Jakov Lazaroski (Macedonian: Јаков Лазароски; 18 October 1936 – 16 May 2021) was a Yugoslav-Macedonian political commissar and academic.

[1] Born in Oktisi in 1936, Lazaroski graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade in 1959.

In 1972, he became a lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje and a full professor of psychology in 1996.

In addition to his academic work, Lazaroski served on the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Macedonia, of which he was president from 1986 to 1989.

[2] He also served on the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia.