Yannis, Yiannis, or Giannis (Γιάννης) is a common
Greek
Greek may refer to:
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 of all kno ...
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 E ...
'' (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 (), shortened to Giannis or Yannis (Γιάννης) is a Greek given name cognate with Johannes and John (given name), John and the Arabic name Yahya (name), Yahya . Notable people with the name include:
*John I Tzimiskes, Ioannis ...
(Ιωάννης). Variants include ''Yannis'' (Also Janni), ''Iannis'', ''Yannakis'', ''Yanis'', and the rare ''Yannos'', usually found in the
Peloponnese
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and
Cyprus
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.
Feminine forms are Γιάννα (
Yianna,
Gianna
Gianna is a female Italian given name, a diminutive form of ''Giovanna''. In English, it is translated as " Jane", "Jean", " Joan", " Joanne" or "Joanna". These names mean "God is gracious". See also ''John'' for the origin.
Variations
*Feminin ...
) and Ιωάννα (
Ioanna) which is the formal variant used in formal/government documents.
Yannis may refer to:
*
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 Fatimi ...
, Fatimid vizier
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Ioannis Amanatidis
Ioannis Amanatidis (, ; 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 represented Greece at senior internationa ...
, Greek footballer
*
Yannis Anastasiou
Giannis Anastasiou (; born 5 March 1973) is a Greek professional football coach and former player who was most recently manager of Omonia.
As a player, Anastasiou played as a striker, and was active professionally in Greece, Belgium and the Ne ...
, Greek footballer
*
Yiannis Andrianopoulos
Giannis Andrianopoulos (; 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, Greece, Andrianopoulos began his career at the ag ...
, Greek footballer
*
Giannis Antetokounmpo
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, Greek-Nigerian basketball player
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Giannis Apostolidis, Greek footballer
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Yiannis Arabatzis
Giannis Arabatzis (; born 28 May 1984) is a Greek professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Career
AEK Athens
Arabatzis made his first cap against rival team Panathinaikos, and impressed the fans and coach Dusan Bajevic. After his i ...
, Greek goalkeeper
*
Yannis Bakos
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, economist
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Ioannis Banias
Ioannis (Yannis) Banias () (27 September 1939 – 29 March 2012) was a Greece, Greek politician, and former member of the Hellenic Parliament for the Coalition of Radical Left (2007–2009).
Banias was born in Melissourgoi, Arta (regional unit ...
(1939–2012), Greek politician
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Yannis Behrakis
Yannis Behrakis (; 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 Athens School of Arts and Technology ...
, Greek photojournalist
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Giannis Bezos
Giannis Bezos (; born 10 September 1956) is a Greek actor, theatre director, television director and singer. He considered one of the best Greek comedian actors of his generation, performing on TV and in the theatre.
Biography
The person who ...
, Greek actor and director
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Yiannis Bourousis
Ioannis Bourousis, commonly known as Giannis Bourousis (alternate spelling: Yannis, Greek: Ιωάννης "Γιάννης" Μπουρούσης; born November 17, 1983) is a Greek former professional basketball player and basketball executive. He ...
, Greek basketball player
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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 ...
, composer
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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 princip ...
, Greek shipping magnate
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Giannis Chondrogiannis
Giannis Chondrogiannis or Hondrogiannis (; c. 1761–1835) was a Greek revolutionary of the Greek War of Independence and a politician. He also worked as the bodyguard of Asimakis Zaimis, an influential Greek revolutionary and politician.
B ...
, Greek politician
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Jani Christou
Jani Christou (, ''Giánnīs Chrī́stou''; 8 or 9 January 1926 – 8 January 1970) was a Greek composer.
Biography
There is some disagreement about Christou's birth, the date of which is given by some authorities as 8 January; while others stat ...
, Greek composer
*
Giannis Chrysafis
Giannis Chrysafis (; born 16 March 1981) is a Greek
Greek may refer to:
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-Gr ...
, Greek footballer
*
Ioannis Damanakis
Ioannis Damanakis (Greek: Ιωάννης Δαμανάκης; born 2 October 1952) is a retired Greek footballer.
Career
Damanakis began his career with Chania before transferring to PAOK FC after six years. He played in 242 league games for PAO ...
, Greek footballer
*
Giannis Dragasakis
Yannis Dragasakis (; born 1 January 1947) is a Greek politician and who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Greece 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 Coalition ...
