Jock (given name)
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
- Jock Aird, Scottish retired footballer
- Jock Archibald, Scottish footballer
- John Jock Blackwood, Australian rugby union player
- Jacques "Jock" Boyer, American former cyclist, first American to compete in the Tour de France
- John Jock Butterfield, New Zealand rugby league footballer
- William Jock Callander, Canadian ice hockey player
- Horace Jock Cameron, South African cricketer
- John Jock Cameron, Scottish football player and managers in the 1900s and 1910s
- James Jock Campbell , Scottish footballer
- Jock Carter, English footballer
- Jock Climie, Canadian sportscaster and retired Canadian Football League player
- John Jock Collier, Scottish footballer and manager
- James Jock Cordner, Australian rules footballer
- Jock Cumberford, footballer who played in Australia's first three full international matches in 1922
- John Jock Davie, Scottish footballer
- Ephraim Jock Dodds, Scottish footballer
- Jock Doherty, Australian rules footballer
- John Jock Drummond, Scottish footballer
- Jock Edward, Scottish footballer in the 1920s
- Graham Jock Edwards, New Zealand former cricketer
- John Jock Espie, Scottish footballer
- John Jock Ewart, Scottish football goalkeeper
- Jack Jock Ferguson, Scottish-born American soccer player
- Jock Govan, Scottish footballer
- John Jock Grieve, Scottish footballer
- John Jock Hamilton, Scottish footballer
- Connor Jock Hanvey, American college football player and coach
- John Jock Henderson , Scottish footballer
- John Jock Henderson , Scottish footballer
- John Henebry, United States Air Force major general
- Michael James Jock Hobbs, New Zealand rugby union player and All Blacks captain
- Jock Hutcheson, Scottish professional footballer in the 1870s and '80s
- Jack Jock Hutchison, Scottish-American golfer
- John Jock Hutton, Scottish footballer
- John Jock Kirton, Scottish footballer
- Jock Landale, Australian basketball player
- John Jock Leckie, Scottish football goalkeeper
- Jock Lineen, former Australian rules footballer
- Leonard Jock Livingston, Australian cricketer
- Jock McAvoy, ring name of British boxer Joseph Patrick Bamford
- John Jock McCorkell, Australian rules footballer
- Jock McDougall, Scottish footballer
- James Jock McHale, Australian rules football player and coach
- Jock McKenzie, Australian rules footballer
- Richard John Jock McKenzie , New Zealand rugby union footballer
- John Jock McNab, Scottish footballer
- John Jock Menefee, American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Ambrose Jock Mulraney, Scottish footballer
- John Jock Newall, New Zealand footballer
- Jock O'Brien , Australian rules footballer
- Jock O'Brien, Australian rules footballer
- John Jock Paterson, English footballer
- John Jock Porter, Scottish motorcycle racer
- James Jock Robertson, English footballer
- John Jock Robson, Scottish football goalkeeper
- John Jock Rutherford, English footballer
- Jock Sanders, American football player in the Canadian Football League
- John Jock Scott , Scottish footballer
- John Jock Semple, Boston Marathon official
- Jock Shaw, Scottish footballer
- John Jock Shearer, Scottish football player and coach
- John Jock Simpson, English footballer
- John Jock Somerlott, American Major League Baseball player
- Thomas Jock Spencer, Australian rules footballer
- John Jock Stein, Scottish football player and manager
- William Stewart , British Olympic cyclist
- Alexander Jock Sturrock, Australian yachtsman
- John Jock Sutherland, American college football player and Hall-of-Fame coach and National Football League coach
- Charles Jock Sutherland , American basketball coach
- John Jock Taylor, Scottish motorcycle sidecar racer
- John Jock Taylor , Scottish footballer
- John Jock Taylor , Scottish footballer
- John Jock Thomson, Scottish football player and manager
- John Jock Turner, Scottish former rugby union player
- John Jock Wadley, English sports journalist
- John Jock Wallace, Jr., Scottish football player and manager, son of Jock Wallace, Sr.
- Jock Wallace, Sr., Scottish football goalkeeper
- John Jock Walker, Scottish footballer
- Jock Waters, Scottish rugby union player in the 1930s
- John Jock West, British motorcycle racer
- John Jock White, Scottish footballer
- John Jock Whyte, Scottish footballer
- John Jock Wightman, Scottish footballer
- Jack Jock Wilson , Scottish footballer
- Jock Young, British slalom canoeist, 1981 world champion in the C-2 team event
Soldiers
- John Jock Campbell , British Army officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross
- Joseph Jock Cunningham, British lieutenant colonel in the Spanish Civil War
- Major C.J.D Jock Haswell, British military and intelligence author and former British intelligence officer.
- John Jock Lewes, British Army lieutenant, inventor of the Lewes bomb and founding principal training officer of the Special Air Service
- John Jock Slater, retired Royal Navy admiral, First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff
- Graham Jock Stirrup, retired Royal Air Force marshal
- John Jock Wilson , British serviceman and oldest D-Day veteran
Politicians and diplomats
- Harold Jock Barnes, New Zealand trade unionist and syndicalist
- John Jock Bruce-Gardyne, British politician
- John Jock Colville, British civil servant
- John Jock Ferguson, Scottish-born Australian politician
- James Jock Haston, British Trotskyist politician
- Frederick James Jock Granter, Australian politician
- John R. McKernan Jr., American politician, twice Governor of Maine
- John Jock Mathison, New Zealand politician and cabinet minister
- John Jock Nelson, Australian politician
- John Jock Scott, American politician, lawyer and professor, three-time Louisiana state representative
- John Jock Taylor , British diplomat and ambassador to several countries
- Arthur Jock Tiffin, British union and Labour Party official
- Joseph "Jock" Yablonski, American murdered labor leader
- William "Jock" Alves, Rhodesian physician and politician
Artists and entertainers
- Jock Bartley, American rock guitarist
- Jock Gaynor, American actor, producer, and writer
- Jock Macdonald, Scottish-born Canadian painter
- Jock McFadyen, British painter
- Jock Mahoney, American actor and stuntman
- George Jock Purdon, British poet and songwriter
- Jock Soto, American former ballet dancer and current instructor
- Jock Sturges, American photographer
Other
- Jock R. Anderson, Australian agricultural economist
- John Jock Brown, Scottish solicitor and freelance football commentator
- Henry John Jock Delves Broughton, British aristocrat acquitted of murder
- John Jock Campbell, Baron Campbell of Eskan, British businessman
- Jock Carroll, Canadian writer, journalist and photographer
- Gerard Davison, a commander of the Provisional IRA from Northern Ireland
- Richard Jock Kinneir, British typographer and graphic designer who, with Margaret Calvert, designed many of the road signs used throughout the United Kingdom
- Jock D. Mackinlay, American information visualization expert
- John Jock McKeen, Canadian physician, acupuncturist, author and lecturer
- Alan John Jock Marshall, Australian writer, academic and ornithologist
- John Jock Phillips, New Zealand historian, author and encyclopedist
- Robert Leslie Stewart, Scottish hangman
- John Hay Whitney, American businessman, philanthropist and ambassador
- John Jock Wilson , British police officer
- Jock Young, British sociologist and criminologist