Jacob (first name)
Jacob is a male given name and a variant of the name Jakob . Like that, it is also used as a family name : see Jacob (family name) .
A.
- Jacob Aall (1773–1844), Norwegian politician
- Jacob Abbott (1803–1879), American youth writer
- Jacob Fidelis Ackermann (1765–1815), German physician
- Jacob Niclas Ahlström (1805–1857), Swedish conductor and composer
- Jacob von Albaum (before 1500–1548), abbot of the Grafschaft monastery in the Duchy of Westphalia
- Jacob Alberts (1860–1941), German painter
- Jacob Andreae (1528–1590), German Lutheran theologian
- Jacob Astor (1867–1938), German politician
- Jacob Audorf (1835–1898), German poet, editor and activist of the labor movement
- Jacob Adriaensz. Backer (1608–1651), Dutch portrait and history painter
B.
- Jacob Balde (1604–1668), German Jesuit and poet
- Jacob Heinrich Balecke (1731–1778), German politician, lawyer and senator
- Jacob do Bandolim (1918–1969), Brazilian mandolinist and composer
- Jacob Barbireau (1455 / 56–1491), Belgian composer
- Jacob Bartsch (1600–1633), German astronomer
- Jacob Bassevi (1580–1634), Bohemian court factor and financier
- Jacob Friedrich Behrend (1833–1907), German lawyer
- Jacob Bekenstein (1947–2015), Israeli physicist
- Jacob ben Jechiel Loans († around 1506), personal physician of Friedrich III.
- Jacob Bernays (1824–1881), German philologist
- Jacob Beurlin (1520–1561), German Protestant theologian and reformer
- Jacob Böhme (1575–1624), German mystic and natural philosopher
- Jacob Brown (soccer player) (born 1998), English soccer player
- Jacob Daniel Bruce (1669–1735), Scottish field marshal in the service of the Russian army
- Jacob Daniel Burgschmiet (1796–1858), German sculptor and ore caster
- Jacob Burckhardt (1818–1897), Swiss humanist and cultural historian
C.
- Jacob van Campen (1596–1657), Dutch painter and architect
- Jacob Caro (1835–1904), German historian
- Jacob Cats (1577–1660), Dutch poet and politician
- Jacob Clemens (1815–1862), German philosopher and writer
- Jacob Cohen , birth name of Rodney Dangerfield (1921-2004), American actor
- Jacob Courtain (~ 1760–1825), German organ builder
- Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp (1594–1652), Dutch painter
D.
- Jacob Dahl (1878–1944), Faroese provost and Bible translator
- Jacob Davis (Tailor) (1834-1908), American tailor
- Jacob Denner (1681–1735), German instrument maker
- Jacob van Deventer (~ 1500–1575), Dutch cartographer
- Jacob L. Devers (1887–1979), American general
- Jacob Duck (1600–1667), Dutch painter
E.
- Jacob Christian Hansen Ellehammer (1871–1946), Danish aviation pioneer
- Jacob Emden (1697–1776), Jewish scholar
- Jacob Emele (1707–1780), south German baroque master builder
- Jacob Epstein (1880–1959), English sculptor and draftsman
- Jacob Ericksson (* 1967), Swedish actor
- Jacob van Es (1596–1666), Flemish painter
- Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup (1825–1913), Danish politician
- Jacob van Eyck (~ 1590–1657), Dutch musician
F.
- Jacob von Falke (1825–1897), German-Austrian cultural and art historian and aesthetician
- Jacob Felsing (1802–1883), German engraver
- Jacob Fleck (1881–1953), Austrian film director, screenwriter, film producer and cameraman
- Jacob August Franckenstein (1689–1733), German encyclopaedist
- Jacob Frey (1520–1562), playwright and poet
- Jacob Friedrich Friese (1765–1833), German schoolmaster, organist and organ builder, see Friedrich Friese I
- Jacob Funckelin (1522 / 23-1565 / 66), ref. Theologian and playwright
- Jacobus Johannes Fouché (1898–1980), South African politician
G
- Jacob Gilboa (1920–2007), Israeli composer
- Jacob Gipstein (* 1928), maiden name of the Israeli artist Yaacov Agam
- Jacob Goedecker (1882–1957), German aircraft designer
- Jacob Golden (* mid 1970s), American singer, songwriter and guitarist
- Jacob Gråberg (1776–1847), Swedish scholar
- Jacob Pauli Gregoriussen (* 1932), Fähring architect, graphic artist and author
- Jacob Grimm (1785–1863), German linguist and literary scholar
- Jacob Groll (* 1979), Austrian film director and screenwriter
- Jacob Paul von Gundling (1673–1731), German historian
- Jacob Benjamin Gyllenhaal (* 1980), American actor, see Jake Gyllenhaal
H
- Jacob Haafner (1754–1809), German-Dutch East Indiaman and travel writer
- Jacob de Haan (* 1959), Dutch composer and musician
- Jacob Philipp Hackert (1737–1807), German landscape painter
- Jacob Adolf Hägg (1850–1928), Swedish composer
- Jacob Hamblin (1819–1886), American pioneer
- Jacob Hamburger (1826–1911), German rabbi
- Jacob Handl (1550–1591), composer and singer
- Jacob Wilhelm Haniel (1734–1782), German merchant
