Jock is a
Scottish
Scottish usually refers to something of, from, or related to Scotland, including:
*Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland
*Scottish English
*Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...
diminutive
A diminutive is a root word that has been modified to convey a slighter degree of its root meaning, either to convey the smallness of the object or quality named, or to convey a sense of intimacy or endearment. A ( abbreviated ) is a word-form ...
form of the
forename
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a fa ...
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John
John is a common English name and surname:
* John (given name)
* John (surname)
John may also refer to:
New Testament
Works
* Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John
* First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John
* Seco ...
"; It is also a
nickname
A nickname is a substitute for the proper name of a familiar person, place or thing. Commonly used to express affection, a form of endearment, and sometimes amusement, it can also be used to express defamation of character. As a concept, it is ...
for someone of Scottish origin, as well as being the collective name for Scottish soldiers, collectively known as "the Jocks". It corresponds to
Jack
Jack may refer to:
Places
* Jack, Alabama, US, an unincorporated community
* Jack, Missouri, US, an unincorporated community
* Jack County, Texas, a county in Texas, USA
People and fictional characters
* Jack (given name), a male given name, ...
in England and Wales. In London the rhyming slang "sweaty" is used as an offensive name for Scots deriving from "Sweaty sock - Jock".
The name may refer to:
In sports
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Jock Aird
John Rae Aird (18 December 1926 – 14 June 2021) was a footballer who played for both the Scotland and New Zealand national sides.
Life and career
Born in Glencraig, Fife, Aird started his professional career with Burnley, whom he joine ...
(1926–2021), Scottish retired footballer
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Jock Archibald (1895–1967), Scottish footballer
* John
Jock Blackwood
John Garven Blackwood (26 August 1899 – c. 1979) was a rugby union player who represented Australia.
Blackwood, a hooker
Hooker may refer to:
People
* Hooker (surname)
Places Antarctica
* Mount Hooker (Antarctica)
* Cape Hooker (Antarctic ...
(1899–c. 1979), Australian rugby union player
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Jacques "Jock" Boyer (born 1955), American former cyclist, first American to compete in the Tour de France
* John
Jock Butterfield
John Rutherford "Jock" Butterfield (18 January 1932 – 14 February 2004) was a New Zealand rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s. He was named amongst the finest that New Zealand produced during the 20th century. A New Zeala ...
(1932–2004), New Zealand rugby league footballer
* William
Jock Callander
William Darren "Jock" Callander (born April 23, 1961) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player, and current front office executive, part-time assistant coach, and TV analyst for the Cleveland Monsters of the American Hockey League.
Car ...
(born 1961), Canadian ice hockey player
* Horace
Jock Cameron (1905–1935), South African cricketer
* John
Jock Cameron (footballer), Scottish football player and managers in the 1900s and 1910s
* James
Jock Campbell (footballer) (1922–1983), Scottish footballer
*
Jock Carter
John Henry Carter (11 November 1910 – 2 July 1992) was an English professional footballer. He was born in Aylesbury.
During his career he played as a centre forward for Watford, Reading and Ipswich Town
Ipswich Town Football Club is a ...
(1910–1992), English footballer
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Jock Climie
Jock Climie is a Canadian retired Canadian Football League player who played the slotback position primarily with the Ottawa Rough Riders, and Montreal Alouettes. He is also a former sportscaster with Canadian sports television channel TSN as p ...
, Canadian sportscaster and retired Canadian Football League player
* John
Jock Collier
John C. Collier (1 February 1897 – 28 December 1940) was a Scottish footballer and manager.
Career
Born in Dysart, Fife, Collier played for Inverkeithing Juniors and had trials for the Scottish Junior international team. He signed for Rait ...
