George Jackson may refer to:

People

Politics

George Jackson (Australian politician) George Jackson (31 December 1856 – 12 February 1938) was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly. Biography Jackson was born in Manchester, England, the son of James Jackson and his wife Hannah (née Hilton). He married Mary Hannah W ...

(1856–1938), member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly *

George Jackson (Canadian politician) George Jackson (1 December 1808 – 6 March 1885) was a Canadian mill owner and politician from Durham, Ontario. He served as a representative in the Canadian Assembly and, after Confederation, as a Member of Parliament for the electoral d ...

(1808–1885), Canadian mill operator, MP from Ontario *

George Jackson (Irish politician) George Jackson (1761–1805) was an Irish politician. His was the eldest son of George Jackson and his wife Jane Cuffe, daughter of James Cuffe and Elizabeth Gore, and sister of James Cuffe, 1st Baron Tyrawley and entered Trinity College, Dubl ...

(1761–1805), Member of Parliament for Mayo 1801–1802 *

Sir George Duckett, 1st Baronet Sir George Duckett, 1st Baronet (24 October 1725 – 22 December 1822) was a British naval administrator and politician. Born George Jackson, probably in Yorkshire, the third but oldest surviving son of George Jackson (1687/8–1758) of Hill H ...

(1725–1822), born George Jackson, British politician and MP * George Jackson (Virginia politician) (1757–1831), U.S. Representative from Virginia *

Sir George Jackson, 1st Baronet, of Fort Hill Sir George Jackson, 1st Baronet (1770 – 1846) was an Anglo-Irish politician. Jackson was the Member of Parliament for Coleraine in the Irish House of Commons between 1789 and 1796, before representing Randalstown from 1797 until the seat's dise ...

(1770–1846), Anglo-Irish Member of Parliament *

George H. Jackson (politician) George Henry Jackson (1847–1925) was a Canadian-born American politician, lawyer, educator, and businessman. He served in the Ohio House of Representatives for Hamilton County, from 1892 to 1893.Manual of Legislative Practice in the General As ...

, Ohio state representative * George W. Jackson (politician) (born 1924), Pennsylvania politician *

George Jackson (activist) George Lester Jackson (September 23, 1941 – August 21, 1971) was an American author, activist and prisoner. While serving an indeterminate sentence for the armed robbery of a gas station in 1961, Jackson became involved in revolutionary activ ...

(1941–1971), American Black Panther, prisoner, and author

Sports

* George Jackson (baseball) (1882–1972), American Major League Baseball player *

George Jackson (cricketer) This is a list of the earliest known English cricketers whose careers began prior to the first matches which are now considered to hold first-class status in 1772. The list is by season, this being the season in which the player's name first ap ...

(fl. mid-18th century), English cricketer * George Jackson (footballer, born 1952), English footballer * George Jackson (footballer, born 1893) (1893–1985), English footballer * George Jackson (footballer, born 1987), Brazilian footballer, full name George Jackson dos Santos Souza

Entertainment

George Jackson (animator) George Jackson (26 October 1921 – 16 March 1986) was a British animator, who has worked on children's films and television programmes and is best known for his work on the 1989 animated film ''The BFG'', and work with Martin Rosen on ''Water ...

(1920–1986), British animator * George Jackson (music producer) (born 1969), American music producer, DJ, and remixer *

George Jackson (filmmaker) George Jackson (January 6, 1958 – February 10, 2000) was a film director and producer. Jackson was born and raised in Harlem, New York and graduated from Fordham Preparatory School and Harvard College. He worked with Doug McHenry as co- ...

(1958–2000), American film producer *

George Jackson (songwriter) George Henry Jackson (March 12, 1945 – April 14, 2013) was an American blues, rhythm & blues, rock and soul songwriter and singer. His prominence was as a prolific and skilled songwriter; he wrote or co-wrote many hit songs for other musician ...

(1945–2013), American songwriter, singer and musician * George O. Jackson Jr. (born 1941), photographer

Science

George Jackson (botanist) George Jackson (1780–1811) was an English botanist and author. He was born in Aberdeen in 1780 and was later in charge of A.B. Lambert's herbarium. On 2 February 1808 he was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society and made important contribution ...

(1790–1811), English botanist *

George Jackson (chemist) George Jackson, , , (born 31 July 1962) is a British professor of chemical physics in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London. He is noted for developing molecular models that describe the thermodynamic properties of ...

(born 1962), British chemist

Other people

George Jackson (plasterwork) George Jackson (1766–1840) was a British plasterwork innovator, active from 1780 onwards. He was commissioned by architect Robert Adam Robert Adam (3 July 17283 March 1792) was a British neoclassical architect, interior designer and furni ...

(1766–1840), British plasterwork innovator *

George Jackson (British Army officer) Major-General George Hanbury Noble Jackson (20 December 1876 – 4 September 1958) was a British Army officer. Military career Educated at Neuenhein College, Heidelberg and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Jackson was commissioned into th ...

(1876–1958) * George H. Jackson (diplomat), American lawyer, consul, and political activist * George W. Jackson (developer) (born 1952), American real estate developer *

George Pullen Jackson George Pullen Jackson (1874–1953) was an American educator and musicologist. He was a pioneer in the field of Southern (U.S.) hymnody. He was responsible for popularizing the term "white spirituals" to describe the "fasola" singing. Early l ...

(1874–1953), American educator and musicologist *George

Holbrook Jackson George Holbrook Jackson (31 December 1874 – 16 June 1948) was a British journalist, writer and publisher. He was recognised as one of the leading bibliophiles of his time. Biography Holbrook Jackson was born in Liverpool, England. He worked ...

(1874–1948), British journalist and author

Other uses

* George Jackson (Brookside), a character on UK soap opera ''Brookside'' * "George Jackson" (song), a 1971 song by Bob Dylan