List of Famous people named Yanka

Yana Stanislavovna "Yanka" Dyagileva was a Russian poet and singer-songwriter and one of the most popular figures of her time in Russia's underground punk scene. She both played solo and performed with others, including Yegor Letov and bands Grazhdanskaya Oborona and Velikiye Oktyabri. Dyagileva was greatly influenced by Letov and Alexander Bashlachev, who were her friends. Her songs explored themes of desperation and depression, punk-style nihilism, and folk-like lamentations. Her tragic death in 1991 has been considered as a symbolic end to the Siberian punk scene.

Yanka Kupala – was the pen name of Iván Daminíkavich Lutsévich, a Belarusian poet and writer. He is considered one of the greatest Belarusian-language writers of the 20th century.

Janka Maŭr, was a famous Belarusian writer. Janka Maŭr was actually his pseudonym, while his real name was Ivan Michaiłavič Fiodaraŭ. His son, Fiodar Fiodaraŭ, was a famous Belarusian physicist.