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Slack (surname)

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Slack is the surname of:

Politics, law and the military

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  • Clayton K. Slack (1896–1976), United States Army private awarded the Medal of Honor
  • Doug Slack (born 1941), Australian former politician
  • George Slack (1874–1950), American politician
  • Granville Slack (1906–2003), British judge and politician
  • James Slack, British political advisor and journalist, former official spokesperson and Director of Communications for former prime minister Boris Johnson
  • James R. Slack (1818–1881), American state senator and Union Army brigadier general and brevet major general
  • Jerald D. Slack (born 1936), US Air National Guard major general
  • John Slack (cricketer) (1930–2012), English cricketer and judge
  • John Bamford Slack (1857–1909), British politician and Methodist lay preacher
  • John M. Slack Jr. (1915–1980), American politician
  • Leighton P. Slack (1867–1938), American state senator, lieutenant governor of Vermont and justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
  • Lemuel Ertus Slack (1874–1952), American state senator and lawyer
  • Thomas Kerr Slack (1875–1956), Canadian politician
  • Timothy Slack (1913–1976), American politician
  • William Y. Slack (1816–1862), American lawyer, politician and Confederate officer

Science

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  • Adrian Slack (1933–2018), British landscape gardener, plantsman, author and authority on carnivorous plants
  • Francis G. Slack (1897–1985), American physicist
  • Harry Slack (1907–1982), British zoologist
  • Nancy Guttmann Slack (1930–2022), American plant ecologist, bryologist and historian of science
  • Roger Slack (1937–2016), British plant biologist and biochemist

Sports

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Other

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  • Agnes Elizabeth Slack (1858–1946), English Temperance advocate
  • Ben Slack, American actor, known for Bachelor Party
  • Eliza Fraser (c. 1798–1858), née Slack, English shipwreck victim who claimed to have been captured by Australian Aborigines
  • Freddie Slack (1910–1965), American swing and boogie-woogie pianist and bandleader
  • Paul Slack (born 1943), British historian
  • Samuel Slack (1757–1822), English bass singer
  • William Slack (surgeon) (1925–2019), dean of UCL Medical School and Serjeant Surgeon to Queen Elizabeth II

See also

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