Jakov (Serbian Cyrillic: Јаков, pronounced[jâkoʋ]) is a Croatian and Serbian masculine given name, a variant of the biblical names Jacob and James. Often the nicknames of Jaki/Јаки, Jakša/Јакша and Jakica/Јакица will be used for people bearing the name.
It may refer to:
Jakov (bishop), Serbian medieval archbishop
Jakov Bienenfeld, Croatian entrepreneur and developer
Jakov Brdar, Slovenian-Bosnian sculptor
Jakov Cindro, Croatian politician
Jakov Fak, Croatian-Slovenian biathlete
Jakov Filipović, Croatian football player
Jakov Geller, Russian Grand Master
Jakov Gojun, Croatian handball player
Jakov Gotovac, Croatian composer and conductor
Jakov Grcić, Croatian futsal player
Jakov Ignjatović, Serbian-Hungarian novelist and prose writer
Jakov Lind, Austrian-British writer
Jakov Mikalja, Italian linguist and lexicographer of Slavic ancestry
Jakov Nenadović, Serbian military commander and politician
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