Yannis, Yiannis, or Giannis (Γιάννης) is a common
Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor ...
given name, a variant of ''
John
John is a common English name and surname:
* John (given name)
* John (surname)
John may also refer to:
New Testament
Works
* Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John
* First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John
* Second ...
'' (Hebrew) meaning "God is gracious." In formal Greek (e.g. all government documents and birth certificates) the name exists only as
Ioannis Ioannis or Ioannes ( el, Ιωάννης), shortened to Giannis or Yannis (Γιάννης) is a Greek given name cognate with Johannes and John and the Arabic name Yahya . Notable people with the name include:
* Ioannis I, Tzimiskis, Byzantine Emper ...
(Ιωάννης). Variants include ''Yannis'' (Also Janni), ''Iannis'', ''Yannakis'', ''Yanis'', and the rare ''Yannos'', usually found in the
Peloponnese
The Peloponnese (), Peloponnesus (; el, Πελοπόννησος, Pelopónnēsos,(), or Morea is a peninsula and geographic regions of Greece, geographic region in southern Greece. It is connected to the central part of the country by the Isthmu ...
and
Cyprus
Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its continental position is disputed; while it is geo ...
.
Feminine forms are Γιάννα (
Yianna,
Gianna
Gianna is a female Italian given name, a diminutive form of Giovanna. In English, it is translated as Joann, Joanne or Joanna. These names mean "God is gracious". See also "John" for the origin.
Variations
*Feminine: Giana, Gia, Giovanna
*Mascu ...
) and Ιωάννα (
Ioanna
Joanna is a feminine given name deriving from from he, יוֹחָנָה, translit=Yôḥānāh, lit=God is gracious. Variants in English include Joan, Joann, Joanne, and Johanna. Other forms of the name in English are Jan, Jane, Janet, Janice ...
) which is the formal variant used in formal/government documents.
Yannis may refer to:
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Abu'l-Fath Yanis Abu'-Fatḥ Nāṣir (or Amīr) al-Juyūsh Sayf al-Islām Sharaf al-Islām Yānis al-Rūmī al-Armanī al-Ḥāfiẓī, commonly simply known by his given name Yānis (i.e., John), was an Armenian military slave who served as vizier of the Fatimid ...
, Fatimid vizier
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Giannis Agouris
Giannis Agouris (Greek: Γιάννης Αγγούρης, July 20, 1930 - August 1, 2006) was a Greek writer and journalist from Achaia.
Biography
Giannis Agouris was born in Aroania (now part of Kalavryta, Greece) on July 20, 1930. He was the ...
, Greek writer and journalist
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Ioannis Amanatidis
Ioannis Amanatidis ( el, Ιωάννης Αμανατίδης, ; born 3 December 1981) 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 rep ...
, Greek footballer
*
Yannis Anastasiou
Giannis Anastasiou ( gr, Γιάννης Αναστασίου; born 5 March 1973) is a Greek professional football manager and former player, who is the current manager of Super League club Panetolikos.
As a player, Anastasiou played as a strike ...
, Greek footballer
*
Yiannis Andrianopoulos
Giannis Andrianopoulos (Greek: Γιάννης Ανδριανόπουλος; 1900 – 6 November 1952) was a Greek footballer and one of the founding members of Greece's most successful football club, Olympiacos CFP.
Club career
Born in Piraeus, ...
, Greek footballer
*
Giannis Antetokounmpo
Giannis Sina Ugo Antetokounmpo (born Adetokunbo; December 6, 1994) is a Greek-Nigerian professional basketball player for the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Antetokounmpo's country of origin, in addition to his s ...
, Greek basketball player
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Giannis Apostolidis
Giannis Apostolidis ( el, Γιάννης Αποστολίδης; born 14 October 1988) is Assistant Team Manager of Doxa Drama F.C. and a Team Manager of U19. Giannis is a former professional football midfielder who played for Makedonikos F.C. ...
, Greek footballer
*
Yiannis Arabatzis
Giannis Arabatzis ( el, Γιάννης Αραμπατζής; born 28 May 1984) is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Career
AEK Athens
Arabatzis made his first cap against rival team Panathinaikos, and impressed ...
