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Yannick Renggli
Yannick is a first name that originated in Brittany, France, where the combination of its two Breton language parts, ''Yann'' and ''-ick'', results in the meaning of '' Little John'' or ''Petit Jean'' in French. It is used as a first name mostly for men and is in use, notably, in French-speaking countries like France, (a part of) Belgium, Switzerland ( Romandy), Canada ( Quebec), and former French African colonies. Notable people with the name 'Yannick' *Yannick (rapper) (born 1978), a French rapper *Yannick Agnel (born 1992), a French swimmer and Olympic champion *Yannick Anzuluni (born 1988), a Congolese basketball player * Yannick Bellon (born 1924), a French film director, editor and screenwriter * Yannick Bisson (born 1969), a French-Canadian actor *Yannick Bolasie (born 1989), a French-Congolese football (soccer) player * Yannick Dalmas (born 1961), a French racing driver *Yannick Dias Pupo (born 1988), Brazilian football (soccer) player *Yannick Djaló (born 1986), ...
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Brittany
Brittany (; french: link=no, Bretagne ; br, Breizh, or ; Gallo language, Gallo: ''Bertaèyn'' ) is a peninsula, Historical region, historical country and cultural area in the west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica during the period of Roman occupation. It became an Kingdom of Brittany, independent kingdom and then a Duchy of Brittany, duchy before being Union of Brittany and France, united with the Kingdom of France in 1532 as a provinces of France, province governed as a separate nation under the crown. Brittany has also been referred to as Little Britain (as opposed to Great Britain, with which it shares an etymology). It is bordered by the English Channel to the north, Normandy to the northeast, eastern Pays de la Loire to the southeast, the Bay of Biscay to the south, and the Celtic Sea and the Atlantic Ocean to the west. Its land area is 34,023 km2 . Brittany is the site of some of the world's oldest standing architecture, ho ...
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Yannick Dalmas
Yannick Dalmas (born 28 July 1961) is a former racing driver from France. He won the 24 Hours of Le Mans four times (in 1992, 1994, 1995 and 1999), each with different teams. Prior to this, he participated in 49 Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 18 October 1987, but qualified for only 24 of them. His best result in F1 was a 5th place at the 1987 Australian Grand Prix, but he was not eligible for World Championship points at that race. His F1 career was blighted by his health issues, towards the end of , Dalmas was diagnosed with Legionellosis which caused him to miss the final two races. He recovered before the start of but his illness had clearly affected him. In 1994, Dalmas made a brief return to Formula One with cash-strapped Larrousse, but only entered two races. He crashed in Italy, and finished two laps off the lead in Portugal. Dalmas was French Formula Three champion in 1986. Racing record Complete International Formula 3000 results (key) (Races in bold indicate po ...
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Yannick Pelletier
Yannick Pelletier (born September 22, 1976, in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland) is a Swiss chess Grandmaster and a six-time Swiss Champion currently living in Luxembourg. Career He completed his final Grandmaster norm at the 2000 Chess Olympiad in Istanbul and was officially awarded the Grandmaster title in 2001. Pelletier won the Swiss Chess Championship 6 times, in 1995, 2000, 2002, 2010, 2014 and 2017. He has also won numerous titles at the Swiss Team Championship with his first club Biel, and later the SG Zurich. In 2005, he won the German Bundesliga with Werder Bremen. He also won the French Team Championship with Clichy in 2007, 2008, 2012 and 2013, as well as the French Cup in 2008 and 2009. In 2018, he won the gold medal on board 6 for Bischwiller and helped this team to win the French Team Championship. In 2001 he tied for 1st-4th with Tamaz Gelashvili, Mark Hebden and Vladimir Tukmakov in the 9th Neuchâtel Open. He won the Zurich Christmas Open alone in 2001 (with 6,5 out o ...
