General Sir Michael David "Mike" Jackson GCB, CBE, DSO, DL, (born 21 March 1944) is a British army officer, formerly Chief of the General Staff. He was formerly commander of KFor in Kosovo as well as being an IFOR commander in Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as second in command of a company of the Parachute Regiment in Derry during the events of Bloody Sunday and a company commander with the Parachute Regiment in South Armagh during the Warrenpoint Ambush.

Jackson's father was in the army, and his mother from South Yorkshire (then part of the West Riding). As a young boy Jackson was educated at Stamford School in south Lincolnshire. After his secondary education and Sandhurst he went on to the University of Birmingham to read Russian Studies before returning to full time soldiering.

Jackson was commissioned into the Intelligence Corps aged nineteen in 1963, specialising in the threat from the Soviet Union. He transferred to the Parachute Regiment in 1970 and was serving as a Company Second-in-Command in Northern Ireland when the regiment was involved in Bloody Sunday, an incident in which soldiers shot dead 13 unarmed civilians on the streets of Co. Londonderry. He spent two years as Chief of Staff of the Berlin Infantry Brigade, then commanding a parachute company (B Company 2 PARA) in Northern Ireland, where he was involved in the aftermath of the Warrenpoint bombs, later rising to become the commanding officer of 1 Para from March 1984 to September 1986.