Name Yakov

Discover renowned celebrities bearing the unique name Yakov. Explore a comprehensive list of iconic figures and famous individuals who share this distinctive moniker. Among them are the legendary writer Yakov Smirnoff, renowned chess grandmaster Yakov Estrin, and the acclaimed actor Yakov Gil.

Yakov Kostukovsky

The author of a famous work about Russia during the Time of Troubles

White lieutenant general, returned to Russia and served in the Red Army

Israeli statesman, diplomat

Russian merchant of the 1st guild

Yakov Kleinerman

Historian, cultural scientist, publicist and public figure

Guards Sergeant of the Red Army, commander of a machine gun squad, Hero of the Soviet Union

Yakov Manandian

Historian, academician

Yakov Fedorenko

Marshal of the Armored Forces

Participant of the Great Patriotic War, full Cavalier of the Order of Glory

Yakov Dubinskiy

A hereditary caretaker of the Kyrk-Er fortress, who lived there for 40 years, and the founder of the cave cities museum.

Captain of State Security (1935), member of the RCP(b) since 1920.

Yakov Bagratuni

Major General of the Russian Army. General of the Armenian Army.

Poet, prose writer, translator, philosopher

Rynda, head and voivode during the reign of Ivan IV Vasilyevich the Terrible

Doctor of Medical Sciences, Head of the Department of Emergency Cardiac Surgery at the Sklifosovsky Institute of Emergency Care. Honored Doctor of the country.

Soviet and Ukrainian physicist

Singer of Jewish songs

One of the leaders of the partisan movement

Yakov Kucherevskiy

Theater and film actor

Russian Soviet writer, playwright, screenwriter

Russian admiral, participant in the Crimean War

Yakov Smushkevich

A renowned pilot, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, participant in the war in Spain 1936-1939. He was repressed.

Russian film director

Soviet statesman and party leader

Ukrainian actor and TV presenter.

The count was originally from Holstein, who settled in Estonia in the late 17th century.

A prominent figure in the Cheka-OGPU-NKVD.

American Jewish actor, founder of the Adler theatrical dynasty/

Yakov Koshkin-Zakharyev

Boyar and voivode in the service of the Moscow princes Ivan III and Vasily III

Yakov Serebryanskiy

Colonel of State Security (1945).

Yakov Shusherin

Bolshevik. Edited <Krestyanskaya Gazeta> and <Bednota>. In 1939-1934 - People's Commissar of Agriculture of the USSR. Fell into the machine of repression and shot.

Yakov Faitelson

Dissident refusenik, public and political figure

Russian businessman

Don Ataman, associate of S. Razin.

Yakov Zeldovich

Academician, theoretical physicist

Yakov Keilichis

Soviet sculptor

Israeli military leader, first Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces.

Yakov Kuharenko

Acting Chief of Staff and Ataman of the Black Sea Cossack Army

Russian neurophysiologist, neuropathologist, Doctor of Medical Sciences