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 "Jack the Lad", the ballad of a London teenager's death by overdose, written by John Pole and recorded by Frankie Armstrong on her 1975 album Songs and Ballads.

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

See also Jack (magazine), a British lad magazine