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Yoshua Bengio

Yoshua Bengio is a Canadian computer scientist and Université de Montréal professor who pioneered deep learning and shared the 2018 Turing Award with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun.

Yosi, the Regretful Spy

Yosi, the Regretful Spy (Iosi, el espía arrepentido) is a 2022-2023 Argentine Prime Video thriller by Daniel Burman, based on Lewin and Lutzky's book about police agent José Pérez, who infiltrated Buenos Aires' Jewish community as Iosi Peres.

Yosl Rakover Talks to God

Yosl Rakover Talks to God (Yossl Rakover ret tsu Got) is a short story by Zvi Kolitz, published in Yiddish in Buenos Aires in 1946.

Yoson An

Yoson An (born 1992) is a Chinese-born, New Zealand-based actor and filmmaker; Hollywood debut as Chen Honghui in Disney's Mulan (2020), lead in Dead Lucky and New Gold Mountain, 2022 Asian Academy Creative Award winner.

YoSoyPlex

YoSoyPlex (@yosoyplex) is the YouTube channel of Daniel Alonso Góndez, known as Plex, a Spanish creator born in 2001 in Toro, Zamora. Started 2014 with Fortnite; famous for three 'Vuelta al Mundo' series, La Velada boxing wins, and ~14.9M subscribers.

Yosra Saouf

Yosra Saouf, also spelled Yousra Saouf (يسرا سعوف), is a Moroccan singer who rose to fame on Arab Idol in 2013, finishing ninth at age 20.

Yossarian King

Yossarian King is a Canadian game technologist who co-founded the Vancouver studio Blackbird Interactive in 2010 and served as its Chief Technical Officer until 2024.

Yossi Benayoun (יוסי שי בניון)

Yossi Benayoun (יוסי בניון), born Yosef Shai Benayoun in 1980, is a retired Israeli attacking midfielder who played for Liverpool, Chelsea, and West Ham United and captained Israel.

Yossi Cohen

Yossi Cohen (Joseph Cohen) is a former Mossad director, Israel's intelligence agency, serving as its 12th chief from January 2016 to 2021. Known for the 2018 Iranian nuclear archive seizure and leading Abraham Accords negotiations with the UAE and Bahrain; later a memoirist and would-be politician.

Yossi Ghinsberg

Yossi Ghinsberg (born 1959) is an Israeli adventurer, author, and motivational speaker who survived about three weeks alone in the Bolivian Amazon in 1981, chronicled in his bestseller Jungle and the 2017 film starring Daniel Radcliffe.

Yossi Matias

Yossi Matias is an Israeli computer scientist who heads Google Research as Vice President and General Manager, founded Google's Israel engineering center, and won the Gödel Prize for streaming algorithms.

Yossi Vardi

Yossi Vardi (יוסי ורדי), born Joseph Vardi, is an Israeli entrepreneur and angel investor whose founding investment in Mirabilis created the ICQ instant messaging program.

Yostar (悠星)

Yostar (悠星), also known as Yostar Games, is a Chinese video game company headquartered in Shanghai since 2014, the publisher of Azur Lane, Arknights, and Blue Archive.

Yosuf

Yosuf is an American hardstyle DJ and producer from Sacramento, California, billed as the most-streamed hardstyle DJ in the USA, with releases on Basscon Records.

Yosuga no Sora (ヨスガノソラ)

Yosuga no Sora (ヨスガノソラ) is a Japanese romance visual novel with branching routes for five heroines, including a taboo sibling romance, adapted into a 12-episode anime in 2010.

Yōsuke Matsuoka (松岡洋右)

Yōsuke Matsuoka (松岡洋右, 1880–1946), Japanese diplomat and foreign minister 1940–41: led Japan's 1933 League of Nations walkout, signed the Tripartite Pact and Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact, died a class-A war criminal before trial.

Yosuke Tsuji

Yosuke Tsuji (辻 庸介), born 1976 in Osaka, is a Japanese entrepreneur who founded the Tokyo fintech company Money Forward in 2012 and serves as its Group CEO.

Yōsuke Yamahata

Yōsuke Yamahata (山端 庸介, 1917–1966) was a Japanese photographer who recorded Nagasaki on 10 August 1945, the day after the atomic bombing, in more than 100 photographs.

Yosys

Yosys, or Yosys Open SYnthesis Suite, is a free, open-source RTL synthesis framework for Verilog hardware, developed by YosysHQ and central to open FPGA and ASIC flows.

Yotaka Futatabi (夜鷹ふたたび)

Yotaka Futatabi (夜鷹ふたたび, Nighthawk Returns) is a seinen manga by Fuyuki Izumida serialized in Kodansha's Morning since November 2025, about a legendary 33-year-old hitwoman living as an unemployed slob who is invited back into the assassination world.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Yotam Ottolenghi, Israeli-born London chef and cookbook author, co-founded the Ottolenghi delis with Sami Tamimi in 2002, wrote Jerusalem, Plenty, and Simple, and champions vegetable-forward Middle Eastern cooking.

Yote

Yoté is a two-player abstract strategy board game from West Africa, played in Senegal, Mali, and the Gambia, where each jump captures a second enemy piece.

Yoteizan

Yoteizan (羊蹄山, Mount Yotei, Ezo Fuji) is a 1,898 m symmetrical andesitic-dacitic stratovolcano in southwestern Hokkaido, Japan, NW of Toya caldera; last erupted about 2,500 years ago, no historical eruptions.

Yothu Yindi

Yothu Yindi (Yolngu Matha for child and mother) is an Australian band formed in 1986 by Yolngu and non-Indigenous musicians from Arnhem Land and Darwin, famed for the 1991 protest hit Treaty, the Tribal Voice album, ARIA and NIMA Hall of Fame inductions, and fusing Yolngu language with rock and dance music.

Yoti

Yoti is a British digital identity and age assurance company founded in April 2014 by CEO Robin Tombs, offering identity verification, facial age estimation, and digital ID wallets to businesses and governments.

Yoto (audio player)

Yoto is a screen-free children's audio platform whose cards, NFC-chipped and inserted into the Yoto Player or Mini, play audio without a screen, microphone, or camera.

Yoto Yotov

Yoto Yotov (Йото Василев Йотов), born 1969 in Pernik, is a Bulgarian weightlifter with Olympic silvers at Barcelona 1992 (67.5 kg) and Atlanta 1996 (76 kg), three world titles, six European titles, and two 1994 world records.

Yotsuba&! (よつばと!)

Yotsuba&! (よつばと!, Yotsuba to!) is Kiyohiko Azuma's ongoing slice-of-life comedy manga serialized in Dengeki Daioh since 2003, following five-year-old Yotsuba Koiwai; 16 volumes, over 18 million copies, no anime adaptation.

Yotta Data Services

Yotta Data Services is an Indian data center and GPU cloud operator backed by the Hiranandani Group, offering NVIDIA-powered Shakti Cloud and the MeitY-empanelled Yntraa sovereign cloud.

Yotta Technologies

Yotta Technologies is a San Francisco fintech company, founded in 2019, that offered prize-linked savings accounts paying sweepstakes tickets instead of interest; it launched in 2020 through Y Combinator.