(1897–1940), Scottish footballer and manager
* James
Jock Cordner (1910–1996), Australian rules footballer
*
Jock Cumberford, footballer who played in Australia's first three full international matches in 1922
* John
Jock Davie (1913–1994), Scottish footballer
* Ephraim
Jock Dodds
Ephraim Dodds (7 September 1915 – 23 February 2007) was a Scottish professional footballer. He played in the 1936 FA Cup Final, and, at the time of his death was the oldest surviving player to have played in a final at Wembley Stadium.
Club ...
(1915–2007), Scottish footballer
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Jock Doherty
Jock Doherty (3 October 1894 – 15 June 1957) was an Australian rules footballer who played with South Melbourne and North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
Doherty, who was blind in one eye, played as a rover in the South Me ...
(1894–1957), Australian rules footballer
* John
Jock Drummond (1870–1935), Scottish footballer
*
Jock Edward, Scottish footballer in the 1920s
* Graham
Jock Edwards
Graham Neil Edwards (27 May 1955 – 6 April 2020) was a New Zealand cricketer. He played eight Test matches and six One Day Internationals for New Zealand.
Life and career
Edwards was born in Nelson, and attended Nelson College.
He was a ...
(born 1955), New Zealand former cricketer
* John
Jock Espie (1868-?), Scottish footballer
* John
Jock Ewart
John Ewart (14 February 1891 – 22 June 1943) was a Scottish footballer who made over 280 appearances in the Football League for Bradford City as a goalkeeper. He also played in the Scottish League for Airdrieonians in two spells and won one c ...
(1891–1943), Scottish football goalkeeper
* Jack
Jock Ferguson (1887–1973), Scottish-born American soccer player
*
Jock Govan
John Govan (16 January 1923 – 17 February 1999) was a Scottish footballer, who played for Hibernian and Ayr United. Govan, who was a key part of the successful post-war Hibs side, was capped six times by Scotland.
Govan grew up in Larkhal ...
(1923–1999), Scottish footballer
* John
Jock Grieve (1887–1955), Scottish footballer
* John
Jock Hamilton (1869–1931), Scottish footballer
* Connor
Jock Hanvey
Connor "Jock" Hanvey (October 15, 1882 – January 15, 1935) was a college football player and coach.
Early years
Many of Hanvey's brothers played for Clemson. George A. Hanvey, Jr. was a lieutenant colonel in the Army.
Clemson College
Foo ...
(1882–1935), American college football player and coach
* John
Jock Henderson (footballer, born 1871) (1871–1930), Scottish footballer
* John
Jock Henderson (footballer, born 1895) (1895–1957), Scottish footballer
*
John Henebry
John Philip Henebry CBE (February 14, 1918 – September 30, 2007) was a United States Air Force major general.
Early life
He was born in Plainfield, Illinois. In 1936, he graduated from Campion High School in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, and t ...
(1918–2007), United States Air Force major general
* Michael James
Jock Hobbs
Michael James Bowie Hobbs (15 February 1960 – 13 March 2012), generally known as Jock Hobbs, was a New Zealand rugby union player and administrator. A flanker, he played for Canterbury and won 21 caps for the New Zealand national team, ...
(1960–2012), New Zealand rugby union player and All Blacks captain
*
Jock Hutcheson
Jock Hutcheson was a Scottish footballer who played in the 1870s and 1880s. Hutcheson played club football as a defender with Dumbarton where he was to spend the best part of ten seasons.Jock Hutchison
Jack Falls "Jock" Hutchison (June 6, 1884 – September 27, 1977) was a Scottish professional golfer.
Hutchison was born in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, the son of William and Helen (née Falls). His name was registered as John Waters Hutchiso ...
(1884–1977), Scottish-American golfer
* John
Jock Hutton
John Douglas Hutton (29 October 1898 – 2 January 1970) was a Scottish footballer who played as a right back for Aberdeen and Blackburn Rovers, and represented the Scotland national team in ten official internationals between 1923 and 1928. ...
(1898–1970), Scottish footballer
* John
Jock Kirton
John Kirton (4 March 1916 – 12 March 1996) was a Scottish footballer who played in the English Football League for Bradford City and Stoke City. He made 249 appearances for Stoke.
