who first acted in a film in 1962.
Jackie Chi Kit Cheung
Jackie Chi Kit Cheung, also known as Jackie Cheung, is a Canadian computer scientist working in natural language processing and an associate professor at McGill University.
Jackie Chiles
Jackie Chiles is the fictional Seinfeld attorney played by Phil Morris, a parody of Johnnie Cochran introduced in "The Maestro" (1995), featured in the series finale and a proposed 1999 spinoff.
Jackie Chung
Jackie Chung is an American actress known for playing Laurel Park in Prime Video's The Summer I Turned Pretty (2022–2025) and for the film Coming Home Again (2019); distinct from Jackie Chan and Jacky Chung the researcher.
Jackie Collins
Jackie Collins, British-born novelist of Hollywood sex-and-power bestsellers; author of The World is Full of Married Men (1968), Hollywood Wives (1983), and the Lucky Santangelo series; sold over 500 million books; died 2015.
Jackie Coogan
Jackie Coogan (John Leslie Coogan Jr., 1914-1984), American actor and Hollywood's first major child star via Chaplin's The Kid (1921); his 1938 lawsuit over his spent $4 million fortune inspired the 1939 Coogan Act; later Uncle Fester in The Addams Family.
Jackie Cooper
Jackie Cooper (1922–2011), American actor, director, producer, and executive; Our Gang child star, youngest Best Actor Oscar nominee (Skippy, 1931, age 9), Screen Gems TV production VP, two Emmy directing wins, and Perry White in Superman.
Jackie Cruz
Jackie Cruz, also known by her legal surname Chavez, is a Dominican-American actress, singer, and former model, best known as Marisol "Flaca" Gonzales on Orange Is the New Black, with albums Hollywood Gypsy and Hija de Chavez.
Jackie Curtis
Jackie Curtis (John Holder Jr., 1947-1985), American Warhol superstar, playwright, poet, and gender-fluid performer of New York's downtown counterculture, author of Vain Victory and Glamour, Glory and Gold, immortalized in Lou Reed's 'Walk on the Wild Side'.
Jackie D. Corbin
Jackie D. Corbin is an emeritus Vanderbilt University professor whose 1976 discovery of the cGMP-binding protein PDE5 led to the erectile dysfunction drugs Viagra, Levitra, and Cialis.
Jackie DeShannon
Jackie DeShannon (Sharon Lee Myers), American singer-songwriter born in Hazel, Kentucky; 1960s hits 'What the World Needs Now Is Love' and 'Put a Little Love in Your Heart'; co-wrote 'Bette Davis Eyes' (Grammy Song of the Year); Songwriters Hall of Fame 2010.
Jackie Earle Haley
Jackie Earle Haley (born 1961) is an American actor and director, the child star of The Bad News Bears who left acting, then returned in 2006 to an Oscar-nominated turn in Little Children and Rorschach in Watchmen.
Jackie Edwards
Jackie Edwards, born Wilfred Gerald Edwards (1938–1992), was a Jamaican singer-songwriter who wrote the Spencer Davis Group's UK No. 1 hits 'Keep On Running' and 'Somebody Help Me'.
Jackie Evancho
Jackie Evancho (Jacqueline Marie Evancho) is an American classical crossover soprano born in 2000 in Pittsburgh, whose debut EP O Holy Night reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200 in 2010.
Jackie Fielder
Jackie Fielder is a San Francisco supervisor representing District 9 (Mission, Bernal Heights, Portola), serving January 2025 to January 2027; a progressive Latina and Native American organizer who co-founded the SF Public Bank Coalition and returned to office June 2026 after a mental health leave.
Jackie Fields
Jackie Fields (Jacob Finkelstein, 1908–1987), American boxer; 1924 Olympic featherweight gold at 16, youngest Olympic boxing champion, and two-time world welterweight champion (1929–30, 1932–33).
Jackie Fox
Jackie Fox, born Jacqueline Fuchs in 1959, is an American musician who played bass in the all-female hard rock band the Runaways from 1975 to 1977.
Jackie Gayda
Jackie Gayda (Jacquelyn Suzanne Gayda-Haas), American retired wrestler and valet; Tough Enough 2 co-winner (2002), WWE's "Miss Jackie" valet to Rico and Charlie Haas, infamous for the July 2002 Raw mixed tag match called one of wrestling's worst.
Jackie Gleason
Jackie Gleason (Herbert John Gleason, 1916-1987), American comedian, actor, and mood-music recording artist; star of The Jackie Gleason Show and The Honeymooners' Ralph Kramden; $11 million CBS contract, 42.4 Nielsen rating, Oscar-nominated in The Hustler.
Jackie Guerrido
Jackie Guerrido, born in 1972, is a Puerto Rican television weather presenter and radio host best known as the weather anchor of Univision's Primer Impacto.
Jackie Haas
Jackie Haas is an American politician serving as a Republican member of the Illinois House of Representatives from the 79th district since 2020, after serving on the Kankakee County Board.
Jackie Hoffman
Jackie Hoffman (born 1960) is an American actress, singer, and comedian, a Second City Chicago alumna known for Broadway roles in Hairspray, Xanadu, and The Addams Family, her Emmy-nominated Mamacita in Feud, and solo kvetching shows at Joe's Pub.
Jackie Jackson
Jackie Jackson (Sigmund Esco Jackson, born 1951), eldest Jackson brother, co-lead tenor of the Jackson 5 and the Jacksons; Motown 1969, Epic 1976, solo albums Jackie Jackson (1973) and Be the One (1989), Rock Hall 1997. Distinct from Jamaican bassist Clifton Jackie Jackson.
Jackie Joseph
Jackie Joseph (Sammie Jacqueline Joseph), American character actress, voice artist, and writer born in Los Angeles; Audrey in The Little Shop of Horrors, Sheila Futterman in the Gremlins films, Melody in Josie and the Pussycats, Jackie Parker on The Doris Day Show.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Jackie Joyner-Kersee (born 1962, East St. Louis) is an American heptathlon and long jump great; six Olympic medals (3 gold), heptathlon world record 7,291 points since 1988, first woman over 7,000 points, later a youth foundation founder.
Jackie King
Jackie King (Jacqueline M. King, 1945–2025) was a South African aquatic ecologist who pioneered environmental flow assessment, developed the DRIFT framework, and won the 2019 Stockholm Water Prize.
Jackie Long
Jackie Long is a British journalist, Social Affairs Editor and presenter at Channel 4 News since 2011, after two decades at the BBC including Newsnight; known for the Yarl's Wood undercover investigation.
Jackie Martling
Jackie "The Joke Man" Martling (born 1948) is an American stand-up comedian and comedy writer, Howard Stern Show head writer 1986-2001, mechanical engineering graduate of Michigan State, creator of the (516) 922-WINE dirty joke line.
Jackie Mason
Jackie Mason (Yacov Moshe Maza), American stand-up comedian and actor, 1928-2021; rabbi-turned-comic from the Borscht Belt, Broadway's The World According to Me!, Special Tony, two Emmys, Simpsons voice role.