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.

Soviet, Belarusian musician, People's Artist of the Republic of Belarus (2011)

Russian film director

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

Russian admiral, participant in the Crimean War

Yakov Kleinerman

Israeli statesman, diplomat

Yakov Koshkin-Zakharyev

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

Ukrainian actor and TV presenter.

American Jewish actor, founder of the Adler theatrical dynasty/

A prominent figure in the Cheka-OGPU-NKVD.

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

Singer of Jewish songs

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

Don Ataman, associate of S. Razin.

Russian actor, opera singer (baritone)

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

Yakov Dubinskiy

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

Historian, cultural scientist, publicist and public figure

Yakov Fedorenko

Marshal of the Armored Forces

Yakov Bagratuni

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

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.

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

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

Russian businessman

Soviet and Ukrainian physicist

Yakov Pomerantsev

Hereditary honorary citizen, public figure.

Yakov Shusherin

Yakov Faitelson

Dissident refusenik, public and political figure

Yakov Kostukovsky

Russian Soviet writer, playwright, screenwriter

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

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 Kuharenko

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

Scout during WWII

A famous Soviet psychiatrist, professor.

Russian neurophysiologist, neuropathologist, Doctor of Medical Sciences

Yakov Kreizberg

American conductor of Russian origin.

Russian merchant of the 1st guild

Hero of the Soviet Union, Army General

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

Yakov Keilichis

Soviet sculptor

One of the leaders of the partisan movement

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