Jackson (name)
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Jackson is a common surname
Surname
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 of English
England
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 and Scottish
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 origin. It literally means "son of Jack
Jack (name)
Jack is a 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 traditionally used as the diminutive form of the name John, though it is also often given as a proper name in its own right.The name Jack is unique in the...

". In 1980 Jackson was the 24th most popular surname in England and Wales. In the 1990 United States Census, Jackson was the thirteenth most frequently reported surname, accounting for 0.3% of the population.

Notable people with the name Jackson include:

Politics

  • Caroline Jackson
    Caroline Jackson
    Caroline Jackson is a politician in the United Kingdom. She was a Member of the European Parliament for the Conservative Party from 1984 to 2009....

     (born 1946), Cornish politician
  • Christopher Jackson
    Christopher Jackson
    Christopher Jackson is a British politician and businessman and Honorary Member of the European Parliament.After a National Service Commission in the RAF as a pilot, Jackson read physics at Magdalen College, Oxford of which he was an Open Exhibitioner. Whilst there he founded the Magnates Club...

     (born 1935), British politician
  • Colin Jackson (UK politician)
    Colin Jackson (UK politician)
    George Colin Jackson was a British Labour Party politician, barrister, lecturer and writer.He was twice Member of Parliament for the marginal constituency of Brighouse and Spenborough, in West Yorkshire...

     (1921-1981), British MP
  • David Jackson (Australian politician)
    David Jackson (Australian politician)
    David Sydney Jackson was an Australian politician. Born in Launceston, Tasmania, he was educated at state schools before becoming a manufacturing locksmith. He also served as President of the Tasmanian Chamber of Manufacturers...

     (1889-1941)
  • George Jackson (Canadian politician)
    George Jackson (Canadian politician)
    George Jackson was a Canadian mill owner and politician from Durham, Ontario. He served as a representative in the Canadian Assembly and, after Confederation, as a Member of Parliament for the electoral district of Grey South.Jackson was born in Fearby, Yorkshire, was educated in Yorkshire and...

     (1808-1885), Canadian MP
  • George Jackson (Irish politician) (1761-1805), Irish MP
  • Sir George Duckett, 1st Baronet (1725-1822), born George Jackson, British MP
  • Gordon Jackson (politician)
    Gordon Jackson (politician)
    This article is about the politician. For the Scottish actor, see Gordon Jackson . Gordon Jackson is a Scottish Labour Party politician and lawyer. He was the MSP for Glasgow Govan from 1999 to 2007.-Early life:...

     (born 1948), Scottish politician
  • John Jackson (Derbyshire politician)
    John Jackson (Derbyshire politician)
    Frank Lawson John Jackson is a retired British Conservative politician who seved as a Member of Parliament from 1959 to 1964....

     (1919-1976), British politician
  • Sir John Jackson (UK politician)
    John Jackson (UK politician)
    Sir John Jackson was a Unionist Member of Parliament for Devonport, from 1910–18, retiring from politics when his constituency was merged into another....

     (1851-1919), British politician
  • Peter Jackson (politician)
    Peter Jackson (politician)
    Peter Michael Jackson is a retired British Labour Party politician.At the 1966 general election, he was elected as Member of Parliament for the High Peak constituency in Derbyshire. He sat in the House of Commons for only four years, losing his seat at the 1970 general election, to the...

     (born 1928), British politician
  • Richard Jackson (colonial agent)
    Richard Jackson (colonial agent)
    Richard Jackson, K.C. , nicknamed "Omniscient Jackson", was a British lawyer and politician. A King's Counsel, he acted as official solicitor or counsel of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations, owner of lands in New England, and colonial agent of Connecticut.Jackson was called to the...

     (c. 1721-1787), British politician
  • Robert V. Jackson
    Robert V. Jackson
    Robert Victor Jackson is a politician in the United Kingdom. He was a Member of the European Parliament from 1979 to 1984 and Member of Parliament for Wantage from 1983 to 2005, having been elected as a Conservative; however, he joined the Labour Party in 2005.-Early life:He was raised in...

     (born 1946), British politician
  • Samuel Jacob Jackson
    Samuel Jacob Jackson
    Samuel Jacob Jackson was a Canadian politician.Born in Stradbally, Queen's County, Ireland, Jackson was educated at Brantford, Ontario. He was elected to...

     (1848-1942), Canadian politician
  • Samuel Macauley Jackson
    Samuel Macauley Jackson
    Samuel Macauley Jackson was an American clergyman, editor and author.-Biography:He was born on June 19, 1851 in New York City to George T. Jackson and Letitia J. A. Macauley....

     (1851-1912), American clergyman, editor and author
  • Shelby M. Jackson
    Shelby M. Jackson
    Shelby M. Jackson was a Democratic superintendent of public education in Louisiana who served from 1948-1964. In the early 1960s, he tried in vain to block federally-authorized school desegregation. Jackson was posthumously honored in 1994, by the naming of the "Shelby M...

     (1903-1972), Louisiana education superintendent from 1948 to 1964
  • Thomas A. Jackson
    Thomas A. Jackson
    Thomas A. "Tommy" Jackson was a founding member of the Socialist Party of Great Britain and later the Communist Party of Great Britain. He was a leading communist activist and newspaper editor and worked variously as a party functionary and a freelance lecturer.-Early years:Thomas A. Jackson, best...

     (1879-1955), British political activist
  • Tom Jackson (politician)
    Tom Jackson (politician)
    Tom Jackson is a Hamilton City Councillor in Hamilton, Ontario, CanadaBorn and raised in Hamilton, Jackson is a past owner of two Second Cup stores in Hamilton and a past employee of Stelco Hilton Works. He attended Westmount Secondary School and graduated from McMaster University in 1979 with an...

    , City Councillor for Hamilton, Ontario
  • William Jackson, 1st Baron Allerton
    William Jackson, 1st Baron Allerton
    William Lawies Jackson, 1st Baron Allerton PC was a British businessman and Conservative politician.-Background and education:...

     (1840-1917), British politician

U.S. politics and law

  • Alphonse J. Jackson
    Alphonse J. Jackson
    Alphonse Jackson, Jr. is a retired educator and a former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, where he represented District 2...

     (born 1927), Louisiana African-American politician, father of Lydia Jackson
  • Alphonso Jackson
    Alphonso Jackson
    Alphonso Jackson served as the 13th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development . He was nominated by President George W. Bush on January 28, 2004 and unanimously confirmed by the Senate on March 31, 2004. On March 31, 2008, Jackson announced his resignation, effective April 18,...

     (born 1945), 13th U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
  • Andrew Jackson
    Andrew Jackson
    Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States . Based in frontier Tennessee, Jackson was a politician and army general who defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend , and the British at the Battle of New Orleans...

     (1767-1845), 7th U.S. President
  • Charles Jackson (judge) (1775-1855), Massachusetts Supreme Court judge
  • Charles Jackson (Rhode Island)
    Charles Jackson (Rhode Island)
    Charles Jackson was the 18th Governor of Rhode Island from 1845-46.Jackson was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and graduated from Brown University, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1820...

     (1797-1876), Governor of Rhode Island
  • Claiborne Fox Jackson
    Claiborne Fox Jackson
    Claiborne Fox Jackson was a lawyer, soldier, and Democratic politician from Missouri. He was the 15th Governor of Missouri in 1861, then governor-in-exile for the Confederacy during the American Civil War.-Early life:...

     (1806-1862), Governor of Missouri
  • Darrell Jackson (politician)
    Darrell Jackson (politician)
    Darrell Jackson is a Democratic member of the South Carolina Senate, representing the 21st District since 1992.-External links:* official SC Senate website* profile*Follow the Money - Darrell Jackson** campaign contributions...

     (born 1957), South Carolina state senator
  • David Jackson (delegate)
    David Jackson (delegate)
    David Jackson was an American apothecary and physician from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a delegate for Pennsylvania to the Continental Congress in 1785....

     (1747-1801), delegate to the Continental Congress
  • David S. Jackson
    David S. Jackson
    David Sherwood Jackson was a U.S. Representative from New York.Born in New York City in 1813, Jackson grew up attending public schools...

     (1813-1872), U.S. Representative from New York
  • Douglas S. Jackson
    Douglas S. Jackson
    Douglas S. "Doug" Jackson is a Tennessee State Senator, attorney, and executive director of the Renaissance Center.-Early life:...

     (born 1954), Tennessee state senator
  • Edward B. Jackson
    Edward B. Jackson
    Edward Brake Jackson was a U.S. Representative from Virginia, son of George Jackson and brother of John G...

     (1793-1826), U.S. Representative from Virginia
  • Edward L. Jackson (1873-1954), Governor of Indiana
  • Frank D. Jackson
    Frank D. Jackson
    Frank Darr Jackson was the 15th Governor of Iowa, serving one term from 1894-96. -Biography:...

     (1854-1938), Governor of Iowa
  • Frank G. Jackson
    Frank G. Jackson
    Frank George Jackson is an American attorney and politician. He is currently the Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio. He was elected on November 8, 2005, unseating incumbent Jane Campbell and re-elected in 2009...

     (born 1946), 57th mayor of Cleveland, Ohio
  • Fred S. Jackson
    Fred S. Jackson
    Fred Schuyler Jackson was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.Born in Stanton, Kansas, Jackson moved to Greenwood County, Kansas, with his parents in 1881.He attended the public schools of Miami and Greenwood Counties....

     (1868-1931), U.S. Representative from Kansas
  • George Jackson (Virginia)
    George Jackson (Virginia)
    George Jackson was an American farmer, lawyer, and politician. Born in Cecil County, Maryland to John and Elizabeth Jackson, his family moved to Virginia...

     (1757-1831), U.S. Representative from Virginia
  • George Jackson (Black Panther)
    George Jackson (Black Panther)
    George Lester Jackson was an American convict who became a left-wing activist, Marxist, author, a member of the Black Panther Party, and co-founder of the Black Guerrilla Family prison gang...

     (1941-1971), American leader of the Black Panther Party
  • Hancock Lee Jackson
    Hancock Lee Jackson
    Hancock Lee Jackson was an American lawyer and politician. As Lieutenant Governor he was the 13th Governor of Missouri in 1857, taking office after previous Democratic Governor Trusten Polk resigned on February 27, 1857. Jackson was succeeded by fellow Democrat Robert Marcellus Stewart...

     (1796-1876), Governor of Missouri
  • Henry M. Jackson
    Henry M. Jackson
    Henry Martin "Scoop" Jackson was a U.S. Congressman and Senator from the state of Washington from 1941 until his death...

     (1912-1983), U.S. Representative and Senator from Washington
  • Howell Edmunds Jackson
    Howell Edmunds Jackson
    Howell Edmunds Jackson was an American jurist and politician. He served on the United States Supreme Court, in the U.S. Senate, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and the Tennessee House of Representatives. He authored notable opinions on the Interstate Commerce Act and the...

     (1832-1895), U.S. Senator from Tennessee
  • Jabez Young Jackson
    Jabez Young Jackson
    Jabez Young Jackson was a U.S. representative from Georgia.-Biography:Jackson was born in Savannah, Georgia, the son of James Jackson , and later uncle of James Jackson . He was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of...

     (1790-1???), U.S. Representative from Georgia
  • Jacob B. Jackson
    Jacob B. Jackson
    Jacob Beeson Jackson was the sixth Governor of West Virginia from 1881 to 1885. In 1855, he married Maria Willard....

     (1829-1893), Governor of West Virginia
  • James Jackson (politician)
    James Jackson (politician)
    James "Left Eye" Jackson was an early Georgia politician of the Democratic-Republican Party. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1789 until 1791. He was also a U.S. Senator from Georgia from 1793 to 1795, and from 1801 until his death...

     (1757-1806), U.S. Representative and Senator from Georgia
  • James Jackson (congressman)
    James Jackson (congressman)
    James Jackson was a United States Representative from Georgia, a judge advocate in the American Civil War, and a chief justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia. Jackson was also a trustee of the University of Georgia...

     (1819-1887), U.S. Representative from Georgia
  • James Jackson, Jr. (New York)
    James Jackson, Jr. (New York)
    James Jackson, Jr. was an American businessman and politician from New York.-Life:He was a member from Niagara County of the New York State Assembly in 1864....

     (c. 1826-1891), mayor of Lockport, New York
  • James M. Jackson
    James M. Jackson
    James M. Jackson was a lawyer and Democratic politician from West Virginia who served as a United States Representative in the 51st United States Congress.-Early life and career:...

     (1825-1901), U.S. Representative from West Virginia
  • James S. Jackson
    James S. Jackson
    James Streshly Jackson was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky and a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Biography:...

     (1823-1862), U.S. Representative from Kentucky
  • Jesse Jackson
    Jesse Jackson
    Jesse Louis Jackson, Sr. is an African-American civil rights activist and Baptist minister. He was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1984 and 1988 and served as shadow senator for the District of Columbia from 1991 to 1997. He was the founder of both entities that merged to...

     (born 1941), civil rights leader
  • Jesse Jackson, Jr.
    Jesse Jackson, Jr.
    Jesse Louis Jackson, Jr. is the U.S. Representative for , serving since the special election in 1995. He is a member of the Democratic Party....

     (born 1965), son of Jesse Jackson and U.S. Representative from Illinois
  • John Jackson (Tampa)
    John Jackson (Tampa)
    John James Jackson II served as the 9th mayor of Tampa, Florida.-Biography:John James Jackson II was born in County Monaghan, Ireland. He immigrated to the United States with his brother in 1841. The brothers traveled to New Orleans where John worked as an Assistant City Engineer for two years...

     (1809-1887), 9th mayor of Tampa, Florida
  • John Jackson (law professor), law professor at Georgetown University
  • John G. Jackson (politician)
    John G. Jackson (politician)
    John George Jackson was a U.S. Representative and federal judge from Virginia, the son of George Jackson, brother of Edward B...

     (1777-1825), U.S. Representative from Virginia
  • John Jay Jackson, Jr.
    John Jay Jackson, Jr.
    John Jay Jackson, Jr. was a United States federal judge, first from Virginia, and then from West Virginia, at the time of its creation as a separate state.-Early life and career:...

     (1824-1907), federal judge from West Virginia
  • Jonathan Jackson (delegate) (1743-1810), delegate to the Continental Congress from Massachusetts
  • Joseph Webber Jackson
    Joseph Webber Jackson
    Joseph Webber Jackson was an American politician and lawyer from the state of Georgia who served in the United States Congress....

     (1796-1854), U.S. Representative from Georgia and mayor of Savannah, Georgia
  • Lydia P. Jackson
    Lydia P. Jackson
    Lydia Patrice Jackson is an African American Democratic member of the Louisiana State Senate from Shreveport, Louisiana. Since 2004, Jackson has represented the 39th District in Caddo Parish in the far northwestern corner of her state....

     (born 1960), African-American Louisiana legislator, daughter of Alphonse J. Jackson
    Alphonse J. Jackson
    Alphonse Jackson, Jr. is a retired educator and a former member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, where he represented District 2...

  • Maynard Jackson
    Maynard Jackson
    Maynard Holbrook Jackson, Jr. was an American politician, a member of the Democratic Party, and the first African American mayor of Atlanta, Georgia. He served three terms, two consecutive terms from 1974 until 1982 and a third term from 1990 to 1994...

     (1938-2003), mayor of Atlanta, Georgia
  • Michael A. Jackson (sheriff)
    Michael A. Jackson (sheriff)
    Michael A. Jackson is the former Sheriff of Prince George's County, Maryland. Pursuant to Maryland Common Law, Jackson's position as the elected sheriff made him the senior law enforcement official of his jurisdiction and his authority superseded all others within the county. Jackson, a Democrat,...

     (born 1964), sheriff of Prince George's County, Maryland
  • Michael P. Jackson
    Michael P. Jackson
    Michael Peter Jackson was the George W. Bush administration's Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, beginning in March 2005 and ending with his resignation in October 2007.-Private sector career:...

