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Jacob Frey
Jacob Frey, Democratic-Farmer-Labor politician, is the 48th mayor of Minneapolis (elected 2017, third term), former Ward 3 council member, ex-professional runner, known for opposing defund-the-police calls and resisting the 2025 ICE Operation Metro Surge.
Jacob Furth
Jacob Furth (1896–1979) was an American experimental pathologist who built the first experimental leukemia system in mammals and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1974.
Jacob G. Wacker
Jacob G. Wacker is a theoretical particle physicist who taught at SLAC and Stanford, known for SIMP dark matter and simplified models for LHC new-particle searches.
Jacob Geller
Jacob Geller, American writer and YouTube video essayist connecting games with art, history, and politics; author of How a Game Lives, Nebula creator, MinnMax co-host, over 140 million views.
Jacob George
Jacob George is an Australian hepatologist who directs the Storr Liver Centre in Sydney and is known for research on hepatitis C treatment response and fatty liver disease.
Jacob Gretser
Jacob Gretser, born 1562 at Markdorf and died 1625 at Ingolstadt, was a German Jesuit theologian and prolific polemicist who taught at Ingolstadt for decades and defended Robert Bellarmine.
Jacob Grimm
Jacob Grimm (1785–1863), German philologist and elder Grimm brother; co-founder of Germanistik, formulator of Grimm's Law, collector of the Kinder- und Hausmärchen, Göttingen Seven protester, and editor of the Deutsches Wörterbuch.
Jacob H. Douma
Jacob H. Douma (Jacob Henrick Douma) was an American hydraulic engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1971.
Jacob H. Hollander
Jacob H. Hollander (1871–1940) was an American economist at Johns Hopkins University who negotiated the 1905 settlement of the Dominican Republic's debt and led the American Economic Association in 1921.
Jacob Hanna
Jacob H. Hanna is a Palestinian Israeli stem cell biologist and professor at the Weizmann Institute, known for synthetic embryo models grown entirely from stem cells.
Jacob Heerbrand
Jacob Heerbrand (1521–1600) was a German Lutheran theologian and longtime professor at the University of Tübingen, where he served eight times as rector and from 1590 as chancellor.
Jacob Helberg
Jacob Helberg, American technology policy official and author of The Wires of War, is the 22nd Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs (since October 2025), former Google product policy lead, Palantir advisor, USCC commissioner, and founder of the Hill and Valley Forum and Pax Silica.
Jacob Hersant
Jacob Hersant (born c. 1998) is an Australian neo-Nazi who co-leads the National Socialist Network with Thomas Sewell and was the first person convicted, and later jailed, under Victoria's Nazi salute ban.
Jacob Hoggard
Jacob William Hoggard (born 1984, Burnaby, B.C.) is the former frontman of Canadian pop-rock band Hedley and a 2004 Canadian Idol third-place finisher; convicted in 2022 of sexual assault causing bodily harm, sentenced to five years, granted day parole in 2026.
Jacob in Islam
Jacob in Islam is the prophet Yaqub (يعقوب), traditionally identified with Israel, a son of Isaac and father of Yusuf, mentioned 16 times in 10 suras of the Quran.
Jacob Isidor Mombert
Jacob Isidor Mombert (1829–1913) was a German-born Episcopalian clergyman and author who served parishes in Canada, the United States, and Germany, writing chiefly on the English Bible.
Jacob Itzhak Niemirower
Jacob Itzhak Niemirower (Yankev-Yitskhok Nyemirover, 1872–1939) was a moderate Reform rabbi and philosopher who served as Chief Rabbi of Romanian Jewry from 1921 until his death.
Jacob Javits
Jacob Koppel Javits (1904–1986), liberal Republican U.S. Senator from New York 1957–1981, earlier congressman and state attorney general; key figure in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, and 1973 War Powers Act.
Jacob Jongbloed
Jacob Jongbloed (1895–1974) was a Dutch physiologist and physician who studied the effects of altitude and acceleration on pilots, and is regarded as the founder of aviation medicine in the Netherlands.
Jacob Jordaens
Jacob Jordaens (1593–1678) was a Flemish Baroque painter and tapestry designer of Antwerp who, alongside Rubens and Van Dyck, ranked among the three great Flemish masters of the seventeenth century.
Jacob Kaplan
Jacob Kaplan (1895–1994) was a French rabbi who served as chief rabbi of France from 1955 to 1980, leading French Jewry through its postwar reconstruction.
Jacob Kettler
Jacob Kettler (Latvian: Jēkabs Ketlers, German: Jakob von Kettler) was Duke of Courland and Semigallia from 1642, whose colonies included a Gambia trading post and a settlement on Tobago.
Jacob Klein (physicist)
Jacob Klein, born 1949 in Tel Aviv, is a soft matter physicist at the Weizmann Institute known for discovering hydration lubrication and showing water stays fluid in subnanometer films.
Jacob L. Jones
Jacob L. Jones is an American materials scientist at North Carolina State University known for X-ray and neutron scattering studies of piezoelectric and ferroelectric materials.
Jacob L. Roberts
Jacob L. Roberts is an American atomic physicist and professor at Colorado State University known for the first stable rubidium-85 Bose-Einstein condensates and a 2006 PECASE award.
Jacob Laban
Jacob Laban (born 2004, Moto'otua, Samoa) is a Samoan-born New Zealand second-rower for the New Zealand Warriors; NRL debut 2024, 2026 breakout with 8 tries, Kiwis squad selection.
Jacob Latimore
Jacob Latimore (Jacob O'Neal Latimore Jr., born 1996, Milwaukee) is an American actor and R&B singer: Emmett on The Chi (2018–2026), films Black Nativity, Sleight, Detroit, and albums Connection through JL (2025).
Jacob Lawrence
Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000), American painter of African American history and life, creator of the 60-panel Migration Series (1940-41), split between MoMA and the Phillips Collection; first African American artist whose work MoMA acquired, in 1942.
Jacob Levitzki
Jacob Levitzki (1904–1956) was an Israeli mathematician, born in Ukraine, who founded algebra research in Israel, proved central nilpotence theorems in ring theory, and won the first Israel Prize for Exact Sciences in 1954.
Jacob Lombard
Jacob Lombard (born 2007) is a shortstop drafted 14th overall in 2026 by the Miami Marlins out of Gulliver Prep; son of George Lombard Sr., brother of George Lombard Jr.; signed $5 million.