// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhat did the yak say to Yakup? Yak to him later.

Yakup is a Turkish given name for males and is a cognate of Jacob and James. People named Yakup include:

• Yakup Ağa (fl. 1462), Ottoman cavalry knight
• Yakup Alkan (born 1992), Turkish footballer
• Yakup Bey Muzaka, 15th-century Ottoman Albanian governor
• Yakup Bugun (born 1987), Turkish footballer
• Yakup Çelebi (disambiguation), multiple people
• Yakup Gör (born 1988), Turkish sport wrestler
• Yakup Kadri Birinci (born 1967), Turkish alpine skier
• Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu (1889–1974), Turkish novelist
• Yakup Kılıç (born 1986), Turkish boxer
• Yakup Kulmiy (1918–1994), Russian Bashkir poet
• Yakup Ramazan Zorlu (born 1991), French footballer
• Yakup Satar (1898–2008), last Turkish veteran of the First World War
• Yakup Sekizkök (born 1980), Turkish basketballer and coach
• Yakup Şener (born 1990), Turkish amateur boxer
• Yakup Sertkaya (born 1978), Turkish footballer
• Yakup Şevki Subaşı (1876–1939), general of the Ottoman Army and the Turkish Army
• Yakup Taş (1959–2023), Turkish politician
• Yakup Topuz (born 1954), Turkish wrestler
• Yakup Yahya, 15th-century Ottoman Jewish figure
• Yakup Yıldız (born 1992), Turkish archer

See also

• Yakub
• Jacob (name)