Career
Kirton was born in Aberdeen and played for St Marchers ...
(1916–1996), Scottish footballer
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Jock Landale
Jock Landale (born 25 October 1995) is an Australian professional basketball player for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Saint Mary's Gaels.
Landale was part of the Australian B ...
(born 1995), Australian basketball player
* John
Jock Leckie (1906–1977), Scottish football goalkeeper
*
Jock Lineen (born 1928), former Australian rules footballer
* Leonard
Jock Livingston
Leonard "Jock" Livingston (3 May 1920 – 16 January 1998) was an Australian cricketer who played most of his first-class cricket in England.
Cricket career
Livingston was a hard-hitting left-handed batsman and an occasional wicketkeeper. He p ...
(1920–1998), Australian cricketer
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Jock McAvoy
Joseph Patrick Bamford (20 November 1908 – 20 November 1971), better known by his ring name Jock McAvoy, was a British boxer who fought from 1927 to 1945. He held the British Empire Middleweight Championship from 1933 to 1939, and took the ...
, ring name of British boxer Joseph Patrick Bamford (1908–1971)
* John
Jock McCorkell
John Francis McCorkell (2 July 1918 – 29 March 1987) was an Australian rules footballer who played with the North Melbourne Football Club in the Victorian Football League, (VFL).
Early life
McCorkell was born in Sale, Victoria to parents F ...
(1918–1987), Australian rules footballer
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Jock McDougall
John McDougall (21 September 1901 – 26 September 1973) was a Scottish footballer who played for Airdrieonians, Sunderland, Leeds United and Scotland as a centre half.
Club career
McDougall started his professional career with Airdrieonians in ...
(1901–1973), Scottish footballer
* James
Jock McHale
James Francis "Jock" McHale, (12 December 1882 – 4 October 1953) was an Australian rules football player and coach for the Collingwood Football Club in the Victorian Football League in a marathon career that extended from 1903 to 1949.
Ear ...
(1882–1953), Australian rules football player and coach
*
Jock McKenzie Jock McKenzie may refer to:
* Jock McKenzie (Australian footballer) (1911–1989), Australian rules footballer
* Jock McKenzie (rugby union, born 1892) (1892–1968), New Zealand rugby union player
* Jock McKenzie (rugby union, born 2001), New Zeala ...
(1911–1989), Australian rules footballer
* Richard John
Jock McKenzie (rugby union) Jock McKenzie may refer to:
* Jock McKenzie (Australian footballer) (1911–1989), Australian rules footballer
* Jock McKenzie (rugby union, born 1892) (1892–1968), New Zealand rugby union player
* Jock McKenzie (rugby union, born 2001), New Ze ...
(1892–1968), New Zealand rugby union footballer
* John
Jock McNab (1894–1949), Scottish footballer
* John
Jock Menefee (1868–1953), American Major League Baseball pitcher
* Ambrose
Jock Mulraney
Ambrose Aloysius "Jock" Mulraney (18 May 1916 – 8 December 2001) was a Scottish professional footballer, who played as an outside right. He played for Ipswich Town in their first season in the Football League, for Birmingham City in wartime f ...
(1916–2001), Scottish footballer
* John
Jock Newall (1917–2004), New Zealand footballer
*
Jock O'Brien (footballer, born 1909) (1909–1985), Australian rules footballer
*
Jock O'Brien (footballer, born 1937), Australian rules footballer
* John
Jock Paterson
John "Jock" Paterson (1926 – 14 January 2000) was a British footballer, who played for Hibernian and Ayr United.http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/hibernian/hibernian.html http://www.neilbrown.newcastlefans.com/ayr/ayr.html
Paterson ...
(1926–2000), English footballer
* John
Jock Porter
John Adam Porter (1894–1952) was the first Scotsman to win the Isle of Man TT motorcycle race, and was a European Grand Prix motorcycle racing champion.
