* 1942 – Jacob Zuma, African politician, President of South Africa

After the inauguration of Jacob Zuma as South Africa's president in May 2009 de Klerk said he is optimistic that Zuma and his government can " confound the prophets of doom ".

With the country having one of the highest rates of violent crime, president Jacob Zuma states that South Africa needs to handle crime differently than other countries.

Among those political prisoners was current President of South Africa Jacob Zuma who was imprisoned there for ten years.

Jacob Zuma serves as the South African president.

On 20 September 2008, he announced his resignation after being recalled by the African National Congress's National Executive Committee, following a conclusion by Judge Nicholson of improper interference in the National Prosecuting Authority ( NPA ), including the prosecution of Jacob Zuma for corruption.

In a leaked letter to Jacob Zuma in October 2008, just-resigned President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki alluded to the role the ANC created for her in the anti-apartheid activism:

Winnie secured fifth place on the ANC's electoral list for the 2009 general election, behind party president and current President of South Africa Jacob Zuma, former President of South Africa Kgalema Motlanthe, Deputy President of South Africa Baleka Mbete, and Finance Minister Trevor Manuel.

* April 12 – Jacob Zuma, President of South Africa

* President Jacob Zuma ( South Africa )

U. S. President Barack Obama had asked South African President Jacob Zuma to delay Aristide's departure to prevent him from returning to Haiti before a presidential run-off election scheduled for Sunday.

Hu Jintao with Leaders of the BRICS countries, from left, Manmohan Singh | Singh, Dmitri Medvedev | Medvedev, Dilma Rousseff | Rousseff and Jacob Zuma | Zuma.

However, through the Tripartite Alliance and the sitting of many SACP members on the ANC's NEC, the SACP has wielded influence from within the ANC, often serving as an ideological opposition against the presidency and socio-economic policies of Thabo Mbeki ( 1999 – 2008 ); this became most apparent with the ouster of Mbeki from the presidencies of both the party ( 2007, by vote ) and the government ( 2008, by ANC party recall ) and his eventual replacement in both offices with Jacob Zuma, who is widely seen as being more conciliatory to the ideological demands of both the SACP and COSATU.

In 2011, some 250 public figures ( head of state or government, cabinet ministers, ambassadors, heads or senior officials of international organization ) attended the annual meeting, including: Felipe Calderón, Robert B. Zoellick, Álvaro Uribe Vélez, Nicolas Sarkozy, Ban Ki-moon, Angela Merkel, N. Chandrababu Naidu, Ferenc Gyurcsany, François Fillon, Morgan Tsvangirai, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Min Zhu, Paul Kagame, Queen Rania of Jordan, Dmitry Medvedev, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Kevin Rudd, Barney Frank, Kofi Annan, Werner Faymann, Leonel Fernández, Jacob Zuma, Naoto Kan, Jean-Claude Trichet and Zeng Peiyan.

This region is the birthplace of many notable figures in South Africa's history, such as Pixley ka Isaka Seme ( founder of the African National Congress and the first Black lawyer in South Africa ), John Langalibalele Dube ( founding president of the ANC ), Mangosuthu Buthelezi ( founder of the IFP ), Chief Albert Luthuli ( ANC president and the first African to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize ), Anton Lembede ( founding president of the ANC Youth League ), Jacob Zuma ( current President of South Africa ), and Bhambatha.

President Jacob Zuma paid tribute to Ma Sisulu in the wake of her death.

In 2005, the unit instituted proceedings against the country's Deputy President, Jacob Zuma, leading to his dismissal.

Schabir Shaik, the financial advisor to the president of the African National Congress party Jacob Zuma, was found guilty of organising a bribe on behalf of Thales.

H. M. Queen Elizabeth II has established the custom of awarding an honorary GCB to visiting heads of state, for example Gustav Heinemann, and Josip Broz Tito ( in 1972 ), Ronald Reagan ( in 1989 ), Lech Wałęsa ( in 1991 ), Dr. Censu Tabone, President of Malta, in 1992, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, George H. W. Bush ( in 1993 ), Nicolas Sarkozy in March 2008, Turkish President Abdullah Gül, Slovenian President Dr Danilo Türk Mexican President Felipe Calderón, and South African President Jacob Zuma.

