Jakov

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
• Jakov Sedlar, Croatian film director and producer
• Jakov Surać, Croatian football player
• Jakov Vladović, Croatian basketball player
• Jakov Vranković, Croatian handball player
• Jakov Xoxa, Albanian writer
• Ivan Jakov Džoni, Croatian football player

See also

• Yakov
• Jakovljević