Jacob (disambiguation)

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Jacob (died by 1st millennium BCE) was the Jewish patriarch of that name.

Jacob may also be:

• Jacob, Indian unit of length a.k.a. jow
• Jacob (sheep)
• JACOB, Jacob (software) providing "Java-COM bridge"
• Jacob (name), linguistic aspects
• Jacob, Book of Jacob

[edit] People

• Jacob (Book of Mormon prophet) (fl. c. 600 BCE)
• John Jacob of Montferrat (1395-1445), Italian soldier & government administrator
• Yaqob of Ethiopia (died 1638), ruler
• Giles Jacob (1686-1744), British jurist & writer
• Edward Jacob (c. 1710 -1788), British scholar & politician
• Georges Jacob (1739-1814), French artist
• John Jacob (British army officer) (1812-1858)
• P. L. Jacob (1806-1884), French writer Paul Lacroix
• John J. Jacob (1829-1893), American politician
• Charles Donald Jacob (1838-1898), American politician & diplomat
• Edgar Jacob (1844-1920), British religious leader
• Claud Jacob (1863-1948), British soldier
• E. F. Jacob (1894-1971), British scholar
• Gordon Jacob (1895-1984), British musician
• Ian Jacob (1899-1993), British soldier
• Alaric Jacob (1909-1995), British journalist and author
• François Jacob (born 1920), French biologist
• John Edward Jacob (born 1934), American activist
• Max Jacob (1876-1944), French writer
• Violet Jacob (1863-1946), British writer
• Marius Jacob (1879-1954), French activist
• Suzanne Jacob (born 1943), Canadian author
• Irène Jacob (born 1966) French-born Swiss actress

[edit] Fiction

• Fictional characters:
  • Jacob Marley, in Dickens's A Christmas Carol
  • Jacob Black, in novels of Stephenie Meyer
• Jacob Faithful, 1834 novel by Frederick Marryat

[edit] See also

• Jacob (given name)
• Yakub
• Jakob (disambiguation)
• Jacobs (disambiguation)
• Jacob's
• Jacobson (disambiguation)
• Jacobsen (disambiguation)
• Jacobite (disambiguation)
• Jacobin (disambiguation)
• Jacobean (disambiguation)
• Jacobian