Yakubu Gowon dan yaki da ɗan siyasan Nijeriya ne. An haife shi a shekara ta 1934 a Lur, Arewacin Najeriya (a yau jihar Plateau). Yakubu Gowon shugaban kasar Nijeriya ne daga Agusta 1966 zuwa Yuli 1975 (bayan Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi - kafin Murtala Mohammed).