Zack (personal name)

Zack (and variant spellings Zach, Zac, Zak, Zakk) is a male personal name (or, depending on which definition of "personal name" one uses, part of a personal name). It is sometimes a given name (or "first name"), but more often it is hypocorism (affectionate variation of a personal name) which takes the place of a given name, usually Zachary.

People so named include:

• Zach Boren, American football player
• Zach Braff (born 1975), American actor known for his role in television series Scrubs
• Zac Brown (born 1978) Lead singer in American country music band Zac Brown Band
• Zac Champion (born 1984), American footballer
• Zach Cohen (ice hockey) (born 1987), American ice hockey player
• Zack Conroy (born 1985), American actor
• Zach Day (born 1978), American Major League Baseball player
• Zac Efron (born 1987), American actor
• Zack Esposito (born 1983), American amateur wrestler
• Zac Farro (born 1990), American drummer for Paramore
• Zac Foley (1970–2002), British musician, bass guitarist for EMF
• Zack Fleishman (born 1980), American tennis player
• Zach Galifianakis (born 1969), American comedian
• Zac Goldsmith (born 1975), English environmentalist and politician
• Zack Greinke (born 1983), American Major League Baseball player
• Zac Hanson (born 1985), American musician, drummer for Hanson
• Zach Jackson (born 1983), American Major League Baseball player
• Zak Keith, British guitarist
• Zach Kosnitzky, American participant in Kid Nation
• Zack Martin (born 1990), American National Football League player
• Zach Mettenberger (born 1991), American National Football League quarterback
• Zach Norton (born 1981), American football player
• Zach Parise (born 1984), American ice hockey player
• Zac Posen (born 1980), American fashion designer
• Zack de la Rocha (born 1970), lead singer of Rage Against the Machine
• Zack Rosen (born 1989), All-American basketball player at Penn; plays for Maccabi Ashdod in Israel
• Zack Shada (born 1992), American actor
• Zack Snyder (born 1966), American film director and screenwriter
• Zak Starkey (born 1965), English drummer for The Who and Oasis
• Zack Test (born 1989), American rugby union player
• Zach Weiner (born 1982), American webcomic author of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
• Zack Werner, Canadian artist, producer, lawyer and manager in the music industry
• Zack Wheat (1888–1972), American Major League Baseball player
• Zach Whitmarsh (born 1977), Canadian track and field athlete
• Zakk Wylde (born 1967), guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne and founder of Black Label Society

Fictional characters include:

• Zack Addy, in the television series Bones
• Zack Allan, in the television series Babylon 5
• Zak Dingle, in the British soap opera Emmerdale
• Zach Florrick, the eldest of Alicia's children in The Good Wife
• Zack Mooneyham, a character in School of Rock
• Zack Fair, in the role-playing game Final Fantasy VII and its spin-offs
• Zack Johnson, in The Big Bang Theory
• Zakk Irius, mafia member in the anime and manga series Death Note
• Zack Lane, in the novel Zack by William Bell
• Zack Martin, in the television series The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
• Zak McKracken, hero of the adventure game Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders
• Zack Morris, in television series Saved by the Bell
• Zach Nichols, in the American police procedural television drama Law & Order: Criminal Intent
• Zak Saturday, one of the main characters in the cartoon series The Secret Saturdays
• Zac, a main character in the Nickelodeon series Shimmer and Shine
• Zach Stevens, in The O.C.
• Zack Taylor, in the television series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
• Zack (Battlestar Galactica)
• Zack, in the computer game The Daedalus Encounter
• Zack (Dead or Alive), in the video game series Dead or Alive
• Zak (TUGS), in the television series TUGS
• Zack, one of the title characters of the video game Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros' Treasure
• Zack, Kamen Rider Knuckle in Kamen Rider Gaim

See also

• Zechariah (given name)