Yank (nickname)
Yank is a nickname for:
- Yank Adams (1847-1923), American professional carom billiards player specializing in finger billiards
- Yank Azman (born 1947), Canadian television and movie actor
- Yank Barry (born 1948), Canadian musician and businessman
- Charles A. Bernier (1890-1963), American football, basketball and baseball player, coach and college administrator
- Irwin Boyd (1908-1979), American National Hockey League player
- Robert B. "Yank" Heisler (born 1949), American retired business executive and current university dean
- Yank Lawson (1911-1995), American jazz trumpeter
- Yank Levy (1897-1965), Canadian soldier, military instructor and author of one of the first manuals on guerrilla warfare
- Yank Rachell (1910-1997), American country blues mandolin and guitar player
- Yank Robinson (1857-1894), American Major League Baseball player
- Yank Terry (1911-1979), American Major League Baseball pitcher
- Wayne Warren (born 1962), Welsh darts player
- Stan Yerkes (1874-1940), American Major League Baseball pitcher
See also
- Danny Culloty, American-born former Gaelic football player nicknamed "The Yank"
- Bianca Hammett (born 1990), Australian synchronised swimmer nicknamed "Yanks"
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