Ilios Yannakakis (13 September 1931 in Cairo, Egypt – 16 January 2017 in Paris) was a French historian and political scientist of Greek descent, professor emeritus of the University of Lille III.
He was engaged in struggle for human rights and after the defeat of the Prague Spring he fled to France.
In 2003 he became the editorial board of the Le Meilleur des mondes, a magazine of the French political think tank Cercle de l'Oratoire.
A fictionalized account of his life was presented in the book Matin Rouge ("Red Sunrise") by Chantal Delsol.
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