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People · Y
194 profiles
- Y. A. Tittle · American football player (1926–2017)
- Yaak Karsunke · German writer, lyricist, playwright and actor (1934–2025)
- Yadé Kara · Turkish-German writer (born 1965)
- Yadier Molina · Puerto Rican baseball catcher
- Yaghma Golrouee · singer
- Yahya Jammeh · politician
- Yair Lapid · Journalist
- Yakov Kivovich Syrkin · scientist
- Yana Milev · German sociologist and artist
- Yanet Cruz · film director
- Yang Bin · Chinese businessman and tax evader
- Yang Hee-Seung · basketball player
- Yang Huiyan · Chinese-born Cypriot businesswoman, heiress, billionaire
- Yang Joon-hyuk · film director
- Yang Lei · Chinese singer
- Yanga R. Fernández · American astronomer
- Yanin Vismitananda · Thai actress and martial artist
- Yank Barry · rapper
- Yanka Kupala · writer
- Yann M'Vila · football player
- Yann Martel · writer
- Yann Tiersen · singer-songwriter
- Yann-Fañch Kemener · singer
- Yannick Cahuzac · football player
- Yannick Driesen · Belgian basketball player, born in 1988
- Yannick Sagbo · football player
- Yannis Amanatidis · Greek footballer
- Yannis Gagaloudis · Greek professional basketball player
- Yannis Sioutis · Greek professional basketball player
- Yannis Skondras · Greek footballer
- Yao Jingyuan · Chinese weightlifter
- Yao Ming · basketball player
- Yaphet Kotto · television actor
- Yared Dibaba · German actor, television presenter and radio host
- Yarisley Silva · Cuban pole vaulter
- Yaron Brook · entrepreneur
- Yaroslava Mahuchikh · athletics competitor
- Yaşar Yakış · Turkish diplomat (1938–2024)
- Yasemin Şamdereli · actor
- Yash Chopra · Indian film director, script writer and film producer (1932–2012)
- Yasha · singer
- Yashawant Dinkar Phadke · writer
- Yasiin Bey · actor
- Yasmin K. · German singer
- Yasmine Bleeth · American former actress
- Yasmine Hamdan · Lebanese singer
- Yassin El-Azzouzi · Moroccan and French footballer
- Yassin Idbihi · basketball player
- Yassine Benzia · football player
- Yasuhiko Yabuta · film director
- Yasujirō Ozu · Japanese film director, screenwriter (1903–1963)
- Yasuko Sawaguchi · Actor
- Yasunari Kawabata · Japanese novelist (1899–1972)
- Yasutaka Yoshida · Japanese association football player
- Yasutomo Kubo · film director
- Yaxel Lendeborg · Basketball player
- Yaya DaCosta · Actor
- Yayoi Kusama · Japanese painter, performance, and installation artist (born 1929)
- Yefim Kopelyan · Soviet actor (1912-1975)
- Yegor Kostryukhin · football player
- Yehuda Amichai · writer
- Yelawolf · singer
- Yelda Reynaud · Turkish-Austrian actress
- Yelena Isinbayeva · Russian female Olympic pole-vaulter
- Yelena Zhirko · Ukrainian basketball player
- Yelle · French singer
- Yeo Woon-kon · South korean hockey player
- Yeo Yann Yann · Actor
- Yeon Sang-ho · Actor
- Yeosang (Kang Yeo-sang) · K-pop Idol (ATEEZ)
- Yeri (Kim Ye-rim) · K-pop Idol (Red Velvet)
- Yersi Puello · Colombian athlete
- Yeshayahu Foerder · Israeli politician (1901-1970)
- Yevgeni Kartusha · football player
- Yevgeni Kurdus · Russian footballer
- Yevgeni Kuritsyn · Russian footballer
- Yevgeniy Abalakov · athlete
- Yevgeniya Kolodko · Russian athlete
- Yevgeny Prigozhin · Notable Trials
- Yevgeny Zezerov · Russian scientist
- Yge Visser · chess player
- Yi Bangja · Japanese-Korean princess
- Yi Chong-jun · South Korean writer (1939–2008)
- Yi U · military person
- Yihyun · K-pop Singer
- Yingluck Shinawatra · Notable Trials
- Yinka Dare · basketball player
- Yılmaz Güney · Turkish film director, scenarist, novelist and actor (1937-1984)
- Yngwie Malmsteen · Swedish guitarist
- Yo-Yo Ma · Actor
- Yoan Gouffran · football player
- Yoenis Céspedes · Cuban baseball player
- Yogi Berra · film director
- Yohan Blake · Jamaican athletics competitor
- Yohan Cabaye · football player
