Yves (given name)

People with the given name

Actors

• Yves Amyot, Canadian actor
• Yves Montand, French/Italian singer and actor
• Yves Verhoeven, French actor

  Artists

• Yves Béhar, Swiss designer, entrepreneur and an educator
• Pierre-Yves Pelletier, Canadian graphic designer
• Yves Chaland, French cartoonist and writer
• Yves Klein, French artist
• Yves Netzhammer, Swiss artist
• Yves Rodier, Canadian cartoonist
• Yves Saint Laurent, French fashion designer
• Yves Tanguy, French surrealist painter
• Yves Trudeau , Canadian sculptor and artist

  Athletes

• Pierre-Yves André, French footballer
• Yves Allegro, Swiss tennis player
• Yves Archambault, Canadian ice hockey player
• Yves Beaudoin , Canadian ice hockey player
• Yves Bélanger , Canadian ice hockey player
• Yves Colleu, French footballer
• Yves Deroff, French footballer
• Yves Dignadice, Filipino basketball player
• Yves Dreyfus, French Olympic medalist épée fencer
• Yves du Manoir, French rugby player
• Yves Edwards, Bahamian mixed martial arts fighter
• Yves Giraud-Cabantous, French racing driver
• Yves Herbet, French footballer and manager
• Yves Ma-Kalambay, Belgian footballer
• Yves Mankel, German luger
• Yves Parlier, French sailor
• Yves Racine, Canadian ice hockey player
• Yves Saint-Martin, French jockey
• Yves Sarault, Canadian ice hockey player
• Yves Triantafyllos, French-Greek footballer
• Yves Vanderhaeghe, Belgian footballer

  Business people

• Yves Béhar, Swiss designer, entrepreneur, and educator
• Yves Fortier, Canadian lawyer, diplomat, and businessman
• Yves Guillemot, co-founder and CEO of Ubisoft
• Yves Lamoureux, software entrepreneur
• Yves Rocher, French cosmetics entrepreneur

  Directors

• Yves Allégret, French film director
• Yves Caumon, French film director
• Yves Ciampi, French film director
• Yves Lavandier, French film director
• Yves Pelletier, Canadian director, actor, and comedian
• Yves Robert, French director, actor, screenwriter, and producer
• Yves Simoneau, Canadian television director

  Economists

• Yves Balasko, French economist
• Yves Guyot, French economist and politician

  Lawyers

• St. Yves or Ivo of Chartres, French canon lawyer
• St. Yves or Ivo of Kermartin, Breton lawyer and priest, patron saint of lawyers
• Yves Bot, French magistrate
• Yves Lainé, French lawyer and politician
• Yves Pratte, Canadian lawyer and jurist

  Musicians

• Yves Agbo, Senegal/France/Key West,Fl. Afro-Jazz guitarist/composer
• Yves Daoust, Canadian composer and pianist
• Yves Deruyter, Belgian DJ and artist
• Yves Duteil, singer, songwriter, and politician
• Yves Nat, French composer and pianist
• Yves Prin, French composer, conductor, and pianist
• Yves Huts Dutch bass player for the band Epica
• Yves Passarell Brazilian guitarist for the band Capital Inicial
• Yves V, Belgian DJ and artist
• DJ Whoo Kid, American DJ
• Yves, member of the South Korean group Loona
• Yves Tumor, American music producer

  Philosophers

• Yves Simon, French Catholic Philosopher

  Politicians

• José Yves Limantour, Mexican politician, former Mexican Secretary of Finance
• Yves-Marie Adeline, French politician
• Yves Bouthillier, French politician, former French Minister of Finance
• Yves Cochet, French politician
• Yves Ducharme, Canadian politician and mayor
• Yves Fauqueur, prefect of Saint Pierre and Miquelon
• Yves Guérin-Sérac, French politician and activist
• Yves Lacoste, French geographer and geopolitician
• Yves Lessard, Canadian politician
• Yves Leterme, Belgian politician
• Yves Michaud, Canadian politician
• Yves Prévost, Canadian politician and lawyer
• Yves Rocheleau, Canadian politician
• Yves Séguin, Canadian politician

  Scientists

• Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French explorer, scientist and researcher
• Yves Aubry, Canadian ornithologist
• Yves Chauvin, French chemist
• Yves Colin de Verdière, French mathematician and physicist
• Yves Coppens, French anthropologist
• Yves Delage, French zoologist
• Yves Fortier , Canadian geologist
• Yves Laszlo, French mathematician
• Yves Marie André, French mathematician and essayist
• Yves Meyer, French mathematician and scientist
• Yves Morin, Canadian cardiologist, physician, scientist, and former Senator
• Yves Rocard, French physicist

  Writers

• Frédéric-Yves Jeannet, French novelist, critic, and interviewer
• Yves Beauchemin, Canadian novelist
• Yves Bonnefoy, French poet and essayist
• Yves Engler, Canadian writer and political activist
• Yves Frémion, French science fiction writer
• Yves Meynard, Canadian science fiction and fantasy writer
• Yves Thériault, Canadian writer
• Yves Urvoy, French historian and writer
• Yves Smith, American author

  Other people

• Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre, French occultist
• Yves Brunier, French landscape architect
• Yves Chaudron, French art forger
• Yves Congar, French Dominican priest and theologian
• Yves Gagnon, Canadian ambassador to Argentina and Paraguay
• Yves Godard, French soldier
• Yves Le Prieur, French inventor and military man
• Yves Leopold Germain Gaston, French patriarch
• Yves Marie Faddoul, Lebanese UBC political science scholar
• Yves Pouliquen, French doctor
• Yves Rossy, Swiss pilot and inventor
• Yves Trudeau , prolific Canadian serial killer, mass murderer, and Hells Angel

  Fictional characters

• Yves Adele Harlow, a character in The X-Files
• Yves Massarde, character in the Clive Cussler novel and film Sahara
• Yves, a criminal cat in a recurring sketch in the latter episodes of Dog City
• Yves Benedict, a character in Julia Golding's Finding Sky trilogy