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Jack Kevorkian

Jack Kevorkian was the former medical pathologist known for his high-profile antics in support of voluntary euthanasia. A 1952 graduate of the University of Michigan medical school, Jack Kevorkian…

Jack Foley

Jack Foley is the bank-robbing hero of Elmore Leonard's novels Out of Sight (1996) and Road Dogs (2009). Foley is a career bank robber who claims to have robbed over 150 banks in his life, between…

Jack Lemmon

Name at birth: John Uhler Lemmon IIIA two-time Oscar winner, Jack Lemmon often played struggling underdogs like the neurotic Felix Ungar in the 1968 movie The Odd Couple. Jack Lemmon attended Harvard…

Jack Wild

Jack Wild was still a teenager when he was nominated for an Academy Award for Oliver!, the 1968 film of the old Charles Dickens tale. Wild played the Artful Dodger, the puckish and top-hatted urchin…

Jack Ruby

Name at birth: Jacob RubensteinJack Ruby shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of president John F. Kennedy, on November 24, 1963. Jack Ruby was born in Chicago, and served in the U.S…

Jack Paar

Jack Paar is best known for hosting the Tonight Show from 1957 to 1962. Paar gained a reputation as a thinking man's talk show host, and also for a certain emotional sensitivity: in one famous 1960…

Jack Nicholson

Jack Nicholson has been nominated for 12 Academy Awards, and he's won three times: for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975, from the book by Ken Kesey), for Terms of Endearment (1984), and for As…

Jack McBrayer

Jack McBrayer plays Kenneth, the grinning office assistant on the TV sitcom 30 Rock (starring Tina Fey). A native of Georgia, he went to school at the University of Evansville in Indiana and got his…

Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper is the popular name of the unknown killer who terrorized London between August and November of 1888. (He was also called the Whitechapel Murderer, after the city district where he…

Jack Palance

Name at birth: Walter Jack PalahniukJack Palance was one of the great movie heavies of the 1950s, when he was often cast as a sinister villain in film noirs, westerns and melodramas. His impressive…