# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-jacob
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:04:22.974Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-jacob"
name: "John Jacob"
slug: "john-jacob"
description: "Brigadier-General John Jacob was an officer of the British East India Company who served in colonial India for the major portion of his career. He is known for the cavalry regiment called 36th Jacob's Horse, and for founding the town of Jacobabad, in Sind province of British India, where he planned and supervised the transformation of thousands of acres of desert into arable land over the course of twenty years. The scale of progress and prosperity his works brought to the region can be appreciated by comparing those regions' relative prosperity compared to areas which were not under his administrative jurisdiction."
tagline: "Officer of the British East India Company"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/JohnJacobAtTauntonShireHall.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1812-01-11"
deathDate: "1858-12-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.23
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.414544
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jacob_(East_India_Company_officer)"
    title: "John Jacob (East India Company officer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AC%DB%8C%DA%A9%D9%88%D8%A8"
    title: "جان جیکوب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AC%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%A8"
    title: "جان جیکب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AC%D9%8A%DA%AA%D8%A8"
    title: "جان جيڪب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AC%DB%8C%DA%A9%D8%A8_(%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B3%D9%B9_%D8%A7%D9%86%DA%88%DB%8C%D8%A7_%DA%A9%D9%85%D9%BE%D9%86%DB%8C_%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B3%D8%B1)"
    title: "جان جیکب (ایسٹ انڈیا کمپنی افسر)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6241407"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump