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John Jackson

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John Jackson may refer to:

Entertainment

Art

  • John Baptist Jackson (1701–1780), British artist
  • John Jackson (painter) (1778–1831), British painter
  • John Jackson (engraver) (1801–1848), English wood engraver
  • John Richardson Jackson (1819–1877), English engraver
  • John Adams Jackson (1825–1879), American sculptor
  • J. B. Jackson (1909–1996), writer and sketch artist in landscape design
  • John Reno Jackson (born 1995), Caymanian artist

Music

  • John Enderby Jackson (1827–1903), English musician and composer
  • John Jackson (blues musician) (1924–2002), American
  • John Jackson (musician), guitarist for the Jayhawks
  • Johnny Jackson (musician) (1951–2006), drummer with the Jackson 5
  • John Jackson, legal name of rapper Fabolous

Other entertainment

  • John Jackson (travel writer) (died 1807), British traveler and writer
  • John G. Jackson (writer) (1907–1993), African-American cultural historian and writer
  • J.J. Jackson (media personality) (1941–2004), American radio and television personality
  • John M. Jackson (born 1950), American actor best known for playing the J.A.G. on JAG
  • John E. Jackson (make-up artist), American make-up artist
  • John Jackson (writer), English television writer

Politics

  • John Jackson (Pontefract MP) (died 1637), English politician; MP 1624–1629
  • Sir John Jackson, 1st Baronet (1763–1820), British businessman, MP for Dover and a baronet
  • John Jackson (Richmond politician) (1848–1910), member of the Virginia House of Delegates
  • John G. Jackson (politician) (1777–1825), Virginia politician and federal judge
  • John Alexander Jackson (1809–1885), Colonial Treasurer of South Australia
  • John Jackson (mayor) (1809–1887), mayor of Tampa, Florida
  • John Jay Jackson Jr. (1824–1907), Virginia and West Virginia politician and federal judge
  • John Alexander Jackson (Tasmanian politician) (1844–1889), Attorney-General of Tasmania, 1872 to 1873
  • John Jackson (engineer) (1851–1919), British engineer and politician, MP for Plymouth Devonport, 1910–1918
  • John Robert Jackson (1859–1925), rancher and politician in British Columbia, Canada
  • John Arthur Jackson (1862–1937), British Conservative Party politician
  • John B. Jackson (1862–1920), U.S. diplomat, United States Ambassador to Serbia
  • John S. Jackson (Wisconsin politician) (1874–1960), Wisconsin farmer and politician
  • John E. Jackson (Louisiana politician) (1892–1989), Louisiana Republican Party state chairman and national committeeman
  • John Jackson (South East Derbyshire MP) (1919–1976), British Conservative politician
  • John Edward Jackson (diplomat) (1925–2002), British diplomat
  • John Rawleigh Jackson (1780–?), planter, slave-owner and politician in Jamaica
  • John Holmes Jackson (1871–1944), mayor of Burlington, Vermont

Religion

  • John Jackson (minister) (1621–1693), English nonconformist
  • John Jackson (priest) (died 1717), first chaplain to the garrison at St John's, Newfoundland
  • John Jackson (controversialist) (1686–1763), English clergyman
  • John Jackson (Archdeacon of Clogher) (fl. 1762–1783)
  • John Edward Jackson (antiquarian) (1805–1891), English cleric and archivist
  • John Jackson (bishop) (1811–1885), bishop of Lincoln and of Bishop of London
  • John Paul Jackson (1950–2015), American author, teacher, founder of Streams Ministries International
  • John Long Jackson (1884–1948), bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana

Science

  • John Jackson (astronomer) (1887–1958), Scottish astronomer
  • John David Jackson (physicist) (1925–2016), Canadian–American physicist and author of a graduate textbook on electrodynamics
  • John Hughlings Jackson (1835–1911), neurologist, namesake of Jacksonian seizure
  • John Meadows Jackson (1907–1998), British mathematician and physicist
  • John P. Jackson, American physicist and leading researcher on the Shroud of Turin
  • John S. Jackson (1920–1991), Irish geologist
  • J. Wilfrid Jackson (1880–1978), British geologist and paleontologist
  • John Price Jackson (1868–1948), American electrical engineer and academic

Sports

Baseball and cricket

  • John Jackson (cricketer, born 1833) (1833–1901), English cricketer
  • John Jackson (cricketer, born 1841) (1841–1906), English cricketer
  • John Jackson (Worcestershire cricketer) (1880–1968), English cricketer
  • John Jackson (cricketer, born 1898) (1898–1958), Chilean cricketer
  • Bud Fowler (John W. Jackson, 1858–1913), pioneer black baseball player and club organizer
  • John Jackson (baseball) (1909–1956), Major League Baseball pitcher, 1933

Boxing

  • John Jackson (English boxer) (1769–1845), English boxer
  • John David Jackson (boxer) (born 1963), former super welterweight boxer
  • John Jackson (Virgin Islands boxer) (born 1989), Olympic boxer from the Virgin Islands

Football

  • John Jackson (offensive tackle) (born 1965), former NFL offensive tackle
  • John Jackson (wide receiver) (born 1967), former NFL player
  • John Jackson (football manager) (1861–1931), first manager of Brighton and Hove Albion
  • John Jackson (footballer, born 1885) (1885–?), Scottish footballer (Clyde, Leeds City, Celtic, Dundee)
  • John Jackson (footballer, born 1906) (1906–1965), Scottish football goalkeeper (Partick Thistle, Chelsea)
  • John Jackson (footballer, born 1923) (1923–1992), English footballer for Stoke City
  • John Jackson (footballer, born 1942), English football goalkeeper for Crystal Palace
  • Johnnie Jackson (American football) (born 1967), cornerback

Other sports

  • John Jackson (sport shooter) (1885–1971), American Olympic sport shooter
  • John Angelo Jackson (1921–2005), mountaineer
  • John Jackson (athlete) (born 1941), British steeplechaser
  • John Jackson (racing driver) (born 1964), professional racing driver
  • J. D. Jackson (basketball) (born 1969), Canadian basketball coach and former player
  • John James Jackson (born 1977), British bobsledder and Royal Marines commando
  • John Jackson (field hockey) (born 1986), Irish field hockey player

Others

  • John Mills Jackson (c. 1764–1836), Canadian author, merchant, and justice of the peace
  • John K. Jackson (1828–1866), American lawyer and soldier
  • John Payne Jackson (1848–1915), Americo-Liberian journalist
  • John Francis Jackson (1908–1942), Australian fighter ace of World War II
  • John Jackson (trade unionist) (1919–1995), British trade union leader
  • John Jackson (businessman) (born 1929), author and campaigner
  • John Jackson (law professor) (1932–2015), American law professor at Georgetown University
  • John Andrew Jackson, American slave
  • John L. Jackson Jr. (born 1971), professor and dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice

See also

  • Jackson (name)
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