Yashwant or Yashawant is a given name.
People Yashwant Vithoba Chittal (born 1928), Kannada fiction writer, Academy Award recipient for his work Purusottama Yashwant Jadhav, Indian politician Yashwant Singh Parmar (1906–1981), Indian politician and Chief Minister of Himachal Pradesh Yashwant Sardeshpande, theatre actor, director, playwright Yashwant Singh (Lok Sabha member), Indian politician Yashwant Sinha (born 1937), Indian politician Yashwant Trivedi, Indian Gujarati poet, essayist and critic Yashwant Vyas, Indian author, journalist and editor Yashwant Dev (1926 – 2018), Indian Marathi poet Yashwantrao Chavan, Indian politician Yashwantrao Holkar, Indian king Prakash Yashwant Ambedkar, national president of the Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh Indian political party Yashwant Dinkar Pendharkar, Indian Marathi poet
Other Yashwant Sagar, a dam reservoir in India Yashwant Stadium