Trivia

Often refers to ex-wife and band mate, Meg White, as his sister. It was revealed this was untrue when their marriage and divorce certificates were posted onto the Internet.

Meg White was the maid of honor at his wedding to Karen Elson.

He wanted to become a priest prior to be a musician.

He and wife, Karen Elson, a model for Prada and Banana Republic, were married in a canoe in the Amazon River in Brazil.

In mid-2003, after filming Cold Mountain (2003), he was involved in a car accident along with passenger and co-star Renée Zellweger. Renee was unhurt, but White wound up with a broken finger which coincidentally postponed his The White Stripes tour.

Daughter, Scarlett Teresa White, born 2 May 2006 in Tennessee. Scarlett has Jack's legal last name, which has been White since his marriage to Meg White.

He married Karen Elson a month after they met. It was Meg who suggested they get married. She was the maid of honor at the ceremony.

2003 Grammy Winner as The White Stripes - Best Alternative Music Album - "Elephant".

2003 Grammy winner - songwriter - Best Rock Song - "Seven Nation Army" - The White Stripes.

His relationship with Renée Zellweger (they met during the filming of Cold Mountain (2003)) ended over the Christmas holidays in 2004.

He is the youngest of 10 children.

Produced Loretta Lynn's 2004 album "Van Lear Rose". He also played guitar on the album and duets with Loretta on the track "Portland Oregon."

Met wife Karen Elson on the set of The White Stripes music video "Blue Orchid".

Jack and his wife, Karen Elson, became the parents of their second child, a boy named Henry Lee White, on August 7, 2007.

Likes to collect ancient human bones and taxidermic objects.

His maternal grandparents were Polish. His father had Scottish-Canadian ancestry.

Has a side project titled The Raconteurs with friends. The band consist of Jack Lawrence, Brendon Benson, Jack White and Patrick Keeler.

As one of an ensemble of musicians who paid homage to honoree Paul McCartney on the occasion of his "Gershwin Prize for Popular Song", White performed McCartney's classic ballad "Mother Nature's Son" at the White House (June 2, 2010). The festive ceremonies were presided over by President Barack Obama, no stranger to the music of The Beatles.

Explains that the band is based around the number 3, and even calls himself Three Quid when in the UK.

By his own admission he can't stand his speaking voice or his Midwestern accent.

Considers Bob Dylan to be his second father.

Married Karen Elson in two ceremonies. They eloped in Manaus, Brazil while The White Stripes were on tour and had a legal ceremony in Nashville, Tennessee at the Ryman Auditorium of the Grand Ole Opry, at the suggestion of a local pastor. Though they had to leave quickly as none other than Dolly Parton was filming a music video there that day.

The White Stripes' second album, De Stijl, was recorded in his living room for $500.

He named his businesses Third Man after a fascination with the number 3 and after the film starring Orson Welles, The Third Man (1949).

Before doing music professionally, he ran a furniture upholstery business of his own.

Briefly studied film at Wayne State University before his music career started taking off. He received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree in 2019.

On his 30th birthday, the White Stripes had a concert in Gdynia, Poland and the crowd sang "Sto lat" (the Happy Birthday song in Polish). Jack, of course, is half Polish.

Due to his obsession with actress Rita Hayworth (displayed in songs like Take, Take, Take) he has a Gretsch guitar named and modeled after her.

Most recently, The White Stripes released the album "Icky Thump".

Studio album "Icky Thump" was released. (June 2007)

Growing up he listened to everything from Bob Dylan, The Band, and Led Zeppelin to The Cramps, Rage Against The Machine, Beastie Boys, and LL Cool J.

Before starting The White Stripes with Meg, he was also in two other bands simultaneously. He left them to focus on the The White Stripes.

Proposed to his wife, Olivia Jean, during a performance of Hotel Yorba, which by no coincidence is a song about running off and getting married.

He typically signs his name Jack White III though his full legal name is technically John Anthony White.

When he was young he joked that if Kirsten Dunst showed up to one of his concerts, he'd happily retire right then.

Has performed concerts in all 50 states, and over 40 countries so far.

Doesn't consider doing music to be "fun" in the conventional sense, he always saw it as doing hard work and goes out of his way to make it harder when possible (as noted in the documentary The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights (2009)).

Recorded three albums at home so far in his career: De Stijl, Get Behind Me Satan, and Boarding House Reach (at an apartment he rented to as to not disturb his neighbors). The liner notes credit the recording location as Third Man Studio, which is just code for his home in those cases.

He watches the Detroit Tigers' games before every concert (during the baseball season) to get him energized.

In The White Stripes, he had a running gag of changing the lyrics live to include Meg's name or to be about Meg.

2025 inductee into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The White Stripes.