All articles starting with J

Jacob Sartorius

Jacob Sartorius (Rolf Jacob Sartorius), American pop singer and actor born 2002 in Tulsa, Oklahoma; rose to fame on Musical.ly, debuted with "Sweatshirt" (2016), released The Last Text EP (2017), and acted in The Loneliest Boy in the World.

Jacob Saylors

Jacob Saylors (born 2001, Jasper, TN) is a Detroit Lions running back, ex-ETSU All-American and St. Louis Battlehawks UFL rushing leader, the Lions' 2025 kickoff returner with 897 return yards.

Oct 21, 2026

Jacob Schopf

Jacob Schopf is a German canoe sprint kayaker, born 1999 in Berlin, who won silver at Tokyo 2020 and two golds at Paris 2024, plus four world titles.

Sep 19, 2026

Jacob Schueler

Jacob Schueler was a Denver confectioner who put up $18,000 of the roughly $20,000 that founded the Golden, Colorado brewery in 1873, later bought out by Adolph Coors.

Jacob Scipio

Jacob Scipio (born 1993, Islington, London) is a British-Guyanese actor and writer, known as Armando Aretas in Bad Boys for Life and Bad Boys: Ride or Die and as Staff Sgt. Justin T. Gallegos in The Outpost; acting since nine months old, he also writes Cannes-premiered shorts.

Jacob Selhub

Jacob Selhub, also known as Yakov Selhub, was a nutritional biochemist born in Libya in 1937 who led the Vitamin Metabolism Laboratory at Tufts and linked folate status to vascular disease.

Jacob Slater

Jacob Vaughan Slater (born 2004) is an Irish left-back at Tranmere Rovers in EFL League Two; formerly Preston North End academy, Brighton & Hove Albion (no league apps), and Harrogate Town on loan; Republic of Ireland under-21 international.

Jacob T. Robinson

Jacob T. Robinson is an American neuroengineer, professor at Rice University, and co-founder and CEO of Motif Neurotech, which builds a therapeutic brain-computer interface for depression.

Jacob T. Schwartz

Jacob T. Schwartz (1930–2009) was an American mathematician and computer scientist at NYU's Courant Institute, known for the treatise Linear Operators, the Dunford–Schwartz theorem, and the SETL programming language.

Sep 19, 2026

Jacob Thaysen

Jacob Thaysen is a Danish business executive and physicist who became CEO of Illumina, the DNA-sequencing company, in September 2023 after leading divisions at Agilent Technologies.

Oct 3, 2026

Jacob the Liar

Jacob the Liar (Jakob der Lügner) is Frank Beyer's 1974 DEFA film adapted from Jurek Becker's novel, about a Jew in a 1944 Polish ghetto who invents a radio; the only East German film nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.

Jacob Thomas (American football)

Jacob Thomas (born 2004, Ashburn, Virginia) is an NFL safety for the Minnesota Vikings, signed as a 2026 undrafted free agent out of James Madison; former walk-on quarterback, second-team All-Sun Belt, distinct from drafted safety Jakobe Thomas.

Jacob Tierney

Jacob Tierney (born 1979, Montreal) is a Canadian actor, writer, director, and showrunner, son of producer Kevin Tierney. He co-created Letterkenny, directed The Trotsky, and created Heated Rivalry, the 2025 Crave/HBO Max hit adapted from Rachel Reid's Game Changers novels.

Jacob Tremblay

Jacob Tremblay, born in 2006 in Vancouver, Canada, is a Canadian actor who gained wide attention as Jack in Room (2015) and starred in Wonder (2017).

Jacob Trouba

Jacob Trouba (born 1994) is an American NHL defenseman from Rochester, Michigan; drafted 9th overall by Winnipeg in 2012, Rangers captain 2022–24, later Ducks and Sharks, 2024 Mark Messier Leadership Award winner.

Jacob Tsimerman

Jacob Tsimerman (born 1988) is a Canadian number theorist at the University of Toronto, known for proving the André–Oort conjecture and winning the 2026 Fields Medal.

Oct 21, 2026

Jacob Tullin Thams

Jacob Tullin Thams (Tulla), 1898-1954, Norwegian ski jumper and sailor; first Olympic ski jumping champion (Chamonix 1924), 1926 world champion, 1928 St. Moritz 73 m fall, 1936 Berlin sailing silver; second dual-season Olympic medalist after Eddie Eagan.

Jacob V. Maizel

Jacob V. Maizel, also cited as J.V. Maizel, is an American virologist known for work on poliovirus protein synthesis and RNA-folding algorithms at the National Cancer Institute.

Jacob van Hoogstraten

Jacob van Hoogstraten (c. 1460–1527) was a Flemish Dominican theologian who served as inquisitor for Cologne, Mainz, and Trier and charged the humanist Johannes Reuchlin with heresy over Jewish books.

Oct 22, 2026

Jacob van Maerlant

Jacob van Maerlant (ca. 1230–ca. 1300) was a Flemish poet who wrote over 230,000 lines of Middle Dutch verse, first making scientific and historical knowledge available in the vernacular.

Jacob van Ruisdael

Jacob van Ruisdael (Haarlem 1628/29–1682), Dutch Golden Age landscape painter, most versatile of his generation; 694 paintings, 13 etchings; pupil Hobbema; influenced Constable and Turner.

Jacob Vargas

Jacob Vargas, Mexican-American actor born 1971 in Michoacán, Mexico; discovered breakdancing at 12, known for Traffic (2000), Selena, Next Friday, Sons of Anarchy; distinct from a Colombian speedcuber and a California high school baseball player.

Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten

Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten, known as Jaap, was a Dutch KLM captain and flight instructor killed in the 1977 Tenerife runway collision, the deadliest in aviation history.

Jacob Viner

Jacob Viner (1892–1970) was a Canadian-born American economist at Chicago and Princeton whose 1950 book The Customs Union Issue introduced trade creation and trade diversion.

Jacob Volhard

Jacob Volhard (1834–1910) was a German chemist at Halle known for the Volhard titration, the first synthesis of sarcosine, the synthesis of creatine, and the Hell-Volhard-Zelinsky reaction.

Jacob Wackernagel

Jacob Wackernagel (1853–1938) was a Swiss historical linguist at the University of Basel, best known for Wackernagel's Law, his 1892 generalization about Indo-European word order.

Jacob Weitering

Jacob Weitering, born in 1997, is an Australian rules footballer, a key defender and co-vice-captain for Carlton, the first pick of the 2015 AFL draft and a 2024 All-Australian.

Jacob Wernli Schaefer

Jacob Wernli Schaefer (1919–2002) was an American engineer and guided-missile pioneer at Bell Laboratories who proposed the antiaircraft missile system from which the Nike air-defense family evolved.

Jacob Wohl

Jacob Wohl, American conservative political operative and sometime hedge fund promoter, partner of Jack Burkman; known for failed smears against Mueller and Buttigieg and for the 2020 robocall voter-suppression scheme that brought guilty pleas, probation, a $1.25 million New York settlement, and FCC fines.