List of Famous people with last name Yakovlev

Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev was a Soviet aeronautical engineer. He designed the Yakovlev military aircraft and founded the Yakovlev Design Bureau. Yakovlev joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1938.

Veniamin Fyodorovich Yakovlev was a Soviet and Russian lawyer. He was the first and only Chairman of the Supreme Court of Arbitration of the USSR and later became the first Chairman of the Supreme Court of Arbitration of Russia. He also served as the Soviet Minister of Justice from 1989 to 1990 and as the legal adviser to both Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev from 2005 till his death in 2018.

Gennady Pavlovich Yakovlev Russian botanist, pharmacognosist, phytochemist. Former director of Saint-Petersburg State Chemical-Pharmaceutical Academy (1992–2004). Expert in Fabaceae taxonomy.

Sergei Yakovlev, is a Kazakhstani professional road bicycle racer. He is currently without a team. He turned professional in 1999 and rode for Besson Chaussures for two seasons, then Acqua & Sapone and then he moved to Team Telekom which became T-Mobile. After fellow Kazakhstani Alexander Vinokourov left T-Mobile at the end of 2005, Yakovlev went with him to Liberty Seguros-Würth team and then the Astana cycling team. Yakovlev's victories include being the national champion of Kazakhstan in 2000, the 2000 edition of the Tour de l'Ain and a stage in the Tour de Suisse.

Postnik Yakovlev is most famous as one of the architects and builders of Saint Basil's Cathedral on Red Square in Moscow. Originally from Pskov, it is thought that he was nicknamed "Barma" (Барма), although it might be that his full name was, in fact, Ivan Yakovlevich Barma; ; Barma might also be Yakovlev's assistant.