Famous People with Name Jackson

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

Jackson Whipps Showalter            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jackson Whipps Showalter: was a five-time U.S. Chess Champion: 1890, 1892, 1892–1894, 1895-1896 and 1906–1909. He was born in Minerva, Kentucky.He won U.S. Championship matches against Solomon Lipschutz (twice), Max Judd and Albert Hodges. He lost championship matches to Solomon L

Jackson Beardy            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jackson Beardy: was a Canadian artist. He was a Ayisini-indian and his works are characterized by scenes from the holy stories of his people. He belonged to the "Woodland School of Art" and was a prominent member of the “Indian Group of Seven”.Beardy was raised by his grandmother, from whom he's learned the rich history and sacred stories of his ancestors. Beardy quickly distanced himself from the forced nature of education that all Indians in that area underwent at the residential schools, and it was from these lessons that he began to assert his “Indianness”. Interestingly, Beardy did benefit from his education at the boarding school, as it was there that he learned to draw and paint.

Russell Stanley "Russ" Jackson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Russell Stanley "Russ" Jackson: 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.

Alexander Young Jackson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Alexander Young Jackson: was a Canadian painter and founding member of the Group of Seven.As a young boy, Jackson worked as an office boy for a lithograph company, after his father abandoned the family of six children. It was at this company that Jackson began his art training. In the evenings, he took classes at Montreal's Le Monument National.Jackson returned to Canada, settling in Sweetsburg, Quebec, where he began painting works such as The Edge of Maple Wood. He held his first single artist exhibition at the Montreal Art Gallery with Randolph Hewton in 1913. Unable to make ends meet and discouraged by the Canadian art scene, he considered moving to the United States. However, he received a letter from J. E. H. MacDonald and changed his mind.

Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson: was an American specialist on Indo-Iranian languages, born in New York City. He graduated from Columbia in 1883 and taught at Columbia University from 1895 to 1935. His grammar of Avestan, the language used in the Zoroastrian scriptures, is still considered to be the seminal work on the topic.He traveled in India, Persia, and Central Asia between 1901 and 1918. He was the editor of History of Persia and published:

Laura (Riding) Jackson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Laura (Riding) Jackson: was an American poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer.She became associated with the Fugitives through Allen Tate, and they published her poems in The Fugitive magazine. Her first marriage, to the historian Louis Gottschalk, ended in div

William Henry Jackson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William Henry Jackson: was an American painter, photographer and explorer famous for his images of the American West. He was a great-great nephew of Samuel Wilson, the progenitor of America's national symbol Uncle Sam.