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Yannick Ottley
Khesan Yannick Gabriel Ottley (born 7 September 1991) is a Trinidadian cricketer who has played for both Trinidad and Tobago and the Combined Campuses and Colleges in West Indian domestic cricket. The younger brother of Kjorn Ottley, Yannick Ottley played for the West Indies under-19s at the 2010 Under-19 World Cup in New Zealand. He was named vice-captain to Jamaica's Andre Creary, and captained the team in matches against Papua New Guinea and Bangladesh when Creary injured a groin. Those two matches were in fact Ottley's only games of the tournament, as he struggled with a thigh strain. The previous year, in October 2009, Ottley had also captained the West Indies under-19s at the 2009–10 WICB President's Cup, where matches held List A status. Ottley made his first-class debut at the 2011–12 Regional Four Day Competition, playing for the Combined Campuses team. He switched to his home team, Trinidad and Tobago, for the 2012–13 season, and has since been a regular in t ...
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Yannick Noah
Yannick Noah (; born 18 May 1960) is a French former professional tennis player and singer. Noah won the French Open in 1983, and is currently the captain of both France's Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup teams. During his nearly two-decade career, Noah captured 23 singles titles and 16 doubles titles, reaching a career-high singles ranking of world No. 3 in July 1986 and attaining the world No. 1 doubles ranking the following month. Since his retirement from the game, Noah has remained in the public eye as a popular music performer and as the co-founder, with his mother, of a charity organization for underprivileged children. Noah is also the father of former NBA player Joakim Noah. Childhood Born in Sedan, in the north of France in 1960, Yannick Noah is the son of a Cameroonian footballer, Zacharie Noah, and his French wife Marie-Claire. After a sports injury in 1963, Noah's father returned to Africa with his family. He was living in Cameroon when he made his debut in tenn ...
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Yannick Ngakoue
Yannick Nicolas Ngakoue ( ; born March 31, 1995) is an American football defensive end for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Maryland and was drafted by the Jacksonville Jaguars in the third round of the 2016 NFL Draft. He has also played one season each for the Minnesota Vikings, Baltimore Ravens, and Las Vegas Raiders. Early years Ngakoue attended Friendship Collegiate Academy Public Charter School in Washington, D.C., where he was teammates with Eddie Goldman. As a senior, he was the Gatorade Football Player of the Year for Washington D.C. after recording 17 sacks. Ngakoue was rated by Rivals.com as a four-star recruit and was ranked as the fourth best outside linebacker in his class. He committed to the University of Maryland, College Park to play college football. College career As a true freshman at Maryland in 2013, Ngakoue played in all 13 games and had nine tackles, two sacks and an interception. As a sophomore ...
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Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, CC (; born Yannick Séguin;David Patrick Stearns, "Nezet-Seguin signs Philadelphia Orchestra contract". ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'', 19 June 2010. 6 March 1975) is a Canadian ( Québécois) conductor and pianist. He is currently music director of the Orchestre Métropolitain (Montréal), the Metropolitan Opera, and the Philadelphia Orchestra. He was also principal conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra from 2008 to 2018. Biography Early years Nézet-Séguin was born in Montreal on 6 March 1975 to two specialists in education, Serge P. Séguin, PhD, a university professor, and Claudine Nézet, M.A., a university lecturer and coordinator. He began to study piano at age five, with Jeanne-d'Arc Lebrun-Lussier, and decided to become an orchestra conductor at age ten. Nézet-Séguin studied successively at St-Isaac-Jogues Primary School, at Collège Mont-Saint-Louis Secondary School and at Bois-de-Boulogne College. In the meantime, he was ad ...
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Yannick Jauzion
Yannick Jauzion (born 28 July 1978 in Castres) is a French former rugby union footballer. Raised in Vénès, Tarn he played at centre for Stade Toulousain and the France national team. During the 2000's, Jauzion was regarded as one of the best centres in the world, if not the best inside centre the Northern hemisphere has seen during the pro era. Jauzion was a member of the Toulouse team that reached the Heineken Cup final in 2003, 2004 and 2005, winning in 2003 and 2005. He was named as the man of the match in the 2005 Heineken Cup Final as Toulouse defeated Stade Français. He earned his first national cap on 16 June 2001 against South Africa. He played in France's Grand Slam winning teams of 2002 and 2004, but was ruled out of the 2006 Six Nations Championship through injury as France emerge as champions. He played all the matches during the 2007 Six Nations Championship that France won. He also scored the winning try in the 2007 World Cup quarterfinal against New Zealand t ...
