Jack (name)

Jack
Pronunciation	dʒæk (jak)
Gender	Male
Meaning	Yahweh (God) is gracious, merciful
Origin	Hebrew
Related names	John, Jon, Jackie
Wikipedia articles	All pages beginning with Jack

Jack (pronounced /ˈdʒæk/) is a common male given name, although in very rare cases it can be used as a female given name, and sometimes as a surname. In English it is the diminutive form of the name John. ^[1] It is the 53rd most common male name in the USA, with 385875 Americans being named Jack (0.315%), and 1275 females named Jack. 17500 people have the surname Jack in the USA.^[1] Although it may appear at first glance to be derived from the French Jacques—which is cognate with the names James and Jacob—native speakers of English would almost certainly associate the name "Jack" with John and rarely with "Jacob". Rather, it is believed that "Jack" is the result of adding the French diminutive suffix "-kin" (much like the German "-chen") to the name "Jean," which is the French form of the English "John", or "Jan," which is a shortening of the German "Johann." This formed the name "Jankin" which eventually became "Jackin", a medieval pet form of John and eventually "Jack".^[2] Jack, also a very popular Irish name given to males, it is said that it originated from the munster side of Ireland dating back to the 1500`s

Contents 1 People named Jack 1.1 Television and film 1.2 Books and comics 1.3 Music 1.4 Politics 1.5 Sports 1.6 Other 1.7 Fictional characters 1.7.1 Movies 1.7.2 Television 1.7.2.1 American Television 1.7.2.2 British Television 1.7.3 Literature 1.7.4 Comics 1.7.5 Video Games 1.7.6 Nursery rhymes 2 References

People named Jack

Television and film

• Jack Black, an American actor
• Jack Cassidy, an American actor
• Jack Lord (1920–1998), an American television, film, and Broadway actor; best known as the star of Hawaii Five-O
• Jack Palance (1919–2006), an Oscar-winning American film actor
• Jack Scalia, an American actor
• Jack Wagner, an American actor
• Jack Nicholson (born 1937), Academy Award-winning American actor
• Jack Osbourne (born 1985), son of famous rock star Ozzy Osbourne
• Jack Tweed (born 1987), appeared on the UK Celebrity Big Brother 2007 television series

Books and comics

• Jack Chick (born 1924), American comic-book artist and publisher; owner of Chick Publications
• Jack Kerouac (1922–1969), American novelist, writer, poet, and artist; a founding member of the Beat Generation
• Jack London (1876–1916), American author of books such as The Call of the Wild
• Jack Warner Schaefer (1907–1991), an American author in the Western genre

Music

• Jack Casady, best-known for being the bass guitarist for the psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane.
• Jack Johnson, a singer/songwriter who also plays guitar
• Jack Jones (singer), American singer who won two Grammy Awards
• Jack Russell, lead singer of the band Great White
• Jack White, American rock musician from the White Stripes.

Politics

• John F. Kennedy, was commonly known as Jack
• Jack Layton (born 1950), Canadian politician

Sports

• Jack Nicklaus American golfer
• Jack Holden (athlete) (1907–2004), English long-distance runner
• Jack Morris, former American Major League Baseball all-star pitcher
• Jack Powell (1874–1944), former American Major League Baseball pitcher

Other

• Jack Kevorkian, pathologist and noted proponent of assisted suicide and a patient's right to die
• Jack Robichaux (19th Century), a serial rapist in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
• Jack Thompson, an American attorney and activist

Fictional characters

Movies

• Jack Dawson, one of two main characters in Titanic
• Jack-Jack Parr, The youngest member of the 'Parr' family, in The Incredibles.
• Jack Ryan, the main character in "The Hunt for Red October," "Clear and Present Danger," and other Tom Clancy novels
• Jack Skellington, main character in Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Captain Jack Sparrow, lead character of the Pirates of the Caribbean movie series
  • Jack the monkey, a fictional monkey named after Jack Sparrow, appearing in the Pirates of the Caribbean Disney franchise
• Jack Charles Powell, main character of the 1996 film Jack
• Jack Stanfield, main character of the 2006 film Firewall (film)
• Jack Trainer, lead male character of the 1988 film Working Girl
• Jack Traven, the main character from the American action movie Speed
• Jack Twist, one of the main characters in the short story Brokeback Mountain and its film adaptation
• Jack Torrance

Television

American Television

• Jack Bauer, the main character of the series 24
• Jack Bristow, a main character from the series Alias
• Jack Donaghy, a main character on the series 30 Rock
• Jack McFarland, a main character from the series Will & Grace
• Jack Gallo, a main character from the series Just Shoot Me!
• Jack O'Lantern, a villain character in Billy and Mandy's Jacked Up Halloween, a holiday episode of the animated series The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
• Jack O'Neill, from the series Stargate SG-1
• Jack Shephard, the male lead character on the series Lost
• Jack Spicer (Xiaolin Showdown), the main villain of the animated series Xiaolin Showdown
• Jack Tripper, character from the series Three's Company and Three's a Crowd
• Jack McCoy, Executive Assistant District Attorney in Law & Order series.
• Jack Cox, Dr. Perry Cox's oldest child and only son on the sitcom Scrubs.
• Jack Carter, from the series Eureka
• Samurai Jack
• Jack Bing, Monica and Chandler's son from the series "Friends"

British Television

• Jack the Front Loader, a character from the British children's television series Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends
• Captain Jack Harkness, a character in the British television series Doctor Who and Torchwood

Literature

• Jack Aubrey (Lucky Jack), captain of HMS Sophie in the novel Master and Commander.
• Jack Frost, a character of old tales; personification of winter's onset.
• Jack McGurk, the 9 year old hero of a series of detective mysteries for children by Edmund Wallace Hildick.
• Jack and the Beanstalk, a classical story
• Jack Ryan (Tom Clancy), the protagonist in several Tom Clancy novels.
• Jack, the Sin of Wrath, the title character of the webcomic Jack.
• Jack Merridew, The main antagonist in Lord of the Flies.
• Jack Stanton, southern governor and presidential candidate (thought to represent Bill Clinton) in the book Primary Colors.

Comics

• Jack (webcomic), a furry webcomic by David Hopkins.
• Jack Horner (Fables), the legendary Jack of Jack and the Beanstalk and other stories, featured in the comic Fables and in his own spin-off Jack of Fables.
• Jack Colno, the main character from the Jack Stories comic series.
• Jack O'Lantern, is the name of four incarnations of a Marvel Comics supervillain.

Video Games

• Jack, the silent protagonist of BioShock.
• Jack, Delta Squad's robotic aid in Gears of War.

Nursery rhymes

• Jack and the Beanstalk, an old fairy tale known throughout the world
• Jack and Jill (song), a nursery rhyme
• Jack Be Nimble, a nursery rhyme
• Jack sprat, a nursery rhyme
• Little Jack Horner, a nursery rhyme

References