Jake

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Jake
Gender	"Male"
Related names	Jacob, Jack
Wikipedia articles	All pages beginning with "Jake"

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Jake is a modern, shortened form of the male name Jacob and the female name Jakelynn.

Individuals named Jake include:

• Jake Hager, (born 1982) A Professional wrestler
• Jake Arnott, British novelist
• Jake Gyllenhaal, actor
• Jake Humphrey, children's and football presenter
• Jake LaMotta, former world middleweight champion boxer who was later portrayed by Robert De Niro in the 1980 film Raging Bull
• Jake Locker, 2007 starting quarterback for the Washington Huskies
• Jake Long, an offensive tackle for the college football Michigan Wolverines
• Jake Lunn, an famous defensive lineman for the Lewisville Mustangs
• Jake Peavy, a National League pitcher for the San Diego Padres
• Jake Plummer, a National Football League quarterback
• Jake "the Snake" Roberts, a professional wrestler
• Jake T. Austin, child actor

Fictional characters named Jake include:

• Jake Featherston, Hitler-like dictator in Harry Turtledove's Timeline-191 series.
• American Dragon: Jake Long, title character in an animated television series which airs on Disney Channel
• Jake, a video game character in the Ape Escape series
• Jake, a pet dog of Betty Spaghetty
• Jake, the main character dog in the game Dog's Life
• Jake Fischer, a character played by Ashton Kutcher in the film The Guardian.
• Jake 2.0, title character in a science fiction television series that aired from 2003 to 2004 on UPN
• Jake Berenson, a character from the Animorphs book series by K. A. Applegate
• Jake Spidermonkey, a main character in My Gym Partner's a Monkey
• J.J. "Jake" Gittes, the cop turned detective and main character in Roman Polanski's 1974 film Chinatown
• Jake Blues, lead vocalist of The Blues Brothers Band and one of the main characters in The Blues Brothers film
• Jake Chambers, a boy and one of the main characters in Stephen King's The Dark Tower series.

Jake may also refer to:

• "The Jake," nickname of the Major League Baseball stadium once known as Jacobs Field, now Progressive Field
• Jake brake, a particular brand of engine brake
• Jake, a slang term in the United States for Jamaican ginger extract.
• Jake leg, Jake walk; partial paralysis of the limbs, caused by an adulterant, tricresyl phosphate added to Jamaican ginger during Prohibition
• Jake, a slang term in Scotland for a drug-addict, or someone uncouth
• Jake, a slang term of high praise for a fireman or a police officer
• Jake, a slang term used in Discordianism to describe a prank, often celebrated on Jake Day
• Jake / Bot2, one of the ROVs used during the filming of the documentary Ghosts of the Abyss
• Jake, jazz era slang meaning "great", as in "everything's jake" or "it's all jake."
• Jake, baseball slang meaning a lazy player or a half-hearted effort, i.e. "He jaked that play."
• Jake the Alligator Man, an oddity on view in Long Beach, Washington
• Less Than Jake, a ska punk band
• Jake, a slang term in England for rough cider
• The Japanese World War II reconnaissance floatplane, the Aichi E13A, Allied reporting name "Jake"

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