jackson   (TTS Sound)

The noun jackson has 11 senses

• Jackson, Glenda Jackson -- (English film actress who later became a member of British Parliament (born in 1936))


• Jackson, Michael Jackson, Michael Joe Jackson -- (United States singer who began singing with his four brothers and later became a highly successful star during the 1980s (born in 1958))


• Jackson, Mahalia Jackson -- (United States singer who did much to popularize gospel music (1911-1972))


• Jackson, Jesse Jackson, Jesse Louis Jackson -- (United States civil rights leader who led a national campaign against racial discrimination and ran for presidential nomination (born in 1941))


• Jackson, Helen Hunt Jackson, Helen Maria Fiske Hunt Jackson -- (United States writer of romantic novels about the unjust treatment of Native Americans (1830-1885))


• Jackson, Thomas Jackson, Thomas J. Jackson, Thomas Jonathan Jackson, Stonewall Jackson -- (general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War whose troops at the first Battle of Bull Run stood like a stone wall (1824-1863))


• Jackson, Andrew Jackson, Old Hickory -- (7th president of the US; successfully defended New Orleans from the British in 1815; expanded the power of the presidency (1767-1845))


• Jackson -- (a town in western Wyoming)


• Jackson -- (a town in western Tennessee)


• Jackson, capital of Mississippi -- (capital of the state of Mississippi on the Pearl River)


• Jackson -- (a town in south central Michigan)