List of Famous people named Yakub

Yakub Abdul Razzaq Memon was an Indian terrorist who was convicted over his involvement in the 1993 Bombay bombings by Special Terrorist and Disruptive Activities court on 27 July 2007. Yakub Memon was the brother of one of the prime suspects in the bombings, Tiger Memon. His appeals and petitions for clemency were all rejected and he was executed by hanging on 30 July 2015 in Nagpur jail.

Yakub Cemil (1883–1916) was an Ottoman revolutionary and soldier, who assassinated Nazım Pasha during the 1913 Ottoman coup d'état. He was sentenced to death and executed in 1916.

Yakub Kolas, real name Kanstantsin Mikhailovich Mitskievich was a Belarusian writer, People's Poet of the Byelorussian SSR (1926), member (1928) and vice-president of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences.

Yakub Çelebi was an Ottoman prince as the son of Murad I.