Black Jack

Blackjack is a popular casino-gambling card game.

Black Jack or Blackjack may also refer to:

Places

Australia

• Black Jack, Queensland, a locality in Queensland
• Black Jack, a civil parish of Pottinger County, New South Wales
• Black Jack Hill, near Gunnedah, New South Wales

United States

• Black Jack (Red Oak, North Carolina), a historic plantation house
• Black Jack, Kansas, an unincorporated community
• Black Jack, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
• Black Jack, Missouri, a city
• Blackjack, Cherokee County, Texas, an unincorporated community
• Blackjack, Smith County, Texas, an unincorporated community
• The Blackjacks (house), a historic house in Osage County, Oklahoma

People

• Black Jack (nickname)
• Ada Blackjack (1898–1983), Inuit woman
• Roddy Blackjack (c. 1920–2013), Canadian elder and former Chief of the Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation of the Yukon Territory
• Blackjack Lanza (1935-2021), ring name of former professional wrestler John Lanza
• Blackjack Mulligan (1942–2016), ring name of former professional wrestler Robert Jack Windham
• "Blackjack" Hoss Taylor, a professional wrestler from All-Star Wrestling

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

• Black Jack (manga character), the main character of the 1973 manga series of the same name
• Blackjack (Transformers), a fictional character in the Transformers universe
• Nickname for Jonathon Randal, a supporting character in Outlander
• John "Black Jack" Geary, the main character in The Lost Fleet series of novels

Films

• Black Jack (1927 film), an American silent Western film
• Black Jack (1950 film), written and directed by Julien Duvivier
• Black Jack (1968 film), a spaghetti western
• Black Jack (1979 film), by Ken Loach
• Blackjack (1978 film), an American crime drama film
• Blackjack (1990 film), directed by Colin Nutley
• Blackjack (1998 film), a TV movie directed by John Woo
• BlackJack (film series) (2003–2007), a series of Australian seven TV movies starring Colin Friels

Games and cards

• Black Jack (Hearts), a variant of Hearts
• Black Jack (Switch), also known as Switch, a name given to some variations of Crazy Eights in United Kingdom
• A jack (playing card) from a black suit, a jack of clubs or jack of spades
• Blackjack (Atari 2600 video game), a video game cartridge developed by Atari
• Blackjack, an NES video game developed by Odyssey Software; See American Video Entertainment

Literature

• Black Jack (manga), a 1973 manga series by Osamu Tezuka
• "Black Jack", a short story by Rudyard Kipling in the collection Soldiers Three
• Black Jack, a 2003 novel by Finnish writer Reijo Mäki
• Black Jack, a 1968 historical fiction novel by English writer Leon Garfield

Music

• Blackjack, a 21-note scale in the miracle temperament

Groups

• Black Jack (Chilean band), a Chilean rock band
• Black Jack (Australian band), an Australian heavy metal band
• Blackjack (American band), an American rock band
• BlackJack (Swedish band), a Swedish dansband

Albums

• Blackjack (Blackjack album), by the American band, 1979
• Blackjack (Donald Byrd album), 1968

Songs

• "Black Jack", by The Hives from Barely Legal
• "Black Jack", by Junkie XL from Big Sounds of the Drags
• "Black Jacks", by Girls Aloud from Tangled Up
• "Blackjack", by Airbourne from Runnin' Wild
• "Blackjack", by Aminé from OnePointFive
• "Blackjack", by Death Grips from The Money Store
• "Blackjack", by Everclear from Slow Motion Daydream
• "Blackjack", by Ray Charles from Yes Indeed!

Television

• "Black Jack" (Jericho), a 2007 episode of the television series Jericho
• Blackjack (Fear the Walking Dead), a 2018 episode of Fear the Walking Dead
• "BlackJack", a 2007 episode of SpongeBob SquarePants
• "Blackjack", an episode of the TV series The Adventures of Ellery Queen

Brands and enterprises

• Black Jack (confectionery), aniseed flavour chews
• Black Jack (gum), a brand of chewing gum
• BlackJack (phone), a mobile phone made by Samsung
  • BlackJack II (phone), a mobile phone made by Samsung
• Blackjack Pizza, a chain of pizza delivery restaurants in Colorado, US

Military and law enforcement

• Blackjack (weapon), a type of baton for law enforcement
• RQ-21 Blackjack, a small tactical unmanned air system
• Black Jack Brigade, nickname of the U.S. 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division
• Tupolev Tu-160 (NATO reporting name: Blackjack), a Russian bomber
• VMF-441, nicknamed The Blackjacks, a United States Marine Corps fighter squadron
• Battle of Black Jack, a battle in Kansas preceding the American Civil War
• National Society of Blackjacks, a High School Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps leadership program in the United States

Science

• Black jack (fish) (Caranx lugubris), a gamefish
• Blackjack oak or Quercus marilandica, a small tree
• Black jack, often weedy plants of the genus Bidens from the family of Asteraceae
• Sphalerite, a mineral sometimes called black-jack by miners

Sports

• Berlin Blackjacks, a short-lived team in the Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey
• Ottawa BlackJacks, a team in the Canadian Elite Basketball League

Other uses

• Black Jack (horse) (1947–1976), a horse used in U.S. Armed Forces full honors funerals
• Black Jack (stamp), a United States postage stamp
• STV Black Jack, a 1904 Canadian brigantine sailing ship
• The Blackjacks, a professional wrestling tag team

See also

• Blakdyak (1969-2016), Filipino actor and singer
• Blak Jak (born 1983), American rapper
• Blk Jks, signifying Black Jacks, South African rock band
• John Gotti (1940-2002), nicknamed "Black John", U.S. mobster
• Jack of clubs (disambiguation)
• Jack of spades (disambiguation)
• Jack Black (disambiguation)
• John Black (disambiguation)