Jacob Binckes (1637, Koudum - 12 December, 1677) was a Dutch commodore. As a captain he was part of the first of two Dutch invasions of England in 1667 in the Raid on the Medway in the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
Still a captain he re-captured in 1673 together with captain Cornelis Evertsen de Jongste (Keesje de Duivel/Keesje the Devil) de city of New York and re-named it New Orange. But this Dutch city was in 1674 returned to the English by William III of Orange-Nassau the latter Dutch king of England since 1689 as an agreement of the Treaty of Breda (1667).
In 1677 as a commodore on his flaggship the Beschermer he defeated the French fleet in the First Battle at Tobago (Action of March 1677), but he was killed in action in the Second Battle of Tobago in the Franco-Dutch War in the same year.