Jock is a Scottish diminutive form of the forename "John"; It is also a nickname for someone of Scottish origin, as well as being the collective name for Scottish soldiers, collectively known as "the Jocks". It corresponds to Jack in England and Wales. In London the rhyming slang "sweaty" is used, deriving from "Sweaty sock - Jock".
The name may refer to:
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Art and entertainment
Jock Bartley, American rock guitarist
Jock Gaynor (1929–1998), American actor, producer, and writer
Jock Macdonald (1897–1960), Scottish-born Canadian painter
Jock McFadyen (born 1950), British painter
Jock Mahoney (1919–1989), American actor and stuntman
Jock Purdon (1925–1998), British poet and songwriter
Jock Reynolds (born 1947), American museum administrator and visual artist
Jock Soto (born c. 1965), American former ballet dancer and current instructor
Jock Sturges (born 1947), American photographer
Crime, punishment and policing
Jock Delves Broughton (1883–1942), British aristocrat acquitted of murder
Robert Leslie Stewart (1918–1989), Scottish hangman
Jock Wilson (police officer) (1922–1993), British police officer
Joseph Yablonski (1910–1969), American murdered labor leader
Jock Young (1942–2013), British sociologist and criminologist
Military
Jock Campbell (British Army officer) (1894–1942), British Army officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross
Jock Cunningham (1902–1969), British lieutenant colonel in the Spanish Civil War
Jock Haswell, (1919–2018) British military and intelligence author and former British intelligence officer
Jock Lewes (1913–1941), British Army lieutenant, inventor of the Lewes bomb and founding principal training officer of the Special Air Service
Jock Slater (born 1938), retired Royal Navy admiral, First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff
Jock Stirrup (born 1949), retired Royal Air Force marshal
Jock Wilson (British Army soldier) (1903–2008), British serviceman and oldest D-Day veteran
Politics and diplomacy
Jock Bruce-Gardyne (1930–1990), British politician
Jock Colville (1915–1987), British civil servant
Jock Ferguson (politician) (1946–2010), Scottish-born Australian politician
Jock Haston (1913–1986), British Trotskyist politician
Jock Granter (1921–2012), Australian politician
John R. McKernan Jr. (born 1948), American politician, twice governor of Maine
Jock Mathison (1901–1982), New Zealand politician and cabinet minister
Jock Nelson (1908–1991), Australian politician
Jock Taylor (diplomat) (1924–2002), British diplomat and ambassador to several countries
Jock Tiffin (1896–1955), British union and Labour Party official
Jock Alves (c. 1909–1979), Rhodesian physician and politician
Sports
Jock Aird (1926–2021), Scottish retired footballer
Jock Allan (born c. 1891), Scottish footballer
Jock Archibald (1895–1967), Scottish footballer
Jock Blackwood (1899–c. 1979), Australian rugby union player
Jacques "Jock" Boyer (born 1955), American former cyclist, first American to compete in the Tour de France
Jock Butterfield (1932–2004), New Zealand rugby league footballer
Jock Callander (born 1961), Canadian ice hockey player
Jock Cameron (1905–1935), South African cricketer
Jock Cameron (footballer), Scottish football player and managers in the 1900s and 1910s
Jock Campbell (footballer) (1922–1983), Scottish footballer
Jock Carter (1910–1992), English footballer
Jock Climie, Canadian sportscaster and retired Canadian Football League player
Jock Collier (1897–1940), Scottish footballer and manager
Jock Cordner (1910–1996), Australian rules footballer
Jock Cumberford, footballer who played in Australia's first three full international matches in 1922
Jock Davie (1913–1994), Scottish footballer
Other
Jock R. Anderson (born 1941), Australian agricultural economist
Jock Barnes (1907–2000), New Zealand trade unionist and syndicalist
Jock Brown (born 1946), Scottish solicitor and freelance football commentator
Jock Campbell, Baron Campbell of Eskan (1912–1994), British businessman
Jock Carroll (1919–1995), Canadian writer, journalist and photographer
Jock Kinneir (1917–1994), British typographer and graphic designer who, with Margaret Calvert, designed many of the road signs used throughout the United Kingdom
Jock D. Mackinlay (born 1952), American information visualization expert
Jock McKeen (born 1946), Canadian physician, acupuncturist, author and lecturer
Jock Marshall (1911–1967), Australian writer, academic and ornithologist
Jock Phillips (born 1947), New Zealand historian, author and encyclopedist
John Hay Whitney (1904–1982), American businessman, philanthropist and ambassador
Jock Zonfrillo (1976–2023), Scottish-Australian chef and television presenter