Top Celebrity Names Starting With Jacob

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   Jacob Zuma

   Age 70 Male
   

   Current African National Congress President.

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   Jacob Josefson

   Age 21 Male
   

   Swedish Ice Hockey Player

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   Jacob Josefson is a Swedish professional ice hockey centre, currently with the New Jersey Devils in the National Hockey League (NHL). After Josefson began playing hockey at the age of five, he was acquired by Djurgården's youth organization at the age of ten, where he also began playing junior hockey in 2005. Josefson made his Elitserien debut on February 28, 2008, against Timrå IK, and became a regular member of Djurgården's senior team.… read more

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   Jacob

   1853 Male
   

   Biblical Patriarch of the Hebrews

   
   

   Jacob "heel" or "leg-puller", also later known as Israel, as described in the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud, the New Testament and the Qur'an was the third patriarch of the Hebrew people with whom God made a covenant, and ancestor of the tribes of Israel, which were named after his descendants. In the Hebrew Bible, he is the son of Isaac and Rebekah, the grandson of Abraham and Sarah and of Bethuel, and the younger twin brother of Esau.… read more

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   Jacob Aaron Westervelt

   1800 - 1879 Male
   

   Mayor, Politician

   
   

   Jacob Aaron Westervelt was a renowned and prolific shipbuilder who constructed 247 vessels of all descriptions during his career of over 50 years. From 1853 until 1855 he was Mayor of New York City.

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   Jacob Jordaens

   1593 - 1678 Male
   

   Flemish Baroque Painting

   
   

   Jacob Jordaens was one of three Flemish Baroque painters, along with Peter Paul Rubens and Anthony van Dyck, to bring prestige to the Antwerp school of painting. Unlike those contemporaries he never traveled abroad to study Italian painting, and his career is marked by an indifference to their intellectual and courtly aspirations. In fact, except for a few short trips to locations in the Low Countries, he remained in Antwerp his entire life.… read more

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   Jacob Pavlovich Adler

   1855 - 1926 Male
   

   Russian-born Actor In Yiddish Theatere In Odessa, London and New York

   
   

   Jacob Pavlovich Adler, born Yankev P. Adler, was a Jewish actor and star of Yiddish theater, first in Odessa, and later in London and New York City. Nicknamed "nesher hagodl", Adler being the German word for "eagle", he achieved his first theatrical success in Odessa, but his career there was rapidly cut short when Yiddish theater was banned in Russia in 1883.… read more

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   Jacob Riis

   1849 - 1914 Male
   

   Photographer, Writer, Journalist

   
   

   Jacob August Riis was a Danish American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer. He is known for using his photographic and journalistic talents to help the impoverished in New York City; those impoverished New Yorkers were the subject of most of his prolific writings and photography. He endorsed the implementation of "model tenements" in New York with the help of humanitarian Lawrence Veiller.… read more

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   Jacob Bannon

   Age 35 Male
   

   Singer, Musician

   
   

   Jacob Bannon is the vocalist, lyricist, and graphic artist for the American hardcore punk band Converge. He is also the founder and owner of the label Deathwish Inc. Additionally, Bannon is a visual artist and has created many visual works for the independent music community. Bannon was also the founding member of Supermachiner, who released one album entitled Rise of the Great Machine. He is in the process of creating a solo album on the Deathwish Inc label.… read more

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   Jacob Truedson Demitz

   Age 63 Male
   

   Writer, King, Musician

   
   

   Jacob Truedson Demitz is a Swedish-American writer and entertainment director who wrote a 1996 book about Scandinavian kings and, as Lars Jacob, directed hundreds of cabaret shows in the United States and Europe from 1972 to 2004. He grew up in Illinois, returned to Sweden and later lived for extended periods in Florida and California.… read more

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    Jacob Lew

    Age 56 Male
    

    Federal Government Official; Attorney

    
    

    Jacob "Jack" J. Lew is the 25th and current White House Chief of Staff. Most recently, he was the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, a position he previously held from 1998 to 2001.

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    Jacob Grimm

    1785 - 1863 Male
    

    Philologist, Jurist and Mythologist

    
    

    Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm was a German philologist, jurist and mythologist. He is best known as the discoverer of Grimm's Law, the author of the monumental Deutsches Wörterbuch, the author of Deutsche Mythologie and, more popularly, as one of the Brothers Grimm, as the editor of Grimm's Fairy Tales.… read more

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    Jacob Palaeologus

    1595 Male
    

    Dominican Monk Who Became An Anti-trinitarian

    
    

    Jacob Palaeologus, born Giacomo da Chio was a former Dominican friar who became an anti-Trinitarian. An indefegatible polemicist against both Calvinism and Papal Power, Palaeologus cultivated a wide range of high-placed contacts and correspondents in the imperial, royal and aristocratic households in Eastern Europe, and within Ottoman territories; while formulating and propagating a radically heterodox version of Christianity, in which Jesus Christ was not to be invoked in worship.… read more

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    Jacob Rees-Mogg

    Age 43 Male
    

    Politician

    
    

    The Hon. Jacob William Rees-Mogg is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for North East Somerset since the 2010 general election. Rees-Mogg is the son of William Rees-Mogg, a former editor of The Times. He is married to the heiress Helena de Chair, with whom he has three children, two boys and one girl.… read more

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    Jacob Avshalomov

    Age 93 Male
    

    Jewish-american Composer and Conductor

    
    

    Jacob Avshalomov is an American composer and conductor.

