Jakub Wygodzki (1856–1941; Lithuanian: Jokūbas Vygodskis, Hebrew: יעקב ויגודסקי) was a Polish–Lithuanian Jewish politician, Zionist activist and a medical doctor.

[1] His family moved to Vilnius (Vilna, Wilno) in 1860[2] where his father was a merchant, supplying the local garrison of the Imperial Russian Army with clothes.

During World War I, he was a member of a Jewish relief committee[1] and established daily Yiddish newspaper Flugblat.

[4] For anti-German protests, he was arrested by the German police in March 1917 and imprisoned in the Czersk POW camp until April 1918.

[3] He supported Lithuanian independence and, together with Nachmanas Rachmilevičius and Simon Rosenbaum, was co-opted to the Council of Lithuania on December 11, 1918.

[2] He opposed the Żeligowski's Mutiny and the Republic of Central Lithuania and urged people to boycott the elections in 1922.

[5] Wygodzki contributed to the press, publishing his articles in Tsayt, Vilner Tog, Haynt, Nasz Przegląd, and others.