Black Jack

Black Jack or Blackjack may refer to:

Games and cards

• Blackjack, the gambling game
• Black Jack (card game), also known as Switch, a name given to some variations of Crazy Eights in United Kingdom
• The black Jack playing card

Weapons

• Baton (law enforcement) or "Blackjack," a small easily concealed club weapon

Products

• Black Jack (stamp), a United States postage stamp
• BlackJack (phone), a mobile phone made by Samsung
• BlackJack II (phone), a mobile phone made by Samsung
• Black Jack (gum), a brand of chewing gum
• Black Jack (confectionery), aniseed flavour chews

Military

• Battle of Black Jack, a battle in Kansas preceding the American Civil War
• Tupolev Tu-160 (NATO reporting name: Blackjack), a Russian bomber
• "The Black Jack Brigade", nickname of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division (United States)
• VMF-441, nicknamed The Blackjacks, a United States Marine Corps fighter squadron
• Black Jack (horse) (1947–1976), served the United States Army as the riderless horse in full honors funerals

Television and broadcast media

• BlackJack (telemovie), a series of Australian telemovies starring Colin Friels
• Blackjack (film), a 1998 film by John Woo
• Black Jack (film), a 1950 film written and directed by Julien Duvivier
• Black Jack, a 1979 film by Ken Loach
• Black Jack (manga), a manga and anime series
  • Black Jack (character), main character of the manga series
• "Blackjack", the 22nd episode of the second TV series The Adventures of Ellery Queen
• "Black Jack" (Jericho episode), an episode of the television series Jericho
• "BlackJack", an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants (season 5) that aired along with Picture Day and Pat No Pay on August 2, 2007
• Black Jack, a horse ridden by B movie western star Allan "Rocky" Lane in over 30 movies between 1947 and 1953

Music

• Blackjack (Donald Byrd album) an album by jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd
• Blak Jak (born 1983), American rapper
• Blackjack (band), an American rock band featuring Michael Bolton and Bruce Kulick
  • Blackjack (Blackjack album), the band's eponymous debut album
• Black Jack (heavy metal band), an Australian heavy metal band
• Black Jack (band), a Chilean rock band
• Black Jacks (band) BLK JKS, a South African rock band
• "Black Jack", a song by The Hives from their album Barely Legal
• "Black Jack", a song by Junkie XL from their album Big Sounds of the Drags
• "Black Jack", a song by Dave Matthews Band
• "Black Jacks", a song by Girls Aloud from their album Tangled Up
• "Blackjack", a song by Everclear from their album Slow Motion Daydream
• "Blackjack", a song by Airbourne from their album Runnin' Wild
• "Blackjack", a song by Dave Matthews Band that debuted during their 2010 Summer Tour
• Blackjack, a twenty-one note scale in the miracle temperament
• Blackjack, the official fan club of the South Korean hip-hop girl group 2NE1

People nicknamed Black Jack

• John A. Logan (1826–1886), American general and political leader
• John J. Pershing (1860–1948), United States Army general
• John McCauley (1899-1989), senior commander in the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF)
• Tom Ketchum (1863–1901), American western outlaw
• John Vernou Bouvier III (1891–1957), father of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
• Jack McDowell (born 1966), professional baseball pitcher
• Jack Lanza (born 1935), aka "Blackjack" Lanza, a professional wrestler in the 1960s and 1970s
• Jack Brabham (born 1926), Australian motor racing world champion

Other uses

• Black jack (fish), a gamefish
• Blackjack (Transformers), a fictional character in the Transformers universe
• Black Jack, Missouri, United States
• Blackjack Pizza, a chain of pizza delivery restaurants in Colorado
• Blackjack Oak or Quercus marilandica, a small tree
• The Blackjacks, a professional wrestling tag team
• "Black Jack", a short story by Rudyard Kipling in the collection Soldiers Three
• Sphalerite, a mineral sometimes called black-jack by miners
• Blackjack (Atari 2600 video game), a video game cartridge developed by Atari

See also

• Jack Black (born 1969), American actor