As a
nickname, The Jackal may refer to:
People with the nickname
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Carlos the Jackal
Ilich Ramírez Sánchez (; born 12 October 1949), also known as Carlos the Jackal ( es, link=no, Carlos el Chacal) or simply Carlos, is a Venezuelan convicted of terrorist crimes, and currently serving a life sentence in France for the 1975 murder ...
(born 1949), Venezuelan-born terrorist
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Carlos Bocanegra (born 1979), American soccer player
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Carl Frampton (born 1987), boxer from Northern Ireland
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Victoriano Huerta (1850–1916), Mexican military officer and President of Mexico nicknamed "''El Chacal''" ("The Jackal")
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The Jackal of Nahueltoro
Jorge del Carmen Valenzuela Torres (23 August 1938 – 30 April 1963), popularly known as "''El Chacal de Nahueltoro''" (The Jackal of Nahueltoro), was a Chilean farmer who killed his partner and his five stepchildren in what the Investigations P ...
(1922–1963), Chilean mass murderer
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The Jackal of Pupunahue
José Misael Roldán Concha better known as The Jackal of Pupunahue ( es, El Chacal de Pupunahue) was a Chilean man known for the brutal murder of a woman and five of her seven children. José Misael came from a poor family and had numerous sibli ...
(born ca. 1930–?), Chilean mass murderer
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Robin Jackson (1948–1998), Northern Irish terrorist
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Jackal Kaizer or Janove Ottesen (born 1975), Norwegian musician
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John Purse
John Eric Purse (born September 7, 1972 in Orlando, Florida, raised in Spring, Texas U.S.) is a former American professional "Mid School" Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer. His prime competitive years were from 1990–2000.
Nicknamed "The Vigilante ...
(born 1972), American former BMX racer
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Guillermo Rigondeaux (born 1980), Cuban boxer nicknamed "''El Chacal''"
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Andrew Wylie (literary agent)
Andrew Wylie (born 1947), known as The Jackal, is an American literary agent.
Early life
Wylie is the son of Craig Wylie (1908–1976), one time editor-in-chief at Houghton Mifflin, and Angela (1915–1989), daughter of the landscape architect a ...
(born 1947), American literary agent
See also
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Amir Abdullah Khan Niazi (c. 1915–2004), Pakistan Army lieutenant-general nicknamed the "Jackal of Bengal"
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