List of Famous people named Jakob

Jakob Cedergren is a Swedish-born Danish actor. He has appeared in more than 40 films and television shows since 1998. He starred in the film Dark Horse, which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.

Jakob Diemer Fuglsang is a Danish professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Astana–Premier Tech. Before turning professional for Team Saxo Bank, he was a mountain biker racing for Team Cannondale–Vredestein, winning the Under-23 World Cup and Under-23 World Championships.

Jakob Blasel is a German climate activist and politician of Alliance 90/The Greens.

Jakob Altmaier was a German journalist and a politician in the Social Democratic Party of Germany. He was one of few German Jews who returned to Germany after World War II and became active in politics.

Jacob Roggeveen was a Dutch explorer who was sent to find Terra Australis, but instead found Easter Island. Jacob Roggeveen also found Bora Bora and Maupiti of the Society Islands, as well as Samoa. He planned the expedition along with his brother Jan Roggeveen, who stayed in the Netherlands.

Jakob Schubert is an Austrian professional rock climber, sport climber and boulderer. He is a World Champion and World Cup winner in Lead climbing, and his highest redpointed grade on rock is 9b+. In August 2021, he won bronze at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

Jakob Hoff Oftebro is a Norwegian actor. He has appeared in more than twenty films since 2004 including Hamilton and Kon-Tiki, which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 85th Academy Awards.

Klemens Wilhelm Jacob Meckel was a general in the Prussian army and foreign advisor to the government of Meiji period Japan.

Jakob Friedrich Ehrhart was a German botanist, a pupil of Carl Linnaeus at Uppsala University, and later director of the Botanical Garden of Hannover, where he produced several major botanical works between 1780–1793. Ehrhart was the first author to use the rank of subspecies in botanical literature, and he published many subspecific names between 1780 and 1789.

Jakob Stämpfli was a Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1854-1863).