List of Famous people named Jakob

Name Jakob is among the most common names in Switzerland. Here are some famous Jakobs:

Jakob Augstein

First Name Jakob
Last Name Augstein
Born on July 28, 1967 (age 56)
Born in Germany

Jakob Augstein is a German heir, journalist and publisher.

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Jakob Dylan

First Name Jakob
Last Name Dylan
Born on December 9, 1969 (age 54)
Height 177 cm | 5'10

Jakob Luke Dylan is an American singer and songwriter. He rose to fame as the lead singer and primary songwriter for the rock band the Wallflowers.

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Jakob Ingebrigtsen

First Name Jakob
Last Name Ingebrigtsen
Born on September 19, 2000 (age 23)
Born in Norway, Rogaland
Height 186 cm | 6'1

Jakob Ingebrigtsen is a Norwegian middle-distance runner. He won two gold medals at the 2018 European Championships, in the 1500 and 5000 metres events. On 20 July 2019, at the London Diamond League, Ingebrigtsen broke Norway's national record in the 5000 m with his time of 13:02.03. His older brothers Henrik and Filip are also middle-distance runners who compete internationally. They are trained by their father Gjert Ingebrigtsen. On 12 October 2019, he was the youngest pacemaker in the successful sub-2 hour marathon attempt by Eliud Kipchoge.

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Jakob Johnson

Jakob Elijah Johnson is a German gridiron football fullback for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Tennessee Volunteers and signed with the Patriots as an undrafted free agent as part of the NFL's International Player Pathway program.

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Jakob Pöltl

First Name Jakob
Last Name Pöltl
Born on October 15, 1995 (age 28)
Born in Austria
Height 216 cm | 7'1

Jakob Pöltl is an Austrian professional basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Utah Utes. In his sophomore year, Pöltl was a consensus second-team All-American, and won the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award and Pete Newell Big Man Award as the top collegiate center and low-post player, respectively. After the season, he declared for the 2016 NBA draft, where the Toronto Raptors selected him in the first round with the ninth overall pick.

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Jakob Fugger

First Name Jakob
Last Name Fugger
Born on March 6, 1459
Died on December 30, 1525 (aged 66)
Born in Germany, Bavaria

Jakob Fugger of the Lily, also known as Jakob Fugger the Rich or sometimes Jakob II, was a major German merchant, mining entrepreneur, and banker. He was a descendant of the Fugger merchant family located in the Free Imperial City of Augsburg, where he was born and later also elevated through marriage to Grand Burgher of Augsburg. Within a few decades he expanded the family firm to a business operating in all of Europe. He began his education at the age of 14 in Venice, which also remained his main residence until 1487. At the same time he was a cleric and held several prebendaries, even though he never lived in a monastery. Fugger is held to be one of the wealthiest individuals in modern history, alongside the early 20th century industrialists John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie.

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Jakob Nacken

First Name Jakob
Last Name Nacken
Born on January 1, 1906
Died on January 1, 1987 (aged 81)

Jakob Hudson Nacken or Jacob Nacken was a German circus performer active in Europe and the United States. He began his career as an exceptionally tall person while a teenager, performing in a traveling circus, and appeared in the 1939 New York World's Fair. Nacken was the tallest soldier in the German Army during World War II at a height of seven feet three inches (2.21 m). He was employed as a giant Santa Claus and appeared on American television as a figure of high stature and in freak shows as the World's Tallest Man.

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Jakob Schmid

First Name Jakob
Last Name Schmid
Born on July 25, 1886
Died on August 16, 1964 (aged 78)
Born in Germany, Bavaria

Jakob Schmid was a German janitor of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU). On 18 February 1943, he turned in the siblings Hans Scholl and Sophie Scholl, members of the resistance group White Rose, when they gave out pamphlets against Nazi Germany.

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Jakob Oetama

First Name Jakob
Last Name Oetama
Born on September 27, 1931
Died on September 9, 2020 (aged 88)

Jakob Oetama was an Indonesian senior journalist and businessman who was one of the co-founders and owners of Kompas Gramedia Group, the largest media group in Indonesia. Together with P.K. Ojong in 1965 he established the Kompas daily, the leading national broadsheet newspaper in Indonesia, where he was editor-in-chief until 2000.

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Jakob Chychrun

Jakob Chychrun is a Canadian-American professional ice hockey defenseman currently playing for the Arizona Coyotes of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted sixteenth overall by the Coyotes at the 2016 NHL Entry Draft.

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