Jak may refer to:

Places

Ják Ják is a village in Vas County, on the western boundary of Hungary. Church of Saint George The parish church of Ják is the most complete Romanesque Church in Hungary. It was originally built as the church of a Benedictine monastery. The vi ...

, a village in Hungary

People

Jak Alnwick Jak Alnwick (born 17 June 1993) is an English professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for club Cardiff City. He turned professional at Newcastle United in 2008, and went on to represent England at under-17 and under-18 levels. He ...

(born 1993), English football goalkeeper *

Jak Jones Jak Jones (born 29 July 1993) is a Welsh professional snooker player. Jones was born in Cwmbran, Wales. He became a professional in 2010 at the age of 16, by winning the 2010 European Under 19 Snooker Championship in Malta. Career Professio ...

(born 1993), Welsh professional snooker player *

Raymond Jackson ("JAK") Raymond Jackson, best known by his pen-name JAK (11 March 1927 in Marylebone – 27 July 1997 in Wimbledon) was one of Britain's best-known newspaper cartoonists, working for the London Evening Standard from 1952 onwards. Life JAK was born ...

(1927–1997), UK cartoonist *

Jak Airport Jak Airport (born Jack Stafford; c. 1955 – 13 August 2004) was the guitarist of 1970s punk band X-Ray Spex and new wave band Classix Nouveaux, before retiring from music and working for Vision Video and the BBC. Born and raised in Catford, Lo ...

(c. 1955–2004), English guitarist born Jack Stafford *

Jak Knight Jakim Maulana (November 6, 1993 – July 14, 2022), known professionally as Jak Knight, was an American actor, comedian and writer. He was best known for his roles as DeVon in the animated Netflix sitcom '' Big Mouth'' and Jak in the Peacock co ...

(1993–2022), American actor, comedian and writer *

Jak Crawford Carlton Jackston "Jak" Crawford (born 2 May 2005) is an American racing driver who most recently competed in the 2022 FIA Formula 3 Championship with Prema Racing. He is a member of the Red Bull Junior Team and finished as runner-up in the 2020 ...

(born 2005) an American racing driver *

José Antonio Kast José Antonio Kast Rist (born 18 January 1966), also known by his initials JAK, is a Chile, Chilean lawyer and politician. Kast ran for president of Chile, president in 2021, 2021 Chilean general election#President, winning the first round and ...

(born 1966), Chilean politician

Fictional characters

Jak (Jak and Daxter) This is a list of characters in the Jak and Daxter, ''Jak and Daxter'' series, a video game franchise originally developed by Naughty Dog for the PlayStation 2. Currently, six games in the series have been released, with Jak as the primary playab ...

, in ''Jak and Daxter'' video games *

Jak (comics) Jak Hurley and Todd Nolan are two fictional comic strip characters from the UK comic ''The Dandy'' who rose to popularity as the comic's main strip after its re-launch in 2004. Originally known as simply ''Jak'', both characters received equal bil ...

, in the UK comic book ''The Dandy''

Other uses

JAK members bank The JAK Members Bank, or JAK Medlemsbank, is a cooperative, member-owned financial institution based in Skövde, Sweden, and based on a concept that arose in Denmark in 1931. ''JAK'' is an acronym for ''Jord Arbete Kapital'' in Swedish or ''Land ...

, a Swedish interest-free bank *

Janus kinase Janus kinase (JAK) is a family of intracellular, non-receptor tyrosine kinases that transduce cytokine-mediated signals via the JAK-STAT pathway. They were initially named "just another kinase" 1 and 2 (since they were just two of many discoveries ...

, a family of intracellular, nonreceptor tyrosine kinases including **

Janus kinase 1 JAK1 is a human tyrosine kinase protein essential for signaling for certain type I and type II cytokines. It interacts with the common gamma chain (γc) of type I cytokine receptors, to elicit signals from the IL-2 receptor family (e.g. IL-2R, I ...

(JAK1) **

Janus kinase 2 Janus kinase 2 (commonly called JAK2) is a non-receptor tyrosine kinase. It is a member of the Janus kinase family and has been implicated in signaling by members of the type II cytokine receptor family (e.g. interferon receptors), the GM-CSF re ...

(JAK2) **

Janus kinase 3 Tyrosine-protein kinase JAK3 is a tyrosine kinase enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ''JAK3'' gene. Janus kinases Janus kinase 3 is a tyrosine kinase that belongs to the janus family of kinases. Other members of the Janus family include ...

(JAK3)

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