Yuri Vladimirovich Linnik (Russian: Ю́рий Влади́мирович Ли́нник; January 8, 1915 – June 30, 1972) was a Soviet mathematician active in number theory, probability theory and mathematical statistics.

Linnik was born in Bila Tserkva, in present-day Ukraine.

He was a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, as was his father, Vladimir Pavlovich Linnik.

[1] Linnik obtained numerous results concerning infinitely divisible distributions.

He has also coauthored the book Linnik & Ostrovskii (1977) on the arithmetics of infinitely divisible distributions.