Jacob Davis may refer to:
- Jacob Davis (inventor) (1831–1908), Latvian-American entrepreneur
- Jacob C. Davis (1820–1883), American politician (Illinois) & criminal defendant
- Jacob E. Davis (1905–2003), American politician (Ohio)
Famous quotes containing the words jacob and/or davis:
“I was not unemployed in my profession by the late John Jacob Astor; a name which, I admit, I love to repeat, for it hath a rounded and orbicular sound to it, and rings like unto bullion.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Night’s brittle song, silver-thin
Shatters into a billion fragments
Of quiet shadows
At the blaring jazz
Of a morning sun.”
—Frank Marshall Davis (b. 1905)