Jacks may refer to: *

Knucklebones Knucklebones, also known as scatter jacks, snobs, astragaloi (''singular'': astragalus), tali, dibs, fivestones, jacks, jackstones, or jinks, among many other names, is a game of Fine motor skill, dexterity played with a number of small objects ...

, a game of ancient origin, also known as "jacks" *

Jacks (band) Jacks were a 1960s Japanese psychedelic rock group A group is a number of persons or things that are located, gathered, or classed together. Groups of people * Cultural group, a group whose members share the same cultural identity * Ethnic ...

, a 1960s Japanese psychedelic rock band *

Jacks Mountain Jacks Mountain is a stratigraphic ridge which is located in central Pennsylvania, United States, trending southeast of the Stone Mountain ridge and Jacks Mountain Anticline. The ridge line separates Kishacoquillas Valley from the Ferguson and D ...

, a ridge in Pennsylvania, United States * Jacks River, a river in the Cohutta Wilderness Area, Georgia, United States *

Jack's Jack's Family Restaurants, LP (doing business as Jack's) is an American fast food restaurant chain, headquartered and based in Birmingham, Alabama. Restaurants feature sit-down dining, drive-thrus and takeout service. The menu features primari ...

, a fast food restaurant chain in the United States * Jack's (store), a value retail chain in the United Kingdom, part of the Tesco Group *

South Dakota State Jackrabbits The South Dakota State Jackrabbits are the 19 intercollegiate teams representing South Dakota State University that compete in the U.S. National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I (for football: Football Championship Subdivision). Sout ...

, the athletic program of South Dakota State University

People with the surname

* Al Jacks (born c. 1935), American professor and college football coach * Banita Jacks, American convicted murderer *

Brian Jacks Brian Jacks (born 5 October 1946) is a British judoka who won Britain's first medal at a World Championships taking a bronze in Salt Lake City 1967, and gained a second bronze at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Superstars Brian Jacks later ach ...

(born 1946), British judoka *

Digby Jacks Digby Jacks (16 May 1945 – 21 October 2011) was a British student activist and trade union official. Jacks became the President of the UK's National Union of Students in 1971, serving until 1973, and was subsequently an official for the Manuf ...

(1945–2011), British trade union official * George Jacks (born 1946), English association football player * Harry Jacks (1908–1994), New Zealand soldier, plant pathologist, lecturer and forester *

James Jacks James "Jim" Jacks (December 29, 1947 – January 20, 2014) was an American film producer of several blockbuster films, and was also known for cultivating visionary independent film auteurs, having produced the first Hollywood films of Richard ...

(1947–2014), American film producer *

Katrina Jacks Katrina Jacks (c. 1986 in Monmouth, Wales – 16 May 2010 in Lake Titicaca, Peru), was a Welsh rower and chemical engineering graduate. Biography Jacks was born in Monmouth, the second child and first daughter to General Practitioners Alasdair a ...

(1986–2010), Welsh rower and chemical engineer * L. P. Jacks (1860–1955), English educator, philosopher, and Unitarian minister *

Onimim Jacks Onimim Ernestina Jacks (née Briggs) (born 4 December 1961, also known as Onimim E. Briggs-Jacks) is a Nigerian lawyer who served from June 2015 to September 2017 as the Rivers State Commissioner of Agriculture. She is a member of the Rivers Stat ...

, Nigerian lawyer *

Robert Jacks Robert Jacks (8 March 1943, Melbourne – 14 August 2014, Castlemaine) was an award-winning Australian painter, sculptor and printmaker and acknowledged as one of Australia's leading abstract artists. Early life and career Jacks was born ...

(1943–2014), Australian painter, sculptor and printmaker *

Ron Jacks Ronald Brian Jacks (born January 23, 1948) was a Canadian Olympic and international swimmer in the 1960s and 1970s. He is currently a leading coach for Canadian swimmers such as Richard Weinberger through the Pacific Coast Swimming Club. He he ...

(born 1948), Canadian swimmer *

Sam Jacks Samuel Perry Jacks (April 23, 1915 – May 14, 1975) more commonly known as, "Sam Jacks," was a Canadian soldier in World War II, inventor, military and civic recreation director, sports coach, creator of the Canadian sport of ringette for girls a ...

(1915–1975), Canadian sports inventor *

Susan Jacks Susan Jacks ( Pesklevits; 19 August 1948 – 25 April 2022) was a Canadian singer-songwriter and record producer. Career Susan Pesklevits was born on 19 August 1948 to a family of eight children in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Her family moved to ...

(1948–2022), Canadian singer–songwriter *

Terry Jacks Terrence Ross Jacks (born March 29, 1944) is a Canadian singer, songwriter, guitarist and record producer known for his 1974 hit song "Seasons in the Sun", an English adaptation of a song written by Belgian composer and singer Jacques Brel in 1 ...

(born 1944), Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and environmentalist *

Tex Jacks The following is a list of characters that first appeared in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'' in 2006, by order of first appearance. 2006 was a year when many families joined ''EastEnders''. First, Deano Wicks (Matt Di Angelo), his sister Carl ...

(born 1995), British actor *

Tyler Jacks Tyler Jacks is a David H. Koch Professor of Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a long-time HHMI investigator, and founding director of the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, which brings together bi ...

, American biologist *

William Jacks William Jacks (18 March 1841 – 9 August 1907) was a British ironmaster, author and Liberal politician. Early life Jacks was born at Cornhill-on-Tweed, near Coldstream, Northumberland the son Richard Jacks, a farmer and land steward, and hi ...

(1841–1907), British ironmaster, author, and politician

People with the surname

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