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Yannick Jadot
Yannick Jadot (; born 27 July 1967) is a French environmentalist and politician who has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) since the 2009 European election, representing the West France constituency. Early career As an environmentalist and humanitarian, Jadot coordinated Greenpeace actions in France between 2002 and 2008, also heading the ''Alliance pour la planète'' and serving as a key player in the 2008 ''Grenelle Environnement'' talks. Political career In 2009, Jadot announced that he was leaving Greenpeace to lead the Europe Ecology list in the West France constituency in the 2009 European elections. His list won 16.65% of the vote and he was elected to the European Parliament, along with Nicole Kiil-Nielsen. He was reelected to the same constituency during the 2014 European elections. In parliament, Jadot first served on the Committee on International Trade from 2009 until 2019. Since 2019, he has been a member of the Committee on the Environment, ...
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Yannick Grannec
Yannick Grannec is a 21st-century French writer whose first novel ' published 28 December 2012 at , in Paris, received the 2013 prix des libraires. Biography Born in 1969 and graduated from the ENSCI, Grannec worked as a graphic designer and published books for young people, including: ''Bleus'', ''Rouges'', ''Jaunes'', ''Verts'', and children's albums published in October 2003 by Didier, in the "Mirliton" series. Installed at Saint-Paul-de-Vence, she devoted herself to writing. Her passion for mathematics led her to write the novel of the life of the brilliant Austrian mathematician Kurt Gödel told by his widow, Adele, in ''La Déesse des petites victoires''. The novel was a major success of the press and was crowned by the Prix des libraires in March 2013. It was published in in January 2014 References External links Yannick Grannecon Babelio on ''Mots pour mots'' ''Le Bal mécanique'': un roman captivant autour du Bauhaus, signé Yannick Grannecon ''Le Monde ' ...
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Yannick Gerhardt
Yannick Gerhardt (born 13 March 1994) is a German footballer who plays as a midfielder for Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg. Club career He made his professional debut on 20 July 2013 in a 2. Bundesliga match against Dynamo Dresden. Gerhardt signed for Wolfsburg on 27 May 2016. International career Senior On 4 November 2016, Gerhardt was selected by Germany's head coach Joachim Löw for the world-cup qualifier against San Marino and the friendly against Italy. On 15 November, he had his debut match for the German team in the friendly against Italy. Personal life Gerhardt's younger sister Anna plays for Turbine Potsdam and has been capped internationally at youth level. Career statistics Club Honours Germany U21 * UEFA European Under-21 Championship: 2017 Individual * Fritz Walter Medal U19 Silver: 2013 *UEFA European Under-21 Championship Team of the Tournament: 2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (201 ...
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Yannick Franke
Yannick Ayrton Franke (born May 21, 1996) is a Dutch professional basketball player for PAOK Thessaloniki of the Greek Basket League. He also represents the Netherlands national basketball team in international competition. Franke mainly plays at the shooting guard position and occasionally as a point guard. Professional career Franke started his professional career with the Dutch powerhouse ZZ Leiden in the 2013–14 season. In December he transferred to lower-ranked Challenge Sports Rotterdam, where he could get more playing time. In the 2014–15 season, Franke had a break-out year. He was the youngest scoring champion in the history of the Dutch DBL, after he recorded 19.6 points per game at age 19. He also won the DBL MVP Under 23 and DBL Most Improved Player Awards. For the 2015–16 season, Franke signed with Donar Groningen. On 15 February 2016, Franke left Donar. On February 29, 2016, he signed for the remainder of the season with Bisons Loimaa in Finland. On Septembe ...
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