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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

Artists and entertainers

Other

See also