Jock (given name)

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Jock
Origin
Word/nameScotland
Other names
Related namesJack

Jock is a Scottish diminutive form of the forename "John"; it corresponds to Jack in England and Wales. It is also a nickname for someone of Scottish origin. It is also the collective names of or Scottish soldiers. Collectively known as "the Jocks". 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[]

Soldiers[]

  • John Jock Campbell (British Army officer) (1894-1942), British Army officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross
  • Joseph Jock Cunningham (1902-1969), British lieutenant colonel in the Spanish Civil War
  • Major C.J.D Jock Haswell, (1919-) British military and intelligence author and former British intelligence officer.
  • John Jock Lewes (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 (born 1949), retired Royal Air Force marshal
  • John Jock Wilson (British Army soldier) (1903–2008), British serviceman and oldest D-Day veteran

Politicians and diplomats[]

  • Harold Jock Barnes (1907-2000), New Zealand trade unionist and syndicalist
  • John Jock Bruce-Gardyne (1930-1990), British politician
  • John Jock Colville (1915-1987), British civil servant
  • John Jock Ferguson (1946–2010), Scottish-born Australian politician
  • James Jock Haston (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 (1901–1982), New Zealand politician and cabinet minister
  • John Jock Nelson (1908-1991), Australian politician
  • John (1947-2009), American politician, lawyer and professor, three-time Louisiana state representative
  • John Jock Taylor (diplomat) (1924-2002), British diplomat and ambassador to several countries
  • Arthur Jock Tiffin (1896–1955), British union and Labour Party official
  • Joseph "Jock" Yablonski (1910-1969), American murdered labor leader
  • William "Jock" Alves (c. 1909–1979), Rhodesian physician and politician

Artists and entertainers[]

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 (born 1946), Scottish solicitor and freelance football commentator
  • Henry John Jock Delves Broughton (1883-1942), British aristocrat acquitted of murder
  • John Jock Campbell, Baron Campbell of Eskan (1912-1994), British businessman
  • 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 (1917-1994), British typographer and graphic designer who, with Margaret Calvert, designed many of the road signs used throughout the United Kingdom
  • Jock D. Mackinlay (born 1952), American information visualization expert
  • John Jock McKeen (born 1946), Canadian physician, acupuncturist, author and lecturer
  • Alan John Jock Marshall (1911-1967), Australian writer, academic and ornithologist
  • John Jock Phillips (born 1947), New Zealand historian, author and encyclopedist
  • Robert Leslie Stewart (1918–1989), Scottish hangman
  • John Hay Whitney (1904-1982), American businessman, philanthropist and ambassador
  • John Jock Wilson (police officer) (1922–1993), British police officer
  • Jock Young (1942–2013), British sociologist and criminologist

See also[]

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