List of Famous people named Yannis

Yannis Behrakis was a Greek photojournalist and a Senior editor with Reuters.

Yannis Romaric Salibur is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Turkish club Fatih Karagümrük.

Giannis Bourousis is a Greek professional basketball player for Peristeri of the Greek Basket League and the Basketball Champions League. He is a 7 ft ​³⁄₄ in 270 lb (122 kg) tall center. A two-time All-EuroLeague First Team selection, Bourousis has been compared to FIBA Hall of Fame center Vlade Divac by San Antonio Spurs' head coach Gregg Popovich.

Ioannis Amanatidis is a Greek football manager and former player. As a player, Amanatidis played as a striker and winger, and was active professionally in Germany. He also represented Greece at senior international level.

Ioannis Grivas was a Greek judge, who served as President of the Court of Cassation and served as the Prime Minister of Greece at the head of a non-party caretaker government in 1989.

Yannis Tafer is a French professional footballer who plays as a winger for Swiss club Neuchâtel Xamax FCS.

Ioannes "Giannis" Spanos, also transliterated as Yannis Spanos, was a Greek music composer and lyricist. In his early days as a musician he was also a piano accompanist. Spanos won the music prize at the 1971 Thessaloniki Film Festival for composing the score of the film Ekeino to kalokairi.

Yannis Tsarouchis was a Greek painter.

Yannis Spiteris, Order of Friars Minor Capuchin was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Corfu, Zante and Cefalonia and apostolic administrator of Apostolic Vicariate of Thessaloniki from 2003 to 2020. In 1968 he was ordained Catholic priest and on March 22, 2003 was appointed archbishop, being ordained Catholic bishop on May 18, 2003.

Giannis Anastasiou is a Greek professional football manager and former player, who is the current manager of Super League club Panetolikos.