Jakov
Jakov , Jakow and Yakov are among others Slavic variants of the male given name Jakob .
Well-known namesake
First name
- Jakow Grigoryevich Bljumkin (1898–1929), left-wing Social Revolutionary, murderer, Bolshevik, Cheka agent, GPU spy, Trotskyist and adventurer
- Jakow Stanislawowitsch Chanezki (1879–1937), Russian-Soviet revolutionary and companion of Lenin
- Jakow Andrejewitsch Eschpai (1890–1963), Russian composer, folk music researcher and educator from the Mari people
- Jakow Borissowitsch Estrin (1923–1987), Soviet chess master
- Jakow Iljitsch Frenkel (1894–1952), Russian physicist
- Jakov Gotovac (1895–1982), Croatian composer and conductor
- Jakow Michailowitsch Jurowski (1878–1938), Chekist and Soviet party functionary
- Yakov Hadas-Handelsman (* 1957), Israeli diplomat
- Jakow Borissowitsch Knjaschnin (1742–1791), Russian poet, dramaturge and translator
- Yakov Kreizberg (1959–2011), American conductor of Russian descent
- Jakow Petrovich Kulnew (1763-1812), Russian commander
- Jakow Grigorjewitsch Kuzenko (1915–1988), Soviet weightlifter
- Jakov Lind (1927–2007), Austrian-English writer, radio play author, film director and painter
- Jakow Alexandrowitsch Malik (1906–1980), Soviet diplomat and politician
- Yakov Malkiel (1914–1998), American linguist and Romance philologist of Russian-Jewish descent
- Jakow Gilelewitsch Panowko (1913–2002), Russian physicist
- Jakow Permjakow († 1712), Russian navigator and trader who discovered the New Siberian Islands
- Jakow Alexandrowitsch Protasanow (1881–1945), Russian film director
- Jakow Grigoryevich Punkin (1921–1994), Soviet wrestler
- Jakow Sannikow (1780– ~ 1812), Russian explorer, trader and cartographer
- Jakow Segel (1923–1995), Soviet film writer and director
- Jakow Borissowitsch Seldowitsch (1914–1987), Soviet physicist
- Yakov Springer (1921–1972), Israeli referee of Polish origin
- Jakow Sacharowitsch Suriz (1882–1952), Soviet diplomat
- Jakow Michailowitsch Sverdlov (1885–1919), revolutionary and leading politician of the Bolshevik Party
- Jakow Trachtenberg (1888–1951), Ukrainian engineer and the inventor of the Trachtenberg high-speed calculation method
Surname
- Pablo Ben-Yakov (* 1986), German actor
Others
- Jakov, a Croatian dessert wine made from the grape varieties Marastina, Debit and Trbljan, also known as Prosek or Proschek