List of Famous people named Yiannis

Yiannis Kouros is a Greek ultramarathon runner based in Greece. He is sometimes called the "Running God" or "Pheidippides' Successor". He holds many men's outdoor road world records from 100 to 1,000 miles and many road and track records from 12 hours to 6 days. In 1991, he starred as Pheidippides in the movie The Story of the Marathon: A Hero's Journey, which chronicles the history of marathon running.

Yiannis Nicholas Moschovakis is a set theorist, descriptive set theorist, and recursion (computability) theorist, at UCLA.

Yiannis Spyropoulos was a famous Greek painter of the second half of the 20th century.

Yiannis Dimitras is a Greek singer. He represented Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1981, performing seventeenth on the night, before Cyprus and after Belgium, with the song "Feggari Kalokerino", and placed eighth out of twenty, with fifty-five points. He was a member of the Greek jury in 1996.

Yiannis Boutaris is a Greek businessman and politician, former mayor of Thessaloniki.