Jacobo
Jacobo is both a surname and a given name based on the names Jacob or James. Notable people with the name include:
Surname:
- Alfredo Jacobo, Olympic breaststroke swimmer from Mexico
- Cesar Chavez Jacobo, Dominican professional basketball player
- Clara Jacobo, Italian opera singer
- Jacobo Espinos, 4th in the Spanish ski championship.
Given name:
- Jacobo Majluta Azar, politician from Dominican Republic, was president for 43 days
- Jacobo Arenas, Colombian guerrilla and ideological leader of FARC
- Dan Jacobo Beninson, Argentine radiation expert
- Jacobo Bolbochán, Argentine chess master
- Jacobo Borges, contemporary, neo-figurative Latin-American artist
- Jacobo Díaz, former professional male tennis player from Spain
- Juan Jacobo Fernandez, Franciscan friar, a martyr who achieved beatification
- Jacobo Fijman, Argentine poet born in Bessarabia, now mainly in Moldova
- Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 17th Duke of Alba, Spanish noble, diplomat, politician and art collector
- Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 5th Duke of Liria and Jérica, Spanish nobleman
- Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart, 6th Duke of Liria and Jérica, the second surviving son of the 5th Duke of Berwick
- Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán, Guatemalan military officer and politician
- Jacobo Mansilla, Argentine football midfielder
- Jacobo Morales, Puerto Rican actor, writer and film director
- Jacobo Sanz Ovejero, Spanish football goalkeeper
- Jacobo Pacchiarotto, 16th-century Italian painter of the Renaissance period
- Jacobo Palm, Curaçao-born composer
- Jacobo Rispa, director and freelance producer working mainly in TV drama & film
- Jacobo Timerman, publisher, journalist, and author
- Jacobo Kyushei Tomonaga, Japanese Roman Catholic priest and martyr
- Jacobo Arbenz Villanova, politician in Guatemala
- Jacobo Ynclán, Spanish football midfielder
- Jacobo Zabludovsky, Mexican journalist
