Famous People with Name Jackson

Jackson Vroman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jackson Vroman: is an American professional basketball player, formerly in the NBA and currently with BC Lietuvos Rytas of Lithuania.His senior year in high school, he played at Viewmont High School in Bountiful,Utah for Coach Emery. After a career at Snow Community College in Ephraim, Utah and Iowa State University, Jackson was a second-round draft pick of the Chicago Bulls in the 2004 NBA Draft. He has since played for the Phoenix Suns and the New Orleans Hornets, averaging 4.6 points and 3.8 rebounds per game.

Jackson DeForest Kelley            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jackson DeForest Kelley: was an American actor known for his starring role as Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy of the USS Enterprise in the television series Star Trek and six of its subsequent movies, as well as an elderly Admiral Dr. Leonard McCoy in the Star Trek: The Next Generation pilot, Encounter at Farpoint. Shy by his own admission, Kelley was the only cast member of the original Star Trek series program never to have written or published an autobiography.

Jackson Northman Anderson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jackson Northman Anderson: was an American newspaper columnist and is considered one of the fathers of modern investigative journalism.Jack Anderson was a key and often controversial figure in reporting on J. Edgar Hoover's apparent ties to the Mafia, Watergate, the John F. Kennedy assassination, the search for fugitive ex-Nazi officials in South America and the Savings and Loan scandal. He discovered a CIA plot to assassinate Fidel Castro, and has also been credited for breaking the Iran-Contra affair, though he has said the scoop was "spiked" because he had become too close to President Ronald Reagan. Anderson was a crusader against corruption.

Jackson Mac Low            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jackson Mac Low: was an American poet, performance artist, composer and playwright, known to most readers of poetry as a practioneer of systematic chance operations and other non-intentional compositional methods in his work, which Mac Low first experienced in the musical work of John Cage, Earle Brown, and Christian Wolff.

Jackson Rathbone            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jackson Rathbone: He is known for his role as Nicholas Fiske, on the ABC Family drama Beautiful People. He has had guest roles in The OC, and Close to Home. He has made a couple of movies, Molding Clay (AKA River's End), Pray for Morning, and Travis and Henry. He also did extensive work for Disney 411 and interviewed big stars like Hilary Duff. On February 19, 2008 it was announced that he is set to play the character of Jasper Hale in the upcoming movie Twilight, based on the best-selling novel by Stephenie Meye

Shelby M. Jackson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

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.

Claiborne Fox Jackson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

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. He was elected to the state legislature and served twelve years, includ

Donald Lester Jackson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Donald Lester Jackson: was a U.S. Representative from California. He served as a private in the United States Marine Corps from 1927 to 1931 and again from 1940 until discharged as a major in 1945 with two years' combat service overseas. He engaged in public relations, and work

William Purnell Jackson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William Purnell Jackson: was a Republican member of the United States Senate, representing the State of Maryland from 1912-1914. His father, William Humphreys Jackson, was a U.S. Congressman from Maryland.Jackson became a member of the Republican National Committee in 1908, and w

Frank Darr Jackson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Frank Darr Jackson: was the 15th Governor of Iowa, serving one term from 1894-96. He was admitted to the bar in 1875 and practiced law in Greene, Iowa. From 1885-91, he was Iowa Secretary of State. He was elected Governor as a Republican in 1893, defeating incumbent Horace B