Given Name
- Yahya ibn Sarafyun (9th century), Arabic medical writer known in medieval Europe as Johannes Serapion
- Yahya ibn Khalid (died 806), Vizier of the Persian Barmakids family
- Abu Yahya Ibn al-Batriq (working 796- 806), translator of Greek scientific texts
- Yahya ibn Asad, Samanid ruler of Shash (819-855) and Samarkand (851/852-855)
- Yahya ibn Muhammad (aka Yahya I), Idrisid ruler (848-864)
- Yahya ibn Yahya, sixth Idrisid ruler and sultan of Morocco
- Yahya of Antioch (Yahya ibn Sa'ïd), 11th-century Syrian chronicler
- Yahya (Zaragoza) (fl. 1021-1029), full name Yahya ibn al-Mundhir, 11th century ruler of Zaragoza
- Sultan Yahya (1585–1649), son of Sultan Mehmet III, a Christian convert and a claimant to the Ottoman throne
- Mirza Yahya Nuri Subh-i Azal (1831–1912), Persian religious leader of Azali Bábism
- Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din, imam of the Zaydis (1904) and king of Yemen (1926)
- Yahya Khan (1917–1980), former President of Pakistan and Chief of Army Staff
- Sultan Yahya Petra (1917–1979), sixth Yang di-Pertuan Agong (roughly equivalent to King)
- Yahya Rahim Safavi (born 1958), commander in chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)
- Yahya Al-Shehri, Saudi footballer
- Yahya Jammeh (born 1965), president of The Gambia
- Yahya Ayyash (1966–1996), member and chief bombmaker of Hamas
- Yahya GolMohammadi (born 1971), Iranian footballer
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