Jacobus is a masculine first name, which is a variant of

Jacob Jacob, later known as Israel, is a Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions. He first appears in the Torah, where he is described in the Book of Genesis as a son of Isaac and Rebecca. Accordingly, alongside his older fraternal twin brother E ...

, Jack and James. The name may refer to:

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Jacobus Arminius Jacobus Arminius (; Dutch language, Dutch: ''Jakob Hermanszoon'' ; 10 October 1560 – 19 October 1609) was a Dutch Reformed Christianity, Reformed minister and Christian theology, theologian during the Protestant Reformation period whose views ...

(1560–1609), Dutch theologian * Jacobus de Baen (1673–1700), Dutch portrait painter * Jacobus Barbireau (1455–1491), Flemish composer * Jacobus Barnaart (1726–1780), Dutch merchant * Jacobus Bartschius (c.1600–1633), German astronomer * Jacobus Bellamy (1757–1786), Dutch poet * Jacobus Franciscus Benders (1924–2017), Dutch mathematician * Jacobus Bisschop (1658–1697), Dutch painter * Jacobus Cornelis Bloem (1825–1902), Dutch Minister of Finance *

Jacobus Bontius Jacobus Bontius (Jacob de Bondt) (1592, in Leiden – 30 November 1631, in Batavia, Dutch East Indies) was a Dutch physician and a pioneer of tropical medicine. He is known for the four-volume work ''De medicina Indorum''. His 1631 work "Historiae ...

(1592–1631), Dutch physician * Jacobus Boomsma (born 1951), Dutch evolutionary biologist * Jacobus Boonen (1573–1655), Flemish Archbishop * Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff (1808–1881), South African politician * Jacobus Buys (1724–1801), Dutch painter * Jacobus Capitein (c.1717–1747), Dutch Christian minister of Ghanaian birth * Jacobus a Castro (1560–1639), Dutch bishop * Jacobus de Cessolis (c.1250–c.1322), Italian chess author * Jacobus Petrus Duminy (1897–1980), South African academic * Jacobus Josephus Eeckhout (1793–1861), Flemish painter * Jacobus van Egmond (1908–1969), Dutch cyclist * Jacobus Johannes Fouché (1898–1980), South African politician and president * Jacobus Cornelis Gaal (1796–1866), Dutch painter * Jacobus Golius (1596–1667), Dutch mathematician * Jacobus Arnoldus Graaff (1863–1927), South African politician *

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff Jr. (; 30 August 1852 – 1 March 1911) was a Dutch physical chemistry, physical chemist. A highly influential theoretical chemistry, theoretical chemist of his time, Van 't Hoff was the first winner of the Nobe ...

(1852–1911), Dutch physical chemist and Nobel Laureate * Jacobus Kaper (born 1931), biochemist and virologist *

Jacobus Kapteyn Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn (19 January 1851 – 18 June 1922) was a Dutch astronomy, astronomer. He carried out extensive studies of the Milky Way. He found that the apparent movement of stars was not randomly distributed but had two preferentia ...

(1851–1922), Dutch astronomer * Jacobus de Kerle (1531–1591), Flemish composer and organist * Jacobus Kloppers (born 1937), Canadian composer * Jacobus Hendricus van Lint (1932–2004), Dutch mathematician and university president * Jacobus van Looy (1855–1930), Dutch painter and writer * Jacobus Mancadan (1602–1680), Dutch painter * Jacobus Anthonie Meessen (1836–1885), Dutch photographer * Jacobus van Meteren (1519–c.1555), Dutch printer; printed first English-language Bible in Antwerp * Jacobus Oud (1890–1963), Dutch architect * Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef (1886–1957), South African landscape artist * Jacobus Ferdinandus Saey (1658–1726), Flemish painter * Jacobus Wilhelmus Sauer (1850–1913), South African politician * Jacobus Spoors (1751–1833), Dutch politician * Jacobus Gideon Nel Strauss (1900–1990), South African politician * Jacobus Swartwout (1734–1827), American general and politician * Jacobus de la Torre (1608–1661), Dutch Archbishop * Jacobus Van Cortlandt (1658–1739), American mayor * Jacobus van der Merwe (born 1937), South African politician * Jacobus van der Vecht (1906–1992), Dutch entomologist *

Jacobus de Voragine Jacobus de Voragine, OP (13/16 July 1298) was an Italian chronicler and archbishop of Genoa. He was the author, or more accurately the compiler, of the '' Golden Legend'', a collection of the legendary lives of the greater saints of the mediev ...

(c.1230–1298), Italian chronicler and archbishop of Genoa * Jacobus Johannes Venter (1814–1889), South African politician * Jacobus Verhoeff (1927–2018), Dutch mathematician * Jacobus Verster (1919–1981), South African general * Jacobus van de Water (1643–1712), Dutch mayor of New Amsterdam * Jacobus, pseudonym of Jacques Alphonse Doucet of Radio Radio

Surname

* Donald Lines Jacobus (1887–1970), American genealogist * Melancthon Williams Jacobus Sr. * Melancthon Williams Jacobus Jr. * Marc Jacobus (born 1951), American bridge player * Preston Jacobus (1864–1911), American businessman and politician * Russell Jacobus (1944–2023), American bishop * Tim Jacobus (born 1959), American artist

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