    , U.S. Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security
  • Mike Jackson (Texas politician) (born 1953), Texas state senator
  • Mortimer M. Jackson
    Mortimer M. Jackson
    Mortimer Melville Jackson was an American Whig politician and diplomat from Wisconsin.Born in Rensselaerville, New York, Jackson was educated in New York City, where he studied law and was admitted to the bar. He was also involved with the Whig Party...

     (1809-1889) Wisconsin jurist and diplomat
  • Oscar Lawrence Jackson
    Oscar Lawrence Jackson
    Oscar Lawrence Jackson was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania and the commander of an Ohio infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.-Biography:...

     (1840-1920), U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania
  • Phillip Jackson (American politician)
    Phillip Jackson (American politician)
    Phillip Jackson is an American politician. He worked in human services at the Chicago Office of Management and Budget before joining Chicago Public Schools as director of intergovernmental affairs in 1995 and the Chicago Housing Authority as CEO in 1999...

     (born 1950), Chief of Education for Chicago
  • Richard E. Jackson
    Richard E. Jackson
    Richard Ernest Jackson, Jr. is an American politician and mathematics teacher, who made black history in 1984 when he became Mayor of the City of Peekskill. Peekskill was the first city in all of New York State to have an African American Mayor, making Jackson - as reported by both the New York...

     (born 1945), mayor of Peekskill, New York
  • Richard Jackson, Jr.
    Richard Jackson, Jr.
    Richard Jackson, Jr. was a U.S. Representative from Rhode Island.Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Jackson completed preparatory studies in the schools of Providence and Pomfret, Connecticut....

     (1764-1838), U.S. Representative from Rhode Island
  • Robert Jackson (NYC)
    Robert Jackson (NYC)
    Robert Jackson is a member of the New York City Council, representing the 7th District in Manhattan. The district includes portions of the neighborhoods Harlem, Washington Heights and Inwood. Jackson, first elected in 2001, is a Democrat. He will be term limited in 2013.Before being elected to...

    , New York City Council member
  • Robert E. Jackson
    Robert E. Jackson
    Robert E. Jackson was the mayor of Largo, Florida. He was first elected to Largo City Commission in 1974, Mayor Jackson served nine terms as City Commissioner before being elected as Mayor in 2000 and being re-elected in 2003. He lost narrowly in a bitterly contested race against Largo's first...

    , mayor of Largo, Florida
  • Robert H. Jackson
    Robert H. Jackson
    Robert Houghwout Jackson was United States Attorney General and an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court . He was also the chief United States prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials...

     (1892-1954), Supreme Court Justice and chief Nuremberg Trials prosecutor
  • Samuel D. Jackson
    Samuel D. Jackson
    Samuel Dillon Jackson was a United States Senator from Indiana. Born near Zanesville, Indiana, he attended the public schools of Fort Wayne and graduated from Indiana University Law School at Indianapolis in 1917, gaining admission to the bar the same year...

     (1895-1951), U.S. Representative from Indiana
  • Sandi Jackson
    Sandi Jackson
    Sandra Lee "Sandi" Jackson , , was elected to the Chicago City Council as an alderman of the 7th ward of the City of Chicago in the 2007 municipal elections held on February 27, 2007. She succeeds Darcel A. Beavers who had been appointed by Chicago Mayor Richard M...

     (born 1963), Chicago alderman
  • Sheila Jackson-Lee, U.S. Representative from Texas
  • Thomas B. Jackson
    Thomas B. Jackson
    Thomas Birdsall Jackson was a U.S. Representative from New York.Born in Jerusalem, Long Island, New York, Jackson attended the public schools.He engaged in agricultural pursuits.He studied law....

     (1797-1881), U.S. Representative from New York
  • Thomas H. Jackson
    Thomas H. Jackson
    Thomas H. Jackson was the ninth president of the University of Rochester, preceded by Dennis O'Brien. Jackson held the position of president from 1994 until he formally stepped down on June 30, 2005 and was succeeded by Joel Seligman...

     (born 1950), U.S. lawyer and 9th president of the University of Rochester
  • Thomas Penfield Jackson
    Thomas Penfield Jackson
    Thomas Penfield Jackson is a former United States District Court Judge for the District of Columbia....

     (born 1937), former U.S. District Court judge for the District of Columbia
  • Tito Jackson (politician)
    Tito Jackson (politician)
    Tito Jackson is an American politician who currently serves as a member of the Boston City Council. He represents council District 7, which consists of the Roxbury neighborhood and parts of Dorchester and the South End....

    , member of the Boston City Council
  • William Jackson (secretary)
    William Jackson (secretary)
    William Jackson was a figure in the American Revolution, most noteworthy as the secretary to the United States Constitutional Convention. He also served with distinction in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War...

     (1759-1828), secretary to the U.S. Constitutional Convention
  • William Jackson (Massachusetts)
    William Jackson (Massachusetts)
    William Jackson was a United States Representative from Massachusetts who lived at the Jackson Homestead....

     (1783-1855), U.S. Representative from Massachusetts
  • William Harding Jackson
    William Harding Jackson
    William Harding Jackson was a U.S. civilian administrator, New York lawyer, and investment banker who served as Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Jackson also served briefly under President Dwight D...

     (1901-1971), U.S. National Security Advisor
  • William Humphreys Jackson
    William Humphreys Jackson
    William Humphreys Jackson represented Maryland's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1901 to 1905 and from 1907 to 1909. His son, William P. Jackson, was a U.S. Senator from Maryland....

     (1839-1915), U.S. Representative from Maryland
  • William Purnell Jackson (1868-1939), U.S. Senator from Maryland
  • William Schuyler Jackson (died 1932), New York State Attorney General
  • William T. Jackson
    William T. Jackson
    William Trayton Jackson was an American politician. He served as mayor of Toledo, Ohio between 1928 and 1931.-External links:*...

     (1876-1933), mayor of Toledo, Ohio
  • William Terry Jackson
    William Terry Jackson
    William Terry Jackson was a U.S. Representative from New York.Born in Chester, New York, Jackson attended the common schools and later studied surveying....

     (1794-1882), U.S. Representative from New York

Military

  • Arthur J. Jackson
    Arthur J. Jackson
    Captain Arthur Junior Jackson is a United States Marine who received the Medal of Honor for his actions on Peleliu during World War II. PFC Jackson single-handedly destroyed 12 enemy pillboxes and killed 50 enemy soldiers....

     (born 1924), U.S. Marine Corps officer, Medal of Honor recipient for actions during World War II
  • Charles Douglas Jackson
    Charles Douglas Jackson
    General Charles Douglas Jackson was an expert on psychological warfare who served in the Office of Strategic Services in World War II and later as Special Assistant to the President in the Eisenhower administration....

     (1902-1964), U.S. Army general, expert on psychological warfare
  • Conrad Feger Jackson
    Conrad Feger Jackson
    Conrad Feger Jackson was a businessman and soldier from the state of Pennsylvania who served as a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was killed in action during the Battle of Fredericksburg.-Early life and career:Jackson was born in Alsace Township in Berks County,...

     (1813-1862), general in the Union Army in the American Civil War
  • Frederick George Jackson
    Frederick George Jackson
    Frederick George Jackson , British Arctic explorer, was educated at Denstone College and Edinburgh University.-Biography:...

     (1860-1938), British army officer and explorer
  • Henry Jackson (general)
    Henry Jackson (general)
    Born in Boston, Massachusetts, on 19 October 1747, Henry Jackson was the youngest son of Joseph and Susannah Jackson. Before the War for Independence, he was an officer of the First Corps of Cadets in Boston, which was disbanded during the British occupation...

     (1747-1809), U.S. Army general in the Revolutionary War
  • Sir Henry Jackson (Royal Navy officer) (1855-1929), British First Sea Lord during World War I
  • Henry R. Jackson
    Henry R. Jackson
    Henry Rootes Jackson was a major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.-Biography:...

     (1820-1898), Confederate general
  • Joe M. Jackson
    Joe M. Jackson
    Joe Madison Jackson served as a career officer in the United States Air Force and received the Medal of Honor during the Vietnam War for a dangerous impromptu rescue operation of three American military personnel....

     (born 1923), U.S. Air Force officer, Medal of Honor recipient for actions during the Vietnam War
  • Michael Jackson (American Revolution)
    Michael Jackson (American Revolution)
    General Michael Jackson was a soldier from Massachusetts. He is best remembered for his innovation within the printing industry and has been compared to Matthew Grainger...

     (1734-1801), U.S. Army officer in the Revolutionary War
  • Sir Mike Jackson
    Mike Jackson
    General Sir Michael David "Mike" Jackson, is a retired British Army officer and one of its most high-profile generals since the Second World War. Originally commissioned into the Intelligence Corps in 1963, he transferred to the Parachute Regiment, with whom he served two of his three tours of...

     (born 1944), British Army Chief of the General Staff
  • Norman Cyril Jackson
    Norman Cyril Jackson
    Norman Cyril Jackson VC was a sergeant in the Royal Air Force who earned the Victoria Cross during a bombing raid on Schweinfurt, Germany in April 1944. Born in Ealing, Middlesex, Jackson joined the RAF Volunteer Reserve in 1939 and originally served as an engine fitter. He retrained as a flight...

     (1919–1994), British RAF, recipient of the Victoria Cross
  • Philip Jackson (surveyor)
    Philip Jackson (surveyor)
    Philip Jackson was a British Royal Navy lieutenant, who laid out the city plan for Singapore in 1822. He was a key person in Raffles plans for the settlement. The Elgin Bridge in Singapore was once named in his honour.-References:...

    , British naval officer and surveyor
  • Sir Stanley Jackson
    Stanley Jackson
    Sir Francis Stanley Jackson, GCSI, GCIE, PC, KStJ , known as the Honourable Stanley Jackson during his playing career, was an English cricketer, soldier and Conservative Party politician.-Early life:...

     (1870-1947), British Army officer, cricketer, and politician
  • Thomas Jonathan Jackson known as Stonewall Jackson
    Stonewall Jackson
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     (1824–1863), Confederate general
  • Thomas Norman Jackson
    Thomas Norman Jackson
    Thomas Norman Jackson VC was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....

     (1897–1918), British Army, recipient of the Victoria Cross
  • William Jackson (Victoria Cross)
    William Jackson (Victoria Cross)
    John William Alexander Jackson VC was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross , the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces....

     (1897–1959), Australian Army, recipient of the Victoria Cross
  • Sir William Jackson (British Army officer) (1917-1999), British Army officer and Governor of Gibraltar
  • William Hicks Jackson
    William Hicks Jackson
    William Hicks "Red" Jackson was a cotton planter, horse breeder, and general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.-Early life and career:...

     (1835-1903), Confederate general

Drama and television

  • Andrew Jackson (actor)
    Andrew Jackson (actor)
    Andrew Jackson is a Canadian actor.Jackson has played major roles in various television shows and movies, including All My Children, Shadowbuilder, Millennium Man, Catch A Falling Star, Wind At My Back - 5th season, Deadly Betrayal, The Collector, Kyle XY, and Sea Wolf just to name a few.He is...

     (born 1963), Canadian actor
  • Anne Jackson
    Anne Jackson
    Anne Jackson is an American actress of television, stage, and screen.-Life and career:Jackson, the youngest of three sisters, was born in Millvale, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Stella Germaine and John Ivan Jackson, a barber who ran a beauty parlor...

     (born 1926), American actress
  • Anthony Jackson (actor)
    Anthony Jackson (actor)
    Anthony Thomas Jackson was an English actor, who reached his widest audiences as founder of the eponymous ghost hiring agency in the long-running BBC children's comedy series Rentaghost. Jackson began his career with the Birmingham Repertory. He studied at Rose Bruford College and won the BBC...

     (1944-2006), English actor
  • Bill Jackson (television personality) (born c. 1937), American TV personality
  • Charlotte Jackson
    Charlotte Jackson
    Charlotte Louise Jackson , is a British journalist and television presenter, currently a presenter on Sky Sports News...

     (born 1978), English TV presenter
  • Conn Jackson
    Conn Jackson
    Conn Jackson is host and executive producer of the Conn Jackson Show, formerly known as Cafe Central TV. Jackson left investment banking after the September 11 attacks to return to his entertainment roots....

     (born 1967), American TV host
  • David Jackson (British actor)
    David Jackson (British actor)
    David Jackson was a British actor best known for his role as Olag Gan in the Blake's 7 first two seasons and as Detective Constable Braithwaite in Z Cars from 1972-1978...

     (1934-2005), British actor
  • Eugene Jackson
    Eugene Jackson
    Eugene W. Jackson, II was an American former child actor who was a regular of the Our Gang short series during the silent Pathé era.-Career:...

     (1916-2001), American actor
  • Frederick J. Jackson
    Frederick J. Jackson
    Frederick J. Jackson was an American screenwriter. He wrote for over 50 films between 1912 and 1946. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and died in Hollywood, California.-Selected filmography:...

     (1886-1953), American screenwriter
  • George Jackson (producer) (1958-2000), American film director and producer
  • Glenda Jackson
    Glenda Jackson
    Glenda May Jackson, CBE is a British Labour Party politician and former actress. She has been a Member of Parliament since 1992, and currently represents Hampstead and Kilburn. She previously served as MP for Hampstead and Highgate...

     (born 1936), two-time Academy Award-winning British actress
  • Gordon Jackson (actor)
    Gordon Jackson (actor)
    Gordon Cameron Jackson, OBE was a Scottish Emmy Award-winning actor best remembered for his roles as the butler Angus Hudson in Upstairs, Downstairs and George Cowley, the head of CI5, in The Professionals....

     (1923-1980), British actor
  • Jamie Smith Jackson
    Jamie Smith Jackson
    Jamie Smith Jackson is an American actress who performed in the 1973 movie Go Ask Alice. Jackson is married to Michael Ontkean.-External links:...

     (born 1948), American actress
  • Jeremy Jackson
    Jeremy Jackson
    Jeremy Dunn Jackson is an American actor/singer. He is widely known for his role as Hobie Buchannon on the television show Baywatch.-Career:...

     (born 1980), American actor
  • Jonathan Jackson (actor)
    Jonathan Jackson (actor)
    Jonathan Stevens Jackson is an American actor, best known for playing Lucky Spencer, son of supercouple Luke and Laura on the American daytime drama General Hospital...

     (born 1982), American actor
  • Joshua Jackson
    Joshua Jackson
    Joshua Carter Jackson is a Canadian American actor. He has appeared in primetime television and in over 32 film roles. He is best known for playing Charlie Conway in The Mighty Ducks film series, Pacey Witter in the television series Dawson's Creek and Peter Bishop in the television series...

     (born 1978), Canadian-American actor
  • Kate Jackson
    Kate Jackson
    Kate Jackson is an American actress, director, and producer, perhaps best known for her role as Sabrina Duncan in the popular 1970s television series Charlie's Angels...

     (born 1948), American actress
  • Leonard Jackson (actor)
    Leonard Jackson (actor)
    Leonard Jackson is an African-American stage, film, and television actor, perhaps most widely known for his roles in several PBS television series for children as well as his roles in films such as The Brother from Another Planet, Car Wash, and The Color Purple.-Early years and stage...

     (born 1928), American stage and screen actor
  • Michael Jackson (actor)
    Michael Jackson (actor)
    Michael Jackson is a Canadian actor, grip and gaffer, best known for his acting role as "Trevor" in the comedy TV series "Trailer Park Boys" and the later film Trailer Park Boys: The Movie ....

     (born 1970), Canadian actor
  • Michael Jackson (television executive) (born 1958), British TV executive
  • Michael J. Jackson (actor)
    Michael J. Jackson (actor)
    Michael J. Jackson is an English actor.-Early career:Jackson studied at the University of London and then joined repertory theatre in Sheffield, followed by Coventry, Birmingham and Edinburgh...

     (born 1948), British actor
  • Mick Jackson (director) (born 1943), British film director
  • Mike and Michelle Jackson
    Mike and Michelle Jackson
    Mike and Michelle Jackson were an Australian multi-instrumental duo principally known as children's entertainers. Between 1979 and 1986, the pair featured in a national TV Show , created ten albums , produced three songbooks and they teamed up with Western Australian author/storyteller Kel Watkins...

