Jax may refer to:

Places

Jax, Haute-Loire Jax is a commune in the department of Haute-Loire in south-central France. Population See also *Communes of the Haute-Loire department The following is a list of the 257 communes of the Haute-Loire department of France. The communes cooper ...

, France * Informal shorthand for

Jacksonville, Florida Jacksonville is a city located on the Atlantic coast of northeast Florida, the most populous city proper in the state and is the largest city by area in the contiguous United States as of 2020. It is the seat of Duval County, with which the ...

, United States ** Jacksonville station, Amtrak station **

Jacksonville International Airport Jacksonville International Airport is a civil-military public airport 13 miles (21 km) north of Downtown Jacksonville, in Duval County, Florida. It is owned and operated by the Jacksonville Aviation Authority. History Construction star ...

Naval Air Station Jacksonville Naval Air Station Jacksonville (NAS Jacksonville) is a large naval air station located approximately eight miles (13 km) south of the central business district of Jacksonville, Florida, United States., effective 2007-10-25 Location NAS Jack ...

People

Garth Jax James Garth Jax (born September 16, 1963) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League, who played for the Dallas Cowboys and Arizona Cardinals, Phoenix/Arizona Cardinals. He played college football at Florida State Un ...

(born 1963), American football player *

Griffin Jax James Griffin Jax (born November 22, 1994) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Minnesota Twins of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2021. He is also an officer in the United States Air Force Reserve. Amateur ...

(born 1994), American baseball player *

Jax Anderson Jax Anderson, formerly known as Flint Eastwood, is an alt pop musician from Detroit, Michigan. With wide-ranging influences from Spaghetti Westerns to Motown to mainstream dance pop, Anderson has built a reputation for her uncompromising style a ...

(born 199?), American singer *

Jax Dane Jackson Dane Laymon (born April 10, 1981) is an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Jax Dane. He is known for his tenure with various National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) member promotions. He is a former NWA World Hea ...

(born 1981), American professional wrestler *

Jax Jones Timucin Lam (born Timucin Fabian Kwong Wah Aluo; 25 July 1987), known professionally as Jax Jones, is an English DJ, songwriter, record producer and remixer. He rose to fame in 2014 by featuring on Duke Dumont's number-one single "I Got U". He ...

(born 1987), British musician *

Jax Malcolm Jax Malcolm (born July 12, 2003) is an American actor, singer and competitive swimmer who is best known for his roles in ''Kroll Show'', ''Comedy Bang! Bang!'', '' The Birthday Boys'' and ''Crazy Ex-Girlfriend'', and for voicing Oliver in '' The ...

(born 2003), American actor * Jax (singer) (born 1996), American singer and ''American Idol'' contestant * Nia Jax (born 1984), American wrestler

Brands and companies

Jackson Laboratory The Jackson Laboratory (often abbreviated as JAX) is an independent, non-profit biomedical research institution which was founded by a eugenicist. It employs more than 3,000 employees in Bar Harbor, Maine; Sacramento, California; Farmington, Con ...

, a biology research center *

Jax Brewing Company Jax Brewing Company, originally Jacksonville Brewing Company, was a regional brewery in Jacksonville, Florida operating from 1913 to 1956. It was the second brewery to open in the state, after Florida Brewing Company in Tampa in 1896. Histor ...

, a brewery in Jacksonville, Florida *

Jax Media Jax Media is an American film and television production company co-founded by Tony Hernandez, Lilly Burns, and John Skidmore. It is known for producing long-running series ''Broad City'', ''Difficult People'', '' Younger'', and ''Inside Amy Schum ...

, a film and television production company * JAX Tyres, an Australian retailer

Arts and entertainment

* ''

Jax and the Hellhound ''Jax and the Hellhound'' is a limited series comic book by Dennis Morales Francis and published by Blackthorne Publishing. The series was about a young man who traveled around the world helping the U.S. Government fight the bad guys and helping ...

'', a comic book series

Characters

* Jax (''Mortal Kombat''), a fighting character from the ''Mortal Kombat'' game series * Jackson "Jax" Teller, a character from the TV show ''Sons of Anarchy'' * Jasper Jacks, a character from the TV show ''General Hospital'' * Jax Amnell, a character from Terry Goodkind's novel ''

The Law of Nines ''The Law of Nines'' is a thriller/ speculative fiction novel by American author Terry Goodkind. The book was released on August 18, 2009. It debuted at #10 on the Times bestseller list. The book, though at essence a thriller, contains numerous ...

'' * Jax, a Beast Bot in '' Power Rangers Beast Morphers'' * Jax, a character from ''

Elex ''ELEX'' (''Eclectic, Lavish, Exhilarating, Xenial'') is a science fantasy-themed action role-playing video game developed by Piranha Bytes and published by THQ Nordic. It was released worldwide on 17 October 2017, for PlayStation 4, Xbox One a ...

'' * Jax, a character from the comic strip '' You Can with Beakman and Jax'' * Jax, a character from ''

The Kingkiller Chronicle ''The Kingkiller Chronicle'' is a fantasy trilogy by the American writer Patrick Rothfuss. The first two books, ''The Name of the Wind'' and ''The Wise Man's Fear'', were released in 2007 and 2011. The books released in the series have sold over ...

'' by Patrick Rothfuss * "Jaxx", a character played by Ruby Rose in the movie "

The Meg ''The Meg'' is a 2018 science fiction action film directed by Jon Turteltaub with screenplay by Dean Georgaris, Jon Hoeber, and Erich Hoeber, loosely based on the 1997 book '' Meg: A Novel of Deep Terror'' by Steve Alten. The film stars Jason Sta ...

Sports

Jacksonville, Florida

* Jacksonville Jaguars, an American professional football franchise *

Jacksonville Jax The Jacksonville Jax were a minor league baseball team based at Ragsdale Park in Jacksonville, Texas, USA. They played in the West Dixie League from 1934–1935, the East Texas League from 1936–1940, and again in 1946, the Lone Star League in 194 ...

, a former minor league baseball team *

FC JAX Destroyers FC JAX Destroyers were an American soccer team based in Jacksonville, Florida, United States from 2011 to 2012. The organization had men's and women's franchises in the United Soccer Leagues: a men's team in the USL Premier Development League (PDL) ...

, an American former professional soccer team

Elsewhere

* Portland LumberJax, an American former professional lacrosse team from Portland, Oregon

Other uses

Google JAX Google JAX is a machine learning framework for transforming numerical functions. It is described as bringing together a modified version oautograd(automatic obtaining of the gradient function through differentiation of a function) and TensorFlow'X ...

, a machine learning framework for transforming numerical functions *

Jambi Malay Jambi ( jax, Baso Jambi, id, Bahasa Jambi) is a Malayic language spoken in Jambi province, Indonesia. It is closely related to Palembang Malay in neighbouring South Sumatra, Riau Malay in Riau Province and the surrounding islands, and Bengkul ...

, a language spoken in Indonesia * Java XML, a set of APIs for the Java programming language *

Jax Panik Jax Panik is a South African pop, rock and synth-pop musical band from Bellville, Western Cape, South Africa now relocated to Cape Town. History Jax Panik was started as a parody. When the founding members, Jacobus van Heerden and Johnny de Rid ...

, a South African performing act * ''

Ornipholidotos jax ''Ornipholidotos jax'' is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in the Central African Republic The Central African Republic (CAR; ; , RCA; , or , ) is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Chad to the no ...

'', a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae