Jack Whitham is an English former professional footballer who played for Sheffield Wednesday, Liverpool, Cardiff City and Reading.
He was a Centre Forward who only started 111 league games in a nine-year career between 1967 and 1976, scoring 40 goals.
He made one appearance for the England under 23 team against Wales in 1968.
Whitham was born in Burnley on 8 December 1946; his grandfather Thomas Whitham of the Coldstream Guards had won the Victoria Cross in 1917 for attacking single-handed an enemy machine gun post.
He played amateur football for Holy Trinity F.C.
before signing for Sheffield Wednesday in October 1964.