    , Australian children's TV entertainers
  • Paul Jackson (producer)
    Paul Jackson (producer)
    Kevin Paul Jackson , credited as Paul Jackson; sometimes as K. Paul Jackson, is a British television director, producer and executive.-Career in television:...

     (born 1947), British TV producer
  • Peter Jackson
    Peter Jackson
    Sir Peter Robert Jackson, KNZM is a New Zealand film director, producer, actor, and screenwriter, known for his The Lord of the Rings film trilogy , adapted from the novel by J. R. R...

     (born 1961), New Zealand director
  • Philip Jackson (actor)
    Philip Jackson (actor)
    Philip Jackson is an English actor, known for his many television and film roles, most notably as Chief Inspector Japp in the television series Poirot and as Abbot Hugo, one of the recurring adversaries in the cult 1980s series Robin of Sherwood. Jackson was born in Retford, Nottinghamshire...

     (born 1948), English actor
  • Sammy Jackson
    Sammy Jackson
    Sammy Jackson was an American actor known particularly for his roles reflecting rural life and a country music disc jockey, although he also played pop-standards during 1983 at Los Angeles's KMPC.-Biography and persona:...

     (1937-1995), American actor
  • Samuel L. Jackson
    Samuel L. Jackson
    Samuel Leroy Jackson is an American film and television actor and film producer. After becoming involved with the Civil Rights Movement, he moved on to acting in theater at Morehouse College, and then films. He had several small roles such as in the film Goodfellas before meeting his mentor,...

     (born 1948), American actor
  • Shar Jackson
    Shar Jackson
    Sharisse "Shar" Jackson is an American television and film actress, reality television personality and rapper/singer best known for her portrayal of Niecy Jackson on the UPN show Moesha.-Early life and career:...

     (born 1976), American TV and film actress
  • Tom Jackson (actor)
    Tom Jackson (actor)
    Thomas Dale Jackson, OC , is a Canadian born Métis actor and singer perhaps best known for the annual series of Christmas concerts, called the Huron Carole, which he created and starred in for 17 years...

     (born 1948), Canadian actor and singer
  • Victoria Jackson
    Victoria Jackson
    Victoria Jackson is an American comedian, actress, satirist and singer best known as a cast member of the NBC television sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live from 1986 to 1992....

     (born 1959), American actress and comedian
  • Willie Jackson (New Zealand) (born 1961), New Zealand politician and broadcaster

Visual art

  • Ashley Jackson (born 1940), British painter
  • Bill Jackson (photographer)
    Bill Jackson (photographer)
    Bill Jackson is a contemporary English photographer.-Education and career:Jackson was born in 1953 and graduated from Coventry School of Art and Birmingham School of Art. He first exhibited at The Photographers Gallery in the exhibition Fleeting Gestures...

     (born 1953), English photographer
  • Edward Jackson (photographer)
    Edward Jackson (photographer)
    Edward Norman Jackson was an American photographer and photojournalist for the New York Daily News. Jackson was President Woodrow Wilson’s European photographer during the close of World War I and photographed The Big Four world leaders at the Paris Peace Conference.-Early life:The youngest of...

     (1885-1967), American photographer
  • Herb Jackson
    Herb Jackson
    Herb Jackson is an artist and is the William H. Williamson Professor of Art at Davidson College. In 1999 he was awarded the North Carolina Award, the highest civilian honor in the state, by Governor Jim Hunt of North Carolina.-Life:...

     (born 1945), American abstract painter
  • Jack Jackson (1941-2006), American cartoonist Jaxon
    Jaxon
    Jaxon was the pen name of Jack Jackson , an American cartoonist. Many consider him the first underground comix artist. He co-founded the seminal Rip Off Press.-Career:Jack Jackson was born in 1941 in Pandora, Texas...

  • John Jackson (painter)
    John Jackson (painter)
    John Jackson was an English painter.Jackson was born in Lastingham, Yorkshire, and started his career as an apprentice tailor to his father, who opposed the artistic ambitions of his son...

     (1778-1831), English painter
  • Mason Jackson
    Mason Jackson
    Mason Jackson was an English engraver.Jackson was born at Ovingham, Northumberland in 1819, and was trained as a wood engraver by his brother, John Jackson, the author of a history of this art....

     (1819-1903), English engraver
  • Philip Jackson (sculptor)
    Philip Jackson (sculptor)
    Philip Henry Christopher Jackson CVO is an award-winning Scottish sculptor, noted for his modern style and emphasis on form. Acting as Royal Sculptor to Queen Elizabeth II, his sculptures appear in numerous UK cities, as well as Argentina and Switzerland.His twice life-size bronze statue of...

     (born 1944) Scottish sculptor
  • Raymond Jackson ("JAK")
    Raymond Jackson ("JAK")
    Raymond Jackson, best known by his pen-name JAK was one of Britain's best-known newspaper cartoonists, working for the London Evening Standard from 1952 onwards.-Life:...

     (1927-1997), English cartoonist
  • Richard Jackson (artist)
    Richard Jackson (artist)
    Richard Jackson is an American contemporary artist born in 1939 in Sacramento. He now lives in Los Angeles, California.He studied Art and Engineering at Sacramento State College from 1959–1961 and taught Sculpture and New Forms at UCLA Los Angeles 1989 - 1994....

     (born 1939), American artist
  • Robert H. Jackson (photographer)
    Robert H. Jackson (photographer)
    Robert H. "Bob" Jackson is an American photographer. In 1964, Jackson, then of the Dallas Times-Herald, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Photography for his photograph of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Ruby....

     (born 1935), American photographer
  • Samuel Jackson (artist)
    Samuel Jackson (artist)
    -External links:*...

     (1794-1869), English artist
  • Ted Jackson
    Ted Jackson
    Ted M. Jackson is senior staff photographer for the Times-Picayune in New Orleans, Louisiana. He contributes to the newspaper’s extensive gallery of photographs of events in the Greater New Orleans Area....

     (born 1955), prize-winning American photographer
  • William Henry Jackson
    William Henry Jackson
    William Henry Jackson was an American painter, Civil War, geological survey photographer and an explorer famous for his images of the American West...

     (1843-1942), American artist and photographer

Music

  • The Jackson family, an American musical family consisting of:
    • First generation:
      • Joe Jackson (born 1928), patriarch and manager
      • Katherine Jackson
        Katherine Jackson
        Katherine Esther Jackson is the matriarch of the Jackson musical family.-Early life:...

         (born 1930), matriarch
    • Second generation:
      • Rebbie Jackson
        Rebbie Jackson
        Maureen Reillette "Rebbie" Brown is an American singer professionally known as Rebbie Jackson . Born and raised in Gary, Indiana, she is the eldest child of the Jackson family of musicians...

         (born 1950)
      • Jackie Jackson
        Jackie Jackson
        Sigmund Esco "Jackie" Jackson is an American singer and musician, a member of The Jackson 5, and the second child in the Jackson family.-Life and career:...

         (born 1951), member of the Jackson 5
      • Tito Jackson
        Tito Jackson
        Toriano Adaryll "Tito" Jackson is an American singer and lead guitarist and original member of The Jackson 5. He is the older brother of American pop stars Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson.-Early life and rise to stardom:...

         (born 1953), guitarist/vocalist of Jackson 5
      • Jermaine Jackson
        Jermaine Jackson
        Jermaine La Jaune Jackson is an American singer, bassist, composer, a member of The Jackson 5, older brother of American pop stars Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson and occasional film director...

         (born 1954), member of the Jackson 5
      • La Toya Jackson
        La Toya Jackson
        La Toya Yvonne Jackson is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, television personality, actress, businesswoman, philanthropist, activist and former model. She is the fifth child of the Jackson family...

         (born 1956)
      • Marlon Jackson
        Marlon Jackson
        Marlon David Jackson is an American entertainer singer, dancer, former member of The Jackson 5, and elder brother of American pop stars Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson.-Personal life:...

         (born 1957), member of the Jackson 5
      • Michael Jackson
        Michael Jackson
        Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...

         (1958–2009), pop/rock/soul singer-songwriter, member of the Jackson 5, widely referred to as the "King of Pop, Rock and Soul" or "King of Pop"
      • Randy Jackson (born 1961), member of the Jackson 5
      • Janet Jackson
        Janet Jackson
        Janet Damita Jo Jackson is an American recording artist and actress. Known for a series of sonically innovative, socially conscious and sexually provocative records, as well as elaborate stage shows, television and film roles, she has been a prominent figure in popular culture for over 25 years...

         (born 1966)
    • Third generation:
      • Tariano Adaryll Jackson (born 1973), son of Tito; member of 3T
        3T
        3T is an American R&B / Pop music group featuring the three sons of Tito Jackson and Delores "Dee Dee" Jackson. The band members include, from eldest, Tariano Adaryll Jackson II , Taryll Adren Jackson and Tito Joseph Jackson .-Career:3T released their debut album Brotherhood in 1995...

      • Taryll Adren Jackson (born 1975), son of Tito; member of 3T
      • Sigmund Jackson, Jr. (born 1977), son of Jackie; better known as rapper DealZ
      • Tito Joe Jackson (born 1978), son of Tito; member of 3T
  • Al Jackson, Jr. (1935-1975), American drummer
  • Alan Jackson
    Alan Jackson
    Alan Eugene Jackson is an American country music singer, known for blending traditional honky tonk and mainstream country sounds and penning many of his own hits. He has recorded 13 studio albums, 3 Greatest Hits albums, 2 Holiday albums, 1 Gospel album and several compilations, all on the Arista...

     (born 1958), American country star
  • Andrew Jackson (recording engineer)
    Andrew Jackson (recording engineer)
    Andrew Jackson is a British recording engineer famous for his work with the British band Pink Floyd. He first helped out on the film soundtrack to Pink Floyd The Wall in 1982...

    , British recording engineer
  • Anthony Jackson (musician) (born 1952), American bass player
  • Bob Jackson (musician) (born 1948), British musician
  • Carl Jackson
    Carl Jackson
    Carl Jackson is an American country and bluegrass musician. Jackson's first Grammy was awarded in 1992 for his duet album with John Starling titled "Spring Training." In 2003 Jackson produced the Grammy Award-winning CD titled Livin', Lovin', Losin': Songs of the Louvin Brothers - a tribute to Ira...

     (born 1953), American musician
  • Chuck Jackson
    Chuck Jackson
    Chuck Jackson is an R&B singer who was one of the first artists to record material by Burt Bacharach and Hal David successfully. He has performed with moderate success since 1961...

     (born 1937), American musician
  • Curtis Jackson (born 1975), the American rapper 50 Cent
    50 Cent
    Curtis James Jackson III , better known by his stage name 50 Cent, is an American rapper, entrepreneur, investor, record producer, and actor. He rose to fame with the release of his albums Get Rich or Die Tryin and The Massacre . Get Rich or Die Tryin has been certified eight times platinum by...

  • David Jackson (rock musician)
    David Jackson (rock musician)
    David Nicholas George Jackson , nicknamed Jaxon, is a British progressive rock saxophonist, flautist, and composer. He is best known for his work with the band Van der Graaf Generator and his work in Music and Disability...

     (born 1947), British musician
  • Eddie Jackson (singer)
    Eddie Jackson (singer)
    Eddie Jackson was an American country and rockabilly musician.Jackson was born in Cookeville, Tennessee and moved as a youngster with his family to Detroit, Michigan. He began playing country and Western swing in bars and local venues as a teenager, and served in World War II in the Navy...

     (1926-2002), American country musician
  • Eddie Jackson (musician)
    Eddie Jackson (musician)
    Eddie Jackson is the bass guitarist for the progressive metal band, Queensrÿche. He has been with the group since 1981, when they were known as The Mob....

     (born 1961), American bass guitarist
  • Eleanor "Elly" Jackson
    Elly Jackson
    Eleanor Kate "Elly" Jackson is an English singer-songwriter and the lead singer of the electropop duo La Roux. She is well known for her red hair and androgynous style.-Biography:...

     (born 1988), British singer, part of the band/duo La Roux
    La Roux
    La Roux are an English electropop duo made up of singer, keyboardist, co-writer and co-producer Eleanor Kate Jackson, and co-writer and co-producer Ben Langmaid. Jackson describes their relationship as "very much a half and half sharing situation... not like a singer producer outfit", but also...

  • Francis Jackson (born 1917), British composer and organist
  • Fred Jackson (saxophonist)
    Fred Jackson (saxophonist)
    Fred Jackson, Jr. is a jazz fusion saxophonist and flautist who has recorded with Bobby Hutcherson, Earth, Wind & Fire, Jimmy Smith, Horace Silver, and Solomon Burke, among others.-As Sideman:With Ry Cooder*Chicken Skin Music...

    , American R&B and jazz saxophonist
  • Fred Jackson, Jr., American jazz saxophonist
  • Freddie Jackson
    Freddie Jackson
    Frederick Anthony "Freddie" Jackson is an American soul singer. He was an important figure in R&B during the 1980s and early 1990s...

     (born 1956), American soul singer
  • Henry Jackson (born 1956), American rapper, known as Big Bank Hank
    Big Bank Hank
    Big Bank Hank is an American old school rapper. Also known as Imp the Dimp, he is a member of The Sugarhill Gang, the first hip hop act to have a hit single, "Rapper's Delight"....

  • Jack Jackson (British radio)
    Jack Jackson (British radio)
    Jack Jackson was a British trumpeter and bandleader who became a highly influential radio disc jockey....

     (1906-1978), British musician
  • Jim Jackson (musician)
    Jim Jackson (musician)
    Jim Jackson was an African American blues and hokum singer, songster and guitarist, whose recordings in the late 1920s were popular and influential on later artists.-Career:...

     (c. 1884-1937), American blues musician
  • J.J. Jackson (media personality) (1941-2004), American MTV VJ
  • J.J. Jackson (singer) (born 1941), American soul musician
  • Joe Jackson (musician)
    Joe Jackson (musician)
    Joe Jackson is an English musician and singer-songwriter now living in Berlin, whose five Grammy Award nominations span from 1979 to 2001...

     (born 1954), British singer/songwriter
  • John Jackson (born 1977), American rapper, known as Fabolous
    Fabolous
    John David Jackson , better known by his stage name Fabolous, is an American rapper of African American and Dominican descent. He grew up in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Part of his early popularity arose from his hit single "Can't Deny It" in 2001, from his debut...

  • John Jackson (blues musician)
    John Jackson (blues musician)
    John Jackson was an American Piedmont blues musician; his music did not become primary until his accidental "discovery" by folklorist Chuck Perdue in the 1960s...

     (1924-2002), American blues musician
  • Johnny Jackson (musician) (1951-2006), American drummer
  • Kate Jackson (singer)
    Kate Jackson (singer)
    Kate Jackson, , is a British singer who was formerly the lead-singer with The Long Blondes. She now performs under the name Kate Jackson Group with David Venn, Steven Marsden, Richard Phillips and Duncan Morrison.-Biography:...

     (born 1979), British singer
  • Keisha Jackson
    Keisha Jackson
    Keisha Jackson is a R&B singer, and is the daughter of R&B & Soul Legend Millie Jackson.Having grown up in a family rich with music history, Keisha’s childhood was immersed in music...

     (born c. 1967), American musician
  • Lee Jackson (bassist)
    Lee Jackson (bassist)
    Lee Jackson is a British bass player and singer, best known for his work in The Nice.-Biography:...

     (born 1943), British bass guitarist
  • Leon Jackson
    Leon Jackson
    Leon Jackson is a Scottish singer-songwriter. He won the fourth series of British talent show The X Factor in 2007. Following his win, Jackson was the main star of his on-web series entitled Leon's Life, which ran from 2007 until 2008...

     (born 1988), Scottish musician
  • Mahalia Jackson
    Mahalia Jackson
    Mahalia Jackson – January 27, 1972) was an African-American gospel singer. Possessing a powerful contralto voice, she was referred to as "The Queen of Gospel"...

     (1911-1972), American gospel singer
  • Mark Jackson (musician)
    Mark Jackson (musician)
    Mark Jackson is a member of futurepop duo VNV Nation, along with Ronan Harris. He is responsible for electronic drums, percussion and live keyboards. He is also established as a professional Club DJ and remix artist....