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    Jacob H. Smith

    1840 - 1918 Male
    

    United States Army General In the Philippine-american War

    
    

    General Jacob Hurd Smith was a United States Army officer best known for ordering an indiscriminate retaliatory attack on a group of Filipinos during Philippine-American War after more than forty American soldiers were massacred in a surprise attack on the Island of Samar. His orders included, "kill everyone over the age of ten" and make the island "a howling wilderness.… read more

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    Jacob François Marulaz

    1769 - 1842 Male
    

    Field Grade Officer, General Officer, Emperor

    
    

    Jacob François Marulaz or Marola, born 6 November 1769, died 10 June 1842, joined the Army of the Kingdom of France as a cavalry trooper and rose to become a field officer during the French Revolutionary Wars. Under the First French Empire, he became a general officer and fought under Emperor Napoleon I of France in two notable campaigns. He became a cavalryman under the Ancien Régime and by 1798 he commanded a regiment of cavalry.… read more

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    Jacob K. Javits

    1904 - 1986 Male
    

    Politician

    
    

    Jacob Koppel "Jack" Javits was a politician who served as United States Senator from New York from 1957 to 1981. A liberal Republican, he was originally allied with Governor Nelson Rockefeller, fellow U.S. Senators Irving Ives and Kenneth Keating, and New York City Mayor John Lindsay.… read more

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    Jacob Hamblin

    1819 - 1886 Male
    

    Pioneer, Missionary, Diplomat

    
    

    Jacob Vernon Hamblin was a Western pioneer, Mormon missionary, and diplomat to various Native American Tribes of the Southwest and Great Basin. During his life, he helped settle large areas of southern Utah and northern Arizona where he was seen as an honest broker between Mormon settlers and the Natives. He is sometimes referred to as the "Buckskin Apostle," or the "Apostle to the Lamanites."… read more

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    Jacob Epstein

    1886 - 1959 Male
    

    Sculptor

    
    

    Sir Jacob Epstein KBE was an American-born British sculptor who helped pioneer modern sculpture. He was born in the United States, and moved to Europe in 1902, becoming a British citizen in 1911. He often produced controversial works which challenged taboos on what was appropriate subject matter for public artworks. He also made paintings and drawings, and often exhibited his work.… read more

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    Jacob Furth

    1840 - 1914 Male
    

    Entrepreneur, Banker

    
    

    Jacob Furth was an Austrian Empire-born American entrepreneur and prominent Seattle banker. He played a key role in consolidating Seattle's electric power and public transportation infrastructure, and was a member of Ohaveth Sholum Congregation, Seattle's first synagogue. Bill Speidel called him "the city's leading citizen for thirty years," adding that Furth "may even have been the most important citizen Seattle ever had.… read more

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    Jacob Tonson

    1736 Male
    

    Elder, Bookseller, Publisher

    
    

    Jacob Tonson, sometimes referred to as Jacob Tonson the elder was an 18th-century English bookseller and publisher. Tonson published editions of John Dryden and John Milton, and is best known for having obtained a copyright on the plays of William Shakespeare by buying up the rights of the heirs of the publisher of the Fourth Folio after the Statute of Anne went into effect. He was also the founder of the famous Kit-Cat Club.… read more

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    Jacob Latimore

    Age 15 Male
    

    Actor, Musician, Singer

    
    

    Jacob O'Neal Latimore, Jr. is a RCA Records and Crown World Entertainment R&B recording artist. The first single he recorded was "Best Friend", which made it onto Radio Disney, where he became a part of the Incubator program, which features upcoming young musicians. Latimore performed on Maury, on the "Most Talented Kids" (2006) episode. Early in 2007, He and his family moved from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Atlanta, Georgia to take his career to the next level.… read more

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    Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam

    1610 - 1665 Male
    

    Dutch Admiral

    
    

    Jacob, Banner Lord of Wassenaer, Lord Obdam, Hensbroek, Spanbroek, Opmeer, Zuidwijk and Kernhem was a Dutch Lieutenant-Admiral, and supreme commander of the confederate Dutch navy. The name Obdam was then also spelled as Opdam. British contemporaneous sources typically refer to him as Admiral Opdam or Lord Obdam because it was not until 1657 that he bought the Wassenaar Estate from relatives and thus acquired its title.… read more