- Yohanan Aharoni · Israeli archaeologist and historical geographer (1919–1976)
- Yohann Sangare · basketball player
- Yohei Oshima · film director
- Yohji Yamamoto · Japanese fashion designer (born 1943)
- Yōko Hikasa · singer
- Yoko Ono · Peace activist
- Yoo Ho-jeong · South Korean actress
- Yoo Yeon-seok · South Korean actor (1984-)
- Yoon Gun · singer
- Yoon Jin-Hee · South Korean weightlifter
- Yoon Jong-shin · singer
- Yoon Kye-sang · Actor
- Yoon Seung-ah · Actor
- Yoon Suk-min · film director
- Yoram Gross · Polish-Australian animation producer and director (1926–2005)
- Yoram Lass · Israeli physician and politician
- Yosef Shiloach · Actor
- Yosef Shofman · Israeli diplomat (1903–1978)
- Yoshi Sudarso · Actor
- Yoshiaki Numata · former world Junior Lightweight boxing champion
- Yoshihiko Noda · Prime Minister of Japan from 2011 to 2012
- Yoshihiko Takahashi · film director
- Yoshihiro Ito · film director
- Yoshihisa Naruse · film director
- Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi · football player
- Yoshiko Yamaguchi · Japanese singer and actress (1920-2014)
- Yoshinori Higashikawa · Japanese association football player
- Yoshio Yoshida · film director
- Yoshiyuki Kato · Japanese association football player
- Yossef Romano · Israeli weightlifter (1940–1972)
- Youenn Gwernig · singer-songwriter
- Young Thug · Artist
- Youri Tielemans · association football player
- Youssef Adnane · football player
- Youssef En-Nesyri · association football player
- Youssou N’Dour · singer
- Youssoufa Moukoko · association football player
- Yoweri Museveni · politician
- Yto Barrada · Franco-Moroccan multimedia visual artist living and working in Tangier, Morocco and New York City. (born 1971)
- Yu Chaohong · Chinese race walker
- Yu Hai · football player
- Yu Pan · Actor
- Yu Wenxia · Chinese beauty queen
- Yuh Myung-woo · South Korean boxer
- Yui Hasegawa · association football player
- Yui Horie · singer
- Yui Yokoyama · Japanese idol, former member of AKB48
- Yuji Okumoto · Actor
- Yuji Yaso · Japanese association football player
- Yuji Yoshimi · film director
- Yujin (An Yu-jin) · K-pop Idol (IVE)
- Yuki Kajiura · Japanese composer and music producer
- Yuki Karakawa · film director
- Yūki Sōma · association football player
- Yuki Tsunoda · racing driver
- Yukihiro Matsumoto · Japanese computer scientist who created the Ruby programming language
- Yukiko Kobayashi · actor
- Yukiko Okada · Japanese pop singer (1967-1986)
- Yukio Mishima · Japanese author (1925–1970)
- Yūko Ogura · Japanese idol, model
- Yul Brynner · Oscar Winners
- Yulia Tymoshenko · entrepreneur
- Yulian Radionov · basketball player
- Yuliia Dovhal · Ukrainian Olympic weightlifter
- Yuliya Zaripova · Russian middle-distance runner
- Yumi Tamai · Actor
- Yumi Tōma · musician
- Yun Ch'iho · Korean independence activist (1864-1945)
- Yun Jee Kim · Actor
- Yunchen Juan · actor
- Yung Filly · YouTuber
- Yung Lean · Rapper
- Yunho (Jeong Yun-ho) · K-pop Idol (ATEEZ)
- Yuqi (Song Yu-qi) · K-pop Idol ((G)I-DLE)
- Yuri Gagarin · politician
- Yuri Kolokolnikov · Actor
- Yuri Nikulin · Clown
- Yuri Shevchuk · actor
- Yuri Stoyanov · actor
- Yury Ivashkin · Russian scientist
- Yury Luzhkov · scientist
- Yury Vlasov · Soviet weightlifter (1935–2021)
- Yusra Mardini · swimmer
- Yusuf Kasal · Turkish-German association football player (born 1988)
- Yusuf Raza Gilani · Notable Trials
- Yusuke Nomura · film director
- Yuta Nakayama · association football player
- Yuvraj Hans · Actor
- Yvan Daniel · French writer (1909–1986)
- Yves Blein · French politician
- Yves Klein · artist
- Yves Leterme · former Belgian prime minister
- Yves Mariot · football player
- Yves Montand · Film actor
- Yvette Cooper · Economist
- Yvette Mimieux · American actress (1942–2022)
- Yvette Nicole Brown · Actor
- Yvonne Keeley · singer
- Yvonne Maria Schäfer · actor