Jack Kirkbride (born in Oldham, Lancashire, 31 March 1923 – 1 October 2006) was an English cartoonist, and father to Anne Kirkbride, the actress who plays Deirdre Barlow in the ITV soap opera Coronation Street.

Kirkbride left school at the age of 14 to become an apprentice painter and decorator but was called up for the Army at age 18, when he started drawing cartoons. He served from 1942 as a transport driver with the Royal Army Service Corps. He fought in the Normandy Campaign in 1944 and was demobbed in 1946. He sold his first cartoon to a national paper in 1953 (a Mothers' Day gag for the Sunday Dispatch), and has since sold to most national papers and magazines, including Punch and The Oldie. His work also appears in the German press under the name of Jacki.

He became the Oldham Evening Chronicle's regular cartoonist in 1958 and went full-time in the 1970s.

He was a founder member of the Cartoonist's Club of Great Britain and his work was published across Europe.

Kirkbride won first prize at the Waddingtons International Cartoon Festival (Margate 1989). His hobbies included listening to classical music, renovating his 18th-century farmhouse on the edge of Saddleworth Moor and playing the pianola.

The name Jack is a pet name for John, or to a lesser extent Jacob, commonly so in the Northeastern United States and in the United Kingdom. Jack may also refer to:

Kirk can mean "church" in general or the Church of Scotland in particular. Many place names and personal names are also derived from it.

As a common noun, kirk (meaning 'church') is found in Scots, Scottish English and historically in some English dialects, attested as a noun from the 14th century onwards, but as an element in placenames much earlier. Both words, kirk and church, derive from the Koine Greek κυριακόν (δωμα) (kyriakon (dōma)) meaning Lord's (house), which was borrowed into the Germanic languages in late antiquity, possibly in the course of the Gothic missions. (Only a connection with the idiosyncrasies of Gothic explains how a Greek neuter noun became a Germanic feminine.) Whereas church displays Old English palatalisation, kirk is likely to be a loanword from Old Norse and thus has the original mainland Germanic consonants. Compare cognates: Icelandic & Faroese kirkja; Swedish kyrka; Norwegian (Nynorsk) kyrkje; Norwegian (Bokmål) & Danish kirke; German Kirche; Dutch kerk; West Frisian tsjerke; and borrowed into non-Germanic languages: Estonian kirik and Finnish kirkko.

Jamie Thomas (born October 11, 1974), is an American professional skateboarder and skateboard industry magnate from Dothan, Alabama. He is the co-owner of Zero Skateboards and Fallen Footwear.

Thomas started skateboarding at the age of eleven. He was first sponsored in 1992 by Deluxe (Thunder trucks, Spitfire wheels and as a flow rider for Real Skateboards). This prompted him to move to San Francisco with his friends Sean Young and Hurley. While living in San Francisco, Thomas turned pro for a short-lived company, Experience Skateboards. Thomas then went on to ride for the San Diego based Invisible Skateboards. After relocating to Southern California in 1994, Thomas was featured on the cover of Transworld Skateboard magazine and had video parts in the Spitfire and Invisible videos. In 1995 Thomas joined Ed Templeton's Toy Machine. He filmed and directed two Toy Machine videos, the second one being Welcome To Hell. His section in "Welcome To Hell" is arguably the biggest milestone of his career.

Thomas Jack (February 5, 1881 - October 9, 1961) was a British track and field athlete who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics in the Men's Marathon. He did not finish. dropping out after 5 miles.