, Greek goalkeeper
*
Yannis Bakos Yannis Bakos is a professor at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University. His primary area of expertise is the economic and business implications of information technology, the Internet, and online media. He is the co-founder (w ...
, economist
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Ioannis Banias
Ioannis (Yannis) Banias ( el, Γιάννης Μπανιάς) (27 September 1939 – 29 March 2012) was a Greek politician, and former member of the Hellenic Parliament for the Coalition of Radical Left (2007–2009).
Banias was born in Meliss ...
(1939–2012), Greek politician
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Yannis Behrakis
Yannis Behrakis ( el, Γιάννης Μπεχράκης; 29 August 1960 – 2 March 2019) was a Greek photojournalist and a Senior editor with Reuters.
Biography
Yannis Behrakis was born in 1960 in Athens, Greece. He studied photography in the ...
, Greek photojournalist
*
Giannis Bezos
Ioannis "Giannis" Bezos ( el, Ιωάννης (Γιάννης) Μπέζος; born in Athens, 10 September 1956) is a Greek actor and director, widely considered one of the best Greek comedic actors of all time, performing on TV and in the theatre. ...
, Greek actor and director
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Yiannis Bourousis
Giannis Bourousis (Greek: Γιάννης Μπουρούσης; born November 17, 1983) is a former Greek professional basketball player who last played for ASK Karditsa of the Greek A2 Basket League. He is a 7 ft 0.75 in (2.15 m) 270 l ...
, Greek basketball player
*
Yannis Brown
Yannis Brown is an Australian composer and sound designer for portable devices and consoles.
He grew up in Adelaide, Australia. He began playing keyboards by ear at the age of 4 and started composing music around the age of 13. He then moved on t ...
, composer
*
Yiannis Carras
John Constantine Carras (; 1907– 1989) was a Greek shipping magnate, grandson of captain and sailing-ship owner Ioannis I. Carras from Kardamyla of Chios.
Early life
John Carras studied economics in Lausanne and subsequently became a principa ...
, Greek shipping magnate
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Giannis Chondrogiannis
Giannis Chondrogiannis or Hondrogiannis ( el, Γιάννης Χοντρογιάννης; 1761–1835) was a Greek politician and a revolutionary leader. He worked with Asimakis Zaimis.
Biography
On 15 March 1821, an ignorance of the leade ...
, Greek politician
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Jani Christou
Jani Christou ( el, Γιάννης Χρήστου, Giánnīs Chrī́stou; 8 or 9 January 1926 – 8 January 1970) was a Greek composer.
There is some disagreement about Christou's birth, the date of which is given by some authorities as 8 Januar ...
, Greek composer
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Giannis Chrysafis
Giannis Chrysafis ( el, Γιάννης Χρυσάφης; born 16 March 1981) is a Greek footballer, currently playing for AO Potamia
AO, aO, Ao, or ao may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* Adults Only, an entertainment rating
* AO Musi ...
, Greek footballer
*
Ioannis Damanakis
Ioannis Damanakis (Greek: Ιωάννης Δαμανάκης; born 2 October 1952) is a retired Greek footballer.
Career
He started his career at Chania, and after 6 years he was transferred to PAOK FC. He played 242 league games for PAOK, winnin ...
, Greek footballer
*
Giannis Dragasakis
Yannis Dragasakis (; born 1 January 1947) is a Greek politician and the former Deputy Prime Minister of Greece, serving twice from 27 January to 28 August 2015 and 23 September 2015 to 8 July 2019. He is a member of the Greek Parliament for the C ...
, Greek politician
*
Yiannis Dritsas Yannis, Yiannis, or Giannis (Γιάννης) is a common Greek given name, a variant of ''John'' (Hebrew) meaning "God is gracious." In formal Greek (e.g. all government documents and birth certificates) the name exists only as Ioannis (Ιωάνν ...
, the inventor of Greek instant frappé
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Yiannis Eitziridis
Iovan Tsaous ( el, Γιοβάν Τσαούς, from the Turkish word ''çavuş'', meaning "sergeant") (1893–1942), was a Greek musician and composer of rebetiko songs from Pontus. His real name was Yiannis Eitziridis or Etseiridis (Γιάννη ...
, Greek musician
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Giannis Fysekis
Giannis Fysekis ( el, Γιάννης Φυσέκης; born 10 October 1985) is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Ginásio Clube Alcobaça.
