Famous People with Name Jack

Jack "Goose" Givens            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jack "Goose" Givens: Givens earned Kentucky Mr. Basketball and Parade All-America honors after his senior year at Lexington's Bryan Station High School in 1974. UK finished Givens' freshman season as national runners-up, falling 92-85 to UCLA in the 1975 Final Four championship game. In 1978, Givens and Kentucky returned to the Final Four at the Checkerdome in Saint Louis, Missouri. After leading Kentucky to a semifinal victory over the University of Arkansas, he scored a career-high 41 points and made 18 of 27 field goal attempts against Duke to help Kentucky clinch their fifth NCAA Championship in men's basketball.

Jack Hirshleifer            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jack Hirshleifer: was an American economist and long-time professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.He received a B.S. from Harvard University in 1945 and a Ph.D. in 1950. He worked at the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica from 1949 to 1955. He then taught at the University of Chicago from 1955 to 1960, and at UCLA until 2001. Hirshleifer was well-known for his work on uncertainty and information in economics, the economic analysis of conflict, and bioeconomics. His undergraduate textbook, Price Theory and Applications, went into seven editions. A 1958 article by Hirshleifer began the triumphant comeback of Irving Fisher's theory of capital and interest, now deemed canonical.

Jack Harold Paar            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jack Harold Paar: was an American radio and television talk show host most noted for his status as host of The Tonight Show.ack Paar came to the attention of RKO Radio Pictures in Hollywood, which hired him to emcee Variety Time (1948), a compilation of vaudeville sketches. Paar later recalled that RKO didn't know what to do with him. His producers, trying to decide what kind of screen characters he could play, compared Paar with other RKO stars. Finally, Paar said, one of the executives had an inspiration, and figured out who Jack Paar really was: "Kay Kyser, with warmth." Paar projected a pleasant personality on film, and RKO called him back to emcee another filmed vaudeville show, Footlight Varieties (1951). Paar was featured in a few films, including a role opposite Marilyn Monroe in Love Nest (1951).

Jack Bascom Brooks            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jack Bascom Brooks: is a retired Democratic politician from the U.S. state of Texas, who served for more than 40 years in the U.S. House of RepresentativesIn 1952, Brooks was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in Texas's 2nd district as a Democrat. During the 1950s and 1960s he was one of the more liberal Southern Congressmen on issues like labor and civil rights (he refused to sign a Southern Manifesto) while remaining conservative on issues like the death penalty and gun control. In 1966, he changed to representing Texas's 9th congressional district. Brooks was the chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Government Operations from 1975 through 1988 and the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary from 1989 until 1995. Brooks was one of the few Texas congressional supporters of liberal Democrat Sen. Ralph Yarborough.

Jack Coe            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jack Coe: was one of the first tent evangelists of the post World War II period in the United States. Coe was ordained in the Assemblies of God in 1944, and began to preach while still serving in World War II. After receiving a miraculous healing, Coe felt called of God to the gospel ministry. For the next twelve years Coe would be a leading proponent of divine healing and organize many tent revivals to spread his message. Coe was hospitalized and diagnosed with bulbar polio in December 1956 and soon succumbed to the virus.

Jarrett Matthew Jack            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jarrett Matthew Jack: is a basketball player for the NBA's Indiana Pacers. He plays point guard, is 6' 3" (1.91 m) tall, and weighs 197 lbs (90 kg).

David Jack            Origin/Culture/Country: American

David Jack: was a powerful Californian landowner, developer, and businessman. Born in Scotland, he emigrated to California during the 1849 Gold Rush, and soon acquired several thousand acres in and around Monterey, shaping the history of Monterey County in the first decades of American possession. He is also credited as being the first to market and popularize Monterey Jack cheese.After several years working as an army contractor in Brooklyn, where he is reputed to have met Captain Robert E. Lee, Jack read about the discovery of gold in California in 1848. In November of that year he sailed with an artillery regiment to California, arriving in San Francisco in April 1849. Jack invested in guns and made a $4,000 profit on revolvers upon landing in San Francisco, and then took up a job at the city's Customs House.

Beau Jack            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Beau Jack: was an American lightweight boxer, he was a world champion twice. One of the most popular fighters during the war years, he headlined at Madison Square Garden on 21 occasions, a record that still stands. Immediately after his career Jack operated a drive-

David Russell Jack            Origin/Culture/Country: American

David Russell Jack: was a Canadian author, editor, publisher, and politician.[1]