Jake is a shortened form of the male names Jacob or James.

Individuals named Jake include:

• Jake Abraham, British actor
• Jake Arnott, British novelist
• Jake Gyllenhaal, actor
• Jake La Botz, actor, songwriter
• Jake Locker, 2007 starting quarterback for the Washington Huskies
• Jake Long, an offensive tackle for the college football Michigan Wolverines
• Jake Plummer, a National Football League quarterback
• Jake kiiser, form Sissonville, likes to frolic through the flowers with his gay lover while taking it in the butt

Fictional characters named Jake include:

• American Dragon: Jake Long, an animated television series which airs on Disney Channel
• Jake LaMotta, former world middleweight champion boxer who was later portrayed by Robert De Niro in the 1980 film Raging Bull
  • Jake Long, the main character of the show
• Jake, a fictional video game character in the Ape Escape series
• Jake, a pet dog of Betty Spaghetty
• Jake, the main character dog in the game Dog's Life
• Jake 2.0, a science fiction television series that aired from 2003 to 2004 on UPN
  • Jake Foley, the show's protagonist
• Jake Berenson, a fictional character from the Animorphs book series by K. A. Applegate
• Jake Spidermonkey, a main character in My Gym Partner's a Monkey

Jake may also refer to:

• "The Jake," the former nickname of the Major League Baseball stadium once known as Jacobs Field, now Progressive Field
• Jake brake, a particular brand of engine brake
• Jake, a slang term in the United States for Jamaican ginger extract.
• Jake leg, Jake foot, Jake walk; partial paralysis of the limbs, caused by an adulterant, tricresyl phosphate added to Jamaican ginger during Prohibition
• Jake, a slang term in Scotland for someone uncouth
• Jake, a slang term for a fireman
• Jake, a slang term for a police officer
• Jake, a codename for the Japanese World War II seaplane Aichi E13A
• Jake, a slang term used in Discordianism to describe a prank, often celebrated on Jake Day
• Jake / Bot2, one of the ROVs used during the filming of the documentary Ghosts of the Abyss
• Jake, jazz era slang meaning "great", as in "everything's jake".
• Jake, baseball slang meaning a lazy player or a half-hearted effort, i.e. "He jaked that play."
• Jake the Alligator Man, an oddity on view in Long Beach, Washington
• Less Than Jake, a popular ska punk band