Jake Arnott is a British novelist and dramatist, author of The Long Firm (1999) and six other novels.

Jake Bible is an American science fiction and horror fiction author. He was nominated in 2015 for the Bram Stoker Award in the category of Superior Achievement in a Young Adult Novel.

Jakob Bothe, better known by his pen name Jakob Arjouni, was a German author. He received the 1992 German Crime Fiction Prize for One Man, One Murder.

Jakob Ayrer was a German playwright and author of Fastnachtsspiele.

Jakob Baechtold, surname sometimes spelled as Bächtold was a Swiss literary scholar.

Jakob Balde, a German poet who wrote primarily in Neo-Latin rather than in his native German language, was born at Ensisheim in Alsace.

Jakob Böhme was a German philosopher, Christian mystic, and Lutheran Protestant theologian. He was considered an original thinker by many of his contemporaries within the Lutheran tradition, and his first book, commonly known as Aurora, caused a great scandal. In contemporary English, his name may be spelled Jacob Boehme ; in seventeenth-century England it was also spelled Behmen, approximating the contemporary English pronunciation of the German Böhme.

Jakob Christoph Heer was a Swiss novelist and travel writer.

Jakob Frey was a Swiss writer of short stories about peasant life. He used the pseudonyms J. Reif, F. Kuhn, F. Imhoof, and J. A.

Jakob Friedrich Fries was a German post-Kantian philosopher and mathematician.