, Greek politician
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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 (, from the Turkish word , meaning "sergeant") (1893–1942), was a Greek musician and composer of rebetiko songs from Pontus. His real name was Yiannis Eitziridis or Etseiridis ( or ). He played the saz.
Biography
Tsaous was bor ...
, Greek musician
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Giannis Fysekis
Giannis Fysekis (; 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 P.A.O.N.E. since June 2010. Fro ...
, Greek footballer
*
Giannis Gagaloudis
Ioannis "Gaga" Gagaloudis (alternate spellings: Yannis, Giannis, Gagaloudes, Gkagkaloudis) (; born August 22, 1978) is a Greek professional basketball player for Esperos Kallitheas B.C. of the Greek B Basket League. He is 1.92 m (6 ft 3 in ...
, Greek basketball player
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Giannis Galanakis 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� ...
, 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
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Giannis Georgallis, Greek basketball player
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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 tall ...
, Greek-Canadian basketball player
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Giannis Gionakis
Giannis Gionakis (; 1922 – 25 August 2002) was a Greek actor in film and theater.
Biography
Gionakis was born in Athens in 1922. He began his studies at the medical school, but was won over by acting and proceeded to study theatre at the Karo ...
, Greek actor
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Yannis Goumas, Greek footballer
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Ioannis Gounaris, Greek footballer
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Yiannis Grivas
Ioannis Grivas (; 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 government in 1989.
Life
Grivas was b ...
, Greek judge
*
Ioannis Hatzidakis, Greek mathematician
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Yannis Hotzeas, Greek communist thinker
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Yanni
Yiannis Chryssomallis (; born November 14, 1954), known professionally as Yanni ( ), is a Greek composer, keyboardist, pianist, and music producer.
Yanni continues to use the musical shorthand that he developed as a child, blending jazz, clas ...
(Yiánnis Hryssomállis), Greek composer, keyboardist
*
Giannis Iliopoulos
Giannis Iliopoulos (; born 1979) is a Greek basketball player who played for AEK B.C.
AEK Basketball Club ( ; Αθλητική Ένωσις Κωνσταντινουπόλεως ''Athlitikí Énosis Konstantinoupóleos'', "Athletic Union of C ...
, Greek basketball player
*
Giannis Ioannidis
Giannis Ioannidis (alternate spellings: Ioannis, Yiannis, Yannis) (Greek: Γιάννης Ιωαννίδης; 26 February 1945 – 4 October 2023) was a Greek basketball player, professional basketball coach, and Greece New Democracy (ND) politic ...
, Greek basketball coach and politician
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Giannis Kalambokis
Giannis Kalampokis (alternate spellings: Ioannis, Yiannis, Yannis, Kalambokis, Kalabokis) ( Greek: Γιάννης Καλαμπόκης; born on August 15, 1978, in Ilio, Peristeri, Athens, Greece) is a Greek former professional basketball player a ...
, Greek basketball player
*
Ioannis Kalitzakis, Greek footballer
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Giannis Katemis
Giannis Katemis (; 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 in the Alpha Ethniki for Chalkid ...
, Greek footballer
*
Yannis Kondos, Greek poet
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Yannis Kontos
Yannis Kontos () (born 1971) is a Greek documentary photographer, professor of photography and commercial photographer. He has covered major events for over a decade in more than 50 countries. His work has been published in newspapers, magazines, a ...
, Greek photojournalist
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Yiannis Koskiniatis
Giannis Koskiniatis (29 August 1983 – 29 October 2008) was a Greek footballer who played for Diagoras F.C. He played 61 games and scored 4 goals for the team.
Career
Koskiniatis made 61 Gamma Ethniki appearances for Diagoras, scoring four goa ...
, Greek footballer
*
Yiannis Kouros
Yiannis Kouros (, ; born 13 February 1956 in Tripoli, Kingdom of Greece) is a Greek ultramarathon runner based in Greece. Kouros holds or formerly held many world records between 100 miles and 1,000 miles. In 1991, he starred as Pheidippid ...
, Greek ultramarathon runner
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Ioannis Kyrastas
Giannis Kyrastas (; 25 October 1952 – 1 April 2004) was a Greek footballer and a later manager.
Club career
Born in Piraeus, Kyrastas started his football career in Olympiacos, where he played his first game on 10 December 1972 against Kav ...
