Yakubovich is a patronymic surname derived from the name Yakub (Russian or Belarusian: Якуб, Polish: Jakub) being a version of the name Jacob. The Polish language spelling of the same surname is Jakubowicz. The surname may refer to: Denis Yakubovich (born 1988), Belarusian football player Joyce Yakubowich (born 1953), Canadian sprinter Leonid Yakubovich (born 1945), Russian television personality and actor 5994 Yakubovich, an asteroid named after Leonid Pavel Yakubovich (born 1946), Belarusian journalist and state propagandist Michael Yakubovich, American politician Nadezhda Yakubovich (born 1954), Belarusian Soviet javelin thrower Pyotr Yakubovich (1860–1911), Russian revolutionary poet Vladimir Yakubovich (1926–2012), Soviet scientist Kalman–Yakubovich–Popov lemma