List of people named Jacob

This is a list of notable people with the given name Jacob or its variant forms.
Theological
* Jacob, son of Isaac, twin brother of Esau, and grandson of Abraham in the Hebrew Bible
* Yaqub, Qur'an - see Islamic view of Jacob
* Yakub, Nation of Islam
* Various saints known as Saint James
* Jacob of Samosata, a companion in martyrdom of Romanus of Samosata
* Jacob, son of Matthan, mentioned briefly in the Genealogy of Jesus in Matthew 1:15-16
Rulers
* Yaqob of Ethiopia, Emperor (1597-1603 and 1604-1606)
In American football
* Jake Delhomme, quarterback for the Carolina Panthers
* Jake Plummer, quarterback for the Denver Broncos
* Jacob Sacklowsky (Jack Sack; born 1908), American pro football All-Pro
Other
* Yaacov Agam (born 1928), Israeli sculptor
* Jacob M. Appel (born 1973), American bioethicist
* Jacob Arabo, famous jeweler to hip hop artists
* Jacob Sahaya Kumar Aruni, (1974-2012), Indian celebrity chef
* Jacob ben Asher, rabbi, Talmudist
* Jacob Baxter, Canadian politician
* Jacob L. Devers, American general
* Jakob Dylan (born 1969), American musician
* Jacob Emden (1697-1776), Rabbi, talmudist, and prominent opponent of the Shabbethaians
* Jacob Epstein, American sculptor
* Jake Epstein, a Canadian television actor
* Jacob Finkelstein (John "Jackie" Fields; 1908-84), American, Hall of Fame world champion welterweight & Olympic champion featherweight boxer
* Jacob Grimm, German philologist
* Jacob Guay (born 1999), Canadian singer
* Ya'akov Hodorov (1927-2006), Israeli football goalkeeper
* Jacob Hübner (1761-1826), German entomologist
* Jacob Kogan, American child Actor
* Jacob A. Marinsky, chemist
* Jacob Maris, Dutch painter
* Jacob Micflikier (born 1984), Canadian ice hockey player
* Jacob Minah (born 1982), German decathlete
* Jacob Moon, Canadian folk musician
* Jacob Neusner, an academic scholar of Judaism
* Yaakov Peri (born 1944), Israeli head of the domestic intelligence agency
* Jacob Riis, a Danish-American muckraker journalist, photographer, and social reformer
* Yaakov Shabtai (1934-81), Israeli novelist, playwright, and translator
* Jacob J. Shubert, theater producer
* Jakub Sobieski, Polish noble and father of King Jan III Sobieski
* Jacob Thompson, a former US congressman
* Jacob Zuma (born 1942), South African politician
Fictional characters
* , character in the television series Lost
* Jacob Black, in novels of Stephenie Meyer
* Jacob Faithful, 1834 novel by Frederick Marryat
* Jacob Heym, eponymous protagonist of Jurek Beckner's 1969 novel Jakob der Lügner (German: Jacob the Liar)
* Jacob Marley, a fictional character whose ghost appears in the Charles Dickens novel A Christmas Carol
* Jacob Snicket, character in the series of children's novels A Series of Unfortunate Events, by Lemony Snicket

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