, Greek footballer and football manager
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Giannis Kyriakopoulos
Ioannis Kyriakopoulos (alternate spellings: Giannis, Yiannis, Yannis, Kiriakopoulos) (; born June 6, 1983) is a Greece, Greek professional basketball player. He is in height, and he plays at the point guard position.
Professional career
In his ...
, Greek basketball player
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Yiannis Latsis
Ioannis "Yiannis" Latsis (; 14 September 1910 – 17 April 2003), also known as John Spyridon Latsis, was a Greek shipping multi-billionaire business magnate notable for his great wealth, influential friends, and charitable activities.
The year ...
, 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 (), or Stoiximan Super League for sponsorship rea ...
, Greek footballer
*
Yannis Makriyannis
Yiannis Makriyiannis (, ; 1797–1864), born Ioannis Triantaphyllou (, ), was a Greek merchant, military officer, politician and author, best known today for his ''Memoirs''. Starting from humble origins, he joined the Greek struggle for ...
, Greek General
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Yannis Manakis, Greek photographer
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Giannis Maniatis
Giannis Maniatis ( ; born 12 October 1986) is a Greek former professional Association football, footballer who played as a Defender (association football)#Full-back, right back or a defensive midfielder.
Club career
Panionios
Maniatis was first ...
, Greek footballer
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Yannis Margaritis
Yannis Margaritis () 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 Chrysanthi Douzi and has a daughter, Semeli ...
, Greek theater director
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Giannis Markopoulos
Yannis Markopoulos (; 18 March 1939 – 10 June 2023) was a Greek composer.
Biography
Early life and education
Yannis Markopoulos was born in 1939 in Heraklion, Crete. Born into one of the old families of the island — his father was an atto ...
, Greek composer
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Giannis Mihalopoulos
Giannis Michalopoulos (; 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 being ''Ah afti i yineka mou'' (Oh! That Wife ...
, Greek actor
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Giannis Milonas, Greek basketball player
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Yiannis Moralis
Yiannis Moralis (; also transliterated Yannis Moralis or Giannis Moralis; 23 April 1916 – 20 December 2009) was an important Greek visual artist and part of the so-called "Generation of the '30s". He is a person who carried weight in many ...
, Greek artist
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Yiannis N. Moschovakis, Greek theorist
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Yiannis Okkas, Cypriot footballer
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Yannis Pala 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� ...
, Swiss footballer
*
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
*
Yiannis Papaioannou
Yiannis Papaioannou (; 6 January 1910 – 19 May 1989) was a Greek composer and teacher of the Modern Era.
Early life
Papaioannou was born in Kavala in 1910. Shortly after the Balkan Wars, his family fled Kavala, in oder to avoid the Bulgar ...
, Greek composer
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Yannis Papathanasiou
Yannis Papathanasiou () (born 1 January 1954, in Athens) 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 party since 2002.
Background, busine ...
, Greek politician
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Yannis Pappas, Greek-American Transsexual Comedian and Podcaster. Best-selling books include “Maurica’s Foggy Bottom: A Witch Hazel Journey”, “Chrissy and Me: A Guide To Ordering For The Table”, and “I’m It, You’re It, Das It!”
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Yiannis Parios
Yiannis Parios () 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 first appearance as a singer in 1969 ...
, Greek singer
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Giannis Pasas
Giannis Pasas (; born 7 October 1990) is a Greek professional Association football, footballer who plays as a Forward (association football)#Winger, left winger for Super League Greece 2, Super League 2 club Athlitiki Enosi Larissa F.C., AEL.
Ca ...
, 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
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Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball t ...
, Greek stadium
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Giannis Pechlivanis
Giannis Pechlivanis (; born 1 May 1988) is a Greek football midfielder who plays for Makedonikos.
Career
Born in Thessaloniki, Pechlivanis began his football career with local side PAOK, but would only make five Greek Superleague appearance for ...
, Greek footballer
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Yiannis Pharmakis
Yiannis Pharmakis or Ioannis Farmakis () (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 commander of the Princely guard in Bu ...
, Greek leader
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Yannis Philippakis
Yannis Barnabas Emanuel Philippakis (Greek: Ιωάννης "Γιάννης" Φιλιππάκης) (born 23 April 1986) is a Greek-born British singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is a founding member and the lead vocalist of the British indie ...
