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Black Jack

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ231160
Source-derived summary

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), Iñupiaq woman

Roddy Blackjack (c. 1927–2013), 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 in 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

Blackjack (Percy Jackson), in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians novel series by Rick Riordan

BlackJack SquarePants, a minor character in the TV series SpongeBob SquarePants

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

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 the UK

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

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!

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Black Jack” is wikimedia disambiguation page. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Black, Jack and Wikimedia, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1898, 1983, 1927, 2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Black, Jack and Wikimedia is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “wikimedia disambiguation page” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q231160. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1898, 1983, 1927 and 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from Black Jack” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.