     (born 1970), English musician
  • Mick Jackson (singer)
    Mick Jackson (singer)
    Mick Jackson is an English singer-songwriter and the co-writer of the song, "Blame It on the Boogie"...

     (born 1947), English musician
  • Millie Jackson
    Millie Jackson
    Mildred "Millie" Jackson is an American R&B/soul singer-songwriter and comedienne. Three of her albums have been certified gold by the RIAA for over 500,000 copies....

     (born 1944), U.S. musician
  • Milt Jackson
    Milt Jackson
    Milton "Bags" Jackson was an American jazz vibraphonist, usually thought of as a bebop player, although he performed in several jazz idioms...

     (1923-1999), U.S. jazz vibraphonist
  • Milton Jackson
    Milton Jackson
    Milton Jackson is a music producer specialising in house music. He is from Glasgow.-Studio singles / EPs:*2001 The Rhythm EP*2001 "Sunlight" *2003 Jaded EP *2006 "Future Fresh"...

    , British music producer
  • O'Shea Jackson (born 1969), the rapper/actor Ice Cube
    Ice Cube
    O'Shea Jackson , better known by his stage name Ice Cube, is an American rapper and actor. He began his career as a member of the hip-hop group C.I.A. and later joined the rap group N.W.A. After leaving N.W.A in December 1989, he built a successful solo career in music, and also as a writer,...

  • Papa Charlie Jackson
    Papa Charlie Jackson
    Papa Charlie Jackson was an early American bluesman and songster. He played a hybrid banjo guitar and ukulele, his recording career beginning in 1924...

     (c. 1885-1938), American musician
  • Paul Jackson (bassist)
    Paul Jackson (bassist)
    Paul Jackson is an American jazz bass guitarist and composer. He has played with many of the great jazz artists, most notably playing bass on several of Herbie Hancock's seminal albums, Head Hunters, Thrust, and others. He was born in Oakland, California and began playing bass at the age of nine...

     (born 1947), U.S. bass guitarist
  • Paul Jackson, Jr.
    Paul Jackson, Jr.
    Paul Jackson, Jr. is a fusion/urban jazz composer, arranger, producer and guitarist. He was born and raised in Los Angeles. Jackson knew by the age of fifteen that he wanted to become a professional musician...

    , U.S. musician
  • Randy Jackson
    Randy Jackson
    Randall Darius "Randy" Jackson is an American bassist, singer, record producer, music manager, A&R executive, entrepreneur, and television personality. He is best known as a judge on American Idol and executive producer for MTV's America's Best Dance Crew...

     (born 1956), U.S. musician, judge on American Idol
  • Randy Jackson (Zebra), U.S. rock musician, frontman for the band Zebra
  • Roddy Jackson
    Roddy Jackson
    George Rodrick "Roddy" Jackson is an American rockabilly and rock and roll singer, songwriter, pianist and saxophonist, who recorded for Specialty Records in the 1950s.-Life and career:...

     (born 1942), U.S. rockabilly musician
  • Shawn Jackson (born 1970], U.S. American Dj
  • Stevie Jackson
    Stevie Jackson
    Stevie Jackson is a Scottish musician and songwriter. He plays lead guitar and sings in the Glasgow based indie band Belle & Sebastian. Jackson's guitar playing is distinctively retrogressive and melodic, with a heavy use of reverb and minimal effects...

     (born 1969), Scottish musician
  • Stacey Jackson
    Stacey Jackson
    Stacey Jackson, is a Canadian singer and mother of four living in London, England. She is married to British-American businessman, Henry Jackson, and she is the Executive Producer at 3B1G Records.-'Live it Up ft...

     (born 1969), Canadian singer
  • Stonewall Jackson (musician)
    Stonewall Jackson (musician)
    Stonewall Jackson is an American country singer and musician who achieved his greatest fame during country's "golden" honky tonk era in the 1950s and early 1960s.-Early years:...

     (born 1932), American country music singer
  • Tony Jackson (jazz musician) (1876-1920), U.S. composer
  • Tony Jackson (bass player)
    Tony Jackson (bass player)
    Tony Jackson was an English bass guitar player and singer who was a member of The Searchers.-Biography:...

     (1938-2003), British bass player
  • Wanda Jackson
    Wanda Jackson
    Wanda Lavonne Jackson is an American singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist who had success in the mid-1950s and 60s as one of the first popular female rockabilly singers and a pioneering rock and roll artist...

     (born 1937), American musician
  • William Jackson (Scottish composer) (born 1955)
  • William E. (Will) Jackson
    William E. (Will) Jackson
    William E. Jackson served with Greenpeace in its early years , as crew member on the first anti-whaling expedition, and as cofounder of Greenpeace San Francisco...

    , American Greenpeace activist and musician
  • New Orleans Willie Jackson
    New Orleans Willie Jackson
    New Orleans Willie Jackson was a singer active in New Orleans, Louisiana and New York City in the 1920s.He sang blues, jazz, and comic numbers. He frequently performed with pianist Steve Lewis at Spanish Fort, New Orleans and they recorded some phonograph records. He also sang vocals in King...

    , New Orleans jazz singer

Sports

  • Al Jackson
    Al Jackson
    Al Jackson, Jr. was a drummer, producer, and songwriter. He is best known as a founding member of Booker T. & the M.G.s, a group of session musicians who worked for Stax Records and produced their own instrumentals...

     (born 1935), American baseball player
  • Alan Jackson (footballer)
    Alan Jackson (footballer)
    Alan Jackson is an English former professional footballer, who played in the Football League for Wolverhampton Wanderers, Bury and Brighton.-Career:...

     (born 1938), English footballer
  • Alex Jackson
    Alex Jackson
    Alexander Skinner Jackson was a Scottish footballer.Alex Jackson was born in Renton in 1905. A highly-talented winger, known as the Gay Cavalier, he was particularly adept at dribbling and free kicks. He initially played for Renton Victoria Football Club but was transferred to Dumbarton F.C. in...

     (1905-1946), Scottish footballer
  • Alonzo Jackson
    Alonzo Jackson
    Alonzo Jackson is an American football defensive end in the National Football League who is currently a free agent...

     (born 1980), American football player
  • Andrew JC Jackson
    Andrew JC Jackson
    Andrew JC Jackson represented Australian surf lifesaving, Queensland Surf Lifesaving and his home club, Maroochydore Surf Lifesaving Club as an elite surf Lifesaver....

    , World Champion Surf Lifesaver
  • Andy Jackson (footballer) (born 1988), Scottish footballer
  • Archie Jackson
    Archie Jackson
    Archibald "Archie" Jackson , occasionally known as Archibald Alexander Jackson, was an Australian cricketer who played eight Test matches as a specialist batsman between 1929 and 1931. A teenage prodigy, he played first grade cricket at only 15 years of age and was selected for New South Wales at 17...

     (1909-1933), Australian cricketer
  • Art Jackson (1915-1971), NHL professional hockey player
  • Ashley Jackson
    Ashley Jackson (field hockey)
    Ashley Jackson when he was in year 7 he joined rose hill school in Tunbridge Wells. He is an English field hockey player...

    , English hockey player
  • Barry Jackson (athlete)
    Barry Jackson (athlete)
    Barry Jackson is a retired track and field runner from England, who won the European title in the men's 4x400 metres at the 1962 European Championships in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, alongside Kenneth Wilcock, Adrian Metcalfe and Robbie Brightwell.-References:* at Sporting Heroes...

     (born 1941), English track and field athlete
  • Bill Jackson (baseball)
    Bill Jackson (baseball)
    William Riley Jackson was a first baseman for the Chicago Whales baseball team in 1914 and 1915.-External links:...

     (1881-1958), American baseball player
  • Billy Jackson (American football)
    Billy Jackson (American football)
    Billy Thurman Jackson is a former professional American football running back in the National Football League for the Kansas City Chiefs. He played college football at the University of Alabama....

     (born 1959), American football player
  • Bo Jackson
    Bo Jackson
    Vincent Edward "Bo" Jackson is a former American baseball and football player. He was the first athlete to be named an All-Star in two major American sports, and also won the Heisman Trophy in 1985....

     (born 1962), American football and baseball player
  • Bob Jackson (footballer)
    Bob Jackson (footballer)
    Bob Jackson was the manager of the English football club Portsmouth F.C. from 1947-1952. Jackson led Pompey to the only two top league titles in their history in the 1948/49 and 1949/50 seasons. He departed in the summer of 1952 to take over at ambitious second division club Hull City, but could...

    , English footballer
  • Bob Jackson (swimmer)
    Bob Jackson (swimmer)
    Robert Scott Jackson is a former international backstroke swimmer from the United States, who participated for his native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada....

     (born 1957), American swimmer
  • Bobby Jackson (American football coach)
    Bobby Jackson (American football coach)
    Bobby Jackson in Forsyth, Georgia was a National Football League Assistant Coach with 21 years of professional coaching experience including three as an offensive coordinator. In his NFL tenure, Jackson coached five Pro Bowl Running Backs, including at least one in three of his five stops where...

     (born 1940), American football coach
  • Bobby Jackson (cornerback)
    Bobby Jackson (cornerback)
    Robert Charles "Bobby" Jackson is a former cornerback for the National Football League New York Jets, retiring with 21 career interceptions and 3 fumble recoveries....

     (born 1956), American football player
  • Bobby Jackson (basketball) (born 1973), American NBA player
  • Brittany Jackson
    Brittany Jackson
    Brittany Elizabeth Jackson Brittany Elizabeth Jackson Brittany Elizabeth Jackson (born on July 28, 1983 in Cleveland, Tennessee is an American basketball player with the Atlanta Dream of the WNBA.-High school:...

     (born 1983), American basketball player
  • Chad Jackson
    Chad Jackson
    -New England Patriots:On the first day of the 2006 NFL Draft, the Patriots traded draft picks with the Green Bay Packers to move up sixteen places in the second round to select Jackson, giving up a third-round pick acquired in a trade...

     (born 1985), American football player
  • Charles Jackson (linebacker) (born 1955), American football player
  • Charlie Jackson (American football) (born 1976), American football coach
  • Chris Jackson (New Zealand footballer) (born 1970), New Zealand association football player
  • Chris Jackson (gridiron football) (born 1975), American arena football player
  • Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf
    Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf
    Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf is an American professional basketball player.-Life and career:Abdul-Rauf was born in Gulfport, Mississippi. After a record-setting college career at Louisiana State University, he was selected with the third pick in the 1990 NBA Draft by the Denver Nuggets...

     (born Chris W. Jackson, 1969), American basketball player
  • Colin Jackson
    Colin Jackson
    Colin Ray Jackson CBE is a British former sprint and hurdling athlete who specialised in the 110 metres hurdles. Over his career representing Great Britain and Wales he won an Olympic silver medal, became world champion three times, went undefeated at the European Championships for 12 years and...

     (born 1967), Welsh 110m hurdle athlete
  • Colin Jackson (footballer)
    Colin Jackson (footballer)
    Colin MacDonald Jackson is a former Scottish assocation footballer who played predominantly for Rangers and the Scotland national team.-Career:...

     (born 1946), Scottish footballer
  • Conor Jackson
    Conor Jackson
    Conor Sims Jackson is an American professional baseball outfielder who is a free agent. He bats and throws right-handed. He is 6'2" and roughly 225 pounds. His father is actor John M...

    , Arizona Diamondbacks baseball player
  • Curtis Jackson (cricketer)
    Curtis Jackson (cricketer)
    Curtis Jackson is a Bermudian cricketer. To date, he has played one first-class match for Bermuda, against Kenya in the 2005 ICC Intercontinental Cup. He has also played one List A match against Guyana in 2000.-References:**...

     (born 1967), Bermudian cricketer
  • Danny Jackson
    Danny Jackson
    Danny Lynn Jackson was a pitcher with a 15-year career from to . He played for the Kansas City Royals of the American League and the Cincinnati Reds, Chicago Cubs, Pittsburgh Pirates, Philadelphia Phillies, St...

     (born 1962), American Major League All-Star left-handed pitcher in the 1980s and 1990s
  • Darrell Jackson
    Darrell Jackson
    Darrell Lamont Jackson is a former American college and professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League for nine seasons...

     (born 1978), American football player
  • Darrell Jackson (baseball)
    Darrell Jackson (baseball)
    Darrell Preston Jackson is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. He pitched all or part of five seasons in the majors, from until , all with the Minnesota Twins.Jackson was drafted by the Twins out of high school in 1973, but he did not sign with them...

     (born 1956), American baseball player
  • Darren Jackson
    Darren Jackson
    Darren Jackson is a Scottish former international footballer who played predominantly as a striker.- Career :...

     (born 1966), Scottish footballer
  • David Jackson (footballer)
    David Jackson (footballer)
    David Jackson is a former footballer whose career mirrored his twin brother Peter's. He was an inside forward. The pair played at Wrexham and Bradford City where their father Peter Jackson was manager.-Career:...

     (born 1937), British footballer
  • David Jackson (boxer)
    David Jackson (boxer)
    David Charles Jackson was a boxer from New Zealand, who competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, where he was eliminated in the second round of the Welterweight division at the hands of Valery Rachkov from the Soviet Union...

     (1955-2004), New Zealand boxer
  • DeSean Jackson
    DeSean Jackson
    Going to the 2008 NFL Draft Jackson was considered one of the top ten wide receivers available in a draft class littered with talented wide outs. The only knock on Jackson was his small frame, being measured at 5'9¾ " and just over 170 pounds. During the pre-draft period, Hall of Fame wide receiver...

     (born 1986), American football player
  • Dick Jackson
    Dick Jackson
    Dick Jackson was an English footballer who played for Middlesbrough and Sunderland as a Central defender and later manager of the English football club Darlington from 1912-1919.- As a manager :...

     (1878-19??), Scottish footballer
  • Earnest Jackson
    Earnest Jackson
    Earnest Jackson, Jr. is a former professional American football running back in the National Football League for six seasons for the San Diego Chargers, Philadelphia Eagles, and Pittsburgh Steelers. He ran for at least 900 yards in a season for each of his three teams...

     (born 1959), American football player
  • Eddie Jackson (American football) (born 1980), American football player
  • Edward Jackson (footballer)
    Edward Jackson (footballer)
    Edward Jackson is a former Australian rules football player in the Victorian Football League .He played in the 1948 Melbourne team in the 1948 Grand Final.-External links:*-References:*...

     (born 1925), Australian footballer
  • Edwin Jackson
    Edwin Jackson
    Edwin Jackson is an American professional baseball pitcher.-Early life:Jackson's father, Edwin Jackson, Sr., a military cook, was stationed in Germany at the time of his birth. Jackson is one of 27 major league players who were born in Germany...

     (born 1983), American baseball player with the Tampa Bay Rays
  • Elphinstone Jackson
    Elphinstone Jackson
    Elphinstone Jackson was an English amateur footballer who made one appearance as a full back for England in 1891.__FORCETOC__-Career:...

     (1868-1945), English footballer and co-founder of Indian Football Association in 1893
  • Emma Jackson
    Emma Jackson (triathlete)
    Emma Jackson is a professional Australian triathlete, U23 World Champion of the year 2010, and 2009 Junior World Championships silver medalist....

    , an Australian triathlete
  • Emma Jackson
    Emma Jackson (athlete)
    Emma Jackson is an 800m runner who represented England at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.-Athletics:In 2006, Jackson won a gold medal in the 800m at the English Schools Athletic Championships....

    , an English 800m runner
  • Ernest Jackson
    Ernest Jackson
    Ernest Jackson was a former footballer. He played as a right-half.Ernest Jackson joined Sheffield United from local amateur side Atlas & Norfolk F.C in 1932...

     (1914-1996), English footballer
  • Ezekiel Jackson (born 1978), the ring name of American professional wrestler Rycklon Stephens
  • Francia Jackson
    Francia Jackson
    Francia Jackson Cabrera is a female volleyball player from the Dominican Republic, who won the gold medal with the women's national team at the 2003 Pan American Games in her home town Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic....