- Jacob Harmensz (1560–1609), Dutch Protestant theologian
- Jacob van Heemskerk (1567–1607), Dutch navigator and captain
- Jacob Heerbrand (1521–1600), German theologian and reformer
- Jacob Hegge , called Finkenblock , Lutheran theologian and reformer
- Jacob Henot (1545–1625), German postmaster and postal organizer
- Jacob Ludwig Philipp August Franz Hergenhahn (1804–1874), Nassau liberal politician
- Jacob Hilsdorf (1872–1916), German photographer
- Jacob Holdt (* 1947), Danish photographer and writer
- Jacob Hübner (1761–1826), German entomologist
- Jacob Hveding , Løgmaður of the Faroe Islands
J
- Jacob John (1674–1727), German lawyer and politician
- Jacob Jordaens (1593–1678), Dutch painter
- Jacob Axel Josephson (1818–1880), Swedish composer
K
- Jacob Katz (1904–1998), Israeli historian and philosopher
- Jacob de Kempenaer (1793-1870), Dutch politician
- Jacob Klein (1899–1978), German-American philosopher and mathematician
- Jacob Herman Klein (1688–1748), Dutch composer
- Jacob Theodor Klein (1685–1759), Polish-German lawyer, historian, mathematician, natural scientist and diplomat
- Jacob Knade (~ 1490–1564), German Protestant theologian
- Jacob Koerfer (1875–1930), German architect
- Jacob Kohnstamm (* 1949), Dutch politician
- Jacob Körner (* 1995), young German actor
- Jacob Kremer (1924-2010), German theologian
L.
- Jacob Leisler (1640–1691), American colonialist of German descent
- Jacob van Lennep (1802–1868), Dutch writer
- Jacob Leupold (1674–1727), German mechanic and instrument maker
- Jacob Harold Levison (1915-2001), American songwriter
- Jacob Locher (1471–1528), German humanistic dramatist, philologist and translator
- Jacob Lucius the Elder (approx. 1530–1597), German draftsman and printer
- Jacob Wilhelm Lustig (1706–1796), Dutch composer, organist and music theorist
M.
- Jacob Achilles Mähly (1828–1902), Swiss philologist
- Jacob Le Maire (1585-1616), Dutch navigator
- Jacob Malik (1906–1980), Soviet diplomat and politician, see Jakow Alexandrowitsch Malik
- Jacob Mangers (1889–1972), Norwegian clergyman
- Jacques I. de Bourbon, comte de La Marche (1319–1362), French count
- Jacob A. Marinsky (1918-2005), American chemist
- Jacob Marschak (1898–1977), American economist of Ukrainian descent
- Jacob Martini (1570–1649), German theologian and philosopher
- Jacob Marx (politician) (1926–1992), German politician (CDU), MdL Hessen
- Jacob Masen (1606–1681), German literary theorist, poet and historian
- Jacob Mayer (master builder) (1610–1683), German master builder and local politician
- Jacob Mayer (manufacturer) (1813–1875), German manufacturer
- Jacob Mayer (dialect poet) (1866–1939), German dialect poet
- Jacob Anton Mayer (1782–1857), German publisher
- Jacob Meckel (1842–1906), German officer
- Jacob von Melle (1659–1743), German theologian, polyhistor and author
- Jacob Miller (musician) (1952–1980), Jamaican reggae singer
- Jacob W. Miller (1800–1862), American politician
- Jacob Montanus (1460–1534), German theologian, humanist and reformer
- Jacob Morenga (1875–1907), Namibian miner, Nama leader and guerrilla fighter
- Jacob Levy Moreno (1889–1974), Romanian doctor and psychiatrist
- Jacob van Moscher (~ 1615–1655), Dutch painter
- Jacob Mumenthaler-Marti (1737–1787), Swiss surgeon and surgeon
- Jacob Murey (* 1941), Israeli chess player
- Jacob Muyser (1896–1956), Dutch priest and liturgical scholar
N
- Jacob Nachod (1814–1882), German banker and philanthropist
- Jacob Naffzer (~ 1529–1586), German woad dealer, senior councilor and patrician
- Jacob Nampudakam (* 1955), Indian religious and 22nd rector general of the Pallottines
- Jacob Neusner (1932–2016), American religious scholar and Judaist
- Jacob Ngunzu (* 1959), Kenyan marathon runner
- Jacob Nöbbe (1850-1919), German painter
- Jacob Nufer , Swiss pork cutter and doctor
O
- Jacob Hermann Obereit (1725–1798), German writer, philosopher and surgeon
- Jacob Obrecht (1457 / 8–1505), Flemish composer and singer
- Jacob Okanka Obetsebi-Lamptey (1946–2016), Ghanaian politician and television and radio producer and presenter
- Jacob Other (1485–1547), German Reformed theologian
- Jacob Oudkerk (* 1937), Dutch cyclist
P
- Jacob Paix (1556–1623), German organist, organ builder, bandmaster, composer and editor
- Jacob Rodrigues Pereira (1715–1780), Portuguese deaf teacher
- Jacob Picard (1883–1967), German writer and poet
- Jacob Pins (1917–2005), German-Israeli artist
- Jacob Praetorius the Elder (around 1520–1586), German organist and composer
- Jacob Praetorius the Younger (1586–1651), German organist and composer
- Jacob Probst (1486–1562), German Protestant theologian
R.