Career
From 1922 to 1940 he also marketed his own brand of motorcycle, New Gerrard. ...
(1894–1952), Scottish motorcycle racer
* James
Jock Robertson
James Walter "Jock" Robertson (21 February 1898 – 29 December 1970) was an English association footballer who played professionally for Gillingham. He joined the club while it was still playing non-league football and went on to set a club re ...
(1898–1970), English footballer
* John
Jock Robson (1899–1995), Scottish football goalkeeper
* John
Jock Rutherford
John "Jock" Rutherford (12 October 1884 – 21 April 1963) was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Arsenal, Clapton Orient and Newcastle United. He played 11 times for England, and had a short and unsuccessful spell ...
(1884–1963), English footballer
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Jock Sanders
Jock Sanders (born June 14, 1988) is a former American professional gridiron football slotback and running back. He has played for the Ottawa Redblacks of the Canadian Football League. He was signed by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as an undrafted fre ...
(born 1988), American football player in the Canadian Football League
* John
Jock Scott (footballer)
John McRae Scott (3 November 1906 – 18 September 1981) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a half-back or an inside forward in the Football League for Norwich City, Walsall, York City and Southport, in non-League foo ...
(1906–1981), Scottish footballer
* John
Jock Semple
John Duncan Semple (October 26, 1903 – March 10, 1988) was a Scottish-American runner, physical therapist, trainer, and sports official. In 1967, he attained worldwide notoriety as a race official for the Boston Marathon, when he repeatedly a ...
(1903–1988), Boston Marathon official
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Jock Shaw
John Shaw (29 November 1912 – 13 June 2000) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a defender, most famous for his time at Rangers, where he was captain between 1938 and 1950.
Career
Rangers signed Shaw, known as 'Tiger' for hi ...
(1912–2000), Scottish footballer
* John
Jock Shearer (1917–1979), Scottish football player and coach
* John
Jock Simpson
John Robert Simpson (25 December 1886 – 4 January 1959) was a footballer who played as an outside right in the 1900s and 1910s.
Career Club
Simpson's footballing career began with Laurieston Villa, and after a trial with Rangers, he signed fo ...
(1886–1959), English footballer
* John
Jock Somerlott (1882–1965), American Major League Baseball player
* Thomas
Jock Spencer
Thomas 'Jock' Spencer (15 December 1928 – 15 April 2003) was an Australian rules footballer who played for North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League. He was named at full-forward in North Melbourne's official 'Team of the Century'.
...
(1928–2003), Australian rules footballer
* John
Jock Stein
John "Jock" Stein (5 October 1922 – 10 September 1985) was a Scottish football player and manager. He was the first manager of a British side to win the European Cup, with Celtic in 1967. Stein also guided Celtic to nine successive Scottis ...
(1922–1985), Scottish football player and manager
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William Stewart (cyclist)
William Stewart (15 September 1883 – 9 August 1950) was a British cyclist. He competed in three events at the 1920 Summer Olympics winning a silver medal in the men's team pursuit. He also competed in one event at the 1924 Summer Olympic ...
(1883–1950), British Olympic cyclist
* Alexander
Jock Sturrock
Alexander Stuart "Jock" Sturrock MBE (14 May 1915 in Melbourne11 July 1997 in Noosa Heads) was a noted Australian yachtsman who won over four hundred international, national, state and club championship yachting races.
Sports career
Between 1 ...
(1915–1997), Australian yachtsman
* John
Jock Sutherland
John Bain Sutherland (March 21, 1889 – April 11, 1948) was an American football player and coach. He coached college football at Lafayette College (1919–1923) and the University of Pittsburgh (1924–1938) and professional football for the ...
(1889–1948), American college football player and Hall-of-Fame coach and National Football League coach
* Charles
Jock Sutherland (basketball) (born 1928), American basketball coach
* John
Jock Taylor (1954–1982), Scottish motorcycle sidecar racer
* John
Jock Taylor (footballer, born 1886)
John Taylor (12 December 1885 – 15 September 1916) was a Scottish professional footballer who made over 120 Southern League appearances as a inside right for Gillingham. He also played in the Scottish League for Leith Athletic and in the Foo ...
