List of Famous people named Jakob

Jakob Hermann was a mathematician who worked on problems in classical mechanics. He is the author of Phoronomia, an early treatise on Mechanics in Latin, which has been translated by Ian Bruce in 2015-16. In 1729, he proclaimed that it was as easy to graph a locus on the polar coordinate system as it was to graph it on the Cartesian coordinate system.

Jakob Adlung, or Adelung, was a German organist, teacher, instrument maker, music historian, composer and music theorist.

Jakob Sigismund Beck was a German philosopher.

Jakob Meyer zum Hasen was the bürgermeister of the city of Basel from 1516 to 1521. A money changer by profession, he was the first bürgermeister of Basel to be a tradesman, belonging to a guild rather than the aristocracy or a wealthy family. He is known as a patron of the painter Hans Holbein the Younger, having commissioned the Darmstadt Madonna and a double portrait from him.

Jakob Rosanes was a German mathematician who worked on algebraic geometry and invariant theory. He was also a chess master.

Jakob Prandtauer was an Austrian Baroque architect.

Jakob Ammann was an Anabaptist leader and namesake of the Amish religious movement.

Jakob Andreae was a significant German Lutheran theologian and Protestant Reformer involved in the drafting of major documents.

Jakob Reumann was an Austrian Social Democratic politician and the first social democratic mayor of Vienna from 1919 to 1923.

Jakob Ernst von Liechtenstein-Kastelkorn was Bishop of Seckau, Bishop of Olmütz and Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg.