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Jacob Loose
Jacob Loose (1850–1923) was an American biscuit manufacturer who co-founded the Loose-Wiles Biscuit Company in Kansas City in 1902, whose Hydrox cookie of 1908 was America's first chocolate sandwich cookie.
Jacob Lurie
Jacob Lurie is an American mathematician at the Institute for Advanced Study known for derived algebraic geometry, infinity-category theory, and his proof of the cobordism hypothesis.
Jacob Lüroth
Jacob Lüroth (1844–1910) was a German mathematician and professor at Freiburg known for Lüroth's theorem, the Lüroth quartic, and the Lüroth problem on unirational varieties.
Jacob M. Geist
Jacob M. Geist (Jacob Myer Geist) was an American cryogenic engineer elected to the National Academy of Engineering, and chief engineer at Air Products in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Jacob M. Taylor
Jacob M. Taylor is a theoretical quantum physicist at NIST, a NIST Fellow and co-founder of QuICS, who received the 2010 PECASE and helped implement the National Quantum Initiative.
Jacob Marley
Jacob Marley is the fictional ghost in Dickens's 1843 A Christmas Carol, dead business partner of Ebenezer Scrooge, chained by cash-boxes and ledgers, who warns Scrooge and introduces the three Christmas spirits.
Jacob Marschak
Jacob Marschak (1898–1977) was a Kiev-born American economist and econometrician, professor at UCLA, who founded the economics of information and, with Roy Radner, the theory of teams.
Jacob Millman
Jacob Millman (1911–1991) was a Russia-born American electrical engineer and Columbia University professor whose eight McGraw-Hill textbooks shaped electronics teaching and whose name survives in Millman's theorem.
Jacob Mincer
Jacob Mincer (1922–2006) was a Polish-born American labor economist at Columbia University whose Mincer equation became the standard tool for estimating how schooling shapes earnings.
Jacob Monk
Jacob Monk (Jacob Elijah Monk, born 2001) is a Green Bay Packers center/guard, No. 62, drafted 163rd overall in 2024 out of Duke, a two-time Duke captain and versatile interior lineman.
Jacob Moritz Blumberg
Jacob Moritz Blumberg (1873–1955) was a German surgeon and gynecologist, born in Posen and trained at Breslau, whose name is attached to Blumberg's sign, rebound tenderness used in diagnosing appendicitis.
Jacob Moskovitz
Jacob Moskovitz, also credited Jacob Moscovitz, is an American actor from Burlington Township, New Jersey, a UNCSA BFA acting graduate known as Miles in Prime Video's Elle (2026), Trevor in Y2K (2024), and guest roles on FBI: International, Magnum P.I., The Good Fight, and Chicago P.D.
Jacob Murphy
Jacob Murphy (born 1995, Wembley) is an English winger for Newcastle United, signed from Norwich City in 2017 for a reported £12m; boyhood Magpies fan, twin of Josh, 2024/25 best season with 8 goals and 12 assists.
Jacob N. Israelachvili
Jacob N. Israelachvili, also known as Jacob Israelachvili, was an Israeli-born chemical engineer and physicist at UC Santa Barbara who developed the Surface Forces Apparatus.
Jacob of Sarug
Jacob of Sarug (Yaʿqub of Serugh, ca. 451–521) was a Syriac poet-theologian and bishop whose verse homilies form the largest corpus in the Syriac tradition.
Jacob Opdahl
Jacob Opdahl (1894-1938), Norwegian artistic gymnast from Bergen, brother of Nils Opdahl; won Olympic gold in the 1912 team free system and silver in the same event at Antwerp 1920, representing Bergens TF.
Jacob P. Den Hartog
Jacob P. Den Hartog (1901–1989) was a Dutch-American mechanical engineer whose 1934 textbook Mechanical Vibrations became the classic vibration text, and whose absorber theory underlies tuned mass dampers.
Jacob Palis
Jacob Palis (1940–2025) was a Brazilian mathematician at IMPA in Rio de Janeiro, known for work on dynamical systems, the Palis–Smale stability conjecture, and the 2010 Balzan Prize.
Jacob Pieter Den Hartog
Jacob Pieter Den Hartog (1901–1989) was a Dutch-American mechanical engineer, MIT professor, and author of Mechanical Vibrations (1934), whose damped vibration absorber theory underlies tuned mass dampers.
Jacob Pitts
Jacob Pitts (Jacob Rives Pitts, born 1979) is an American actor known as Cooper Harris in EuroTrip, Bill 'Hoosier' Smith in The Pacific, and Deputy Marshal Tim Gutterson on FX's Justified (2010–2015).
Jacob Rabinow
Jacob Rabinow (1910–1999) was a Ukrainian-born American electrical engineer at the National Bureau of Standards who held about 230 U.S. patents, including the magnetic particle clutch and a letter-sorting machine.
Jacob Ramsey
Jacob Matthew Ramsey (born 2001, Birmingham) is an English attacking midfielder who came through Aston Villa's academy, made 167 appearances scoring 17 goals, won the 2023 UEFA Under-21 Championship with England, and joined Newcastle United in August 2025 for an undisclosed fee.
Jacob Rees-Mogg
Jacob Rees-Mogg is a British broadcaster and former Conservative politician who was MP for North East Somerset from 2010 to 2024 and chaired the European Research Group.
Jacob Reses
Jacob Reses, American political advisor and chief of staff to Vice President JD Vance from January 2025, formerly Vance's Senate chief of staff, Princeton and Stanford Law graduate, leaving the administration in summer 2026.
Jacob Riis
Jacob Riis (1849–1914), Danish-born New York police reporter and social reformer, pioneered flash photojournalism; his 1890 book How the Other Half Lives documented tenement slums, inspired Theodore Roosevelt's reforms, and founded documentary photography.
Jacob Roberts
Jacob Lee Roberts (born 1990, Salford) is an English actor known as Damon Kinsella in Hollyoaks (2017–2023, 409 episodes) and Kit Green in Coronation Street from 2024, with stage work in Borstal Boy.
Jacob Rodriguez
Jacob Rodriguez, Miami Dolphins linebacker (LB), 2026 second-round pick (43rd overall) from Texas Tech; former Virginia quarterback who won the Nagurski, Butkus, Lombardi, and Bednarik awards and finished fifth in 2025 Heisman voting.
Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild
Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild (1936–2024), was a British financier who built RIT Capital Partners from £5 million to over £3 billion in net assets.
Jacob Sagiv
Jacob Sagiv is an Israeli chemist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, best known for founding the field of self-assembled monolayers between 1978 and 1980.
Jacob Sanchez
Jacob Sanchez (born 2007) is an American men's singles figure skater, Hudson Valley FSC, 2024 Junior Grand Prix Final champion, 2026 U.S. pewter medalist, and 2026 Worlds debutant.