The Jacobins were a political club during the French Revolution.

Jacobin may also refer to:

  • Jacobin (politics), a member of the Jacobin club, or political radical, generally
  • Jacobin (hummingbird), two species of hummingbirds from the genus Florisuga
  • Jacobin (magazine), an American leftist political magazine
  • Jacobin (pigeon), a breed of domestic pigeon
  • Jacobin violet, another name for the French wine grape Pascal blanc
  • The Jacobin, an opera by Antonín Dvořák
  • The Black Jacobins, a book about the Haitian revolution by C.L.R. James
  • Dominican Order, the Catholic religious order known in France as the Jacobin Order
  • Jacobinismo, early name for liberal developments in Portugal that led to revolution, possibly derogatory.
  • Deutsche Jakobiner, name for different German clubs modeled after the Jacobin Club, some derived from regional branches of original Society of the Friends of the Constitution.

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