Jack Davis may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
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Jack Davis (actor) (1914–1992), American child actor
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Jack Davis (playwright) (1917–2000), Australian playwright and poet
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Jack Davis (cartoonist) (1924–2016), American cartoonist and illustrator
Business and industry
* Jack Davis, American engineer who worked on the
ENIAC computer in the 1940s
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Jack Davis (industrialist)
John Davis (born 1933) is an American industrialist and perennial candidate from Newstead, New York. Davis ran four times for New York's 26th congressional district seat in the U.S. House of Representatives between 2004 and 2011, three times as ...
(1933–2023), American industrialist
*Jack Davis, American businessman, co-founder of
Novell
Novell, Inc. was an American software and services company headquartered in Provo, Utah, that existed from 1980 until 2014. Its most significant product was the multi-platform network operating system known as Novell NetWare.
Under the lead ...
Sports
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Jack Davis (English footballer) (1882–1963)
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Jack Davis (Australian footballer)
Jack Davis (16 July 1908 – 11 August 1991) was an Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda in the VFL during the 1930s.
A key position defender, Davis finished in the top 10 of the Brownlow Medal count four times, including t ...
(1908–1991)
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Jack Davis (hurdler) (1930–2012), American Olympic hurdler
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Jack Davis (guard, born 1932)
John James Davis (March 12, 1932 – January 1, 2013) was an American football guard who played for the Boston Patriots of the American Football League. He played college football at the University of Maryland. He also had played in the Canad ...
(1932–2013), American football player for the Boston Patriots
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Jack Davis (guard, born 1933)
Jack Owen Davis (February 19, 1933 – February 15, 2015) was an American football guard who played one season with the Denver Broncos of the American Football League (AFL). He was drafted by the Washington Redskins of the National Football Leagu ...
(1933–2015), American football player for the Denver Broncos
Others
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Mildirn
Mildirn, sometimes spelt Medlone, also known as Jack Davis, Old Jack Davis or Port Essington Jack (c. 1835–c. 1914) was a well-known Aboriginal leader, translator and advisor for Port Essington, a site of early British settlement in the Northern ...
, (a.k.a. Jack Davis, 1835–1914), Australian Aboriginal leader, translator and merchant
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Jack Davis (prospector)
Jackson Lee "Diamondfield Jack" Davis (12 August 1863 – 2 January 1949) was pardoned for the 1896 Deep Creek Murders in Idaho and would later strike it rich in Nevada, where he established several mining towns, one named after his nickname "Di ...
(1879–1949), American prospector
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Jack Davis (veteran)
John Edward Davis (1 March 1895 – 20 July 2003) was one of the last surviving British veterans of the First World War and the last of Kitchener's Volunteers. He died aged 108, by which point he was the oldest living British veteran of the F ...
(1895–2003), British military veteran
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Jack Davis (Canadian politician)
John Davis, (July 31, 1916 – March 27, 1991) was a Canadian politician from British Columbia who was elected both federally and provincially.
Early life and education
Born in Kamloops General Hospital, in Kamloops, British Columbia, D ...
(1916–1991)
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Jack Davis (Illinois politician)
Jack Davis (September 6, 1935 – February 4, 2018) was a Republican member of the Illinois House of Representatives from 1976 to 1986, and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1987 to 1989 representing Illinois' 4th U.S. Congres ...
(1935–2018)
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Jack L. Davis
Jack L. Davis (born August 13, 1950) is Carl W. Blegen Professor of Greek Archaeology at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio and is a former Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
Brief biography
Jack L. Davis has direc ...
(born 1950), American archaeologist
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Jack E. Davis
Jack Emerson Davis is an author and professor of history in Florida. He holds the Rothman Family Endowed Chair in the Humanities and teaches environmental history and sustainability studies at the University of Florida. In 2002-2003, he taught o ...
(fl. 2000s), American historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author
See also
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Jack Davies (disambiguation) Jack Davies may refer to:
*Jack Davies (screenwriter) (1913–1994), English screenwriter, producer, editor and actor
*Jack Llewelyn Davies (1894–1959), one of the inspirations for the boy characters in ''Peter Pan''
*Jack Davies (rugby), ...
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John Davies (disambiguation) John Davies may refer to:
Academics
*John Davies (archivist) (1925–1999), Malaysian archivist
* John Davies (chemist) (died 1850), English chemist
*John Davies (classical scholar, born 1679) (1679–1732), English classical scholar, and presid ...
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John Davis (disambiguation) John Davis may refer to:
Academics
* John A. G. Davis (1802–1840), professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, shot to death by a student
* John Aubrey Davis Sr. (1912–2002), African American activist and political science professor ...
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