     (born 1975), Dominican Republic volleyball player
  • Frank Jackson (American football) (born 1939), American football player
  • Fred Jackson (American football) (born 1981), American football player
  • Frederick Stanley Jackson
    Frederick Stanley Jackson
    Frederick Stanley Jackson was a rugby footballer of the early 1900s who represented the Anglo/Welsh British Lions and the New Zealand Kiwis.-Early years:Jackson was possibly born in Camborne and educated at the Camborne School of Mines...

     (died 1957), Cornish rugby union player
  • George Jackson (cricketer)
    George Jackson (cricketer)
    George Jackson was a noted English cricketer of the mid-18th century who played for the famous Addington Cricket Club and for Surrey...

    , English cricketer
  • Glen Jackson (rugby union) (born 1975), New Zealand rugby union player and referee
  • Grant Jackson (baseball) (born 1942), American baseball player
  • Gus Jackson
    Gus Jackson
    Augustus "Gus" Kenneth George Jackson was a New Zealand rower.He won two bronze medals at the 1938 British Empire Games, winning one as part of the men's eight and another bronze medal alongside Bob Smith in the men's double sculls.-References:...

    , New Zealand rower
  • Guy Jackson
    Guy Jackson
    Guy Rolf Jackson was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket for Derbyshire between 1919 and 1936, being captain for nine years....

     (1896-1966), English cricketer
  • Harold Jackson (American football)
    Harold Jackson (American football)
    Harold Leon Jackson is a former American football wide receiver who played in the National Football League from 1968 through 1983. Jackson was drafted in the 12th round of the 1968 NFL Draft by the Los Angeles Rams...

     (born 1946), American football player
  • Harvey Busher Jackson
    Busher Jackson
    Harvey "Busher" Jackson was a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger and defenceman who played for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Boston Bruins, and New York Americans in the National Hockey League....

     (1911-1966), former Canadian ice hockey player
  • Henry Jackson (football manager)
    Henry Jackson (football manager)
    Henry 'Swin' Jackson was an English football secretary-manager and director. He joined West Bromwich Albion's first board of directors in 1891. He served the club as general secretary-manager from 1892 to 1894, remaining as a director for much of that period. Jackson later joined Leicester Fosse...

     (c. 1850-1930), English football manager
  • Jamea Jackson
    Jamea Jackson
    Jamea Jackson is a female American former tennis player. She reached a singles ranking of 45 in the world at the end of 2006.Jackson was born in Atlanta, Georgia and attended the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Bradenton, Florida....

     (born 1986), American tennis player
  • James Jackson (American football) (born 1976), American football player
  • James Jackson, Jr.
    James Jackson, Jr.
    James Jackson Jr. was a footballer who played for Liverpool. Between 1925 and 1933, he made 224 appearances, scoring twice.-Life and playing career:...

     (1900-c. 1976), British footballer
  • Jamie Jackson (footballer) (born 1986), English footballer
  • Jaren Jackson (born 1967), American basketball player
  • Jeff Jackson (ice hockey b. 1955), American ice hockey coach
  • Jeff Jackson (ice hockey b. 1965), Canadian NHL hockey player
  • Jeff Jackson (basketball coach)
    Jeff Jackson (basketball coach)
    Jeff Jackson is an American college basketball coach and the current head men's basketball coach at Furman University. He previously held the same position at the University of New Hampshire....

    , American basketball coach
  • Jeremy Jackson (fighter)
    Jeremy Jackson (fighter)
    Jeremy Rea Jackson is an American mixed martial artist from California.-Career:Jackson's first professional MMA fight was on September 9, 2001 against Jake Shields in the Gladiator Challenge 6: Caged Beasts...

     (born 1982), American martial artist
  • Jermaine Jackson (basketball)
    Jermaine Jackson (basketball)
    Jermaine Jackson is an American professional basketball player, formerly in the NBA.Jackson was undrafted in 1999 following a college career at the University of Detroit Mercy and began his professional career with the Detroit Pistons , going on to play for the Toronto Raptors , Atlanta Hawks and...

     (born 1976), American basketball player
  • Jervonte Jackson
    Jervonte Jackson
    -Philadelphia Eagles:Jackson was undrafted in the 2009 NFL Draft and was signed by the Philadelphia Eagles on May 18, 2009. He was waived on August 4.-Jacksonville Jaguars:...

     (born 1986), American football player
  • Jim Jackson (baseball)
    Jim Jackson (baseball)
    James Benner Jackson was a Major League Baseball outfielder. Jackson played for the Baltimore Orioles, the New York Giants, and the Cleveland Naps in and , and again from to . In 348 career games, he had a .235 batting average with 300 hits in 1274 at-bats...

     (1877-1955), American baseball player
  • Jim Jackson (Australian rules footballer)
    Jim Jackson (Australian rules footballer)
    James 'Jim' Jackson was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda, Collingwood and Hawthorn in the VFL.Jackson was a wingman and had a long career with 17 years between his first and last season. He started his career at St Kilda in 1909 but after managing just one game crossed to...

     (born 1890), Australian footballer
  • Jim Jackson (ice hockey) (born 1960), Canadian ice hockey player
  • Jim Jackson (basketball)
    Jim Jackson (basketball)
    James Arthur "Jim" Jackson is an American retired professional basketball player. Over his 14 NBA seasons, Jackson was on the active roster of 12 different teams, tying the league record. He is currently a basketball analyst on the Big Ten Network.-High school and college career:Jackson was a 6'6"...

     (born 1970), American basketball player
  • Jim Jackson (sportscaster)
    Jim Jackson (sportscaster)
    Jim Jackson is an American professional sportscaster. He currently serves as the TV play-by-play announcer for the Philadelphia Flyers and pregame and postgame radio host for the Philadelphia Phillies...

    , American sportscaster
  • Jimmy Jackson (footballer)
    Jimmy Jackson (footballer)
    James "Jimmy" Jackson was a Scottish-Australian football player.Jackson was born in Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, Scotland, but his family emigrated to Australia when he was two. The young Jackson grew up in Australia and played football as a youth, before returning to Scotland in 1893...

     (1875-19??), Scottish-Australian footballer
  • Jimmy Jackson (driver)
    Jimmy Jackson (driver)
    Jimmy Jackson was an American racecar driver from Indianapolis, Indiana.-Indy 500 results:* shared drive with Duane Carter-World Championship career summary:...

     (1910-1984), American racecar driver
  • Jimmy Jackson (wrestler)
    Jimmy Jackson (wrestler)
    James Earl "Jimmy" Jackson was an American freestyle wrestler, who competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics. He was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.-External links:*...

     (1956-2008), Canadian-American wrestler
  • Shoeless Joe Jackson
    Shoeless Joe Jackson
    Joseph Jefferson Jackson , nicknamed "Shoeless Joe", was an American baseball player who played Major League Baseball in the early part of the 20th century...

     (1888-1951), American baseball player
  • Joe Jackson (American football) (born 1950), American football player
  • John Jackson (boxer)
    John Jackson (boxer)
    "Gentleman" John Jackson was a celebrated pugilist of the late 18th century.He won the title Champion of England in a fight on 15 April 1795 in which he beat...

     (1769-1845), English boxer
  • John Jackson (cricketer)
    John Jackson (cricketer)
    John "Foghorn" Jackson was a Nottinghamshire and All-England Eleven cricketer who was generally reckoned to be the outstanding fast bowler of the 1850s.Born in Bungay in Suffolk, Jackson was affectionately known as "Foghorn"...

     (1833-1901), English cricketer
  • John Jackson (Lancashire cricketer)
    John Jackson (Lancashire cricketer)
    John Jackson was an English cricketer who played for Lancashire. He was born in Lancaster and died in Birmingham....

     (1841-1906), English cricketer
  • John Jackson (Worcestershire cricketer)
    John Jackson (Worcestershire cricketer)
    John Frederick Cecil Jackson was an English cricketer who played a single first-class match, for Worcestershire against Oxford University. He scored 0 and 6....

     (1880-1968), English cricketer
  • John Jackson (Somerset cricketer)
    John Jackson (Somerset cricketer)
    John Alfred Stewart Jackson was a Chilean cricketer. A right-handed batsman and right-arm leg spin bowler, he played seven times for the Chile national cricket team against Argentina between 1922 and 1938...

     (1898-1958), Chilean cricketer
  • John Jackson (footballer)
    John Jackson (footballer)
    John Jackson is an English former footballer who made 656 appearances in the Football League playing as a goalkeeper for Crystal Palace, Leyton Orient, Millwall, Ipswich Town and Hereford United.-Career:...

     (born 1942), English footballer
  • John Jackson (American football) (born 1965), American football player
  • John Jackson (wide receiver)
    John Jackson (wide receiver)
    John Jackson is a sports commentator who works for ESPN Radio 710 and FSN West and formerly played professional American football. "JJ," as he is referenced by his on-air colleagues, co-hosts the Lexus Gauntlet Show and the USC Press Conference Show, and serves as an analyst for Trojans Live...

     (born 1967), American football player
  • John Jackson (Virgin Islands boxer)
    John Jackson (Virgin Islands boxer)
    John Jackson is an amateur boxer from the Virgin Islands who qualified for, and boxed in, the 2008 Olympics at welterweight. He is one of the sons of boxer Julian Jackson, and his brother Julius Jackson qualified at light-heavyweight....

     (born 1989), U.S. Virgin Islands boxer
  • John Angelo Jackson
    John Angelo Jackson
    John Angelo Jackson was an English mountaineer, explorer and educationalist.-Early life:He was brought up and educated in Nelson, Lancashire. Before World War II, he was apprenticed in pharmacy. However, at the outbreak of war, he left to volunteer for the R.A.F. in which he served for six...

     (1921-2005), English mountaineer
  • John David Jackson (boxer)
    John David Jackson (boxer)
    John David Jackson , is a former professional boxer who held world titles in the light middleweight and middleweight divisions, and later became a boxing trainer after his career ended.-Professional Career:...

     (born 1962), American boxer
  • John W. Jackson (1858-1913), American baseball player, known as Bud Fowler
  • Johnnie Jackson
    Johnnie Jackson
    John Alec "Johnnie" Jackson is an English footballer currently playing for Charlton Athletic. He usually plays as a left sided midfielder but can also play as a central midfielder or a left-back.-Tottenham Hotspur:...

     (born 1982), English footballer
  • Johnnie Jackson (American football) (born 1967), American football player
  • Johnnie O. Jackson
    Johnnie O. Jackson
    Johnnie Otis Jackson is an IFBB professional bodybuilder. Jackson is sometimes referred to as the World's Strongest Bodybuilder.-Biography:...

     (born 1971), American bodybuilder
  • Jonathan Jackson (American football) (born 1982), American football player
  • Joseph Jackson (sport shooter)
    Joseph Jackson (sport shooter)
    Joseph Jackson was an American sports shooter and Olympic champion. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri.He won three gold medals, all in team events, at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp.-External links:...

     (1880-19??), American sports shooter
  • Julian Jackson
    Julian Jackson
    Julian Jackson is a retired professional boxer and former three-time world champion in the light middleweight and middleweight divisions...

     (born 1960), U.S. Virgin Islands boxer
  • Julius Jackson
    Julius Jackson
    Julius Jackson is an amateur boxer from the Virgin Islands who qualified for he 2008 Olympics at light-heavyweight just like his brother John Jackson...

     (born 1987), U.S. Virgin Islands boxer
  • Keith Jackson
    Keith Jackson
    Keith Jackson is an American sportscaster, known for his long career with ABC Sports , his coverage of college football , his style of folksy, down-to-earth commentary, and his distinctive voice, with its deep cadence, and operatic tone considered "like Edward R...

     (born 1928), longtime American sportscaster on ABC
  • Keith Jackson (tight end) (born 1965), former NFL Pro Bowl tight end
  • Keith Jackson (defensive tackle)
    Keith Jackson (defensive tackle)
    Keith Jerome Jackson, Jr. is an American football defensive tackle for the San Diego Chargers of the National Football League. He was originally drafted by the St. Louis Rams in the seventh round of the 2007 NFL Draft...

     (born 1985), American football player
  • Larry Jackson
    Larry Jackson
    Lawrence Curtis Jackson was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Phillies from 1955 to 1968...

     (1931-1990), American baseball player
  • Lauren Jackson
    Lauren Jackson
    Lauren Elizabeth Jackson is an Australian professional basketball player. Jackson began her professional career at the Australian Institute of Sport in the WNBL before moving on to the Canberra Capitals. She is currently a forward/centre with the Seattle Storm of the WNBA and the Australian...

     (born 1981), Australian professional basketball player
  • Laurence Jackson
    Laurence Jackson
    Laurence Jackson was a Scottish curler. He was part of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club team that won the first Olympic Gold medal in curling at the inaugural Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France, in 1924....

    , Scottish curler
  • Lee Jackson (rugby league), British rugby league footballer
  • Les Jackson
    Les Jackson
    Les Jackson was an English cricketer. A fast or fast-medium bowler renowned for his accurate bowling and particular hostility on uncovered wickets, he played county cricket for Derbyshire from 1947 to 1963, and was regularly at, or near the top of, the English bowling averages...

     (1921-2007), English cricketer
  • Les Jackson (ice hockey)
    Les Jackson (ice hockey)
    Les Jackson is a former professional ice hockey player, coach, scout and co-general manager of the Dallas Stars. Jackson is currently the director of scouting and player development for the Stars. Jackson was selected in the 4th round of the 1972 NHL Amateur Draft, 64th overall, by the Boston...

     (born 1952), Canadian hockey executive
  • Linda Jackson (cyclist)
    Linda Jackson (cyclist)
    Linda Jackson is best known as a former Canadian professional bicycle road racer. She is now a coach, having previous experience as an investment banker. Jackson won the bronze medal at the 1996 World Road Racing Championships...

     (born 1958), Canadian cyclist
  • Lucious Jackson
    Lucious Jackson
    Lucious Brown "Luke" Jackson is a retired American professional basketball player.-Collegiate career:Born in San Marcos, Texas, Jackson played college basketball at Pan American College and was a member the U.S. Olympic basketball team that won the gold at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo...

     (born 1941), American basketball player
  • Marc Jackson
    Marc Jackson
    Marc Anthony Jackson is a former American professional basketball player.-Professional career:...

     (born 1975), American basketball player
  • Marjorie Jackson
    Marjorie Jackson
    Marjorie Jackson-Nelson, AC, CVO, MBE is a former Governor of South Australia and a former Australian athlete...

     (born 1931), Australian sprinter and politician
  • Mark Jackson (American football player) (born 1963), American football player in the 1980s and 1990s
  • Mark Jackson (basketball)
    Mark Jackson (basketball)
    Mark A. Jackson is a retired American professional basketball player and the current head coach of the Golden State Warriors. He played point guard for the New York Knicks, Indiana Pacers, Los Angeles Clippers, Denver Nuggets, Toronto Raptors, Utah Jazz, and Houston Rockets in the NBA in a career...

     (born 1965), American basketball player in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s
  • Mark Jackson (athlete)
    Mark Jackson (athlete)
    Mark Jackson is a retired track and field athlete from Canada, who competed in the men's 400m hurdles event. He competed for his native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, finishing in 19th place....

     (born 1969), Canadian track and field athlete
  • Mark Jackson (football coach)
    Mark Jackson (football coach)
    Mark Jackson is an American football administrator for the University of Tennessee. Jackson was most recently the director of football development for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League.-Playing career:...

     (born 1972), American football coach
  • Mark Jackson (footballer)
    Mark Jackson (footballer)
    Mark Graham Jackson is an English footballer who is currently playing for reformed Farsley AFC, after his last club Farsley Celtic was wound-up by its administrators on 12 March 2010....

     (born 1977), English footballer
  • Mark "Jacko" Jackson (born 1959), Australian footballer
  • Marlin Jackson
    Marlin Jackson
    -Indianapolis Colts:Jackson was selected by the Indianapolis Colts with the 29th overall pick of the 2005 NFL Draft. As an NFL rookie he had 52 tackles and one interception. Marlin played mostly in passing situations with one start in 15 games. In his second season, he had 82 tackles and 1...

