Brent Yonts (March 21, 1949 – August 20, 2021) was an American politician and a Democratic member of the Kentucky House of Representatives from District 15. He took office in 1997 and was defeated for re-election in 2016 by Republican Melinda Gibbons Prunty. Yonts died from COVID-19 at a hospital in Owensboro, Kentucky, on August 20, 2021, aged 72.