Career
Fysekis has been playing in the lower divisions of Greek football with ...
, Greek footballer
*
Giannis Gagaloudis
Ioannis "Gaga" Gagaloudis (alternate spellings: Yannis, Giannis, Gagaloudes, Gkagkaloudis) ( el, Γιάννης Γκαγκαλούδης; born August 22, 1978) is a Greek professional basketball player for Esperos Kallitheas B.C. of the Greek B B ...
, Greek basketball player
*
Giannis Galanakis, Greek entrepreneur and inventor of Greek artisan prosciutto
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Giannis Galitsios
Giannis Galitsios (Greek: Γιάννης Γκαλίτσιος; born 15 May 1958) is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.
Club career
Galitsios played only for AE Larissa, in 399 official League games (holding th ...
, Greek footballer
*
Giannis Georgallis, Greek basketball player
*
Giannis Giannoulis
Giannis Giannoulis (alternate spellings: Gioannis, Yannis, Ioannis, Yiannis (Greek: Γιάννης Γιαννούλης; born June 5, 1976) is a Greek-Canadian former professional basketball player. During his playing career, at a height of 2.08 ...
, Greek-Canadian basketball player
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Giannis Gionakis
Giannis Gionakis ( el, Γιάννης Γκιωνάκης; 1922 – 25 August 2002) was a Greek actor in film and theater.
Biography
Gionakis was born in Athens
Athens ( ; el, Αθήνα, Athína ; grc, Ἀθῆναι, Athênai (pl.) ) is ...
, Greek actor
*
Yannis Goumas
Giannis Goumas ( el, Γιάννης Γκούμας, born 24 May 1975) is a Greek professional football manager and former player, who spent his whole senior career at Panathinaikos.
Club career
Born on 24 May 1975 in the village of Ampelonas, n ...
, Greek footballer
*
Ioannis Gounaris
Giannis Gounaris (Greek: Γιάννης Γούναρης; born 6 July 1952) is a Greek retired footballer and coach.
Career
Born in Thessaloniki, Gounaris was a right back who played for PAOK FC and Olympiacos FC in the 1970s and 80s. He earned ...
, Greek footballer
*
Yiannis Grivas
Ioannis Grivas ( el, Ιωάννης Γρίβας; 23 February 1923 – 27 November 2016) 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 governmen ...
, Greek judge
*
Ioannis Hatzidakis, Greek mathematician
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Yannis Hotzeas
Yannis Hotzeas ( el, Γιάννης Χοντζέας) (1930 – 24 October 1994) was a Greek communist, Marxist theoretician and one of the principal founders of the Greek Marxist-Leninist movement.
Early life
Hotzeas was born in Koroni, Messen ...
, Greek communist thinker
*
Yanni
Yiannis Chryssomallis ( el, Γιάννης Χρυσομάλλης; born November 14, 1954), known professionally as Yanni ( ), is a Greek-American composer, keyboardist, pianist, and music producer.
Yanni continues to use the musical shorthand ...
(Yiánnis Hryssomállis), Greek composer, keyboardist
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Giannis Iliopoulos, Greek basketball player
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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 Democra ...
, Greek basketball coach and politician
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Giannis Kalambokis, Greek basketball player
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Ioannis Kalitzakis
Giannis Kalitzakis ( el, Γιάννης Καλιτζάκης; born 10 February 1966) is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a center back. His nickname was ''"The Ninja"'' due to his hard acrobatic tackles and very strong defens ...
, Greek footballer
*
Giannis Katemis
Giannis Katemis ( el, Γιάννης Κατεμής; born 28 May 1977) is a retired Greek professional football defender.
Career
Born in Limnes, Argolis, Katemis began his football career with Panargiakos F.C. in the Beta Ethniki. He would play ...
, Greek footballer
*
Yannis Kondos, Greek poet
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Yannis Kontos, Greek photojournalist
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Yiannis Koskiniatis, Greek footballer
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Yiannis Kouros
Yiannis Kouros ( el, Γιάννης Κούρος, ; born 13 February 1956 in Tripoli, Kingdom of Greece) is a Greek ultramarathon runner based in Greece. He is sometimes given the epithets "Running god", "Pheidippides' Successor" or "Son of Ph ...