(1886–1916), Scottish footballer
* John
Jock Taylor (footballer, born 1909)
John Swinley Taylor (17 September 1906 – 14 November 1967) was a Scottish footballer, who played as a left half & left back. He made 210 Football League appearances in the years after the First World War.-
Career
Jock Taylor played in Scotla ...
(1909–1964), Scottish footballer
* John
Jock Thomson (1906–1979), Scottish football player and manager
* John
Jock Turner
John "Jock" William Cleet Turner (28 September 1943 – 19 May 1992) was a international rugby union footballer.Bath, p162 His regular playing positions were fly-half, centre and fullback.
Turner was capped twenty times for Scotland between ...
(born 1943), Scottish former rugby union player
* John
Jock Wadley
John Borland Wadley (1914 – March 1981) was an English journalist whose magazines and reporting opened Continental cycle racing to fans in Britain.
Wadley covered 18 Tours de France from 1956. He worked for the British weekly, ''The Bicycle'' ...
(1914–1981), English sports journalist
* John
Jock Wallace, Jr.
John Martin Bokas Wallace (6 September 1935 – 24 July 1996) was a Scottish professional footballer and manager. Wallace played as a goalkeeper, and has the unique distinction of being the only player ever to play in the English, Welsh and Sco ...
(1935–1996), Scottish football player and manager, son of Jock Wallace, Sr.
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Jock Wallace, Sr.
John Martin Wallace (13 April 1911 — 1978) was a Scottish professional football goalkeeper.
He began his senior career at Raith Rovers, before moving south of the border in March 1934 to join compatriot Sandy MacFarlane's Blackpool. He made h ...
(1911–1978), Scottish football goalkeeper
* John
Jock Walker (1882–1968), Scottish footballer (Swindon Town, Middlesbrough, Reading, Scotland)
*
Jock Waters
Jock Waters (11 November 1908 - 29 September 1990) was a Scotland international rugby union player. He also played one match for the British and Irish Lions.Bath, p118 His regular playing position was Number 8.
Rugby Union career
Amateur car ...
, Scottish rugby union player in the 1930s
* John
Jock West
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 ...
(1909–2004), British motorcycle racer
* John
Jock White
John White (27 August 1897 – 11 February 1986) was a Scottish footballer who played as a forward. He played for Albion Rovers and Heart of Midlothian (two spells) in his native country, and Leeds United in England. (1897–1986), Scottish footballer
* John
Jock Whyte
John Nimmo Whyte (7 May 1921 – 17 October 1998) was a Scottish professional footballer who played for Bedlay, Falkirk, Bradford City, and Wigan Athletic.
Whyte spent one season at Wigan, making 26 appearances during the 1957–58 season of ...
(1921–1998), Scottish footballer
* John
Jock Wightman
John Renton Wightman (2 November 1912 – 20 April 1964) was a Scottish footballer who played for Scarborough, York City, Bradford Park Avenue, Huddersfield Town, Blackburn Rovers and Carlisle United. He was born in Duns. He died on 20 April 1 ...
(1912–1964), Scottish footballer
* Jack
Jock Wilson (footballer) (1870–after 1900), Scottish footballer
*
Jock Young (canoeist)
Jock Young is a former British slalom canoeist who competed in the 1980s.
He won a gold medal in the C-2 team event at the 1981 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Bala
Bala may refer to:
Places
India
*Bala, India, a village in All ...
, British slalom canoeist, 1981 world champion in the C-2 team event
Soldiers
* John
Jock Campbell (British Army officer)
Major-General John Charles Campbell, (10 January 1894 – 26 February 1942), known as Jock Campbell, was a British Army officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to ...
