Yakiv
Yakiv is a Ukrainian masculine given name, cognate to Jacob or James. Notable people with the name include:
- Yakiv Barabash, Zaporozhian Cossack Otaman who opposed Hetman Ivan Vyhovsky
- Yakiv Hodorozha, Ukrainian former competitive figure skater
- Yakiv Holovatsky, Galician historian, literary scholar, ethnographer, linguist, poet, leader of Galician Russophiles
- Yakiv Hordiyenko, Soviet partisan from Ukraine
- Yakiv Khammo, Assyrian-Ukrainian judoka
- Yakiv Kripak, former Ukrainian football midfielder
- Yakiv Kulik, Austrian mathematician known for his construction of a massive factor tables
- Yakiv Lyzohub, military and political figure of the Cossack Hetmanate
- Yakiv Medvetskyi, Greek Catholic hierarch
- Yakiv Punkin, featherweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Ukraine
- Yakiv Smolii, Ukrainian economist and banker, former Chairman of the National Bank of Ukraine
- Yakiv Somko, Ukrainian Cossack military leader of the Pereyaslav regiment
- Yakiv Stepovy, Ukrainian composer, music teacher, and music critic
- Yakiv Tymchuk, O.S.B.M., Ukrainian Greek Catholic clandestine hierarch
- Yakiv Yatsynevych, Ukrainian composer, conductor, and folklorist, known for his eclectic works
- Yakiv Zalevskyi, Ukrainian professional football coach and former player
- Yakiv Zheleznyak, former Soviet sport shooter and Olympic champion