, Greek ultramarathon runner
*
Ioannis Kyrastas
Giannis Kyrastas ( el, Γιάννης Κυράστας; 25 October 1952 – 1 April 2004) was a Greek footballer and football manager.
Club career
Born in Piraeus, Kyrastas started his football career in Olympiacos, where he played his firs ...
, Greek footballer and football manager
*
Giannis Kyriakopoulos
Ioannis Kyriakopoulos (alternate spellings: Giannis, Yiannis, Yannis, Kiriakopoulos) ( el, Γιάννης Κυριακόπουλος; born June 6, 1983) is a Greek professional basketball player. He is 1.88 m (6'2") in height, and he plays at the ...
, Greek basketball player
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Yiannis Latsis
Yiannis Latsis (1910–2003), also known as John Spyridon Latsis, was a Greek shipping multi-billionaire tycoon notable for his great wealth, influential friends, and charitable activities.
The year of his death (2003), ''Forbes'' magazine rank ...
, Greek shipping tycoon
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Giannis Liourdis
Giannis Liourdis (born 27 February 1979) is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Liourdis previously played in the Greek Super League
The Super League Greece 1 ( el, Ελληνική Σούπερ Λιγκ 1), o ...
, Greek footballer
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Yannis Makriyannis
Yannis Makriyannis ( el, Γιάννης Μακρυγιάννης, ''Giánnēs Makrygiánnīs''; 1797–1864), born Ioannis Triantaphyllou (, ''Iōánnēs Triantafýllou''), was a Greek merchant, military officer, politician and author, best ...
, Greek General
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Yannis Manakis
The Manaki brothers ( rup, Frats Manachia), Yanaki and Milton ( and ), were Greek photography and cinema pioneers of the Balkan Peninsula and the Ottoman Empire. They were the first to bring a film camera and create a motion picture in the c ...
, Greek photographer
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Giannis Maniatis
Giannis Maniatis ( el, Γιάννης Μανιάτης ; born 12 October 1986) is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a right back or a defensive midfielder.
Club career
Panionios
Maniatis was first spotted as a 16-year-old pla ...
, Greek footballer
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Yannis Margaritis
Yannis Margaritis ( el, Γιάννης Μαργαρίτης) is a Greek theatre director, perhaps best known for his presentation of the play ''Electra''.
Margaritis is the son of Niki Kypreou and Alkis Margaritis. He is currently married to Chr ...
, Greek theater director
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Giannis Markopoulos
Yannis Markopoulos ( el, Γιάννης Μαρκόπουλος; born 18 March 1939) is a Greek composer.
Biography
Early life and education
Yannis Markopoulos was born in 1939 in Heraklion, Crete. From one of the old families of the island— ...
, Greek composer
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Giannis Mihalopoulos
Giannis Michalopoulos ( el, Γιάννης Μιχαλόπουλος; 22 April 1927 – 10 June 2016) was a Greek actor.
Biography
Michalopoulos was born in Athens. He mostly acted in supporting roles, appearing in many movies, his most famous b ...
, Greek actor
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Giannis Milonas
Ioannis Milonas (alternate spelling: Giannis) ( el, Γιάννης Μυλωνάς; born July 27, 1969, in Trikala, Greece) is a retired Greek professional basketball player. At a height of 2.02 m (6' 7"), he played at the small forward position. ...
, Greek basketball player
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Yiannis Moralis
Yiannis Moralis ( el, Γιάννης Μόραλης; also transliterated Yannis Moralis or Giannis Moralis; 23 April 1916 – 20 December 2009) was an important Greece, Greek visual artist and part of the so-called "Generation of the '30s (G ...
, Greek artist
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Yiannis N. Moschovakis
Yiannis Nicholas Moschovakis ( el, Γιάννης Μοσχοβάκης; born January 18, 1938) is a set theorist, descriptive set theorist, and recursion (computability) theorist, at UCLA.
His book ''Descriptive Set Theory'' (North-Holland) is ...
, Greek theorist
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Yiannis Okkas, Cypriot footballer
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Yiannis Papadopoulos Giannis, Yiannis or Ioannis Papadopoulos may refer to:
* Giannis Papadopoulos (footballer, born 1989)
* Giannis Papadopoulos (footballer, born 1998)
* Yiannis Papadopoulos (guitarist)
* Ioannis Papadopoulos (chess player)
{{hndis, Papadopoul ...
