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They have been described as \"fitness freaks\" and were in 2014 \"embracing curling's athletic evolution as much or more than any other team\", helping to start the movement of more curling athletes embracing fitness and spending equal time \"on the curling ice and at the gym\"."],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"3 August 1956","date":"1956-08-03"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4955022#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Providence","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18383"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4955022#P19"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"United States","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4955022#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"financier","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1979607"},{"text":"businessperson","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43845"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4955022#P106"}},{"key":"education","label":"Education","values":[{"text":"Northfield Mount Hermon School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7059380"},{"text":"Brown University","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49114"},{"text":"Bennington College","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q817902"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4955022#P69"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Jacobs","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4955022"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Brad Jacobs born?","a":"Brad Jacobs was born on 3 August 1956 in Providence."},{"q":"Where did Brad Jacobs study?","a":"Brad Jacobs was educated at Northfield Mount Hermon School, Brown University, Bennington College."}],"related":[{"name":"Abigail Johnson","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/abigail-johnson"},{"name":"Alex Karp","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/alex-karp"},{"name":"Alice Walton","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/alice-walton"},{"name":"Arte Moreno","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/arte-moreno"},{"name":"Arthur Blank","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/arthur-blank"},{"name":"Baiju Bhatt","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/baiju-bhatt"},{"name":"Barry Diller","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/barry-diller"},{"name":"Ben Chestnut","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ben-chestnut"},{"name":"Bill Ackman","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bill-ackman"},{"name":"Bill Gates","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bill-gates"},{"name":"Bob Parsons","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bob-parsons"},{"name":"Bobby Murphy","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/bobby-murphy"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/brad-jacobs-4cc2e20dfd.jpg","width":500,"height":334,"license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","credit":"Krazytea","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brad_Jacobs_Elite_10.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Brad Jacobs","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Jacobs","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q4955022","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4955022","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Brad Jacobs Elite 10.jpg by Krazytea (CC BY-SA 4.0)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brad_Jacobs_Elite_10.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Brad Jacobs, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Brad Jacobs Elite 10.jpg — Krazytea, CC BY-SA 4.0.","cite":"\"Brad Jacobs\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/brad-jacobs. Retrieved 5 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T11:28:20Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-05","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/brad-jacobs","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/brad-jacobs","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/brad-jacobs?lang=ne"}}