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Thomas Jacomb 1622-1687 - Member of the cloth
Thomas Jacomb studied at Cambridge University at St Johns College, where his portrait still adorns the wall, receiving a B.A. and a M.A.. Jacomb became a minister and held the parish of St Martins in Ludgate Hill, London from where he contributed to and wrote his own religious publications. He was evidently secretary to the Duke of Essex around 1672.
Link to SDG Books' Thomas Jacomb page.

Samuel Jacomb 1628-1659 - Member of the cloth
Samuel Jacomb, fellow of Queens College, Cambridge, was the minister of the Gospel at St. Mary, Woolnoth in Lumbardstreet, London. At Queens he received an M.A. and a B.D.. The brother of Thomas above (thanks to Linda Griffiths, neé Jacomb), Samuel also had some of his religious speel put into print.

Robert Jacomb 1680-1732 - MP & Banker
Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, invested heavily in South Sea stock and was saved from financial disaster by the foresight of his banker, Robert Jacomb around 1720.
Link to article from Britannica.com article on the University of Houston website.

William Jacomb 1832-1887 - Engineer
William Jacomb was Chief assistant to Isambard Kingdom Brunel when he built the SS Great Eastern for his shipping line. He was also Chief Engineer of the South Western Railway Company, designing and building Bournemouth railway station and Putney Railway Bridge built to carry the London & South Western Railway from Fulham to Putney. He lived in Wimbledon according to the 1881 census.
Link to the Red Duster British Merchant Navy website.

?????? Jacomb fl.1700s - Witness to Horatio Nelson's Wedding
On March 11, 1787 the British Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson married Frances ('Fanny') Nisbet on the island of Nevis in the Carribean. They were married at the Montpelier Plantation in Fig Tree village and their marriage certificate can be viewed at the St. Johns' Anglican Church where the parish register is open displaying the page of the entry. The marriage ceremony was re-enacted in 1987 in period costume with a Royal Navy honour guard present at Montpelier, now an inn. Now apparently one of the witnesses to Nelson's wedding was a Jacomb. He was apparently a fellow serving officer but exactly what his first name was is unknown to Jacomb.com. It should be in the register, but the register is in Nevis in a small grey church and that's a long way to go to find out. Norwich museum had a copy but they have apparently lost it.
Link to the official Nevis & St Kitts website.

Frederick William Jacomb 1829-1893 - Solicitor (...and part-time mountaineer)
F. William Jacomb and William Mathews, with the guides Jean Baptiste and Michel Croz, were the first mountaineers to reach the peak of Monte Viso (Monviso) - the "King of stone" - (3,843m / 12,609ft), the highest peak in the Cottian Alps (part of the Western Alps) on August 30, 1861. The 1881 census places Fred in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, working as a solicitor.
Link to Peakware Monte Viso page.

George Percy Jacomb-Hood 1857-1929 - Artist & Illustrator
George Percy Jacomb-Hood, who was born in Surrey, was an accomplished painter and etcher, living in London but also travelling to work in Paris and India. His work included portraits and townscapes and he illustrated a number of magazines as well. He was also an illustrator of books, most notably illustrating Oscar Wilde's 'The Happy Prince & Other Tales' in 1888. See Jacomb-Hood's bibliography page on Jacomb.com.