Biographies

Biographies is a category for works that tell the life stories of real people, highlighting their experiences, achievements, and historical significance. It includes both full-length accounts and shorter profiles written to inform and engage readers.

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Jack Sheldon

Jack Smith (end)

Jack Smith (American football end)

Jack Stewart (ice hockey)

Jack Stewart (ice hockey): career, style, and legacy

Jack Stoddard

Jack Stoddard (1926–2014), Canadian ice hockey right winger

Jack Thayer

Jack Thayer: Titanic survivor, eyewitness and memoirist

Jack Valenti

Jack Valenti (1921–2007)

Jack Vettriano

Jack Vettriano – Scottish painter known for The Singing Butler

Jack Wallace (actor)

Jack Wallace (1933–2020) — American character actor and stage veteran

Jack Warden

Jack Warden (1920–2006): American character actor

Jack Williams

Jack Williams (1924–1945) — U.S. Navy sailor and Medal of Honor recipient

Jackie Basehart

Jackie Burroughs

Jackie Cain

Jackie Cain — American Jazz Vocalist and Half of the Jackie and Roy Duo

Jackie Coogan

Jackie Coogan: Child Star, Character Actor, and Namesake of the Coogan Act

Jackie Evancho

Jackie Evancho — American classical crossover singer and early prodigy

Jackie Gleason

Jackie Gleason: American Comedian, Actor, and Musician

Jackie Healy-Rae

Jackie Healy-Rae — Irish independent politician (1931–2014)

Jackie Joseph

Jackie Joseph: American character actress and voice performer

Jackie Winters

Jackie Winters: Oregon Republican Legislator and Trailblazer

Jacknife Lee

Garret "Jacknife" Lee — Irish music producer and guitarist

Jackson family

Jackson Pollock

Jackson Wang

Jaclyn Linetsky

Jaco Pastorius

Jacob

Jacob — patriarch of the Israelite tradition

Jacob Arminius

Jacob Arminius: Dutch Reformation Theologian and Founder of Arminian Thought

Jacob Cats

Jacob Cats: Dutch poet, jurist and political leader of the Dutch Golden Age

Jacob Parrott

Jacob Parrott: First Recipient of the United States Medal of Honor

Jacob Pressman

Jacob Pressman: American Conservative Rabbi and Community Leader

Jacob Riis

Jacob Riis — Photographer, Reformer, and Progressive-Era Journalist

Jacqueline du Pré

Jacqueline du Pré — English Cellist and Musical Legacy

Jacqueline Kelly

Jacqueline Logan

Jacqueline Saburido

Jacqueline Saburido: Venezuelan burn survivor and anti‑drunk‑driving campaigner

Jacqueline Vaudecrane

Jacqueline Woodson

Jacqueline Woodson: Author of Children's and Young Adult Literature

Jacques Anquetil

Jacques Blamont

Jacques Blamont: French astrophysicist and pioneer of France’s space programme

Jacques Bravo

Jacques Bravo (1943–2019) — French politician and mayor of Paris’s 9th arrondissement