List of Famous people named Jakub
Jakub Błaszczykowski
Jakub Błaszczykowski is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a winger for Wisła Kraków and the Poland national team, businessman and the Wisła Kraków's owner. He started his professional football at Wisła Kraków establishing himself at a young age. In 2007, he joined Borussia Dortmund, where he spent the majority of his career, making over 250 appearances and winning two Bundesliga titles, two DFL-Supercups, and one DFB-Pokal.
Jakub Świerczok
Jakub Świerczok is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a striker for the J1 League club Nagoya Grampus Eight.
Jakub Vadlejch
Jakub Vadlejch is a Czech track and field athlete who competes in the javelin throw. He is a three-time Olympian for the Czech Republic, having competed in 2012, 2016 and 2020, winning a silver medal in 2020. He also has represented his country four times at the World Championships in Athletics, winning the silver medal in 2017, and four times a competitor at the European Athletics Championships. He also won the 2016 IAAF Diamond League title.
Jakub Józef Orliński
Jakub Józef Orliński is a Polish operatic countertenor singer.
Jakub Vrána
Jakub Vrána is a Czech professional ice hockey forward for the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League. Vrána was selected by the Capitals in the first round of the 2014 NHL Entry Draft. Vrána won the Stanley Cup as a member of the Capitals in 2018.
Jakub Zabłocki
Jakub Zabłocki was a Polish footballer (striker).
Jakub Gierszał
Jakub Gierszał is a Polish actor. His screen debut was in 2009, playing the role of Kazik in the film All that I love. He later starred in the film Suicide Room, in which he played the character of Dominik, a high school student from a wealthy family who developed a mental health problem.
Jakub Kryštof Rad
Jakob Christof Rad, was a Swiss-born physician and industrial manager. Sometimes appearing as the Anglicised, Jacob Christoph, Rad, among many other professional activities, was a director of a sugar factory in Datschitz in Moravia in 1843, and invented the process and associated machinery for cutting large block sugar into manageable uniform pieces.
Jakub Sobieski
Jakub Sobieski was a Polish noble, parliamentarian, diarist, political activist, military leader and father of King John III Sobieski. He was the son of castellan and voivode Marek Sobieski and Jadwiga Snopkowska.
Jakub Szydłowiecki
Jakub Szydłowiecki was a Polish nobleman and politician. In the years 1493-1501 he was Burgrave of Kraków and was a courtier of the king from 1496, Treasurer of the Crown Court in 1497, Grand Teasurer of the Crown from 1501 to 1506, and castellan and starost of Sandomierz, Sochaczew and Łęczyca.