(1894-1942), British Army officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross
* Joseph
Jock Cunningham
Joseph Wallace "Jock" Cunningham (20 December 1902 – 22 February 1969) was a British volunteer in the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War. He became a battalion and brigade commander and rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel.'' ...
(1902-1969), British lieutenant colonel in the Spanish Civil War
* Major C.J.D
Jock Haswell
Major Chetwynd John Drake "Jock" Haswell (18 July 1919 – 21 January 2018), who also wrote as George Foster, was a British military and intelligence author and former British intelligence officer. He was "Author for Service Intelligence" 196 ...
, (1919-) British military and intelligence author and former British intelligence officer.
* John
Jock Lewes
Lieutenant John Steel "Jock" Lewes (21 December 1913 – 30 December 1941) was a British Army officer prominent during the Second World War. He was the founding principal training officer of the Special Air Service.''Army News'' ustralia 11 Janu ...
(1913-1941), British Army lieutenant, inventor of the Lewes bomb and founding principal training officer of the Special Air Service
* John
Jock Slater (born 1938), retired Royal Navy admiral, First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff
* Graham
Jock Stirrup
Marshal of the Royal Air Force Graham Eric Stirrup, Baron Stirrup, (born 4 December 1949), informally known as Jock Stirrup, is a former senior Royal Air Force commander who was the Chief of the Defence Staff from 2006 until his retirement in ...
(born 1949), retired Royal Air Force marshal
* John
Jock Wilson (British Army soldier)
John Nicholson "Jock" Wilson MM (7 September 1903 – 29 September 2008) was a British serviceman, who was Great Britain's oldest D-Day veteran. Wilson was a soldier in the 79th ( Scottish Horse) Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery. On 6 June 19 ...
(1903–2008), British serviceman and oldest D-Day veteran
Politicians and diplomats
* Harold
Jock Barnes
Harold "Jock" Barnes (17 July 1907 – 31 May 2000) was a New Zealand trade unionist and syndicalist, leader of the Waterside Workers Union from 1944 to 1952. He was heavily involved in the 1951 New Zealand waterfront dispute. His memoir ''Never ...
(1907-2000), New Zealand trade unionist and syndicalist
* John
Jock Bruce-Gardyne
John Bruce-Gardyne, Baron Bruce-Gardyne (12 April 1930 – 15 April 1990), was a British Conservative Party politician.
Son of Captain Evan Bruce-Gardyne, DSO, RN, 13th Laird of Middleton, and a member of a Scottish landholding family who hav ...
(1930-1990), British politician
* John
Jock Colville
Sir John Rupert Colville, CB, CVO (28 January 1915 – 19 November 1987) was a British civil servant. He is best known for his diaries, which provide an intimate view of number 10 Downing Street during the wartime Premiership of Winston Church ...
(1915-1987), British civil servant
* John
Jock Ferguson (1946–2010), Scottish-born Australian politician
* James
Jock Haston
James "Jock" Ritchie Haston (1913–1986) was a Trotskyist politician and General Secretary of the Revolutionary Communist Party in Great Britain.
Early years
Haston was born in Edinburgh and went to sea in the merchant navy where he became a m ...
(1913–1986), British Trotskyist politician
* Frederick James
Jock Granter (1921–2012), Australian politician
*
John R. "Jock" McKernan Jr. (born 1948), American politician, twice Governor of Maine
* John
Jock Mathison
John Mathison (29 September 1901 – 12 October 1982) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party. He was famed for his skills as a chairman and well known for his "unmistakably Scottish" accent, eloquent speeches and dry sense of humour ...
(1901–1982), New Zealand politician and cabinet minister
* John
Jock Nelson
John Norman Nelson (28 May 1908 – 20 June 1991) was an Australian politician. Born in Bundaberg, Queensland, he was the son of politician Harold Nelson. Jock Nelson was educated at state schools in Darwin before becoming a jackeroo and ...
(1908-1991), Australian politician
* John
Jock Scott
Jock Scott (6 October 1887 – 14 January 1967) was a Scotland international rugby union player who played at the Flanker position.
Rugby Union career
Amateur career
Scott played for Edinburgh Academicals.
Provincial career
Scott was capp ...
(1947-2009), American politician, lawyer and professor, three-time Louisiana state representative
* John
Jock Taylor (diplomat)
Sir John Lang "Jock" Taylor (3 August 1924 – 30 September 2002) was a British diplomat. He was British ambassador to Venezuela (1975–79), the Netherlands, (1979–81) and West Germany
West Germany is the colloquial term used to indica ...
(1924-2002), British diplomat and ambassador to several countries
* Arthur
Jock Tiffin
Arthur Ernest Tiffin OBE (11 February 1896 – 27 December 1955), commonly known as Jock Tiffin or A. E. Tiffin, was the third general secretary of the British Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU). He served for only a few months in 195 ...
(1896–1955), British union and Labour Party official
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Joseph "Jock" Yablonski (1910-1969), American murdered labor leader
*
William "Jock" Alves ( 1909–1979), Rhodesian physician and politician
Artists and entertainers
*
Jock (cartoonist)
Mark Simpson, known by the pen name Jock, is a Scottish cartoonist, best known for his work in '' 2000 AD'', '' The Losers'', and more recently ''Batman'' and ''Wolverine''. He is also known for '' Wytches'' by Image Comics.
Career
Comics
Joc ...
(born 1972), British comic book artist Mark Simpson
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Jock Bartley
Firefall is an American country rock band that formed in Boulder, Colorado, in 1974. It was founded by Rick Roberts, former member of the Flying Burrito Brothers, and Jock Bartley, who had been Tommy Bolin's replacement in Zephyr. The band' ...
, American rock guitarist
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Jock Gaynor (1929-1998), American actor, producer, and writer
*
Jock Macdonald
James Williamson Galloway Macdonald (31 May 1897 – 3 December 1960), commonly known in his professional life as Jock Macdonald, was a member of Painters Eleven (Painters 11, or P11), whose goal was to promote abstract art in Canada. Mac ...
(1897-1960), Scottish-born Canadian painter
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Jock McFadyen
Jock McFadyen (born 18 September 1950) is a contemporary British painter.
Biography
McFadyen was born 18 September 1950 in Paisley, Scotland. As a teenager he attended Saturday morning classes at Glasgow School of Art. McFadyen moved to Engla ...
(born 1950), British painter
* Jock McIver (1878-1952), a stage name of the English music hall performer best known as
Talbot O'Farrell
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Jock Mahoney
Jacques Joseph O'Mahoney (February 7, 1919 – December 14, 1989), known professionally as Jock Mahoney, was an American actor and stuntman. He starred in two Action/Adventure television series, ''The Range Rider'' and '' Yancy Derringer''. He ...
(1919-1989), American actor and stuntman
* George
Jock Purdon (1925-1998), British poet and songwriter
*
Jock Soto
Jock Soto (born 1965)Kisselgoff, Anna. "Not Only a Partner, a Dynamic Interpreter", ''The New York Times'', June 18, 2005. p. B7. is a former American ballet dancer and current ballet instructor.
Career
Jock Soto danced featured roles in over 40 ...
(born c. 1965), American former ballet dancer and current instructor
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Jock Sturges
John Sturges (; born 1947), known as Jock Sturges, is an American photographer, best known for his images of nude adolescents and their families. Sturges pled guilty in 2021 at Franklin County (MA) Superior Court to an unnatural and lascivious ac ...
(born 1947), American photographer
Other
* John Stanley "Jock" McCormack (born 1981), renowned Scottish Diesel Mechanic, Atheist and Conspiracy Theorist .
*
Jock R. Anderson (born 1941), Australian agricultural economist
* John
Jock Brown
John Winton Brown (born in May 1946) is a Scottish football commentator. He also served as general manager of Scottish club Celtic from 1997 to 1998.
