Yakiv is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
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Yakiv Barabash (died 1658), Zaporozhian Cossack Otaman (1657–58) who opposed Hetman Ivan Vyhovsky
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Yakiv Hodorozha (born 1993), Ukrainian former competitive figure skater
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Yakiv Holovatsky (1814–1888), Galician historian, literary scholar, ethnographer, linguist, poet, leader of Galician Russophiles
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Yakiv Hordiyenko (1925–1942), Soviet partisan from Ukraine
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Yakiv Khammo (born 1994), Assyrian-Ukrainian judoka
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Yakiv Kripak (born 1978), former Ukrainian football midfielder
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Yakiv Kulik (1793–1863), Austrian mathematician known for his construction of a massive factor tables
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Yakiv Lyzohub, military and political figure of the Cossack Hetmanate
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Yakiv Medvetskyi (1880–1941), Greek Catholic hierarch
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Yakiv Punkin (1921–1994), featherweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Ukraine
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Yakiv Smolii (born 1961), Ukrainian economist and banker, former Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine
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Yakiv Somko (died 1664), Ukrainian Cossack military leader of the Pereyaslav regiment
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Yakiv Stepovy (1883–1921), Ukrainian composer, music teacher, and music critic
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Yakiv Tymchuk
Yakiv Yaroslav Tymchuk, O.S.B.M. ( uk, Яків Ярослав Тимчук; 24 August 1919 – 20 December 1988) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic clandestine hierarch. He was an auxiliary bishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Ivano-Frankivsk ...
, O.S.B.M. (1919–1988), Ukrainian Greek Catholic clandestine hierarch
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Yakiv Yatsynevych
Yakiv Mikhailovych Yatsynevych (Ukrainian: ''Яків Михайлович Яциневич'', 1869–1945) was a prominent Ukrainian composer, conductor, and folklorist, known for his eclectic works.
He studied with Mykola Lysenko
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(1869–1945), Ukrainian composer, conductor, and folklorist, known for his eclectic works
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Yakiv Zalevskyi
Yakiv Anatoliyovych Zalevskyi ( uk, Яків Анатолійович Залевський; born 30 May 1980) is a Ukrainian professional football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to sco ...
(born 1980), Ukrainian professional football coach and former player
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Yakiv Zheleznyak
Yakov Zheleznyak (born 10 April 1941) is a former Soviet sport shooter and Olympic champion. He won a gold medal in the 50 m Running Target at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich
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(born 1941), former Soviet sport shooter and Olympic champion
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