- Jacob Moe Rasmussen (* 1975), Danish racing cyclist
- Jacob Christoph Raßler (1605–1665), Austrian diplomat, politician, member of the Reichstag
- Jacob Ludwig Theodor Reh (1801–1868), German politician
- Jacob Heinrich Rehder (1790–1852), German court gardener
- Jacob Friedrich Reimmann (1668–1743), German Lutheran theologian, educator, historian and philosopher
- Jacob August Riis (1849–1914), American journalist and photographer
- Jacob van Rijs (* 1964), Dutch architect
- Jacob Roggeveen (1659–1729), Dutch navigator and explorer
- Jacob Leon Rubenstein (1911–1967), murderer of the Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald
- Jacob Runge (1527–1595), German Lutheran theologian
- Jacob Izaaksoon van Ruisdael (1628 / 29–1682), Dutch painter
- Jacob Rupertus (1827–1900), American designer and manufacturer of handguns
S.
- Jacob Sacks (* 1977), American jazz pianist
- Jacob von Salza (1481–1539), Bishop of Breslau
- Jacob von Sandrart (1630–1708), German engraver and publisher
- Jacob von Sarug (451-521), Syrian hymn poet and bishop
- Jacob Christian Schäffer (1718–1790), German superintendent, associate professor, botanist, mycologist, entomologist and ornithologist and inventor
- Jacob Georg Schäffer (1745–1814), German criminalist
- Jacob Schenck (1508–1554), German Protestant theologian and reformer
- Jacob Matthias Schmutzer (1733–1811), Austrian engraver and painter
- Jacob Schuback (1726–1784), a Hamburg lawyer, diplomat and composer
- Jacob van Schuppen (1670–1751), Austrian court painter
- Jacob Schwieger (1629–1663), North German poet
- Jacob Severin (1691–1753), Danish wholesale merchant
- Jacob Johann Sievers (1731–1808), Russian statesman and reformer
- Jacob Smith (actor) (born 1990), American actor and musician
- Jacob Smith (ice hockey player) (* 1995), Italian-Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper
- Jacob van Spreeuwen (1611–1658), Dutch painter
- Jacob Stickelberger (* 1940), Swiss songwriter and lawyer
- Jacob Stratner († 1550), German Protestant theologian and reformer
- Jacob Strauss (~ 1480 – before 1530), German Protestant theologian and reformer
- Jacob Sturm (copperplate engraver) (also Jakob Sturm ; 1771–1848), German copperplate engraver and naturalist
- Jacob Karl F. Sturm (1803–1855), Swiss-French mathematician and physicist, see Charles-François Sturm
T
- Jacob Taubes (1923–1987), religious sociologist, philosopher and Judaist
- Jacob Engelbert Teschemacher (1711–1782), German organ builder
- Jacob Tullin Thams (1898–1954), Norwegian ski jumper, cross-country skier and sailor
- Jacob Karl Tiedtke (1875–1960), German actor
- Jacob van Toorenvliet (1635–1719), Dutch painter and etcher
U
- Jacob Ungerer (1840–1920), German sculptor and art professor
- Jacob van Utrecht (~ 1479 – after 1525), Dutch painter
V
- Jacob Venedey (1805–1871), German publicist and politician
- Jacob Viner (1892–1970), Canadian-American economist
- Jacob Volhard (1834–1910), German chemist
W.
- Jacob Wackernagel (1853–1938), Swiss Indo-Europeanist and linguist
- Jacob Walcher (1887–1970), German politician and trade unionist
- Jacob Wassermann (1873–1934), German writer
- Jacob Weber (1872–1944), German politician
- Jacob Gottfried Weber (1779–1839), German music theorist, composer and lawyer
- Jacob Wimpfeling (1450–1528), German poet, educator and historian
- Jacob Weigert (1981), German actor
X
- Jacob Xavier (1936–2012), East Timorese politician
Y
- Jacob Kiplagat Yator (* 1982), Kenyan marathon runner
- Jacob Yuchtman (1935–1985), Soviet-American chess player
Z
- Jacob Ziv (* 1931), Israeli scientist
- Jacob Zuma (* 1942), South African politician
- Jacob Zurl (* 1988), Austrian long-distance cyclist
- Jacob van Zuylen van Nijevelt (1816–1890), Dutch statesman
See also
- Conditio Jacobaea
- The Adventures of Rabbi Jacob , French comedy film
- The True Jacob , satirical magazine
- Jacob Sisters , German hit group