Jak or JAK may refer to:

People

* JAK, pen name of British cartoonist Raymond Jackson (1927–1997) *

Jak Airport Jak Airport (born Jack Stafford; 22 February 1958 – 13 August 2004) was the guitarist of 1970s punk band X-Ray Spex and new wave band Classix Nouveaux. Born and raised in Catford, London, Jak Airport is best known and remembered for being a ...

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

Jak Alnwick Jak Alnwick (born 17 June 1993) is an English professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper for club Cardiff City F.C., Cardiff City. Alnwick turned professional at Newcastle United ...

(born 1993), English football goalkeeper *

Jak Crawford Carlton Jakston "Jak" Crawford (born 2 May 2005) is an American racing driver, who competes in the FIA Formula 2 Championship for DAMS as part of the AMF1 Driver Development Programme, and serves as a reserve driver in Formula E for Andretti Globa ...

(born 2005) an American racing driver *

Jak Jones Jak Jones (born 29 July 1993) is a Welsh professional snooker player. He is from Cwmbran, Torfaen, in South Wales. He became a professional in 2010 at the age of 16 after winning the 2010 European Under-19 Snooker Championship in Malta. As a ...

(born 1993), Welsh professional snooker player * Jak Knight (1993–2022), American actor, comedian and writer *

Jak Orion Jack Moffitt is an Australian musician. He is known for his work as a member of indie rock band ''The Preatures'' (2010-2021), in which he worked as guitarist, vocalist, and producer. He used the alias Jak Orion on a 2010 release. Early life an ...

, stage name used by Australian musician Jack Moffitt in 2010 *

José Antonio Kast José Antonio Kast Rist (born 18 January 1966), also known by his initials JAK, is a Chilean lawyer and politician. He is running for president in the 2025 Chilean general election, for the third time. Part of the prominent Kast family, he se ...

(born 1966), Chilean politician also known by his initials JAK

Fictional characters

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

Jak (comics) Jak Hurley and Todd Nolan are two fictional comic strip characters from the UK comic book, 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 rece ...

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

Other uses

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 best preserved Romanesque church in Hungary. It was originally built as the church of a Benedictine monastery. The v ...

, a village in Hungary * JAK members bank, 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 discoverie ...

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

Janus kinase 1 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 f ...

(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-CS ...

(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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