# Jacobus (name)

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**Jacobus** is a masculine first name, which is a variant of [Jacob](/source/Jacob_(name)), [Jack](/source/Jack_(given_name)) and [James](/source/James_(given_name)). The name may refer to:

## First name

- [Jacobus Arminius](/source/Jacobus_Arminius) (1560–1609), Dutch theologian

- [Jacobus de Baen](/source/Jacobus_de_Baen) (1673–1700), Dutch portrait painter

- [Jacobus Barbireau](/source/Jacobus_Barbireau) (1455–1491), Flemish composer

- [Jacobus Barnaart](/source/Jacobus_Barnaart) (1726–1780), Dutch merchant

- [Jacobus Bartschius](/source/Jacobus_Bartschius) (c.1600–1633), German astronomer

- [Jacobus Bellamy](/source/Jacobus_Bellamy) (1757–1786), Dutch poet

- [Jacobus Franciscus Benders](/source/Jacobus_Franciscus_Benders) (1924–2017), Dutch mathematician

- [Jacobus Bisschop](/source/Jacobus_Bisschop) (1658–1697), Dutch painter

- [Jacobus Cornelis Bloem](/source/Jacobus_Cornelis_Bloem) (1825–1902), Dutch Minister of Finance

- [Jacobus Bontius](/source/Jacobus_Bontius) (1592–1631), Dutch physician

- [Jacobus Boomsma](/source/Jacobus_Boomsma) (born 1951), Dutch evolutionary biologist

- [Jacobus Boonen](/source/Jacobus_Boonen) (1573–1655), Flemish Archbishop

- [Jacobus Nicolaas Boshoff](/source/Jacobus_Nicolaas_Boshoff) (1808–1881), South African politician

- [Jacobus Buys](/source/Jacobus_Buys) (1724–1801), Dutch painter

- [Jacobus Capitein](/source/Jacobus_Capitein) (c.1717–1747), Dutch Christian minister of Ghanaian birth

- [Jacobus a Castro](/source/Jacobus_a_Castro) (1560–1639), Dutch bishop

- [Jacobus de Cessolis](/source/Jacobus_de_Cessolis) (c.1250–c.1322), Italian chess author

- [Jacobus Petrus Duminy](/source/Jacobus_Petrus_Duminy) (1897–1980), South African academic

- [Jacobus Josephus Eeckhout](/source/Jacobus_Josephus_Eeckhout) (1793–1861), Flemish painter

- [Jacobus van Egmond](/source/Jacobus_van_Egmond) (1908–1969), Dutch cyclist

- [Jacobus Johannes Fouché](/source/Jacobus_Johannes_Fouch%C3%A9) (1898–1980), South African politician and president

- [Jacobus Cornelis Gaal](/source/Jacobus_Cornelis_Gaal) (1796–1866), Dutch painter

- [Jacobus Golius](/source/Jacobus_Golius) (1596–1667), Dutch mathematician

- [Jacobus Arnoldus Graaff](/source/Jacobus_Arnoldus_Graaff) (1863–1927), South African politician

- [Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff](/source/Jacobus_Henricus_van_'t_Hoff) (1852–1911), Dutch physical chemist and Nobel Laureate

- [Jacobus Kaper](/source/Jacobus_Kaper) (born 1931), biochemist and virologist

- [Jacobus Kapteyn](/source/Jacobus_Kapteyn) (1851–1922), Dutch astronomer

- [Jacobus de Kerle](/source/Jacobus_de_Kerle) (1531–1591), Flemish composer and organist

- [Jacobus Kloppers](/source/Jacobus_Kloppers) (born 1937), Canadian composer

- [Jacobus Hendricus van Lint](/source/Jacobus_Hendricus_van_Lint) (1932–2004), Dutch mathematician and university president

- [Jacobus van Looy](/source/Jacobus_van_Looy) (1855–1930), Dutch painter and writer

- [Jacobus Mancadan](/source/Jacobus_Mancadan) (1602–1680), Dutch painter

- [Jacobus Anthonie Meessen](/source/Jacobus_Anthonie_Meessen) (1836–1885), Dutch photographer

- [Jacobus van Meteren](/source/Jacobus_van_Meteren) (1519–c.1555), Dutch printer; printed first English-language Bible in Antwerp

- [Jacobus Oud](/source/Jacobus_Oud) (1890–1963), Dutch architect

- [Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef](/source/Jacobus_Hendrik_Pierneef) (1886–1957), South African landscape artist

- [Jacobus Ferdinandus Saey](/source/Jacobus_Ferdinandus_Saey) (1658–1726), Flemish painter

- [Jacobus Wilhelmus Sauer](/source/Jacobus_Wilhelmus_Sauer) (1850–1913), South African politician

- [Jacobus Spoors](/source/Jacobus_Spoors) (1751–1833), Dutch politician

- [Jacobus Gideon Nel Strauss](/source/Jacobus_Gideon_Nel_Strauss) (1900–1990), South African politician

- [Jacobus Swartwout](/source/Jacobus_Swartwout) (1734–1827), American general and politician

- [Jacobus de la Torre](/source/Jacobus_de_la_Torre) (1608–1661), Dutch Archbishop

- [Jacobus Van Cortlandt](/source/Jacobus_Van_Cortlandt) (1658–1739), American mayor

- [Jacobus van der Merwe](/source/Koos_van_der_Merwe) (born 1937), South African politician

- [Jacobus van der Vecht](/source/Jacobus_van_der_Vecht) (1906–1992), Dutch entomologist

- [Jacobus de Voragine](/source/Jacobus_de_Voragine) (c.1230–1298), Italian chronicler and archbishop of Genoa

- [Jacobus Johannes Venter](/source/Jacobus_Johannes_Venter) (1814–1889), South African politician

- [Jacobus Verhoeff](/source/Jacobus_Verhoeff) (1927–2018), Dutch mathematician

- [Jacobus Verster](/source/Jacobus_Verster) (1919–1981), South African general

- [Jacobus van de Water](/source/Jacobus_van_de_Water) (1643–1712), Dutch mayor of New Amsterdam

- [Jacobus](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobus), pseudonym of Jacques Alphonse Doucet of [Radio Radio](/source/Radio_Radio_(band))

## Surname

- [Donald Lines Jacobus](/source/Donald_Lines_Jacobus) (1887–1970), American genealogist

- [Melancthon Williams Jacobus Sr.](/source/Melancthon_Williams_Jacobus_Sr.)

- [Melancthon Williams Jacobus Jr.](/source/Melancthon_Williams_Jacobus_Jr.)

- [Marc Jacobus](/source/Marc_Jacobus) (born 1951), American bridge player

- [Preston Jacobus](/source/Preston_Jacobus) (1864–1911), American businessman and politician

- [Russell Jacobus](/source/Russell_Jacobus) (1944–2023), American bishop

- [Tim Jacobus](/source/Tim_Jacobus) (born 1959), American artist

## See also

- [Jacob (name)](/source/Jacob_(name))

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