Jakob Sande (1 December 1906 – 16 March 1967) was a Norwegian writer, poet and folk singer from Dale in Sunnfjord.

Sande was born on 1 December 1906 in the village of Dale in Sunnfjord in the county of Sogn og Fjordane, Norway.

Sande's first poems were published in 1929 in a volume titled Svarte næter (Black Nights).

In three parts, the book described the sea, differences between the officers and the crew, bordellos, ports, and fighting in pubs.

1939 saw the publication of Krossen og sleggja (The Cross and the Sledgehammer), a collection of all his previous poems, as well as ten new ones.

His poems vary from a burlesque and a sometimes grotesque humor as in Kallen og katten and Likfunn to high emotionality as in Fløytelåt and Vesle Daniel His beautiful song Det lyser i stille grender is included in most Norwegian books of hymns and is a very popular Christmas song.