, 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
Yiannis Poulakas (Greek: Ιωάννης Πούλακας; 1 January 1863 – 21 February 1942) was a Greek painter and scenographer. Poulakas was professionally concerned primarily with scenography and secondarily with painting.
Personal life ...
, 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
Ioannis (Yiannis) Psycharis (Greek: Ιωάννης (Γιάννης) Ψυχάρης; French: ''Jean Psychari''; 1854–1929) was a Russian-born philologist who was much of his life a national of France. He was of Greek descent. He was also a writ ...
, Greek author and philologist
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Yiannis Psychopedis
Υiannis Psychopedis ( ; born 1945) is one of the main Greek exponents of artistic Critical Realism, an art movement that developed in Europe after the political and social upheavals of 1968. The May 68 student rebellions in France, the Prag ...
, Greek art movement
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Yiannis Ritsos
Yiannis Ritsos ( ; 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 been called "the great poet of th ...
, Greek poet
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Yannis Salibur, French footballer
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Ioannis Samaras
Giannis Samaras (; born 3 May 1961) is a former footballer who played as a midfielder during the 1980s and 1990s. Born in Australia, he represented Greece at international level.
Club career
Samaras was born in Melbourne, Australia, to Greek pa ...
, Greek footballer
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Giannis Sampson, Cypriot footballer
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Yannis K. Semertzidis
Yannis K. Semertzidis is a physicist exploring axions as a dark matter candidate, precision physics in storage rings including Muon g-2, muon ''g''-2 and proton electric dipole moment (pEDM). The axion and the pEDM are intimately connected through ...
, Greek physicist
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Giannis Sfakianakis, Greek footballer
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Giannis Sioutis
Ioannis Sioutis (alternate spelling: Giannis) (; born July 27, 1973) is a Greek retired professional basketball player and current assistant coach, most recently for AEK Athens of the Greek Basket League, under head coach Ilias Kantzouris. He ha ...
, Greek basketball player
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Yiannis Skarimbas
Giannis Skarimpas, Giannis Skarimbas, or Yiannis Skarimbas (; September 28, 1893 – January 21, 1984), was a Greek writer, dramatist, and poet.
Biography
He was born in Agia Efthymia near Amfissa (now part of the Delphi municipality). He went t ...
, Greek writer
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Giannis Skopelitis, Greek footballer
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Yannis Smaragdis
Yannis Smaragdis () is a Greek film director. In October 2024, he was the first Greek director elected as a regular member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
Biography
He was born in Crete in 1946 and studied film in Greece and Paris, ...
, Greek film director
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Giannis Sotirhos
Giannis Sotirhos (, born 6 April 1977) is a Greek professional association football defender who plays for Olympiacos Volos
Olympiacos Volos Football Club () is a Greek football club based in the city of Volos.
History
In 1938 Olympiacos achi ...
, Greek footballer
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Yiannis Spyropoulos
Yiannis Spyropoulos () (March 12, 1912 – May 18, 1990) was a famous Greek painter of the second half of the 20th century.
Life and work
Spyropoulos was born in Pylos of Messenia. In 1933 he was accepted at the Athens School of Fine Arts.
His ...
, Greek painter
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Yannis Stavrou
Yannis Stavrou (born June 21, 1948, in Greece) is a contemporary Greek artist, painter.
Yannis Stavrou (Γιάννης Σταύρου in Greek) was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. He originally studied sculpture at the Athens School of Fine Arts b ...
, Greek painter
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Yannis Tafer
Yannis Tafer (, born 11 February 1991) is a French professional association football, footballer who plays as a winger (association football), winger for Luxembourger club Racing FC Union Luxembourg, Racing-Union.
He is a France national youth ...
, French footballer
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Yannis Takerboucht
Yannis Takerboucht (born 3 February 1993 in France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Sai ...
, French footballer
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Yannis Tamtakos
Yannis Tamtakos (; 1908 – January 4, 2008) was a Greek political activist, initially of Trotskyism and in his later life, of Anarchism. Due to his political activity, he was chased by the Axis forces, the Greek state, and the National Liberatio ...
, Greek political activist
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Giannis Taralidis
Giannis Taralidis (; born 17 May 1981) is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
Club career
Taralidis started his career by APS Almopos Arideas. In 1999, at the age of 18 started his professional career with the Pa ...
