Famous People with Name Yakov

Yakov Naumovich Pokhis            Origin/Culture/Country: Ukrainian

Yakov Naumovich Pokhis: is a Ukrainian-born American comedian and painter. He was popular with American audiences in the 1980s for comedy performances in which he used irony and word play to contrast life under the Communist regime in his native Soviet Union with life in the Uni

Yakov Vilner            Origin/Culture/Country: Ukrainian

Yakov Vilner: was a Ukrainian chess master. Vilner won the Odessa chess championships four times (1918, 1923, 1925, and 1928). He won the Ukrainian championships three times; at Kiev 1924 (ahead of Fedor Bohatirchuk), at Kharkov 1925 (ahead of Nikolai Sorokin), and at Odessa 1928 (with Vladimir Kirillov). He also won at Odessa 1926 (ahead of Russo), and at Kiev 1929 (with Bohatirchuk).

Yakov Ehrlich            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Yakov Ehrlich: a Russian professional football (soccer) player currently contracted to FC Rostov in Russia. Being of Jewish ethnicity, he is set to join Hapoel Petah Tikva in Israel on trial. There, he would not count as a foreign player.[1]

Yakov Borisovich Estrin            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Yakov Borisovich Estrin: was a Russian chess Grandmaster, theoretician, and writer.After a brief foray into "over-the-board" play, he turned to correspondence chess in the early 1960s with immediate success (joint first place in the U.S.S.R. Correspondence Championship in 1962.) He became an ICCGM (International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster) in 1966, and would go on to compete in the final of the World Correspondence Championship five times.

Yakov Malkiel            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Yakov Malkiel: was a U.S. (Russian-born) Romance etymologist and philologist. His specialty was the development of Latin words, roots, prefixes, and suffixes in modern Romance languages, particularly Spanish. He was the founder of the journal Romance Philology.Malkiel was born in Kiev to a Russian-Jewish family, and was brought up and educated in Berlin, after the Russian Civil War. Despite an early interest in literature, he ended up studying linguistics at the Humboldt University of Berlin, then known as the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität. Being a Jew a 1930s Germany was an obstacle to his education but one he was able to overcome; his family finally emigrated to the United States in 1940.[1]