Slack (surname)
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Slack is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Clayton K. Slack (1896–1976), United States Army private awarded the Medal of Honor
- Doug Slack (born 1941), Australian former politician
- George Slack (1874–1950), American politician
- Granville Slack (1906–2003), British judge and politician
- James Slack, British political advisor and journalist, former official spokesperson and Director of Communications for former prime minister Boris Johnson
- James R. Slack (1818–1881), American state senator and Union Army brigadier general and brevet major general
- Jerald D. Slack (1936–2024), US Air National Guard major general
- John Slack (cricketer) (1930–2012), English cricketer and judge
- John Bamford Slack (1857–1909), British politician and Methodist lay preacher
- John M. Slack Jr. (1915–1980), American politician
- Leighton P. Slack (1867–1938), American state senator, lieutenant governor of Vermont and justice of the Vermont Supreme Court
- Lemuel Ertus Slack (1874–1952), American state senator and lawyer
- Thomas Kerr Slack (1875–1956), Canadian politician
- Timothy Slack (1913–1976), American politician
- William Y. Slack (1816–1862), American lawyer, politician and Confederate officer
Science
- Adrian Slack (1933–2018), British landscape gardener, plantsman, author and authority on carnivorous plants
- Francis G. Slack (1897–1985), American physicist
- Harry Slack (1907–1982), British zoologist
- Nancy Guttmann Slack (1930–2022), American plant ecologist, bryologist and historian of science
- Roger Slack (1937–2016), British plant biologist and biochemist
