title: Jack the Lad (disambiguation)
text: # Jack the Lad (disambiguation)
  
  Jack the Lad were a British folk rock group from North East England formed in 1973.
  
  Jack the Lad may also refer to:
  
  ## In music
  
  * The Sailor's Hornpipe, also known as The College Hornpipe and Jack's the Lad, a traditional hornpipe melody
  * JLS, an English boy band whose name stands for "Jack the Lad Swing"
  * "Jack the Lad", B-side of the Pet Shop Boys 1986 single "Suburbia", also included on the 1986 album Please
  * "Jack the Lad", a 1988 song by 3 Man Island
  
  ## As a nickname
  
  * Jack the Lad, the childhood nickname of the English actor Jack O'Connell
  * "Gentleman Jack" or "Jack the Lad", nickname of Jack Sheppard (1702–1724), a notorious English thief and gaol-breaker of early 18th-century London
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * "Jack the Lad", a poem by Irish poet Robert Fallon describing Sticky Vicky's stage show
  