Jack White (born John Anthony Gillis on July 9, 1975) is an American musician, record producer, and occasional actor best known as the guitarist and lead vocalist of the rock duo The White Stripes.

During the 1990s, White was a part-time musician in various underground bands in Detroit, while working by day as an upholsterer. After hearing his then wife, Meg White, play drums, the two formed The White Stripes. The band went on to have a string of critically-acclaimed albums, with their third, White Blood Cells, catapulting them to international stardom. He was ranked #17 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time." White's popular and critical success with the Stripes enabled him to collaborate as a solo artist with other renowned musicians, such as Loretta Lynn, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones and Lou Reed aswell as gaining the admiration of other musicians such as Slash, Jimmy Page and fellow Detroit musician Iggy Pop. In 2005, White became a founding member of the rock band The Raconteurs.

White has appeared in movies as a cameo and in acting roles. He is sometimes called eccentric, a charge stemming from his behavior and interests on and off the stage.

Jack White VC (23 December 1896 – 27 November 1949) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

John Cornish White, known as "Farmer" or "Jack", (born 19 February 1891 in Holford, Somerset, died 2 May 1961 in Combe Florey, Somerset) was an English cricketer who played for Somerset and England. White was named Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1929. He played in 15 Test matches, and captained England in four of them.

A slow left arm bowler who used accuracy and variation of pace rather than spin to take wickets, he was a regular player for Somerset from 1913 to 1937, taking 100 wickets a season 14 times. In 1929 and 1930 he also scored more than 1,000 runs, completing the "cricketer's double". Among his county records, he took 16 Worcestershire wickets for 83 runs in the match at Bath in 1919. He also took all 10 Worcestershire wickets in an innings for 76 runs in 1921 at Worcester. His total number of wickets for Somerset, 2,166, is still the county record, as is his number of catches, 381. His career total of 2,356 wickets puts him 16th on the all-time list of wicket-takers. He was captain of Somerset from 1927 to 1931.

White was first picked for England in the difficult 1921 series against the Australians and was not then selected again for seven years. For the winter tour of Australia in 1928/29, he was vice-captain to Percy Chapman and the main bowler in a series that turned into a successful war of attrition. At Melbourne, he bowled 113 overs and five balls, and at Adelaide he surpassed that, bowling 124 overs and five balls and taking 13 wickets in the match for 256 runs, as England won by just 12 runs. In the final Test of the series, he stood in as captain for the injured Chapman, but lost the Test and so ended England's then-record-equalling run of seven consecutive Test victories.

White captained England again in the series against South Africa in 1929: he won once and drew twice. Further Tests followed against Australia in 1930 and the following winter in South Africa, again as vice-captain to Chapman.

White was a Test selector in 1929 and 1930 and was president of Somerset at the time of his death. He was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1929.

Note: 1 In 1929/30 England played two Test series simultaneously, one against New Zealand, the other against the West Indies.

Captain James Robert "Jack" White DSO (1879 -1946) was one of the co-founders of the Irish Citizen Army, along with James Connolly.

Jack White (1942 - October 12, 2005) was a veteran Rhode Island journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of President Richard Nixon's underpayment of income taxes. White's investigative article prompted Nixon to utter his famous line, "I am not a crook." White also won Emmy Awards for his reporting on fugitive banker Joe Mollicone and Providence tax officials who violated the city's residency requirement. He was considered the dean of organized crime reporting in Rhode Island.

White's Pulitzer-winning scoop almost didn't happen. Working off a tip and tax documents, White learned that Nixon failed to pay a large portion of his income taxes in 1970 and 1971. The night he was prepared to write the story, in September 1973, the union representing reporters at the newspaper voted to go on strike. White would later recall rolling the story out of his typewriter, folding it up and putting it in his wallet. He said he never thought about giving the story to management, even though he risked missing the story. "I was dreading the information I had was going to get out there. Every day I was checking out-of-town newspapers," he later told The Providence Journal. Twelve days later, the strike ended, and the story ran on October 3, 1973. At an Associated Press Managing Editors convention the following month, one of White's colleagues asked Nixon about the story, and Nixon replied, "People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I am not a crook." Nixon agreed to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in back taxes. The final total was $432,787.13 plus interest.

White also worked as an investigative reporter at WPRI-TV in Providence. He began his career at the Newport Daily News in 1969, and joined the Providence Journal-Evening Bulletin a year later. White made the transition to television in 1979, when he joined the investigative team at WBZ-TV in Boston. He worked as a reporter and columnist for the Cape Cod Times from 1981 to 1984 before joining WPRI-TV as chief investigative reporter in 1985.

White died in Barnstable, Massachusetts at the age of 63.

Jack White was a Canadian labour union activist. He was the first elected black representative of the Ironworkers, and one of the first CUPE national staff representatives from a minority background.

White was one of the first black Canadians to run for election to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, standing as an Ontario New Democratic Party candidate in Davenport in the 1963 election.

He was the son of Baptist minister William A. White, and the brother of famed Canadian opera singer Portia White and politician Bill White, the first black Canadian to run for federal office. His niece Sheila White is a political strategist for the New Democratic Party.

Jack White (15 August 1873 - 1949) was a Scottish golfer.

He was born at Pefferside, four miles east of North Berwick. He was the son of an agricultural labourer and worked as a caddie from the age of ten. Like many early professionals he trained as a clubmaker. From his late teens he worked as a golf professional at North Berwick in the summer and at York Golf Club in England in the winter. He first played in The Open Championship in 1892 and in 1904, when it was played at Royal St George's he won it for the first and only time. He was the professional at the prestigious Sunningdale Golf Club outside London for over twenty five years from 1902. He died in 1949 at Gullane, East Lothian.

Jack White (b. 2 September, 1940 in Cologne, Germany) is a music composer and producer by the real name of Horst Nussbaum. After producing German Schlager music in the 70s, he went international when he produced Laura Branigan's hits "Gloria" and "Self Control" as well as Pia Zadora songs such as "When the Rain Begins to Fall", all in Eurodisco style. In 1989 he entered a musical partnership with David Hasselhoff, whose White-produced albums "Looking For Freedom" (1989) and "Crazy For You" (1991) made the actor/singer a major mainstream success in central Europe. More recently, White's production company has helped popularize Reggaeton music (Daddy Yankee's "Gasolina"). White also worked with singers such as Barry Manilow and Paul Anka ("Put Your Head on My Shoulder").

Jack White (March 2, 1897—April 10, 1984) was a film producer, director and writer. His career with film began in the late 1910s and continued until the early 1960s.

During White's stint as a producer at Educational Pictures, he hired one of his younger brothers, Jules White, as an editor. Jules would later become the best-known member of the family and would return this early favor. Younger brother Sam White was also a film producer and director.

Jack directed many short subjects and features during the 1920s and 1930s. His brother Jules' career focused on producing and directing short subjects, notably the Three Stooges. In some of the early films, Jules brought in his brother Jack as a director several times, also sometimes as a writer, under the pseudonym Preston Black, which Jack also used occasionally elsewhere.

Jack's first Stooges film was Ants in the Pantry. He worked with his brother Jules right up until the last Stooge short, Sappy Bull Fighters.

White died on April 10, 1984.