Early life
Brown was born in Kilmarnock in May 1946. He is the younger brother of former Sco ...
(born 1946), Scottish solicitor and freelance football commentator
* Henry John
Jock Delves Broughton
Sir Henry John Delves Broughton, 11th Baronet, DL (10 September 1883 – 5 December 1942), was a British baronet who is chiefly known for standing trial for the murder of Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl of Erroll. The event was the basis of the film '' W ...
(1883-1942), British aristocrat acquitted of murder
* John
Jock Campbell, Baron Campbell of Eskan
John Middleton Campbell, Baron Campbell of Eskan (8 August 1912 – 26 December 1994), known familiarly as "Jock", was the Chairman of Booker Brothers, McConnell and Co (Later Booker-McConnell) in British Guiana (now Guyana) between 1952 and 1967. ...
(1912-1994), British businessman
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Jock Carroll (1919-1995), Canadian writer, journalist and photographer
*
Gerard Davison (c. 1967-2015), a commander of the Provisional IRA from Northern Ireland
* Richard
Jock Kinneir
Richard "Jock" Kinneir (11 February 1917 – 23 August 1994) was a British typographer and graphic designer who, with his colleague Margaret Calvert, designed many of the road signs used throughout the United Kingdom, Crown Dependencies, an ...
(1917-1994), British typographer and graphic designer who, with Margaret Calvert, designed many of the road signs used throughout the United Kingdom
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Jock D. Mackinlay
Jock D. Mackinlay (born August 16, 1952) is an American information visualization expert and Vice President of Research and Design at Tableau Software. With Stuart K. Card, George G. Robertson and others he invented a number of Information Visu ...
(born 1952), American information visualization expert
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Jock McKeen (born 1946), Canadian physician, acupuncturist, author and lecturer
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Jock Marshall
Alan John "Jock" Marshall (17 February 1911 – 20 July 1967) was an Australian writer, academic and ornithologist.
Marshall was born in Redfern, New South Wales. Despite having lost an arm in a shooting accident at the age of sixteen, he was ...
(1911-1967), Australian writer, academic and ornithologist
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Jock Phillips
John Oliver Crompton Phillips (born 1947) is a New Zealand historian, author and encyclopedist. He was the general editor of '' Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand'', the official encyclopedia of New Zealand.
Career
Born and raised in Chr ...
(born 1947), New Zealand historian, author and encyclopedist
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Robert Leslie Stewart (1918–1989), Scottish hangman
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John Hay Whitney
John Hay Whitney (August 17, 1904 – February 8, 1982) was U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, publisher of the ''New York Herald Tribune'', and president of the Museum of Modern Art. He was a member of the Whitney family.
Early life
Whi ...
(1904-1982), American businessman, philanthropist and ambassador
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Jock Wilson (police officer)
John Spark Wilson CBE (9 May 1922 – 15 September 1993), known as Jock Wilson, was a British police officer in the London Metropolitan Police.
Wilson was brought up in Dundee. He joined the Metropolitan Police as a Constable in 1946 and j ...
(1922–1993), British police officer
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Jock Young
Jock Young (4 March 1942 – 16 November 2013) was a British sociologist and an influential criminologist.
Biography
Jock Young was educated at the London School of Economics. His PhD was an ethnography of drug use in Notting Hill, West ...
(1942–2013), British sociologist and criminologist
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Joc Pederson
Joc Russell Pederson ( ; born April 21, 1992) is an American professional baseball outfielder for the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Chicago Cubs, and Atlanta Br ...
(born 1992), American Major League Baseball player
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Jock Ewing
John Ross "Jock" Ewing Sr. (1909–1982) is a fictional character in the American television series ''Dallas'' created by David Jacobs. Jock was played by Jim Davis in the show's first four seasons from 1978 to 1981, and as a young man by Dale ...
, a fictional character on the American television series''
Dallas
Dallas () is the List of municipalities in Texas, third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the List of metropolitan statistical areas, fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 ...
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