Yost (surname)
Yost is an anglicized spelling of the Dutch name "Joost" or German surname "Jost".
Notable people
Government
- Charles Woodruff Yost, American diplomat
- Dave Yost, American lawyer, politician and Ohio State Attorney General
- Ellis Asby Yost, American lawyer and West Virginia state senator for whom the prohibitionist "Yost Law" of 1913 is named
- Eric Yost, American politician, attorney and judge
- Jack Yost, American politician and West Virginia state senator
- Jacob Senewell Yost, American politician and Pennsylvania Representative
- Jacob Yost (Virginia congressman), American politician and Virginia Representative
- Joseph R. Yost, American politician, Virginia state delegate
- Paul A. Yost Jr., American Coast Guard Commandant
- Robert L. Yost, American diplomat
- Thomas B. Yost, United States Environmental Protection Agency federal judge
Media
- Casper Yost, American newspaper editor
- Christopher Yost, American film and animation screenwriter
- David Yost, American actor
- Dennis Yost, American singer and frontman of pop group Classics IV
- Dorothy Yost, American screenwriter
- Elwy Yost, Canadian television host
- Gary Yost, American filmmaker and software designer
- Graham Yost, Canadian film and television screenwriter
- Herbert Yost, American silent film actor
- Tibor Yost, Hungarian screenwriter and journalist
Sports
- David Yost (American football), American football coach
- Dick Yost, American golfer
- Eddie Yost, American baseball player and coach
- Fielding H. Yost, American football player and coach
- Gus Yost, American baseball player
- Jack Yost (footballer), Australian rules footballer
- Jordan Yost, American baseball player
- Ned Yost, American baseball player and manager
- Nick Yost, American basketball player
- Sandra Yost, Australian swimmer
- Shane Yost, Australian rollerblader
Other
- Benjamin Yost, American philosopher
- Christopher Yost (biologist), Canadian biologist
- David S. Yost, American academic and author on international relations
- Edna Yost, American writer
- Gaylord Yost, American violinist, composer, and teacher
- George Washington Newton Yost, American inventor and typewriter manufacturer
- Gilbert Yost, American criminal
- James Jackson Yost, American inventor of the agricultural/farm version of the grain elevator
- Joseph W. Yost, American architect
- Lenna Lowe Yost, American suffragist and temperance leader
- Lyle Yost, American agriculture equipment manufacturer and inventor
- Isaac M. "Ike" Yost, American miller and frontier industrialist
- Mary Yost, American academic
- Michèl Yost, French musician, teacher, and cofounder of the French clarinet school
- Nellie Snyder Yost, American historian and writer
- Paul Edward Yost, American inventor of the modern hot air balloon
- Richard Yost, American scientist
- Robert M. Yost, American philosopher