     (born 1983), U.S. football player
  • Mat Jackson
    Mat Jackson
    Mat Jackson is an English racing driver.Jackson and his family-ran team contested the British Touring Car Championship in 2007 and 2008, in each case using the BMW Andy Priaulx used to win the previous year's World Touring Car Championship. Jackson run under the Jackson MSport banner in 2007, and...

     (born 1981), English racing driver
  • Matt Jackson
    Matt Jackson
    Matthew Alan "Matt" Jackson is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender throughout his career and represented and captained England at U21 level.-Career:...

     (born 1971), English footballer
  • Michael Jackson (linebacker)
    Michael Jackson (linebacker)
    Michael Jackson is a former professional American football player who played linebacker in eight NFL seasons for the Seattle Seahawks....

     (born 1957), U.S. football player
  • Michael Jackson (basketball)
    Michael Jackson (basketball)
    Michael Derek Jackson is a retired American professional basketball player who was selected by the New York Knicks in the 2nd round of the 1986 NBA Draft...

     (born 1964), U.S. basketball player
  • Michael Jackson (wide receiver) (born 1969), U.S. football player
  • Michael Jackson (footballer)
    Michael Jackson (footballer)
    Michael James Jackson is a retired English professional football defender.-Career:Jackson started his career as a trainee at Crewe Alexandra in 1992. During his development at Crewe, Jackson went on to play for his home town club Runcorn FC, during a loan spell and played several key games for...

     (born 1973), British footballer
  • Mike Jackson (left-handed pitcher)
    Mike Jackson (left-handed pitcher)
    Michael Warren Jackson is a former Major League Baseball relief pitcher. He pitched from 1970-1973 for the Philadelphia Phillies, St...

     (born 1946), U.S. baseball player
  • Mike Jackson (right-handed pitcher) (born 1964), U.S. former longtime right-handed Major League relief pitcher in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s
  • Paul Jackson (cricketer) (born 1959), Irish cricketer
  • Paul Jackson (rugby league) (born 1978), English rugby league footballer
  • Peter Jackson (boxer)
    Peter Jackson (boxer)
    Peter "Black Prince" Jackson was a heavyweight boxer from Australia who had a significant international career.-Biography:...

     (1861-1901), Australian boxer
  • Peter Jackson (cricketer)
    Peter Jackson (cricketer)
    Percy Frederick Jackson was a Scottish born English cricketer for Worcestershire County Cricket Club. He bowled offspin and was also known to take the new ball and bowl medium-paced outswingers...

     (1911-1999), British cricketer
  • Peter Jackson (footballer born 1905)
    Peter Jackson (footballer born 1905)
    Peter Jackson was a football player and manager. His twin sons Peter and David were also professional footballers. Both played under their father at Wrexham and Bradford City.-Playing career:...

     (1905-1986), British footballer
  • Peter Jackson (footballer born 1937)
    Peter Jackson (footballer born 1937)
    Peter Jackson was an English footballer whose career mirrored that of his twin brother David. Peter Jackson was a half back who started his career with his brother at Wrexham, where their father Peter senior was manager. The trio later teamed up at Bradford City, where the two brothers played a...

     (1937-1991), British footballer
  • Peter Jackson (footballer born 1961) (born 1961), British footballer
  • Peter Jackson (rugby league)
    Peter Jackson (rugby league)
    Peter Jackson was an Australian professional rugby league footballer of the 1980s and '90s. A Queensland State of Origin and Australian international representative back, he played club football in both Queensland and New South Wales as well as a season in England...

     (1964-1997), Australian rugby league footballer
  • Peter Jackson (rugby union) (1930-2004), British rugby union footballer
  • Peter Jackson (table tennis)
    Peter Jackson (table tennis)
    Peter Jackson is a table tennis player representative of New Zealand. He competed in three Summer Olympics and two Commonwealth Games, winning a bronze medal at 2002 Commonwealth Games.-Career:...

     (born 1964), New Zealand table tennis player
  • Peter H. Jackson
    Peter H. Jackson
    Peter Herbert "Jacko" Jackson was an English rower who competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics....

     (1913-1983), British rower
  • Phil Jackson
    Phil Jackson
    Philip Douglas "Phil" Jackson is a retired American professional basketball coach and player. Jackson is widely considered one of the greatest coaches in the history of the National Basketball Association . His reputation was established as head coach of the Chicago Bulls from 1989 through 1998;...

     (born 1945), American basketball coach
  • Phil Jackson (rugby league born 1932), British rugby player
  • Phil Jackson (boxer)
    Phil Jackson (boxer)
    Phil Jackson, born May 11, 1964 in Miami Beach, FL, was a professional heavyweight boxer, best known for challenging Lennox Lewis for the WBC Heavyweight Title in 1994.-Pro career:...

     (born 1964), American boxer
  • Quinton Jackson
    Quinton Jackson
    Quinton Ramone Jackson ;, also known as Rampage Jackson, is an American mixed martial artist and actor. He is a former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion. Jackson rose to prominence in Japan's Pride Fighting Championships where he was noted for his powerful body slams including a knockout victory over...

     (born 1978), American mixed martial arts fighter
  • Randy Jackson (baseball) (born 1926), American baseball player
  • Randy Jackson (offensive lineman)
    Randy Jackson (offensive lineman)
    Randall Belford "Randy" Jackson is a former American college and professional football player who was an offensive lineman in the National Football League for eight years in the 1960s and 1970s...

     (born 1944), American football player
  • Randy Jackson (running back) (born 1948), American football player
  • Reggie Jackson
    Reggie Jackson
    Reginald Martinez "Reggie" Jackson , nicknamed "Mr. October" for his clutch hitting in the postseason with the New York Yankees, is a former American Major League Baseball right fielder. During a 21-year baseball career, he played from 1967-1987 for four different teams. Jackson currently serves as...

     (born 1946), Hall of Fame American baseball player
  • Rich Jackson
    Rich Jackson
    Rich Jackson was an American college and professional football player. In college Jackson played for Southern University. Jackson played for the American Football League's Oakland Raiders in 1966 and the AFL Denver Broncos from 1967 through 1969. He played for the NFL Broncos in 1970 through...

     (born 1941), American football player
  • Richard Jackson (footballer born 1900)
    Richard Jackson (footballer born 1900)
    Richard Jackson was an English professional association football player. He played for Rotherham County, its successor Rotherham United, and Gillingham between 1922 and 1934.-References:...

    , English footballer
  • Richard Jackson (footballer born 1980), English footballer
  • Rick Jackson
    Rick Jackson
    Richard Kadeem Jackson is an American professional basketball forward for Chorale Roanne Basket of the Ligue Nationale de Basketball in France...

     (born 1989), American basketball player
  • Rob Jackson
    Rob Jackson
    Rob Jackson born 4 September 1981 in Salford, Greater Manchester, England is a rugby league player for Whitehaven in National League One.Rob Jackson's position of choice is as a centre and he can also play on the wing....

     (born 1981), English rugby league player
  • Rob Jackson (American football)
    Rob Jackson (American football)
    Robert Gene Jackson is an American football linebacker for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Redskins in the seventh round of the 2008 NFL Draft. He was cut from the team on September 4, 2010...

     (born 1985), American football player
  • Robert Jackson (guard)
    Robert Jackson (guard)
    Robert E. Jackson is a former American football guard who played eleven professional seasons with the National Football League's Cleveland Browns. Jackson attended Duke University.-External links:*...

     (born 1953), American football player
  • Robert Jackson (linebacker)
    Robert Jackson (linebacker)
    Robert Lee Jackson is a former National Football League linebacker who played for the Cleveland Browns and the Atlanta Falcons between 1977 and 1982....

     (born 1954), American football player
  • Ruaridh Jackson
    Ruaridh Jackson
    Ruaridh James Howard Jackson is a Scottish rugby union footballer. He plays professional rugby for Glasgow Warriors....

     (born 1988), Scottish rugby union player
  • Russ Jackson
    Russ Jackson
    Russell Stanley "Russ" Jackson, OC is a former professional Canadian football quarterback. Jackson spent his entire 12-year professional football career with the Ottawa Rough Riders of the Canadian Football League...

     (born 1936), Canadian football player
  • Samuel Jackson (cricketer)
    Samuel Jackson (cricketer)
    Samuel Robinson Jackson was an English first-class cricketer, who played one game for Yorkshire County Cricket Club in 1891. A right-handed batsman, he scored 9 and a duck in the Roses Match at Old Trafford, which Lancashire won by an innings and 49 runs...

     (1849-1941), English cricketer
  • Scoop Jackson (writer)
    Scoop Jackson (writer)
    Not to be confused with former United States Senator Henry M. "Scoop" JacksonRobert "Scoop" Jackson is an American sports journalist and cultural critic currently contributing to ESPN.com's Page2 and ESPN The Magazine....

     (born 1963), American sports journalist
  • Stanley Jackson (American football)
    Stanley Jackson (American football)
    Stanley Jackson is a retired American football quarterback who played in the Canadian Football League and Continental Indoor Football League. He was also the Co-Owner of the CIFL's Marion Mayhem-College career:...

     (born 1975), American football player
  • Stanley Jackson (basketball)
    Stanley Jackson (basketball)
    Stanley Leon Jackson is a former American professional basketball player, in the guard position.Jackson played collegiately at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, after attending the Valley High School in Valley, Alabama...

     (born 1975), American basketball player
  • Stephen Jackson
    Stephen Jackson
    Stephen Jesse Jackson is an American professional basketball player for the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks. Jackson is a 6'8" guard-forward.-Early life, high school, and college:Jackson was born in Houston and grew up in Port Arthur, Texas...

     (born 1978), American basketball player
  • Steve Jackson (linebacker)
    Steve Jackson (linebacker)
    Stephen Franklin Jackson is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins. He played college football at the University of Texas at Arlington....

     (born 1942), American football player
  • Steve Jackson (rugby league) (born 1965), Australian rugby league player
  • Steve Jackson (defensive back) (born 1969), American football player
  • Steven Jackson
    Steven Jackson
    Steven Rashad Jackson is an American football running back for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Rams 24th overall in the 2004 NFL Draft. He played college football at Oregon State University....

     (born 1983), American football player
  • Steven Jackson (baseball)
    Steven Jackson (baseball)
    Steven Nash Jackson is an American Major League Baseball pitcher, who is in the Pittsburgh Pirates organization. He is 6' 5", and throws right-handed.-Amateur Years:...

     (born 1982), American baseball player
  • Steven Jackson (fullback) (born 1984), American football player
  • Sugar Jackson
    Sugar Jackson
    Jackson Osei Bonsu is a Belgian welterweight professional boxer of Ghanaian descent. He started to call himself Sugar as a reference to Sugar Ray Robinson...

     (born 1981), Belgian boxer
  • Syd Jackson (Australian footballer)
    Syd Jackson (Australian footballer)
    Syd Jackson is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Carlton Blues during the 1970s. He usually played in the centre or half forward flank....

     (born 1944), Australian footballer
  • Tarvaris Jackson
    Tarvaris Jackson
    Tarvaris DeAndre Jackson is an American football quarterback who is currently a member of the Seattle Seahawks. He was drafted by the Minnesota Vikings in the second round of the 2006 NFL Draft...

     (born 1983), American football player
  • Terry Jackson (cornerback)
    Terry Jackson (cornerback)
    Terry Jackson is a former American football cornerback in the National Football League. He was drafted by the New York Giants in the fifth round of the 1978 NFL Draft. He played college football at San Diego State....

     (born 1955), American football player
  • Terry Jackson (running back) (born 1976), American football player
  • T. J. Jackson (wide receiver)
    T. J. Jackson (wide receiver)
    Trenton James Jackson was an American football wide receiver in the National Football League for the Philadelphia Eagles and the Washington Redskins. He played college football at the University of Illinois....

     (1943-2007), American football player
  • T. J. Jackson (defensive tackle)
    T. J. Jackson (defensive tackle)
    Tommy Eugene "T. J." Jackson is an American football defensive tackle who is currently a free agent. He was signed by the Atlanta Falcons as an undrafted free agent in 2006...

     (born 1983), American football player
  • Tom Jackson (American football)
    Tom Jackson (American football)
    Thomas Louie "Tom" Jackson, also referred to as "TJ" or "Tommy", is an NFL analyst for ESPN and a former Pro Bowl linebacker for the Denver Broncos.-College:...

     (born 1951), former American football player and ESPN analyst
  • Tommy Jackson (footballer born 1898)
    Tommy Jackson (footballer born 1898)
    Thomas Jackson also known as Tommy was a football player in the early years of professional football in England, who played over 200 games for Aston Villa.-References:*...

     (1898-1975), English footballer
  • Tommy Jackson (footballer born 1946)
    Tommy Jackson (footballer born 1946)
    Thomas "Tommy" Jackson is a former Northern Irish footballer, who played as a midfielder for Everton, Nottingham Forest and Manchester United. He also amassed a total of 35 caps for the Northern Ireland national football team...

    , Northern Irish footballer
  • Tony Jackson (basketball)
    Tony Jackson (basketball)
    Tony B. Jackson was a professional basketball player.Jackson was born in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. A standout player under coach Joe Lapchick at St...

     (1942-2005), American basketball player
  • Tony Jackson (American football) (born 1982), American football player
  • Travis Jackson
    Travis Jackson
    Travis Calvin Jackson was a Major League Baseball player during the 1920s and 1930s. His exceptional range at shortstop led to the nickname "Stonewall."...

     (1903-1987), American baseball shortstop in the 1920s and 1930s
  • Trina Jackson
    Trina Jackson
    Trina Marie Jackson is a former freestyle swimmer from the United States, who was a member of the Women's Relay Team that won the gold medal in the 4×200 m Freestyle a the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. Her winning teammates were Jenny Thompson, Cristina Teuscher, and Sheila...

     (born 1977), American freestyle swimmer
  • Troy Jackson
    Troy Jackson
    Troy Jackson was an American basketball player. The younger brother of former NBA player Mark Jackson, he was a member of the AND1 Mixtape Tour, known by his streetball nickname "Escalade"...

     (1976–2011), American basketball player
  • Vincent Jackson
    Vincent Jackson
    Vincent Jackson , nicknamed "Action Jackson", is an American football wide receiver who currently plays in the National Football League for the San Diego Chargers....

     (born 1983), American football player
  • Wattie Jackson
    Wattie Jackson
    Walter “Wattie” Jackson was a Scottish soccer center forward who spent five seasons in the Scottish Football League, at least one in the Football League and two in the American Soccer League....

    , Scottish footballer
  • William Jackson (curler)
    William Jackson (curler)
    William Kilgour Jackson was a Scottish curler. He was the Skip of the Royal Caledonian Curling Club team which won the first Olympic Gold medal in curling at the inaugural Winter Olympics in Chamonix, France, in 1924....

    , Scottish curler
  • Willie Jackson (American football)
    Willie Jackson (American football)
    Willie Bernard Jackson, Jr. is a former American college and professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League for eight seasons in the 1990s and 2000s...

     (born 1971), U.S. football player
  • Zach Jackson
    Zach Jackson
    Zachary Thomas Jackson, is a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Texas Rangers organization.-Toronto Blue Jays:Jackson was drafted first in the first-year player draft by the Toronto Blue Jays in after completing his Junior year at Texas A&M University. He pitched very well, jumping to Triple-A...

     (born 1983), American baseball player

Science

  • Charles Loring Jackson
    Charles Loring Jackson
    Charles Loring Jackson was the first significant organic chemist in the United States. He brought organic chemistry to the United States from Germany and educated a generation of American organic chemists.-Personal life:...

     (1847-1935), American organic chemist
  • Charles Thomas Jackson
    Charles Thomas Jackson
    Charles Thomas Jackson was an American physician and scientist who was active in medicine, chemistry, mineralogy, and geology.- Life and work :...

     (1805-1880), American geologist
  • Cyril V. Jackson
    Cyril V. Jackson
    Cyril Jackson was a South African astronomer.He was born in Ossett, Yorkshire in England, but his father emigrated to South Africa in 1911....