, Greek footballer
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Yianis Tomaras
Yiannis Tomaras (Greek language, Greek: Γιάννης Τομαράς; born 16 March 1947) is a former Greeks, Greek football (soccer), football player of the late 1960s - early 1970s era.
Tomaras played right back for Panathinaikos FC, Panathi ...
, Greek footballer
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Yiannis Tridimas, Greek long-distance runner
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Yannis Tsarouchis
Yannis Tsarouchis (; 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 soldiers, sailors, and nude males.
Biogra ...
, Greek painter
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Giannis Valaoras
Giannis Valaoras (; born 23 May 1958) is a Greek former footballer who played as a forward during the 1980s and early 1990s. He played for AEL and Trikala He captained the team on various occasions, and celebrated both the Greek Championship a ...
, Greek footballer
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Giannis Valinakis, Greek politician
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Giannis Vardinogiannis
Yannis Vardinoyannis (, born 7 April 1962) is a Greek billionaire shipping magnate, the eldest son of the late Vardis Vardinoyannis and of the late UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Marianna Vardinoyannis. He is included in the Lloyd's List ''Most in ...
, Greek businessman
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Yanis Varoufakis
Ioannis Georgiou "Yanis" Varoufakis (; born 24 March 1961) is a Greek economist and politician. Since 2018, he has been Secretary-General of the Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25), a left-wing pan-European political party he co-founde ...
, Greek economist
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Yannis Varveris
Yannis Varveris (; 1955 – 25 May 2011) was a Greek poet, critic and translator.
Varveris was born and died in Athens. He read Law at the University of Athens. His first collection of poems was published in 1975. He belongs to the so-called Ge ...
, Greek poet
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Giannis Vogiatzis
Ioannis "Giannis" Vogiatzis (; born 16 December 1926) is a Greek actor in theatre and film.
Biography
Vogiatzis was born in Aitoliko, Aetolia-Acarnania on 16 December 1926 He studied at the National Theatre of Greece Drama School and for some ...
, Greek actor
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Iannis Xenakis
Giannis Klearchou Xenakis (also spelled for professional purposes as Yannis or Iannis Xenakis; , ; 29 May 1922 – 4 February 2001) was a Romanian-born Greek-French avant-garde composer, music theorist, architect, performance director and enginee ...
, Greek composer
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Yiannis Xipolitas, Cypriot footballer
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Yannis Xirotiris
Yannis Xirotiris (, 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 1941. He was also a prolific writer ...
, 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 (; 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 season with B' Ethniki side Kalamata. Over t ...
, Greek footballer
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Giannis Zaradoukas, Greek footballer
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Yanis (singer)
Janis Sahraoui (; born 16 September 1988) is a French pop musician and singer-songwriter.
Sahraoui debuted in the late 2000s under the stage name Sliimy (rhyming with "Jimmy") through social networking websites where she released her songs. The ...
, full name Yanis Sahraoui, French singer-songwriter formerly known as Sliimy
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Yanis C. Yortsos, current Dean of the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California
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Yanis Kanidis
Yanis Kanidis (, ; January 1, 1930 – September 3, 2004) was a Russian physical education teacher, born in Georgia of Caucasus Greek origin.
Hostage crisis
When armed Chechen extremists took more than 1,200 school children and adults hos ...
(1930–2004), a Greek-Russian physical education teacher
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Yanis Papassarantis
Yanis Papassarantis (; born 12 March 1988, in Charleroi) is a Belgian football player.
Career
The left midfielder of Greek origin previously played for Roeselare, Standard Liège, Anderlecht, Charleroi and Tienen, but had his most successful pe ...
(born 1988), a Belgian football player of Greek origin
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Yanis Smits
Yanis Alfred Smits (Latvian language, Latvian: Jānis 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 religiou ...
, a Latvian theologian active against the Soviet rule over Latvia during 1956–1976
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Alternate forms for the name John
John ( ) is a common male name in the English language ultimately of Hebrew origin.
The English form is from Middle English ''Ioon'', ''Ihon'', ''Iohn, Jan'' (mid-12c.), itself from Old French ''Jan'', ''Jean'', ''Jehan'' (Modern French ''Jean ( ...
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Janis (disambiguation) Janis may refer to:
Film and music
* ''Janis'' (film), a 1974 film about Janis Joplin
** ''Janis'' (1975 album), a compilation and the soundtrack album for the film
** ''Janis'' (1993 album), a Joplin career overview collection
* "Janis", a track ...
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