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Little Jack Horner "Little Jack Horner" is a popular English nursery rhyme with the Roud Folk Song Index number 13027. First mentioned in the 18th century, it was early associated with acts of opportunism, particularly in politics. Moralists also rewrote and expa ...
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nursery rhyme A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for children in Britain and many other countries, but usage of the term dates only from the late 18th/early 19th century. The term Mother Goose rhymes is interchangeable with nursery rhymes. From t ...


People

* Jack Horner (activist) (born 1922), Australian author and activist in the
Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship The Aboriginal-Australian Fellowship (AAF) was a Sydney-based organisation focused on changing the New South Wales Aborigines Protection Board, the wider issues of wage parity and full citizenship for Aboriginal Australians. History The organis ...
* Jack Horner (baseball) (1863–1910), American professional baseball player *
Jack Horner (journalist) Gordon John Horner (1912 – January 10, 2005) was a noted sports journalist who worked in the Minneapolis-St. Paul market of Minnesota. He participated in the first modern television broadcasts of KSTP-TV channel 5, appearing on the first fully ...
(1912–2005), Gordon John Horner, Minnesota sportscaster *
Jack Horner (paleontologist) John Robert (‘Jack’) Horner (born June 15, 1946) is an American paleontologist most famous for describing ''Maiasaura'', providing the first clear evidence that some dinosaurs cared for their young. In addition to his paleontological discover ...
(born 1946), American paleontologist *
Jack Horner (politician) John Henry "Jack" Horner (July 20, 1927 – November 18, 2004) was a Canadian rancher, politician, and Cabinet minister. Life and career Nicknamed "Cactus Jack", Horner was born in Saskatchewan, the fifth child in a family of six boys and t ...
(1927–2004), John Henry Horner known as "Jack" or "Cactus Jack", member of the Canadian House of Commons * Jack B. Horner (1922–2009), Pennsylvania politician


Fictional characters

* "Big" Jack Horner, a character from the 2022 film '' Puss in Boots: The Last Wish'' *Jack Horner, the fictional porn director in the 1997 film ''
Boogie Nights ''Boogie Nights'' is a 1997 American period comedy-drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. It is set in Los Angeles's San Fernando Valley and focuses on a young nightclub dishwasher who becomes a popular star of pornographic fil ...
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Jack Horner (comics) Jack Horner is a fictional character in the comic book series ''Fables'' by Bill Willingham. His first appearance was in issue #1 of ''Fables,'' and he continued as a regular character of the series until leaving the series for his own title, ''J ...
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Fables Fable is a literary genre: a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, legendary creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized, and that illustrates or leads to a particular moral ...
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Bill Willingham William Willingham (born 1956) is an American writer and artist of comics, known for his work on the series ''Elementals (Comico Comics), Elementals'' and ''Fables (comics), Fables''. Career William Willingham was born in Fort Belvoir, Virginia. ...
, based on the nursery rhyme character * Little Jack Horner, the
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of the nursery rhyme "
Little Jack Horner "Little Jack Horner" is a popular English nursery rhyme with the Roud Folk Song Index number 13027. First mentioned in the 18th century, it was early associated with acts of opportunism, particularly in politics. Moralists also rewrote and expa ...
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Animals

* Jack Horner (racehorse) (born 1917), 1926 Grand National winning horse


See also

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John Horner (disambiguation) John Horner may refer to: * John Henry Horner, also known as ''Cactus Jack'' (1927–2004), Canadian rancher, politician, and former cabinet minister * John M. Horner (1821–1907), founder of Union City, California * John S. Horner (1802–18 ...
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