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 Manandian

Historian, academician

Soviet and Ukrainian physicist

Yakov Zeldovich

Academician, theoretical physicist

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

One of the leaders of the partisan movement

Russian businessman

Yakov Smushkevich

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

Soviet statesman and party leader

Yakov Dubinskiy

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

Russian film director

Yakov Keilichis

Soviet sculptor

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

Singer of Jewish songs

Hero of the Soviet Union, Army General

Russian admiral, participant in the Crimean War

Yakov Kuharenko

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

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

American Jewish actor, founder of the Adler theatrical dynasty/

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

Yakov Fedorenko

Marshal of the Armored Forces

Yakov Kreizberg

American conductor of Russian origin.

A prominent figure in the Cheka-OGPU-NKVD.

Yakov Bagratuni

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

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

Don Ataman, associate of S. Razin.

Yakov Shusherin

Russian merchant of the 1st guild

Russian actor, opera singer (baritone)

Yakov Kleinerman

Historian, cultural scientist, publicist and public figure

Russian neurophysiologist, neuropathologist, Doctor of Medical Sciences

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

Yakov Pomerantsev

Hereditary honorary citizen, public figure.

Yakov Kostukovsky

Poet, prose writer, translator, philosopher

Yakov Kucherevskiy

Theater and film actor

Israeli statesman, diplomat

Yakov Koshkin-Zakharyev

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

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

Russian Soviet writer, playwright, screenwriter

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

A famous Soviet psychiatrist, professor.

Yakov Serebryanskiy

Colonel of State Security (1945).