Yefim is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
Yefim Alekseyevich Cherepanov and Miron Yefimovich Cherepanov (1774–1842) and (1803–1849), Russian inventors, father and son
Yefim Bronfman (born 1958), Russian-Israeli pianist
Yefim Chaplits (1768–1825), ethnic Pole, general of the Russian Empire
Yefim Chulak (born 1948), Russian former volleyball player
Yefim Golïshev (1897–1970), Ukrainian-born painter and composer
Yefim Karskiy (1861–1931), linguist-Slavist, ethnographer and paleographer
Yefim Kopelyan (1912–1975), Russian actor of theater and cinema
