Ioannidis or Ioannides () is a

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. The female version of the name is Ioannidou or Ioannides. ''Ioannidis'' or ''Ioannides'' is a

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which literally means "the son of Ioannis (Yiannis)", thus making it equivalent to English

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. Notable people with surname Ioannidis or Ioannides include:

Men

* Alkinoos Ioannidis (born 1969), Cypriot composer and singer * Andreas Ioannides (born 1975), Cypriot football player *

Dimitrios Ioannides Dimitrios Ioannidis ( el, Δημήτριος Ιωαννίδης ; 13 March 1923 – 16 August 2010), also known as Dimitris Ioannidis and as The Invisible Dictator, was a Greek military officer and one of the leading figures in the junta that r ...

(1923–2010), military officer involved in the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 * Evgenios Ioannidis (born 2001), Greek chess player * Georgios Ioannidis (born 1988), Greek footballer *

Giannis Ioannidis Giannis Ioannidis (alternate spellings: Ioannis, Yiannis, Yannis) ( Greek: Γιάννης Ιωαννίδης; born 26 February 1945 in Thessaloniki, Greece) is a former Greek basketball player, professional basketball coach, and Greece New Democ ...

(born 1945), former basketball coach and politician *

John Ioannidis John P. A. Ioannidis (; el, Ιωάννης Ιωαννίδης, ; born August 21, 1965) is a Greek-American physician-scientist, writer and Stanford University professor who has made contributions to evidence-based medicine, epidemiology, and cl ...

(born 1965), medical researcher *

Matt Ioannidis Matthew Ioannidis ( ; born January 11, 1994) is an American football defensive tackle for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Temple and was drafted by the Washington Redskins in the fifth r ...

(born 1994), American football player * Paul Ioannidis (1924–2021), pilot and resistance fighter * Perikles Ioannidis (1881-1965), admiral and second husband of Princess Maria Georgievna of Greece and Denmark * Vassilis Ioannidis (born 1967), Greek footballer

Women

* Mairi Ioannidou (born 1952), Greek Olympic swimmer *

Noni Ioannidou Noni Ioannidou (Greek: Νόνη Ιωαννίδου) (born 15 April 1958) is a Greek theatre and stage actress and model, that recently switched to television roles. She is best known for Antigoni in the 1992 television series ''Vammena kokkina mal ...

(born 1958), Greek actress and model *

Sarah Ioannides Sarah Ioannides (born 1972, in Canberra) is an Australian/British conductor, collaborator and multimedia producer living in the United States. She is currently music director of Symphony Tacoma and the founding artistic director of Cascade Condu ...

(born 1972), music director and conductor of the El Paso Symphony Orchestra * Yiota Ioannidou (born 1971), Cypriot sculptor {{surname Greek-language surnames Surnames Patronymic surnames Surnames from given names