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.

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

Yakov Kucherevskiy

Theater and film actor

Yakov Kostukovsky

A prominent figure in the Cheka-OGPU-NKVD.

One of the leaders of the partisan movement

Russian actor, opera singer (baritone)

A famous Soviet psychiatrist, professor.

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 Pomerantsev

Hereditary honorary citizen, public figure.

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

Yakov Kleinerman

Yakov Kreizberg

American conductor of Russian origin.

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

Yakov Manandian

Historian, academician

Soviet statesman and party leader

Hero of the Soviet Union, Army General

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.

American Jewish actor, founder of the Adler theatrical dynasty/

Russian Soviet writer, playwright, screenwriter

Yakov Kuharenko

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

Yakov Zeldovich

Academician, theoretical physicist

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

Yakov Faitelson

Dissident refusenik, public and political figure

Yakov Bagratuni

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

Soviet and Ukrainian physicist

Yakov Fedorenko

Marshal of the Armored Forces

Yakov Smushkevich

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

Russian businessman

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

Yakov Shusherin

Yakov Serebryanskiy

Colonel of State Security (1945).

Poet, prose writer, translator, philosopher

Israeli statesman, diplomat

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

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

Singer of Jewish songs

Russian film director

Don Ataman, associate of S. Razin.

Russian admiral, participant in the Crimean War

Russian merchant of the 1st guild