, Greek footballer
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Yiannis Papaioannou
Yiannis Papaioannou ( gr, Ιωάννης Ανδρέου Παπαιωάννου; 6 January 1910, Kavala – 19 May 1989, Athens) was a Greek composer and teacher of the Modern Era. He studied piano with Marika Laspopoulou and composition with Al ...
, Greek composer
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Yannis Papathanasiou
Yannis Papathanasiou ( el, Γιάννης Παπαθανασίου) (born January 1, 1954) is a Greek politician, former Minister for Economy and Finance of Greece. He is a member of the Hellenic Parliament with the conservative New Democracy part ...
, Greek politician
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Yiannis Parios
Yiannis Parios ( el, Γιάννης Πάριος) is a Greek singer, with a career spanning five decades.
Biography
Yiannis Parios was born Ioannis Varthakouris (Ιωάννης Βαρθακούρης) on the island of Paros. He made his firs ...
, Greek singer
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Giannis Pasas, Greek footballer
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Yiannis Patilis
Yiannis Patilis (Greek: Γιάννης Πατίλης) (born 21 February 1947 in Colonus, Athens) is a Greek poet.
Biography
He spent his childhood in Colonus and later in Patisia. He has been living in Nea Smyrni since 2005. He studied law and ...
, Greek poet
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Yannis Pathiakakis Stadium Yiannis Pathiakakis Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Ano Liosia, Greece. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Akratitos. The stadium holds 5,000 and was built in 1965. It is named after Giannis Pathiakak ...
, Greek stadium
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Giannis Pechlivanis, Greek footballer
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Yiannis Pharmakis
Yiannis Pharmakis or Ioannis Farmakis ( el, Ιωάννης Φαρμάκης) (1772–1821), born in Vlasti, Macedonia (Greece), was a Greek revolutionary leader of the Greek War of Independence, active in Wallachia and Moldavia.
Initially a co ...
, Greek leader
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Yannis Philippakis
Yannis Philippakis (Greek: Ιωάννης "Γιάννης" Φιλιππάκης) (born 23 April 1986) is the lead singer and guitarist of the British indie rock band Foals.
Early life
Born to a Greek father and a South African Jewish mother, ...
, Guitarist and lead singer of ''Foals''
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Giannis Ploutarhos
Yannis Ploutarchos (Greek: Γιάννης Πλούταρχος, ; born 18 December 1970) is a Greek singer and songwriter. He is considered one of the most popular laïko singers of his time, and has been characterized with having a genuine laïk ...
, Greek singer
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Yiannis Poulakas
Ioannis Poulakas, (Greek: Ιωάννης Πούλακας) the Greek painter and scenographer, was born on 1 January 1863 in Agios Georgios Nileias in the periphery of Volos (then part of the Ottoman Empire) and died, 79 years old, in Athens ...
, Greek painter and stage designer
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Giannis Poulopoulos
Giannis Poulopoulos (Greek: Γιάννης Πουλόπουλος, a.k.a. John Poulopoulos; 29 June 1941 – 23 August 2020) was a Greek singer-songwriter, who had several hits in Greece during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. In terms of total al ...
, Greek singer
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Yannis Psycharis, Greek author and philologist
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Yiannis Psychopedis
Υiannis Psychopedis ( el, Γιάννης Ψυχοπαίδης ; born 1945) is one of the main Greeks, Greek exponents of artistic Critical Realism, an art movement that developed in Europe after the political and social upheavals of 1968. ...
, Greek art movement
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Yiannis Ritsos
Yiannis Ritsos ( el, Γιάννης Ρίτσος; 1 May 1909 – 11 November 1990) was a Greek poet and communist and an active member of the Greek Resistance during World War II. While he disliked being regarded as a political poet, he has be ...
, Greek poet
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Yannis Salibur
Yannis Romaric Salibur (born 24 January 1991) is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder.
Club career
Born in Saint-Denis, Salibur began his career with his local club Red Star Paris. In early 2004, he was one of three Red S ...
, French footballer
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Ioannis Samaras
Giannis Samaras ( el, Γιάννης Σαμαράς; born 3 May 1961) is a Greek former footballer who played as a midfielder during the 1980s and 1990s.
