Jakubowski
Jakubowski, Yakubovsky, Yakubovskiy, Yakubovskii or Iakubovskii (Polish: Jakubowski, Ukrainian: Якубовський, Russian: Якубовский) is a Slavic masculine surname of Polish origin. Its feminine counterpart is Jakubowska, Yakubovskaya or Iakubovskaia. It is a toponymic surname derived from any of the places named Jakubowo, Jakubów, Jakubowice and literally meaning "of Jakubowo", etc. The places themselves mean "belonging to Jakub".[1]
Notable people with this surname include:
- Alexander Yakubovsky (born 1985), Russian politician
- Angelika Jakubowska, Polish model
- Anna Jakubowska (1927–2022), Polish World War II combatant
- Bernd Jakubowski (1952–2007), German association football player
- Dmitry Yakubovskiy (born 1963), Russian businessman
- Franz Jakubowski (1912–1970), Polish–German philosopher
- Fuad Yakubovsky (1908–1975), Soviet Communist party functionary and statesman
- Gerald Jakubowski, American engineer, president of the Rose–Hulman Institute of Technology
- Igor Jakubowski (born 1992), Polish boxer
- Ivan Yakubovsky, (1912–1976), Soviet military leader
- Maxim Jakubowski (born 1944), British writer
- Thad J. Jakubowski (1924–2013), American Roman Catholic bishop
- Krystyna Jakubowska (born 1942), Polish volleyball player
- Wanda Jakubowska (1907–1998), Polish film director
References
- ^ JAKUBOWSKI, referring to Kazimierz Rymut, Nazwiska Polaków. Słownik historyczno-etymologiczny, t. I A-K, Kraków, 1999, p. 107 and other sources