Jacob (given name)

Famous persons with the given name Jacob

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
Saint James
Jakub, Polish and Czech version
Jacob of Samosata, a companion in martyrdom of Romanus of Samosata

Jacob Marley, a fictional character whose ghost appears in the Charles Dickens novel A Christmas Carol
Jacob Black, a fictional character in the novels Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer

Jacob Arabo, famous jeweler to hip hop artists
Jacob Baxter, Canadian politician
Jacob ben Asher, rabbi, Talmudist
Jacob Eiler, a human rights activist
Jacob Epsteinan, American sculptor
Jacob A. Marinsky, chemist
Jacob Moon, Canadian folk musician
Jacob Neusner, an academic scholar of Judaism
Jacob Riis, a Danish-American muckraker journalist, photographer, and social reformer
Jacob Thompson, a former US congressman
Jake Epstein, a Canadian television actor
Jakub Sobieski, Polish noble and father of King Jan III Sobieski

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