Club career
Samaras was born in Melbourne, Australia, to Greek parents who moved there at ...
, Greek footballer
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Giannis Sampson, Cypriot footballer
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Yannis K. Semertzidis, Greek physicist
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Giannis Sfakianakis
Giannis Sfakianakis ( el, Γιάννης Σφακιανάκης; born 6 February 1976) is a Greek professional football defender who has played for several clubs in Greece and Cyprus.
Career
Born in Glyfada, Sfakianakis began playing profession ...
, Greek footballer
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Giannis Sioutis
Ioannis Sioutis (alternate spelling: Giannis) ( el, Γιάννης Σιούτης; born July 27, 1973) is a Greece, Greek retired professional basketball player and current assistant coach for AEK B.C., AEK Athens of the Greek Basket League and the ...
, Greek basketball player
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Yiannis Skarimbas Giannis Skarimpas, Giannis Skarimbas or Yiannis Skarimbas ( el, Γιάννης Σκαρίμπας; September 28, 1893 – January 21, 1984), was a Greeks, Greek writer, dramatist, and poet.
Biography
He was born in Agia Efthymia near Amfissa (now ...
, Greek writer
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Giannis Skopelitis
Giannis Skopelitis (Greek: Γιάννης Σκοπελίτης; born 2 March 1978) is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
Career
Portsmouth
Skopelitis joined FA Premier League club Portsmouth on 28 January 2005 ...
, Greek footballer
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Yannis Smaragdis
Yannis Smaragdis ( el, Γιάννης Σμαραγδής) is a Greek film director.
Biography
He was born in Crete in 1946 and studied film in Greece and Paris, France. He appeared in 1972 with his short film ''Two Three Things...'' which receive ...
, Greek film director
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Giannis Sotirhos, Greek footballer
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Yiannis Spyropoulos, Greek painter
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Yannis Stavrou, Greek painter
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Yannis Tafer
Yannis Tafer (, born 11 February 1991) is a French professional footballer who plays as a winger for Luxembourger club Racing-Union.
He is a France youth international having represented the country under-17, under-18, and under-19 level. ...
, French footballer
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Yannis Tamtakos
Yannis Tamtakos ( el, Γιάννης Ταμτάκος) (1908 – January 4, 2008) was a Greece, Greek political activist, initially of Trotskyism and in his later life, of Anarchism. Due to his political activity, he was chased by the Axis f ...
, Greek political activist
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Giannis Taralidis, Greek footballer
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Yianis Tomaras, Greek footballer
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Yiannis Tridimas
Yiannis Tridimas (born 22 February 1945, in Andros, Greece) is a long-distance fell runner, noted as being the only 60-year-old to have completed an extended version of the Bob Graham Round, covering 60 peaks in under 24 hours. He completed the c ...
, Greek long-distance runner
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Yannis Tsarouchis
Yannis Tsarouchis ( el, Γιάννης Τσαρούχης; 13 January 1910 – 20 July 1989) was a Greek modernist painter and set designer who achieved international fame, and was "known in particular for his homoerotic subjects," including so ...
, Greek painter
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Giannis Valaoras
Giannis Valaoras ( el, Γιάννης Bαλαώρας; born 23 May 1958) is a Greek former footballer who played as a forward during the 1980s and early 1990s. He played for Larissa and Trikala F.C. He captained the team on various occasions, ...
, Greek footballer
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Giannis Valinakis
Giannis Valinakis (also ''Yannis Valinakis'') is a Greek politician and university professor. He is the former Greek Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. He is currently President of the Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence at the University o ...
, Greek politician
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Giannis Vardinogiannis
Giannis Vardinogiannis ( el, Γιάννης Βαρδινογιάννης, born 7 April 1962) is a Greek billionaire shipping magnate, the eldest son of petroleum tycoon Vardis Vardinogiannis. He is included in the Lloyd's List ''Most influential ...
, Greek businessman
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Yanis Varoufakis
Ioannis "Yanis" Varoufakis ( el, Ιωάννης Γεωργίου "Γιάνης" Βαρουφάκης, Ioánnis Georgíou "Giánis" Varoufákis, ; born 24 March 1961) is a Greek economist and politician. A former academic, he served as the Gree ...
