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Jock (given name)

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Jock
Origin
Word/nameScotland
Other names
Related namesJack, Jacques, James, Jacob, John

Jock is a Scottish diminutive form of the forename "John"; It is also a nickname for someone of Scottish origin, as well as being the collective name for Scottish soldiers, collectively known as "the Jocks". It corresponds to Jack in England and Wales. In London the rhyming slang "sweaty" is used, deriving from "Sweaty sock - Jock".

The name may refer to:

Art and entertainment

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Crime, punishment and policing

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Military

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  • 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, (born 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

Politics and diplomacy

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Sports

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Other

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  • Jock R. Anderson (born 1941), Australian agricultural economist
  • Harold Jock Barnes (1907–2000), New Zealand trade unionist and syndicalist
  • John Jock Brown (born 1946), Scottish solicitor and freelance football commentator
  • 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
  • John Hay Whitney (1904–1982), American businessman, philanthropist and ambassador
  • Barry Jock Zonfrillo (1976–2023), Scottish-Australian chef and television presenter

See also

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  • Joc Pederson (born 1992), American Major League Baseball player