Famous People with Name Jackson

Jackson Vroman            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jackson Vroman: is an American professional basketball player, formerly in the NBA and currently with BC Lietuvos Rytas of Lithuania.His senior year in high school, he played at Viewmont High School in Bountiful,Utah for Coach Emery. After a career at Snow Community College in Ephraim, Utah and Iowa State University, Jackson was a second-round draft pick of the Chicago Bulls in the 2004 NBA Draft. He has since played for the Phoenix Suns and the New Orleans Hornets, averaging 4.6 points and 3.8 rebounds per game.

Jackson DeForest Kelley            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jackson DeForest Kelley: was an American actor known for his starring role as Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy of the USS Enterprise in the television series Star Trek and six of its subsequent movies, as well as an elderly Admiral Dr. Leonard McCoy in the Star Trek: The Next Generation pilot, Encounter at Farpoint. Shy by his own admission, Kelley was the only cast member of the original Star Trek series program never to have written or published an autobiography.

Jackson Northman Anderson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jackson Northman Anderson: was an American newspaper columnist and is considered one of the fathers of modern investigative journalism.Jack Anderson was a key and often controversial figure in reporting on J. Edgar Hoover's apparent ties to the Mafia, Watergate, the John F. Kennedy assassination, the search for fugitive ex-Nazi officials in South America and the Savings and Loan scandal. He discovered a CIA plot to assassinate Fidel Castro, and has also been credited for breaking the Iran-Contra affair, though he has said the scoop was "spiked" because he had become too close to President Ronald Reagan. Anderson was a crusader against corruption.

Jackson Mac Low            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jackson Mac Low: was an American poet, performance artist, composer and playwright, known to most readers of poetry as a practioneer of systematic chance operations and other non-intentional compositional methods in his work, which Mac Low first experienced in the musical work of John Cage, Earle Brown, and Christian Wolff.

Jackson Rathbone            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jackson Rathbone: He is known for his role as Nicholas Fiske, on the ABC Family drama Beautiful People. He has had guest roles in The OC, and Close to Home. He has made a couple of movies, Molding Clay (AKA River's End), Pray for Morning, and Travis and Henry. He also did extensive work for Disney 411 and interviewed big stars like Hilary Duff. On February 19, 2008 it was announced that he is set to play the character of Jasper Hale in the upcoming movie Twilight, based on the best-selling novel by Stephenie Meye

Mahalia Jackson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Mahalia Jackson: was an African-American gospel singer, widely regarded as the best in the history of the genre, and is the first "Queen of Gospel Music". With her powerful, distinct voice, Mahalia Jackson became one of the most influential gospel singers in the world. Sh

Wanda Lavonne Jackson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Wanda Lavonne Jackson: is an American rockabilly and country music singer who had success in the mid-50s and the 60s. She resides in Oklahoma City, OK. She was one of the first female rockabilly singers to come to popularity during the 1950s.

Thomas Dale Jackson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Thomas Dale Jackson: a popular Canadian Métis actor and singer. He resides in Calgary with his wife Alison and four children.As an actor he has starred in TV shows such as North of 60 and Shining Time Station where his character Billy Twofeathers debuted in its Halloween epis

Jesse Jackson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jesse Jackson: was an African-American novelist.Jackson was one of the first young adult novelists whose works focused on contemporary experiences of African-American children, often those experiencing life as a minority in a white community. Call Me Charley, published

D. D. Jackson            Origin/Culture/Country: American

D. D. Jackson: is a jazz pianist and composer. He studied at the Manhattan School of Music and Indiana University. He has also done notable work with David Murray and is currently collaborating with Bob Weir, formerly of the Grateful Dead.