, Greek economist
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Yannis Varveris, Greek poet
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Giannis Vogiatzis
Giannis Vogiatzis ( el, Γιάννης Βογιατζής; born 12 June 1926) is a Greek actor.
Biography
Vogiatzis was born in Aitoliko, Aetolia-Acarnania on 12 June 1926. He studied at the Dramatic School at the Royal Theatre and for one spa ...
, Greek actor
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Iannis Xenakis
Giannis Klearchou Xenakis (also spelled for professional purposes as Yannis or Iannis Xenakis; el, Γιάννης "Ιωάννης" Κλέαρχου Ξενάκης, ; 29 May 1922 – 4 February 2001) was a Romanian-born Greek-French avant-garde ...
, Greek composer
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Yiannis Xipolitas
Yiannakis "Yiannis" Xipolitas ( en, John Xipolitas)(born 10 April 1944) is a Cypriot former footballer. Xipolitas represented the Cyprus national football team
The Cyprus national football team ( el, Εθνική ομάδα ποδοσφαίρ ...
, Cypriot footballer
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Yannis Xirotiris Yannis Xirotiris ( el, Ιωάννης Ξηροτύρης, transcr. Ioannis Xirotyris; 1900 – 23 February 2004) was a Greek educator
and writer. He completed his studies in Germany and worked as a teacher in several schools throughout Greece, until ...
, Greek educator
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Yannis Yfantis
Yannis Yfantis is a Greek poet who is awarded with the Cavafy Award. He was born in 1949 in Raina near Agrinio in Aetolia-Acarnania. He was presented to the Thessaloniki Public Broadcasting with ''Elliniki kai pagkosmia poiisi'' (''Ελληνι ...
, Greek writer and poet
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Giannis Zapropoulos
Giannis Zapropoulos ( el, Γιάννης Ζαπρόπουλος; born 20 March 1982) is a Greek football defender who plays for Ionikos F.C. in the Beta Ethniki.
Professional career
Zapropoulos made his professional debut in the 2002–03 seas ...
, Greek footballer
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Giannis Zaradoukas
Giannis Zaradoukas ( el, Γιάννης Ζαραδούκας; born 12 December 1985) is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a left-back.
Club career
On loan from Panathinaikos in 2007–08, Zaradoukas helped Panserraikos earn p ...
, Greek footballer
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Yanis (singer)
Yanis Sahraoui (born 16 September 1988)
is a French pop musician and singer-songwriter.
Yanis (who uses gender-neutral pronouns since 2021[Yanis C. Yortsos
Yannis C. Yortsos is a Greek-American chemical engineer and academic, currently serving as Dean of thViterbi School of Engineeringat the University of Southern California
, mottoeng = "Let whoever earns the palm bear it"
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, current Dean of the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California
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Yanis Kanidis
Yanis Kanidis ( el, Γιάννης Κανίδης, russian: Иван Константинович Каниди, Ivan Constantinovich Kanidi; January 1, 1930 – September 3, 2004) was a Russian physical education teacher, born in Georgia of C ...
(1930–2004), a Greek-Russian physical education teacher
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Yanis Papassarantis (born 1988), a Belgian football player of Greek origin
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Yanis Smits
Yanis Alfred Smits (Janis Alfreds Šmits, August 9, 1941 - April 23, 2020), commonly known as Bishop Smits, was a Latvian people, Latvian theologian and Baptist pastor. He was persecuted for his political and religious activism against the Soviet ...
, a Latvian theologian active against the Soviet rule over Latvia during 1956–1976
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Alternate forms for the name John
Other language forms for the name John:
* Chon
* Dzon, Džon (Congolese, Serbian)
* Ean ( Manx)
* Eóin (Irish)
* Evan (Welsh)
* Ganix (Basque)
* Giăng (Vietnamese, Protestant )
* Giannina (Italian)
* Gioan (Vietnamese, Catholic )
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Janis (disambiguation) Janis may refer to:
As a first name
*Janis Amatuzio (born 1950), American forensic pathologist
*Janis Antonovics (born 1942), Latvian-British-American biologist
*Janis Babson (1950–1961), Canadian child, organ donation
*Janis Carter (1913–19 ...
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