patronymic
A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based on the given name of one's father, grandfather (avonymic), or an earlier male ancestor.
Patronymics are still in use, including mandatory use, in many countries worldwide, alt ...
surname
In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community.
Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name ...
meaning "son of Jakob". Notable people with the surname include:
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August Jakobson
August Jakobson (2 September 1904 – 23 May 1963) was an Estonian writer and politician. He was one of the few Estonian playwright among his contemporaries whose plays were untouched by Soviet censorship and reached other Soviet states. He h ...
(1904–1963), Estonian writer
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Carl Robert Jakobson
Carl Robert Jakobson ( – ) was an Estonian writer, politician and teacher active in the Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire. He was one of the most important persons of the Estonian national awakening in the second half of the 19th century ...
(1841–1882), Estonian journalist, writer, politician and teacher
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Edmund Jacobson
Edmund Jacobson (April 22, 1888 – January 7, 1983) was an American physician in internal medicine and psychiatry and a physiologist. He was the creator of Progressive Muscle Relaxation and of Biofeedback.
Biography
He was born on April 22, 188 ...
(1888–1983), American physiologist
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Eduard Magnus Jakobson
Eduard Magnus Jakobson ( in Torma, Estonia, Torma – in Tallinn) was an Estonian wood engraving, wood engraver and a Baptist missionary. He illustrated many books and designed the masthead logo for ''Sakala (newspaper), Sakala'', a newspaper fo ...
(1847–1903), Estonian wood engraver
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Gregg Jakobson
Gregg Jakobson (born August 2, 1939) is an American songwriter who was a friend and songwriting partner of Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys, and a prosecution witness in the murder trials of members of the Manson Family.
Beach Boys
Jakobson and W ...
(born 1939), American songwriter
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Idel Jakobson
Idel Jakobson (12 August 1904 in Jēkabpils, Russian Empire – 12 September 1997 in Tallinn, Estonia) was an NKVD Officer. According to the materials of Kaitsepolitsei, Jakobson took part in sentencing around 1,200 people to death and persecuti ...
(1904–1997), Latvian NKVD investigator
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Lars Jakobson
Lars Jakobson (1959, Lund) is a Swedish author. Among the awards he won are the Svenska Dagbladet book prize and the Selma Lagerlöf Prize, both in 2006.Lars Jakobson Thingnæsset
Lars Jakobson Thingnæsset (1760–1829) was a Norwegian farmer and politician.
He worked as a farmer at Notenes in Førde. He was a representative to the Norwegian Parliament during the term 1815–1816, in 1818 and in 1824. He died in a dro ...
(1760–1829), Norwegian farmer and politician
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Leo Jakobson
Leo Jakobson (born 23 September 1953) is an Estonian curler and sport personnel. He is the father of curling in Estonia.
He was born in Tartu. In 1977 he graduated from Estonian Agricultural University.
In 2000 he introduced curling in Estonia ...
(born 1953), Estonian curler
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Maarja Jakobson
Maarja Jakobson (born 8 December 1977) is an Estonian television, stage and film actress whose career began in the late 1990s.
Eraly life and education
Maarja Jakobson was born in Tartu in 1977. She is distantly related to 19th-century writer and ...
(born 1977), Estonian actress
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Max Jakobson
Max Jakobson (September 30, 1923 – March 9, 2013) was a Finnish diplomat and journalist of Finnish-Jewish descent. Jakobson was an instrumental figure in shaping Finland's policy of neutrality during the Cold War.
Max Jakobson was born i ...
(1923–2013), Finnish diplomat
* Peeter Jakobson (1854–1899), Estonian writer
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Roman Jakobson
Roman Osipovich Jakobson (russian: Рома́н О́сипович Якобсо́н; October 11, 1896Kucera, Henry. 1983. "Roman Jakobson." ''Language: Journal of the Linguistic Society of America'' 59(4): 871–883. – July 18,Estonian-language surnames
Patronymic surnamesSurnames from given names