Jackie
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Jackie is a given name
for both males and females, originally a pet form of Jack/John or Jacqueline.
Given name
A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...
for both males and females, originally a pet form of Jack/John or Jacqueline.
People with the given name Jackie
- Jackie ChanJackie ChanJackie Chan, SBS, MBE is a Hong Kong actor, action choreographer, comedian, director, producer, martial artist, screenwriter, entrepreneur, singer and stunt performer. In his movies, he is known for his acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, use of improvised weapons, and innovative stunts...
(born 1954), Hong Kong actor and filmmaker - Jackie CooperJackie CooperJackie Cooper was an American actor, television director, producer and executive. He was a child actor who managed to make the transition to an adult career. Cooper was the first child actor to receive an Academy Award nomination...
(1922–2011), American actor and TV producer - Jackie Earle HaleyJackie Earle HaleyJackie Earle Haley is an American film actor. Establishing himself from child actor to adult Academy Award-nominee, he is perhaps best known for his roles as Moocher in Breaking Away, Kelly Leak in The Bad News Bears, pedophile Ronnie McGorvey in Little Children, the vigilante Rorschach in...
(born 1961), American actor - Jackie EvanchoJackie EvanchoJacqueline Marie "Jackie" Evancho is an American child singer described as a classical crossover artist. After entering some talent competitions, issuing an independent album, Prelude to a Dream, and attracting interest on YouTube, she gained wider popularity in 2010 with her performances in the...
(born 2000), American opera singer - Jackie FieldsJackie FieldsJackie Fields was an American professional boxer who won two world championship titles.-Personal life:...
(Jacob Finkelstein; (1908–1984)), American world champion welterweightWelterweightWelterweight is a weight class division in combat sports. Originally the term "welterweight" was used only in boxing, but other combat sports like kickboxing, taekwondo and mixed martial arts also began to use it for their own weight division system...
& Olympic champion featherweight; Hall of Fame - Jackie Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher (1841–1920), British admiral
- Jackie GleasonJackie GleasonJackie Gleason was an American comedian, actor and musician. He was known for his brash visual and verbal comedy style, especially by his character Ralph Kramden on The Honeymooners, a situation-comedy television series. His most noted film roles were as Minnesota Fats in the drama film The...
(1916–1987), American actor and musician - Jackie KablerJackie KablerJackie Kabler is a British freelance television presenter and reporter.Kabler was born in Coventry.Kabler is best known for her work on breakfast TV programme GMTV, where she worked for nine years, two as a reporter/producer and seven as a roving correspondent...
(born 1970), British newsreader - Jackie Kennedy Onassis (1929–1994), American former First Lady
- Jackie LeeJackie LeeJackie Lee is an Irish popular music singer, who has recorded under various names.-Career:Lee was a musical child prodigy. She won a scholarship and trained as a soprano for four years...
(born 1936), Irish singer also known as "Jacky" - Jackie MasonJackie MasonJackie Mason is an American stand-up comedian and movie actor.-Early life:Born Yacov Moshe Maza in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, he grew up on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City....
, American comedian and actor - Jackie McLeanJackie McLeanJohn Lenwood McLean was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader and educator, born in New York City.-Biography:McLean's father, John Sr., played guitar in Tiny Bradshaw's orchestra...
(1931–2006), American saxophonist and composer - Jackie McNamaraJackie McNamaraJackie McNamara is a Scottish football player and manager who currently manages Partick Thistle. He is a former Scottish international and has filled a variety of defensive roles in his career and captained Celtic under the management of Martin O'Neill.-Dunfermline Athletic:The son of former...
(born 1973), Scottish footballer - Jackie RobinsonJackie RobinsonJack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson was the first black Major League Baseball player of the modern era. Robinson broke the baseball color line when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947...
(1919–1972), American baseball player - Jackie StewartJackie StewartSir John Young Stewart, OBE , better known as Jackie Stewart, and nicknamed The Flying Scotsman, is a Scottish former racing driver and team owner. He competed in Formula One between 1965 and 1973, winning three World Drivers' Championships. He also competed in Can-Am...
(born 1939), Scottish racing driver
Characters
- Jacky, the main character in the book series Bloody Jack
- Jackie (Cyberchase), a cartoon character on Cyberchase
- Jackie Boone, a character of Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars TrilogyMars trilogyThe Mars trilogy is a series of award-winning science fiction novels by Kim Stanley Robinson that chronicles the settlement and terraforming of the planet Mars through the intensely personal and detailed viewpoints of a wide variety of characters spanning almost two centuries...
- Jacqueline Ingrid Bouvier, TV cartoon character on The SimpsonsThe SimpsonsThe Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie...
- Jackie Broyles, a character from the satirical website Red State UpdateRed State UpdateRed State Update is an ongoing online satirical political series of short films produced in the United States by performers Jonathan Shockley and Travis Harmon.-Jackie Broyles and Dunlap:...
- Jacky Bryant, a character in the video game series Virtua Fighter
- Jackie BurkhartJackie BurkhartJacqueline "Jackie" Beulah Burkhart is a fictional character and one of the two female leads on the Fox Network sitcom That '70s Show, portrayed by Mila Kunis.-Personality:...
, a character on That '70s Show - Jackie CookJackie CookJackie Cook is a fictional character on the UPN/The CW television series Veronica Mars. She is portrayed by Tessa Thompson. She was a series regular for the second season, which aired on UPN.-Background:...
, a character on the UPN television series Veronica Mars - Jackie Estacado, the main character of the comic series The DarknessThe Darkness (comics)The Darkness is a series of ongoing American comic books created by Marc Silvestri, Garth Ennis, and David Wohl and produced by Top Cow Productions. The comic first appeared in 1996 and enjoyed an initial period of relative success during the Top Cow/Image Comics boom of the late 1990s. However,...
- Jackie Harris, a character from the TV sitcom RoseanneRoseanne (TV series)Roseanne is an American sitcom broadcast on ABC from October 18, 1988 to May 20, 1997. Starring Roseanne Barr, the show revolved around the Conners, an Illinois working class family...
- Jackie Martin, a character on Glenn Martin, DDSGlenn Martin, DDSGlenn Martin, DDS is an American stop-motion-animated television series that premiered on Nick at Nite on August 17, 2009. The series is produced by Tornante Animation in association with Cuppa Coffee Studio...
- Jackie Legs, the kangaroo in the film Kangaroo JackKangaroo JackKangaroo Jack is a 2003 American comedy film directed by David McNally, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and starring Jerry O'Connell, Anthony Anderson, Christopher Walken, Estella Warren and Adam Garcia...
- Jackie ChilesJackie ChilesJackie Chiles is a fictional character portrayed by American actor Phil Morris in the NBC sitcom Seinfeld. He appears in the series' seventh through ninth seasons as Cosmo Kramer's lawyer.-Character:...
, a character on the TV sitcom Seinfeld - Jack RaffertyJack RaffertyJack Rafferty is a fictional character in Frank Miller's Sin City, and a main antagonist of The Big Fat Kill. He is mainly referred to by his nickname Jackie Boy...
, nicknamed Jackie Boy, a character in Frank Miller's Sin City - Jackie Peyton, the main character of the TV sitcom Nurse JackieNurse JackieNurse Jackie is an American series that premiered on June 8, 2009, on Showtime, Movie Central and The Movie Network.The series stars Edie Falco as the title character Jackie Peyton, an emergency room nurse at All Saints' Hospital in New York City...