Jocky is a
given name
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. Notable people with the name include:
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Jocky Dempster
John 'Jocky' Dempster (born 8 October 1948) is a former Scottish professional footballer who played as a right winger, mainly for Queen of the South and also St Mirren and Clyde.
Career
Dempster played with junior outfit Muirkirk before sig ...
(born 1948), former Scottish
footballer
A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...
who played for Queen of the South, Mirren and Clyde
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Jocky Petrie (chef)
James "Jocky" Petrie is a Scottish professional chef, best known for his work alongside chef Heston Blumenthal as head of development of the Experimental Kitchen at The Fat Duck, and as Group Executive Development Chef for Gordon Ramsay. He h ...
, Scottish professional chef
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Jocky Petrie (footballer)
John "Jocky" Petrie (21 June 1867 – 13 July 1932) was a Scottish footballer who played for Arbroath. He holds the record for the most goals ever scored in a senior British football game with 13 goals.
Career
Petrie signed for Arbroath from ...
(1867–1932), former Scottish footballer who played for Arbroath
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Jocky Robertson
Jocky Robertson (21 May 1926 – 2004) was a Scottish footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Armadale Thistle, Third Lanark and Berwick Rangers despite being of notably short height.
Early life
Jocky Robertson was born in Edinburgh on 21 May ...
(1926–2004), former Scottish footballer who played for Third Lanark and Berwick Rangers
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Jocky Scott
John Alexander "Jocky" Scott (born 14 January 1948) is a Scottish football coach and former player.
During his playing career he played for Dundee, Aberdeen, Seattle Sounders and Scotland.
An extensive management career followed with spells at ...
(born 1948), Scottish football coach and former player
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Jocky Wilson
John Thomas "Jocky" Wilson (22 March 1950 – 24 March 2012) was a Scottish professional darts player. After turning pro in 1979, he quickly rose to the top of the game, winning the World Professional Darts Championship in 1982, then again ...
(born 1950), former Scottish darts champion
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Jocky Wilson Cup
The Jocky Wilson Cup (officially the PartyPoker.com Jocky Wilson Cup for sponsorship) was a professional darts team tournament that took place at the Braehead Arena in Glasgow, Scotland, on 5 December 2009. This one-off tournament, which w ...
, professional darts team tournament, named after darts champion Jocky Wilson
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Jocky Wilson's Darts Challenge
''Jocky Wilson's Darts Challenge'' is a video game of darts, created after darts champion Jocky Wilson. The game was published by Zeppelin Games and was released in 1989 for the Atari 8-bit family, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum Amstrad CPC
Th ...
, computer game of darts, named after darts champion Jocky Wilson
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Jocky Wright
John Wright (4 February 1873 – 1946) was a Scottish footballer who played in the Football League for Bolton Wanderers and The Wednesday, and the Southern League for Plymouth Argyle, Watford and Southend United. He was an inside forward.
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(1873–1946), former Scottish footballer who played for Bolton Wanderers and The Wednesday
See also
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Inspector Horse and Jocky
Over the years ''The Beano'' has had many different strips, ranging from comic strips to adventure strips to prose stories. Prose stories were the first to go, being phased out in 1955. Adventure strips were phased out in 1975, with the last on ...
, comic strip in the UK comic The Beano, drawn by Terry Bave
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Jock (disambiguation)
Jock may refer to:
Common meanings
* Jock (stereotype), a North American term for a stereotypical male athlete
* Jock, a derogatory term for Scottish people mostly used by the English
* Short for jockstrap, an item of male protective undergarmen ...
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Jockey
A jockey is someone who rides horses in horse racing or steeplechase racing, primarily as a profession. The word also applies to camel riders in camel racing. The word "jockey" originated from England and was used to describe the individual ...
, person who rides horses in horse racing or steeplechase racing
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Scottish masculine given names