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Yann Genty
Yann Genty (born 1981, Enghien-les-Bains) is a French handball goalkeeper, Tokyo 2020 Olympic champion with France, first capped at 37; clubs included Chambéry, PSG, and AEK Athens.
Yann Gueho
Yann Gueho, born 1994, French former youth footballing prodigy of the INF Clairefontaine, Lille, Nantes, and Chelsea academies who never played professionally; distinct from the active player Yann Gboho; seriously injured in a November 2025 attempted-murder case.
Yann LeCun
Yann LeCun is a computer scientist who pioneered convolutional neural networks at Bell Labs and shared the 2018 Turing Award with Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio.
Yann M'Vila
Yann M'Vila (born 1990, Amiens) is a French defensive midfielder with 22 France caps and 1 goal (2010–2012), ex-Rennes, Rubin Kazan, Inter, Sunderland, Saint-Étienne, Olympiacos, West Brom, and Caen, now at Sanremese in Serie D.
Yann Martel
Yann Martel, Canadian novelist born 1963 in Salamanca, Spain, author of Life of Pi (2001 Man Booker Prize, 15 million copies, Ang Lee film with four Oscars) and Son of Nobody (2026).
Yann Pissenem
Yann Pissenem (born 1974, Nancy, France) is founder and CEO of The Night League, creator of Ibiza clubs Ushuaïa, Hï Ibiza and [UNVRS], repeatedly ranked world number one by DJ Mag.
Yann Robard
Yann Robard is a Canadian private equity investor who founded Whitehorse Liquidity Partners in Toronto in 2015, rebranded as Dawson Partners in 2024, after leading CPPIB's secondaries program.
Yann Robert Chemla
Yann Robert Chemla, published as Yann R. Chemla, is an American-based physicist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who studies molecular machines that process DNA.
Yann Sommer
Yann Sommer, Swiss goalkeeper born 1988 in Morges; record 94-cap Switzerland international, ex-Basel, Gladbach, Bayern, and Inter (two Scudetti, 2025 UCL final), now at Club Brugge from 2026.
Yann Tiersen
Yann Tiersen, French minimalist composer and multi-instrumentalist born 1970 in Brest, known for the Amélie (2001) and Good Bye, Lenin! soundtracks, albums Le Phare and Rathlin from a Distance | The Liquid Hour, and sustainable sailboat touring.
Yanni (Γιάννης Χρυσομάλλης)
Yanni (Γιάννης Χρυσομάλλης, born 1954, Kalamata) is a Greek-American composer and keyboardist of contemporary instrumental music; his 1993 Live at the Acropolis video is the second highest-selling music video ever, with 25 million-plus albums sold.
Yannic Kilcher
Yannic Kilcher is a machine learning researcher and engineer known for a YouTube channel explaining AI research papers line by line, and co-founder and CTO of the Zurich legal-AI company DeepJudge.
Yannick Agnel
Yannick Agnel (born 1992 in Nîmes, France) is a French former swimmer who won two Olympic gold medals at the 2012 London Games and the 200-meter world title in 2013.
Yannick Bisson
Yannick Bisson (born 1969 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian actor, director, and producer best known for playing Detective William Murdoch on Murdoch Mysteries since 2008.
Yannick Bolasie
Yannick Bolasie (Yala), born 1989 in Lyon, is a DR Congo international winger who starred for Crystal Palace, joined Everton in 2016, suffered an ACL injury, and later played in Turkey and Brazil.
Yannick Borel
Yannick Borel, French épée fencer born 1988 in Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe; Olympic team gold 2016, individual silver Paris 2024, 2018 world champion, five world and six European titles, Levallois SC, French customs officer.
Yannick Bright
Yannick Bright (born 2001, Milan) is an Italian midfielder for Inter Miami CF; 15th pick of the 2024 MLS SuperDraft from New Hampshire, 2024 Supporters' Shield and 2025 MLS Cup winner, 2026 MLS All-Star.
Yannick Carrasco
Yannick Ferreira Carrasco (born 1993, Ixelles, Belgium) is a Belgian winger for Al Shabab and Belgium. Known for Atlético Madrid (266 games, 2016 Champions League final goal, 2021 LaLiga), Dalian Yifang, and Monaco.
Yannick Ngakoue
Yannick Ngakoue, born Yannick Nicolas Ngakoue in 1995 in Washington, DC, is an American football edge rusher who recorded 70.5 sacks over nine NFL seasons from 2016 to 2024.
Yannick Noah
Yannick Noah (born 1960, Sedan, France) is a French tennis champion, singer, and captain; 1983 French Open winner, the last French man to win it, later three-time Davis Cup-winning captain.
Yannis C. Yortsos
Yannis C. Yortsos is a Greek-born chemical engineer known for research on fluid flow and transport in porous media, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2008.
Yannis Maniatis
Yannis Maniatis (Γιάννης Μανιάτης) is a Greek politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament for PASOK-KINAL since July 2024, focusing on energy policy.
Yannis Philippakis
Yannis Philippakis, Greek-born British musician, lead singer and guitarist of Foals and of Yannis & The Yaw; formed Foals at Oxford in 2005, seven albums, three Mercury Prize nominations, Tony Allen collaboration Lagos Paris London (2024).
Yanny or Laurel
Yanny or Laurel: viral May 2018 auditory illusion of a 0.9-second Vocabulary.com recording of 'laurel' heard by some as 'Yanny'; frequency content above and below 1000 Hz drives the split percept.
Yano-kun's Ordinary Days
Yano-kun's Ordinary Days (矢野くんの普通の日々, Yano-kun no Futsū no Hibi) is an ongoing school romantic-comedy manga by Yui Tamura, serialized on Kodansha's Comic Days since June 2021, with 13 volumes, a 2024 live-action film, and a 2025 TV anime.
Yanolja (야놀자)
Yanolja (야놀자) is a South Korean travel-technology company headquartered in Seoul, running the NOL UNIVERSE consumer booking platform and the Yanolja Cloud hospitality software arm, which launched in 2021.
Yanomami
The Yanomami are an Indigenous people of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil and Venezuela. They live in the world's largest forested Indigenous territory, facing a health crisis from illegal mining.
Yanomami oral literature
Yanomami oral literature is the body of myths, origin narratives, songs, and shamanic chants transmitted by speech among the Yanomami, some 30,000 Indigenous people in the Amazon rainforest on both sides of the Brazil–Venezuela border.
Yanos
Yanos is South African township slang for amapiano, the electronic dance music that emerged in the country's Black townships around 2012 and broke out commercially in 2019.
Yanov Khutor
Yanov Khutor (Янов хутор), Estonian ethnocultural complex in Berezovka, Pervomaysky District, Tomsk Oblast, built 2016; hosts the annual Jaan's Day festival drawing over 4,000 visitors.