# Yakiv

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**Yakiv** is a Ukrainian masculine given name, cognate to [Jacob](/source/Jacob_(name)) or [James](/source/James_(given_name)). Notable people with the name include:

- [Yakiv Barabash](/source/Yakiv_Barabash) (died 1658), Zaporozhian Cossack Otaman (1657–58) who opposed Hetman Ivan Vyhovsky
- [Yakiv Hodorozha](/source/Yakiv_Hodorozha) (born 1993), Ukrainian former competitive figure skater
- [Yakiv Holovatsky](/source/Yakiv_Holovatsky) (1814–1888), Galician historian, literary scholar, ethnographer, linguist, poet, leader of Galician Russophiles
- [Yakiv Hordiyenko](/source/Yakiv_Hordiyenko) (1925–1942), Soviet partisan from Ukraine
- [Yakiv Khammo](/source/Yakiv_Khammo) (born 1994), Assyrian-Ukrainian judoka
- [Yakiv Kripak](/source/Yakiv_Kripak) (born 1978), former Ukrainian football midfielder
- [Yakiv Kulik](/source/Yakiv_Kulik) (1793–1863), Austrian mathematician known for his construction of a massive factor tables
- [Yakiv Lyzohub](/source/Yakiv_Lyzohub), military and political figure of the Cossack Hetmanate
- [Yakiv Medvetskyi](/source/Yakiv_Medvetskyi) (1880–1941), Greek Catholic hierarch
- [Yakiv Punkin](/source/Yakiv_Punkin) (1921–1994), featherweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Ukraine
- [Yakiv Smolii](/source/Yakiv_Smolii) (born 1961), Ukrainian economist and banker, former Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine
- [Yakiv Somko](/source/Yakiv_Somko) (died 1664), Ukrainian Cossack military leader of the Pereyaslav regiment
- [Yakiv Stepovy](/source/Yakiv_Stepovy) (1883–1921), Ukrainian composer, music teacher, and music critic
- [Yakiv Tymchuk](/source/Yakiv_Tymchuk), O.S.B.M. (1919–1988), Ukrainian Greek Catholic clandestine hierarch
- [Yakiv Yatsynevych](/source/Yakiv_Yatsynevych) (1869–1945), Ukrainian composer, conductor, and folklorist, known for his eclectic works
- [Yakiv Zalevskyi](/source/Yakiv_Zalevskyi) (born 1980), Ukrainian professional football coach and former player
- [Yakiv Zheleznyak](/source/Yakiv_Zheleznyak) (born 1941), former Soviet sport shooter and Olympic champion

## See also

- [Yakov](/source/Yakov)

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