     (1903-1988), South African astronomer
  • Daniel Jackson (computer scientist)
    Daniel Jackson (computer scientist)
    Daniel Jackson is a Professor of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . He is the principal designer of the Alloy modelling language, and author of the book Software Abstractions: Logic, Language, and Analysis....

     (born 1963), American computer scientist
  • David M. Jackson
    David M. Jackson
    David M.R. Jackson is a professor at the University of Waterloo in the department of Combinatorics and Optimization. He graduated from Cambridge University in 1969. Jackson has been responsible for many developments in enumerative combinatorics in his career, as well as being a mathematical...

    , Canadian mathematician
  • Douglas N. Jackson
    Douglas N. Jackson
    Douglas Northrop Jackson II was an American psychology professor best known for his work in human assessment and psychological testing....

     (1929-2004), American psychologist
  • Dunham Jackson
    Dunham Jackson
    Dunham Jackson was a mathematician who worked within approximation theory, notably with trigonometrical and orthogonal polynomials. He is known for Jackson's inequality. He was awarded the Chauvenet Prize in 1935...

     (1888-1946), mathematician
  • Frank Cameron Jackson
    Frank Cameron Jackson
    Frank Cameron Jackson is an Australian philosopher, currently Distinguished Professor and former Director of the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University. In 2007-2008, he also became a regular visiting professor of philosophy at Princeton University...

     (born 1943), Australian philosopher
  • Frank Hilton Jackson (1870–1960), English mathematician
  • Frederick John Jackson (1859-1929), English explorer and ornithologist
  • James A. Jackson
    James A. Jackson
    James Anthony Jackson, FRS, , is Professor of Active Tectonics and Head of Bullard Laboratories, Department of Earth Sciences, Cambridge University. He made his name in geophysics, using earthquake source seismology to examine how continents are deformed...

     (born 1954), British geologist
  • James R. Jackson
    James R. Jackson
    James Richard "Jim" Jackson was an American mathematician, well known for his contribution to queueing theory....

    , American mathematician
  • J. D. Jackson
    J. D. Jackson
    John David Jackson is a Canadian–American physics professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley and a faculty senior scientist emeritus at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory...

     (born 1925), Canadian-American physicist
  • John Jackson (astronomer)
    John Jackson (astronomer)
    John Jackson was a Scottish astronomer.Born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, he was educated at Paisley Grammar School, studying a range of subjects including the sciences and French and German, but not Latin or Greek, which were compulsory if he intended to sit the entrance examinations for...

     (1887-1958), Scottish astronomer
  • John Hughlings Jackson
    John Hughlings Jackson
    John Hughlings Jackson, FRS , was an English neurologist.- Biography :He was born at Providence Green, Green Hammerton, near Harrogate, Yorkshire, the youngest son of Samuel Jackson, a yeoman who owned and farmed his land, and the former Sarah Hughlings, the daughter of a Welsh revenue collector...

     (1835-1911), neurologist
  • Julian T. Jackson
    Julian T. Jackson
    Julian T. Jackson is a prominent British historian. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Historical Society. Professor of History at Queen Mary, University of London Julian Jackson is one of the leading authorities on twentieth-century France.He was educated at the University of...

     (born 1954), British historian
  • Michael Jackson (anthropologist)
    Michael Jackson (anthropologist)
    Michael D. Jackson is a post-modern New Zealand anthropologist who has taught in the anthropology departments at the University of Copenhagen and Indiana University and is currently a distinguished visiting professor of world religions at Harvard Divinity School...

     (born 1940), New Zealand anthropologist
  • Michael A. Jackson
    Michael A. Jackson
    Michael Anthony Jackson is a British computer scientist, and independent computing consultant in London, England. He is also part-time researcher at AT&T Research, Florham Park, NJ, U.S., and visiting research professor at the Open University in the UK.- Biography :Jackson was educated at Harrow...

     (born 1936), British computer scientist
  • Michael C. Jackson
    Michael C. Jackson
    Michael Christopher Jackson OBE is a British systems scientist, consultant and Professor of Management Systems and Dean of Hull University Business School....

     (born 1951), British systems scientist
  • Peter Wyse Jackson
    Peter Wyse Jackson
    Dr. Peter Sherlock Wyse Jackson was born in Kilkenny, Ireland, and is a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, with whose botanic gardens he is associated. In 2005 he was appointed Director of the Irish National Botanic Gardens in Glasnevin, Dublin. His father was Robert Wyse Jackson, Bishop of...

     (born 1955), Irish botanist
  • Robert Jackson (scientist)
    Robert Jackson (scientist)
    Robert Earl Jackson is a scientist, who, with Sandra M. Faber, in 1976 discovered the Faber-Jackson relation between the luminosity of an elliptical galaxy and the velocity dispersion in its center....

     (born 1949), American astronomer
  • Shirley Jackson (physicist)
    Shirley Jackson (physicist)
    Shirley Ann Jackson is an American physicist, and the 18th president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She received her Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973, becoming the first African American woman to earn a doctorate from MIT.-Early life and...

     (born 1946), president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  • Sidney William Jackson
    Sidney William Jackson
    Sidney William Jackson was an Australian naturalist and field ornithologist with a special interest in oology, who was also a skilled photographer and taxidermist.-History:...

     (1873-1946), Australian ornithologist
  • Steve Jackson (mathematician)
    Steve Jackson (mathematician)
    Steve Jackson is a set theorist at University of North Texas. Much of his most notable work has involved the descriptive set-theoretic consequences of the axiom of determinacy...

    , American mathematician
  • Wes Jackson
    Wes Jackson
    -Early life and Education:Jackson was born and raised on a farm near Topeka, Kansas. After earning a BA in biology from Kansas Wesleyan University, an MA in botany from the University of Kansas, and a PhD in genetics from North Carolina State University, Wes Jackson established and served as chair...

     (born 1936), founder and president of The Land Institute

Other

  • Alan Jackson (broadcaster)
    Alan Jackson (broadcaster)
    Allan Jackson was an American radio broadcaster. He was the head anchor at CBS Radio News in New York City.Jackson began his 33-year career during the Second World War, reading the 6:00 PM national evening news and anchoring coverage of many of the major news headlines of the day...

     (c. 1916-1976), American radio broadcaster
  • Alan Jackson (poet)
    Alan Jackson (poet)
    Alan Jackson is a Scottish poet.Born in Liverpool, of Scottish parents. Back in Edinburgh, 1940. Royal High School, Edinburgh 52-56. Edinburgh University 56-59. Began reading career on Edinburgh Festival fringe, with the London poets, Pete Brown, Mike Horovitz and Libby Houston, 1960...

     (born 1938), Scottish poet
  • André A. Jackson
    André A. Jackson
    André Action Diakité Jackson , , more commonly known by his African clan name "M’Zée Fula-Ngenge" , is a diamond industrialist and head of JFPI Corporation, Africa's largest holding company....

    , (born 1964), senior administrator of Africa's diamond industry
  • Andrew Jackson, Sr. (died 1767), father of U.S. President Andrew Jackson
  • Ashley Jackson
    Ashley Jackson (historian)
    Dr Ashley Jackson is a historian and senior lecturer at Kings College London . Jackson specialises in British Imperial and military history and has a regional interest in sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian Ocean region....

    , British historian
  • Charles R. Jackson
    Charles R. Jackson
    Charles Reginald Jackson was an American author, best known for his 1944 novel The Lost Weekend.-Career:Jackson's first published story, "Palm Sunday", appeared in the Partisan Review in 1939...

     (1902-1968), American writer
  • Charles Samuel Jackson
    Charles Samuel Jackson
    Charles Samuel "Sam" Jackson was a prominent newspaper publisher in the U.S. state of Oregon.Born in Deltaville, Virginia, Jackson went west in 1880, settling in Pendleton, Oregon...

     (1860-1924), American newspaper publisher
  • Charlie Jackson (software)
    Charlie Jackson (software)
    Charlie Jackson is a computer software entrepreneur who founded Silicon Beach Software in 1984 and co-founded FutureWave Software in 1993. FutureWave created the first version of what is now Adobe Flash. He was an early investor in Wired magazine, Outpost.com, Streamload and Angelic...

     (born 1948), American software entrepreneur
  • Cindy Jackson
    Cindy Jackson
    Cindy Jackson born in 1956 in Ohio, United States is a singer, writer and television personality listed in the Guinness World record book for having had more cosmetic surgery procedures than anyone else in the world. She set the record in 2000 and Guinness have confirmed that she is still the...

     (born 1955), Guinness World Record holder for having the most cosmetic procedures
  • Cummins Jackson
    Cummins Jackson
    Cummins Edward Jackson was a paternal uncle of Confederate General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson . He owned and operated a grist mill at Jackson's Mill, Virginia ....

     (1802-1849), uncle of Confederate general Stonewall Jackson
  • David Edward Jackson
    David Edward Jackson
    David Edward Jackson was an American pioneer, explorer, trader, and fur trapper.He spent his early life west of the Shenandoah Mountains, in what was then part of Virginia and is now in West Virginia: he was born in Randolph County, and his parents, Edward and Elizabeth Jackson, soon moved the...

     (1788-1837), American explorer
  • David Noyes Jackson
    David Noyes Jackson
    David Noyes Jackson was the life partner of poet James Merrill . A writer and artist, Jackson is remembered today primarily for his literary collaboration with Merrill....

     (1922-2001), American writer
  • Douglas Jackson (businessman)
    Douglas Jackson (businessman)
    Douglas Jackson is the chairman and co-founder of e-gold.Jackson, educated as a medical doctor, previously served as a major in the United States Army Medical Corps at the Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston, Texas , and has previously practiced as an oncologist.- External links :*...

     (born 1957), American businessman
  • Sir Edward Jackson (diplomat) (1925-2002), British diplomat
  • Edward Jackson (manufacturer)
    Edward Jackson (manufacturer)
    Edward Jackson, born: 20 April 1799 at Redding, Connecticut. died: 14 July 1872 at Hamilton, Ontario. Tinware manufacturer. Edward came to Canada with his wife in 1826 and settled at Niagara , where he opened a tinware business. Two years later moved to Ancaster, Ontario and opened up a similar firm...

     (1799-1872), Canadian businessman
  • Sir Geoffrey Jackson
    Geoffrey Jackson
    Sir Geoffrey Holt Seymour Jackson, KCMG was a British diplomat and writer.Jackson received his education at Bolton School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He entered the Foreign Service in 1937, his first ambassadorship coming in 1957, a post in Honduras. In 1969, he became ambassador in Uruguay...

     (1915-1987), British diplomat
  • George Pullen Jackson
    George Pullen Jackson
    George Pullen Jackson was an American educator and musicologist.Jackson was a native of Monson, Maine. He was a pioneer in the field of Southern hymnody. Many consider him the "most diligent scholar of fasola singing" in the 20th century and one of the foremost musicologists of American folk songs...

     (1874-1953), American musician
  • Sir Gordon Jackson (businessman)
    Gordon Jackson (businessman)
    Sir Gordon Jackson AK was an Australian businessman.-Biography:Gordon Jackson was educated at Brisbane Grammar School and the University of Queensland .He joined CSR in 1941 and stayed with the organisation and its subsidiaries until 1985...

     (1924-1991), Australian businessman
  • Rev. Dr. H. Dale Jackson
    H. Dale Jackson
    Reverend Dr. H. Dale Jackson was a Baptist minister, denominational leader and ethicist. He is most remembered for his efforts in promoting the historic distinctives...

     (1930-2003), American clergyman, denominational leader and ethicist
  • Harvey Jackson III
    Harvey Jackson III
    Harvey Hardaway Jackson III is the Professor of History at Jacksonville State University in Alabama. He is the author of a number of works on Alabama and Georgia history.-Early life and career:...

     (born 1943), American historian
  • Helen Hunt Jackson
    Helen Hunt Jackson
    Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, born Helen Fiske , was a United States writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the U.S. government. She detailed the adverse effects of government actions in her history A Century of Dishonor...

     (1830-1885), American novelist and poetess
  • Henry Jackson (businessman)
    Henry Jackson (businessman)
    Henry Jackson is a British-American businessman, who is Managing Partner and Chief Executive of OpCapita LLP, based in London...

     (born 1964), British-American businessman and investor
  • Sir Henry Moore Jackson
    Henry Moore Jackson
    Sir Henry Moore Jackson R.A. GCMG was born in Grenada to the Anglican Bishop of Antigua and of the Leeward Islands. He received his education in England at Clifton College and the Royal Military Academy. After his education, Jackson went into the military, serving for the Royal Artillery from 1870...

     (1849-1908), British colonial governor
  • Holbrook Jackson
    Holbrook Jackson
    George Holbrook Jackson was a British journalist, writer and publisher. He was recognised as one of the leading bibliophiles of his time.-Biography:...

     (1874-1948), British writer
  • Honoré Jackson
    Honoré Jackson
    William Henry Jackson , also known as Honoré Jackson or Jaxon, was a leader of the North-West Rebellion in Canada in 1885....

     (1861-1952), Canadian revolutionary
  • James Caleb Jackson
    James Caleb Jackson
    James Caleb Jackson was the inventor of the first dry, whole grain breakfast cereal which he called granula.-Biography:...

     (1811-1895), American inventor
  • Jennifer Jackson (model)
    Jennifer Jackson (model)
    Jennifer Jackson is an American model who was chosen as Playboy magazine's Playmate of the month for the March 1965 issue. She was the first Black Playmate of the Month and was photographed by Pompeo Posar....

     (born 1945), first African-American Playmate of the Month, March 1965 Playboy
  • Jennifer Lyn Jackson (born 1969), Playmate of the Month, April 1989 Playboy
  • Jeremy Jackson (author)
    Jeremy Jackson (author)
    Jeremy Jackson is an American author. He was born in 1973 in Ohio, grew up on a farm in Missouri, and currently lives in Iowa City, Iowa. He is a graduate of Vassar College and the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa...

    , American author
  • Joe Jackson, Sr. (1873-1942), Austrian clown
  • John Jackson (bishop)
    John Jackson (bishop)
    John Jackson was a British divine and a Church of England bishop for 32 years.-Career:Jackson was appointed rector of St James, Westminster, London in 1846....

     (1811-1886), English bishop
  • John Jackson (painter)
    John Jackson (painter)
    John Jackson was an English painter.Jackson was born in Lastingham, Yorkshire, and started his career as an apprentice tailor to his father, who opposed the artistic ambitions of his son...

     (1778-1831), English painter
  • John G. Jackson (writer)
    John G. Jackson (writer)
    John Glover Jackson was a Pan-Africanist historian, lecturer, teacher and writer. He promoted ideas of Afrocentrism, Black atheists, and Jesus Christ in comparative mythology....

     (1907-1993), American historian and writer
  • Jonathan P. Jackson (1953-1970), brother of George Jackson
    George Jackson (Black Panther)
    George Lester Jackson was an American convict who became a left-wing activist, Marxist, author, a member of the Black Panther Party, and co-founder of the Black Guerrilla Family prison gang...

     and instigator of 1970 Marin County Courthouse incident
    Harold Haley
    Harold Joseph Haley was a Superior Court judge in Marin County, California. He was taken hostage in his courtroom, along with several others, during the course of a trial, and killed during the attempted escape of his captors with their hostages.-Background:Harold Haley, the only son of Mr. and...

  • Joseph H. Jackson
    Joseph H. Jackson
    Joseph Harrison Jackson was an American Pastor and the longest serving President of the National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc.During the height of the American Civil Rights Movement, Jackson's vocal stance for "civil rights through law and order" went in direct opposition to the methods of civil...

     (c. 1905-1990), American clergyman
  • Julia Neale Jackson
    Julia Neale Jackson
    Julia Beckwith Jackson was the mother of Confederate General Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson.- Short and tragic life :...

     (1798-1831), mother of C.S.A. general Stonewall Jackson
  • Kenneth H. Jackson
    Kenneth H. Jackson
    Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson was an English linguist and a translator who specialised in the Celtic languages. He demonstrated how the text of the Ulster Cycle of tales, written circa AD 1100, preserves an oral tradition originating some six centuries earlier and reflects Celtic Irish society of the...

