Famous People with Name Yakov

Yakov Alexandrovich Protazanov            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Yakov Alexandrovich Protazanov: was, together with Aleksandr Khanzhonkov and Vladimir Gardin, one of the founding fathers of cinema of Russia. In the period from 1911 to 1918 he directed some 80 features, including The Queen of Spades (1916) and Father Sergius (1917), which have been ac

Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich: was a prolific Soviet physicist. He played an important role in the development of Soviet nuclear and thermonuclear weapons, and made important contributions to the fields of adsorption and catalysis, shock waves, nuclear physics, particle physics, astrop

Yakov Isidorovich Perelman            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Yakov Isidorovich Perelman: was a Russian author of many popular science books. Works include Physics Can Be Fun and Mathematics Can Be Fun (both translated from Russian into English).

Yakov Petrovich Polonsky            Origin/Culture/Country: Russian

Yakov Petrovich Polonsky: was a leading Pushkinist poet who tried to uphold the waning traditions of Russian Romantic poetry during the heyday of realistic prose.

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