Life of Pi is a Canadian philosophical novel by Yann Martel published in 2001. The protagonist is Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, an Indian boy from Pondicherry, India, who explores issues of spirituality and metaphysics from an early age. After a shipwreck, he survives 227 days while stranded on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger, raising questions about the nature of reality and how it is perceived and told.
Yann Pierre Tiersen is a French Breton musician and composer. His musical career is split between studio recordings, music collaborations, and film soundtracks songwriting. His music incorporates a large variety of classical and contemporary instruments, primarily the electric guitar, the piano, synthesisers, and the violin, but he also includes instruments such as the melodica, xylophone, toy piano, harpsichord, piano accordion, and even a typewriter.
Yann Lachuer is a French football coach and former professional player who coaches SO Romorantin.
Roger Bambuck is a French former sprinter and politician.
Yann Sommer is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Serie A club Inter Milan and the Switzerland national team.
Campnosperma is a genus of rainforest trees in the Cashew Family (Anacardiaceae). They are found in the East Indies, south Asia and the Seychelles.
Yann Delaigue is a retired French international rugby union player.
Randrianasolo's sportive lemur, or the Bemaraha sportive lemur, is a sportive lemur endemic to a small area of western Madagascar. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Yann Cucherat is a French gymnast. He won a bronze medal in parallel bars at the 2005 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. He competed at the 2000, 2004, 2008, and 2012 Summer Olympics.
Yann André LeCun is a French-American computer scientist working primarily in the fields of machine learning, computer vision, mobile robotics and computational neuroscience. He is the Silver Professor of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University and Vice-President, Chief AI Scientist at Meta.
Yann Gérard M'Vila is a French professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for EFL Championship club West Bromwich Albion. He is described by his former club as a player who possesses "excellent defensive abilities" and "impressive physical strength", but can also play as a box-to-box midfielder, due to his impressive work rates and stamina. He is the younger brother of Yohan M'Vila.
Yann Martel, is a Canadian author who wrote the Man Booker Prize–winning novel Life of Pi, an international bestseller published in more than 50 territories. It has sold more than 12 million copies worldwide and spent more than a year on the bestseller lists of the New York Times and The Globe and Mail, among many other best-selling lists. Life of Pi was adapted for a movie directed by Ang Lee, garnering four Oscars including Best Director and winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score.
Yann Songo'o is a professional footballer who plays as a defender for Morecambe. Born in France, he has represented Cameroon at youth level.
Yann Ekra is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder. Born in Ivory Coast, he is a former France youth international.
Yann Demange is a French film and television director of French and Algerian descent, who grew up in London. After directing the well-received television series Dead Set (2008) and Top Boy (2011), he made his directorial film debut with the critically acclaimed independent film '71 (2014), for which he received the British Independent Film Award for Best Director.
Yoshua Bengio is a Canadian computer scientist, most noted for his work on artificial neural networks and deep learning. He is a professor at the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at the Université de Montréal and scientific director of the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA).
Yann Moix is a French author, film director and television presenter. He is the author of ten novels and the recipient of several literary prizes. He has directed three films. He was a columnist on On n'est pas couché.
Randrianasolo is a Malagasy surname.
Rija Randrianasolo, known as Rijasolo, is a photojournalist based in Antananarivo, Madagascar. He won a World Press Photo Award for Africa 2022 in the long-term category, and Paritana Contemporary Art Award in 2019.
Yann Schrub is a French middle- and long-distance runner. In the 10,000 metres, he won the bronze medal at the 2022 European Athletics Championships and the silver medal at the 2024 European Athletics Championships.