     (1909-1991), English linguist
  • Linda Jackson (politician)
    Linda Jackson (politician)
    Linda D. Jackson is a Canadian politician and former mayor of Vaughan, Ontario. Jackson has been a resident of the City of Vaughan since 1966 and was elected as Mayor on November 14, 2006. Jackson was defeated by Maurizio Bevilacqua in the 2010 Vaughan municipal election.Jackson’s election to the...

    , mayor of Vaughan, Ontario
  • Lorna Jackson
    Lorna Jackson
    Lorna Jackson was mayor of the city of Vaughan, Ontario, Canada, for 20 years.-Political career:Jackson was first elected to Vaughan Council in 1974, serving six years as a local councillor and two years as regional councillor before being elected mayor in 1982...

     (1935-2002), mayor of Vaughan, Ontario
  • Michael Jackson (Anglican bishop)
    Michael Jackson (Anglican bishop)
    Michael Jackson is the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Dublin since 2011.-Early life and family:Jackson was born in Lurgan, County Armagh, Northern Ireland, the son of Church of Ireland rector , and educated at Ballinamallard Primary School and Portora Royal School, Enniskillen...

     (born 1956), Irish bishop
  • Michael Jackson (journalist)
    Michael Jackson (journalist)
    Naea Michael Jackson is a Niuean journalist and former politician.In the 1970s and 1980s, he was government printer and government press photographer in Niue. He published the Tohi Tala Niue, Niue's government-owned weekly newspaper. In 1991, he set up a private printing business, and, in 1993,...

    , Niuean journalist
  • Michael Jackson (radio commentator)
    Michael Jackson (radio commentator)
    Michael Jackson is an American talk radio host based in the Los Angeles, California area. Jackson is best known for his radio show which covered arts, politics, and human interest subjects, particularly in the Los Angeles and greater Southern California area in the era before "shock jocks." His...

    , American radio commentator
  • Michael Jackson (writer)
    Michael Jackson (writer)
    Michael Jackson was an English writer and journalist. He was the author of several influential books about beer and whisky.-Life:...

     (1942-2007), British journalist
  • Michael James Jackson
    Michael James Jackson
    Michael James Jackson was a priest and canon in the Church of England. He was born in 1925 and died in 1995.Jackson was baptised on Michaelmas Day in 1925 in St. Michael's Church, Somerton where his father was the vicar....

     (1925-1995), English clergyman
  • Mick Jackson (author)
    Mick Jackson (author)
    Mick Jackson is a British writer from England, best known for his novel The Underground Man . The book, based on the life of William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and for the 1997 Whitbread Award for best first novel.- Overview :Mick...

     (born 1960), British author
  • Patrick Tracy Jackson
    Patrick Tracy Jackson
    Patrick Tracy Jackson was a United States manufacturer, one of the founders of the Boston Manufacturing Company of Waltham, Massachusetts, and later a founder of the Merrimack Manufacturing Company whose developments formed the nucleus of Lowell, Massachusetts.-Biography:He was born in...

     (1780-1847), Boston merchant
  • Paul Jackson (poker player)
    Paul Jackson (poker player)
    Paul "ActionJack" Jackson is an English professional poker player from Birmingham.-Poker career:Jackson started off playing brag and later played blackjack and roulette in casinos...

     (born c. 1965), English poker player
  • Peter Jackson (academic)
    Peter Jackson (academic)
    An Australian writer and scholar of gender and sexual identities and Buddhism in Thailand. He is currently a Fellow in the Division of Pacific & Asian History, at the Australian National University in Canberra.-Bibliography:...

    , Australian academic
  • Peter Jackson (fashion designer)
    Peter Jackson (fashion designer)
    Peter Jackson was an Australian men's fashion outfitter and fashion designer who catered to the Melbourne market....

     (1928-1008), Australian fashion designer
  • Peter Jackson (historian)
    Peter Jackson (historian)
    Peter Jackson is a scholar and historian, specializing on the Crusades, particularly the contacts between the Europeans and the Mongols as well as medieval Muslim India...

    , British historian
  • Rachel Jackson
    Rachel Jackson
    Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson, born Rachel Donelson, was the wife of the 7th President of the United States, Andrew Jackson....

     (1767-1828), wife of U.S. President Andrew Jackson
  • Rebecca Cox Jackson
    Rebecca Cox Jackson
    Rebecca Cox Jackson was an African-American free woman, best known for her religious activism and for her autobiography.-Biography:...

     (1795-1871), African-American religious activist
  • Richard Jackson (artist)
    Richard Jackson (artist)
    Richard Jackson is an American contemporary artist born in 1939 in Sacramento. He now lives in Los Angeles, California.He studied Art and Engineering at Sacramento State College from 1959–1961 and taught Sculpture and New Forms at UCLA Los Angeles 1989 - 1994....

     (born 1939), American artist
  • Sir Robert Jackson (UN administrator) (1911-1991), Australian administrator for the United Nations
  • Samuel Macauley Jackson
    Samuel Macauley Jackson
    Samuel Macauley Jackson was an American clergyman, editor and author.-Biography:He was born on June 19, 1851 in New York City to George T. Jackson and Letitia J. A. Macauley....

     (1851-1912), American clergyman, editor and author
  • Sarah Yorke Jackson
    Sarah Yorke Jackson
    Sarah Yorke Jackson was the daughter-in-law of U.S. President Andrew Jackson. She served as White House hostess and unofficial First Lady of the United States from November 26, 1834 to March 4, 1837....

     (1803-1887), daughter-in-law of U.S. President Andrew Jackson
  • Shirley Jackson
    Shirley Jackson
    Shirley Jackson was an American author. A popular writer in her time, her work has received increasing attention from literary critics in recent years...

     (1916-1965), American author
  • Steve Jackson (thriller writer)
    Steve Jackson (thriller writer)
    Steve Jackson is a thriller writer born in Arbroath, Scotland in 1969.Jackson spent his early childhood living in the town of Carnoustie. At the age of eleven he moved to Stroud in Gloucestershire, England. He now lives in St. Albans, Hertfordshire....

     (born 1969), Scottish writer
  • Steve Jackson (UK game designer) (born 1951), U.K game designer
  • Steve Jackson (US game designer) (born c. 1953), U.S. game designer
  • Sir Thomas Jackson, 1st Baronet
    Sir Thomas Jackson, 1st Baronet
    Sir Thomas Jackson, 1st Baronet, was the chief manager of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation. He was responsible for financing the development of Colonial Hong Kong under the first large scale bank.-Early years:...

     (1841-1915), first chief manager of HSBC
  • Thomas Jackson (theologian)
    Thomas Jackson (theologian)
    Thomas Jackson was an English theologian, and President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Originally a Calvinist, he became in later life an Arminian.-Life:...

     (1579-1640), English theologian
  • Thomas Jackson (trade unionist) (1925-2003), British trade union leader
  • Sir Thomas Graham Jackson
    Thomas Graham Jackson
    Sir Thomas Graham Jackson, 1st Baronet RA was one of the most distinguished English architects of his generation...

    , 1st Baronet (1835–1924), English architect
  • Thos. W. Jackson
    Thos. W. Jackson
    Thomas William Jackson was the author and publisher of a series of popular joke books published between, approximately, 1904 and 1955....

     (1867-1934), author
  • Valerie Jackson
    Valerie Jackson
    Valerie Jackson is an American radio host, philanthropist, and former advertising executive. She is the widow of former Atlanta, Georgia mayor Maynard Jackson.-Early life:...

     (born 1949), American radio host, widow of Atlanta mayor Maynard Jackson
  • William Jackson (Canadian administrator)
    William Jackson (Canadian administrator)
    William Jackson is a Canadian administrator. He has served in several fields during his professional career.Jackson was president of the Manitoba Government Employees' Association from 1976 to 1979...

  • William Jackson (gangster)
    William Jackson (gangster)
    William Jackson a.k.a. "Action Jackson" was an enforcer and loan collector for the Chicago Outfit. He was tortured to death by his fellow gangsters on suspicion he had become an informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation .-Death:William Jackson was a big man, weighing over...

     (died 1961), American mobster
  • William Jackson (pirate)
    William Jackson (pirate)
    William Jackson was an English privateer who, based in Guanaja and Roatan , was in the service of the Providence Island Company from 1639 until around 1641. During that year, he captured a Spanish slave ship at the port of and received a ransom of 8,000 pounds of indigo as well as 2,000...

    , English pirate
  • Isaac Jackson (1665-1751), early Quaker pioneer from Ballitore, Ireland, settled in London Grove Twp., PA, in 1725

Fictional characters

  • Daniel Jackson (Stargate), a character in the film Stargate and the subsequent television series
  • Michael "Mike" Jackson, cricketer in P. G. Wodehouse's Psmith books
  • Percy Jackson, the main protagonist and narrator of Percy Jackson & The Olympians
  • Sgt. Jericho Jackson, title character in the film Action Jackson
    Action Jackson
    Action Jackson is a 1988 action film directed by Craig R. Baxley and starring Carl Weathers, Vanity, Craig T. Nelson and Sharon Stone. Paula Abdul was the choreographer...

  • Sgt. Paul Jackson, fictional US Marine in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
    Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
    Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is a 2007 first-person shooter video game, developed by Infinity Ward and published by Activision for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii. A handheld game was made for the Nintendo DS. The game was released in North America, Australia, and...

  • Jackson Stewart (character), fictional character in the series Hannah Montana

First name

  • Clyde Jackson Browne
    Jackson Browne
    Jackson Browne is an American singer-songwriter and musician who has sold over 17 million albums in the United States alone....

    , U.S. singer
  • Jackson Davis
    Jackson Davis
    Jackson Davis is an American actor. He is best known for portraying the character "Jonas" from the lonelygirl15 videos series, its spinoff KateModern, and its sequel series, LG15: The Resistance. He was born in Gloversville, New York but was raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania where he attended...

    , founder of charity organization "Protect A Paw"
  • Jackson Douglas
    Jackson Douglas
    Jackson Douglas is best known for his role as Jackson Belleville in the television series Gilmore Girls, for which he's also directed the Season 5 episode To Live and Let Diorama and Season 6 episode Welcome to the Dollhouse...

    , an actor known for playing the character Jackson Belleville on the TV series Gilmore Girls
  • Jackson Duggar, one of the Duggars from 19 Kids and Counting
  • Jackson Fourgeaud, French musician from Jackson and his Computer Band
    Jackson and his computer band
    Jackson and his Computer Band is the pseudonym of Parisian IDM artist Jackson Fourgeaud. Fourgeaud released his debut album Smash with Warp Records in 2005.- History :Jackson Fourgeaud began making music at the age of 15...

  • Jackson C. Frank
    Jackson C. Frank
    Jackson Carey Frank was an American folk musician.-Early life:When Jackson Frank was 11, a furnace exploded at his school, sending a ball of flames down corridors until it ended up in Frank's music classroom in the Cleveland Hill Elementary School in Cheektowaga, New York...

    , singer-songwriter
  • Jackson Kabiga
    Jackson Kabiga
    Jackson Kabiga is a retired long-distance runner from Kenya, who won the 1998 edition of the Fukuoka Marathon, clocking 2:09:30 on December 6, 1998. He defeated Japan's Nobuyuki Sato . Earlier that year Kabiga triumphed in the Paris Marathon.-Achievements:-References:*...

    , Kenyan long-distance runner
  • Paul Jackson Pollock
    Jackson Pollock
    Paul Jackson Pollock , known as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist. He had a volatile personality, and...

    , U.S. abstract painter
  • Jackson Proskow
    Jackson Proskow
    Jackson Proskow is a Canadian journalist, currently working for the Global Television Network in Toronto, Canada at television station CIII-TV....

    , Canadian journalist
  • Jackson Coelho Silva (born 1973) Brazilian footballer
  • Jackson Coelho Brazilian footballer
  • Jackson Stewart, a character in the U.S. children television series Hannah Montana
  • Jackson Teller, main character in the television series Sons Of Anarchy
    Sons of Anarchy
    Sons of Anarchy is an American television drama series created by Kurt Sutter about the lives of a close-knit outlaw motorcycle club operating in Charming, a fictional town in Northern California...

  • Jackson Rathbone
    Jackson Rathbone
    Monroe Jackson Rathbone, V , better known as Jackson Rathbone, is an American actor and musician. He is perhaps best known for his role as Jasper Hale in The Twilight Saga and for playing Sokka in The Last Airbender....

     actor, most notable for playing Jasper Hale in the Twilight
    The Twilight Saga (film series)
    The Twilight Saga is a series of supernatural romance fantasy films from Summit Entertainment based on the four Twilight series novels by the American author Stephenie Meyer. The films star Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner. The series has grossed over $2 billion in worldwide...

     (film) franchise,and frontman in the band 100 Monkeys
    100 Monkeys
    100 Monkeys is an independent funk rock band from Los Angeles, California. The band name comes from the idea of the “Hundredth Monkey Effect” in which a learned behavior spreads instantaneously from one group of monkeys to all related monkeys once a critical number is reached...


Jaxon

  • Jaxon
    Jaxon
    Jaxon was the pen name of Jack Jackson , an American cartoonist. Many consider him the first underground comix artist. He co-founded the seminal Rip Off Press.-Career:Jack Jackson was born in 1941 in Pandora, Texas...

     (pen name of Jack Jackson)
  • Jaxon's
  • Jaxon Benge
    Jaxon Benge
    Jaxon Benge, is the guitarist for American punk rock band, Hed PE. He exclusively uses Ibanez Seven-string guitars in the studio and when performing live...

  • Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon
    Frankie Jaxon
    Frankie "Half Pint" Jaxon was an African American vaudeville singer, female impersonator, stage designer and comedian, popular in the 1920s and 1930s.-Life and career:...

  • Jerome "Jerry" Jaxon
    Jerry Jaxon
    Jerome “Jerry” Jaxon is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe.-Publication history:Jerome Jaxon first appeared in Alpha Flight #2-3 , and was created by John Byrne....

  • Thunderbolt Jaxon
    Thunderbolt Jaxon
    Thunderbolt Jaxon is a superhero comic-book character who first appeared in an Australian comic in 1949. His first appearance in the UK was in Comet #76 in 1949...

  • Jaxon Crabb
    Jaxon Crabb
    Jaxon Crabb is a former Australian rules footballer who played as a midfielder for the West Coast Eagles and Port Adelaide Football Club.-Football career:...

  • Jaxon Lee
    Jaxon Lee
    Jason C. Lee is an American voice actor and co-founder of the dubbing studio Gaijin Productions along with his wife Amanda Winn-Lee...

  • Jaxon modulation
    Jaxon modulation
    Jaxon modulation is a modulation system for placing information on a bitstream generated by a finite generator.A bitstream of random nature can most probably not have any extra information modulated onto it. While a bitstream with zero entropy can have any amount of information modulated onto it...

  • Honoré Jaxon
    Honoré Jackson
    William Henry Jackson , also known as Honoré Jackson or Jaxon, was a leader of the North-West Rebellion in Canada in 1885....

  • Eli Jaxon-Bear
    Gangaji
    Gangaji is an American born spiritual teacher and author. She currently lives in Ashland, Oregon with her husband, fellow spiritual teacher Eli Jaxon-Bear.-Early life:...

  • Gunner Jaxon
    Guitar Hero: On Tour series
    Guitar Hero: On Tour is a series of music video games based on the Guitar Hero series for the Nintendo DS handheld game system. The series is developed by Vicarious Visions and distributed by RedOctane and Activision...

  • David (Nicholas George) Jackson
    David Jackson (rock musician)
    David Nicholas George Jackson , nicknamed Jaxon, is a British progressive rock saxophonist, flautist, and composer. He is best known for his work with the band Van der Graaf Generator and his work in Music and Disability...

     (nicknamed Jaxon)

See also

  • Jack (name)
    Jack (name)
    Jack is a 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 traditionally used as the diminutive form of the name John, though it is also often given as a proper name in its own right.The name Jack is unique in the...

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