The first President to be elected under the new constitution was Nelson Mandela, and the incumbent president is Jacob Zuma.

After the elections, the Freedom Front's leader Pieter Mulder was appointed as Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries by the new President Jacob Zuma.

In attendance was the then Deputy President Jacob Zuma, and other ministers.

On 5 April 2009, the Independent Democrats confirmed De Lille's attendance at the announcement of the National Prosecuting Authority the following day regarding its decision either to drop or to maintain its case against ANC President Jacob Zuma, who had been implicated in the Arms Deal.

Andrew Johnson was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, to Jacob Johnson ( 1778 – 1812 ) and Mary (" Polly ") McDonough ( 1783 – 1856 ), a seamstress and the daughter of Andrew McDonough.

Arthur Phillip was born in 1738, the son of Jacob Phillip, a Frankfurt-born language teacher, and his English wife, Elizabeth Breach.

Some classical rabbinical literature argues that this was the original form of the name and was a reference to the advanced age of Jacob when Benjamin was born.

* Jacob Banda ( born 1988 ), Zambian footballer

Griffith was born in Crestwood, Kentucky to Mary Perkins and Jacob " Roaring Jake " Griffith, who were of Anglo-Welsh ancestry.

Jacob and Clara Nemerovsky Kaminsky and their two sons, Larry and Mac, left Ekaterinoslav two years before his birth ; he was the only one of their sons born in the United States.

Sapir was born into a family of Lithuanian Jews in Lauenburg in the Province of Pomerania where his father, Jacob David Sapir, worked as a cantor.

John Jacob Astor ( born Johann Jakob Astor ; July 17, 1763 – March 29, 1848 ) was a German-American business magnate, merchant and investor who was the first prominent member of the Astor family and the first multi-millionaire in the United States.

Jacob and his twin brother, Esau, were born to Isaac and Rebekah after 20 years of marriage, when Isaac was 60 (, ).

After Joseph was born, Jacob decided to return home to his parents.

Esau offered to accompany them on their way back to Israel, but Jacob protested that his children were still young and tender ( born 6 to 13 years prior in the narrative ); Jacob suggested eventually catching up with Esau at Mount Seir.

In that case, since Isaac was 60 when Jacob and Essau were born and they had been married for 20 years, then Isaac was 40 years old when he married Rebekah ( Gen. 25: 20 ), making Rebekah 3 years old at the time of her marriage, and 23 years old at the birth of Jacob and Essau.

In either case, Isaac and Rebekah were married for 20 years before Jacob and Esau were born.

Jacob Lawrence was born in 1917 in Atlantic City, New Jersey and died in 2000 in Seattle, Washington.

John Stevens Cabot Abbott ( September 19, 1805 – June 17, 1877 ), an American historian, pastor, and pedagogical writer, was born in Brunswick, Maine to Jacob and Betsey Abbott.

Though his family originally lived in Hamburg, Jacob and his brother were both born in Spain.

Jacob Neusner ( born July 28, 1932 ) is an American academic scholar of Judaism who lives in Rhinebeck, New York.

Jacob, with his younger brother Wilhelm ( born on 24 February 1786 ), were sent in 1798 to the public school at Kassel.

Jack Kirby ( August 28, 1917 – February 6, 1994 ), born Jacob Kurtzberg, was an American comic book artist, writer and editor regarded by historians and fans as one of the major innovators and most influential creators in the comic book medium.

Jack Kirby was born Jacob Kurtzberg on August 28, 1917, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City, where he was raised.

Lyman Abbott was born at Roxbury, Massachusetts on December 18, 1835, the son of the prolific author, educator and historian Jacob Abbott.

Piers Anthony Dillingham Jacob ( born August 6, 1934 in Oxford, England ) is an English American writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres, publishing under the name Piers Anthony.

During the original debate over the amendment Senator Jacob M. Howard of Michigan — the author of the Citizenship Clause — described the clause as having the same content, despite different wording, as the earlier Civil Rights Act of 1866, namely, that it excludes Native Americans who maintain their tribal ties and " persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers.