Norman Reginald Jacobsen

Norman Reginald Jacobsen (3 January 1889 – 6 May 1950) was a New Zealand cricketer, hockey player, scientist, lawyer, teacher, political candidate and businessman.

Jacobsen played five matches of first-class cricket for Hawke's Bay between 1919 and 1921. An opening batsman, he made 62, the highest score of his career, and Hawke's Bay's highest score of the match, against Wellington in January 1921. Subsequently, he was a member of the executive committees of the Hawke's Bay Cricket Association.

From 1931 to 1933 Jacobsen travelled the world, studying educational methods. He spent some time in the United States, mostly at Columbia University, and in India he spent some months teaching with the writer Rabindranath Tagore. In 1935 he travelled through New Zealand accompanying the touring Indian hockey team.

At the , Jacobsen was a candidate of the anti-socialist Democrat Party in the electorate. He polled a distant third.

Jacobsen was appointed manager of the Wellington Sports Centre when it was opened in the mid-1940s. He still held the position when he died in May 1950 at his home in Wellington.