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Young Mazino

Young Mazino (Christopher Young Kim) is an American actor from Maryland, known for Emmy-nominated Paul Cho in Beef (2023) and Jesse in The Last of Us, with upcoming roles in Steps and Modern Warfare 4.

Young MC

Young MC (Marvin Young, born 1967, London) is a British-American rapper who wrote Tone Loc's "Wild Thing" and "Funky Cold Medina" and won the 1990 Best Rap Performance Grammy for "Bust a Move" from the platinum album Stone Cold Rhymin'.

Young Men's Buddhist Association (Burma)

The Young Men's Buddhist Association (YMBA) was a Burmese lay Buddhist organization founded in Rangoon in 1906 on the model of the YMCA, becoming the nationalist General Council of Burmese Associations in 1920.

Young Money Entertainment

Young Money Entertainment, founded by Lil Wayne in 2005, is a Cash Money joint-venture record label distributed via Republic/UMG; it launched Drake and Nicki Minaj and released We Are Young Money (2009).

Young Moo Lee

Young Moo Lee (이영무) is a South Korean polymer membrane scientist and Hanyang Distinguished Professor who served as president of Hanyang University from 2015 to 2019.

Young Mothers

Young Mothers (Jeunes Mères) is a 2025 social-realist drama by Belgian directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne about five teenage mothers in a Liège shelter; it won Best Screenplay and the Ecumenical Jury Prize at Cannes 2025 and was Belgium's 2026 Oscar submission.

Young Mr. Lincoln

Young Mr. Lincoln is John Ford's 1939 Twentieth Century-Fox biographical drama starring Henry Fonda as a young lawyer Abraham Lincoln, fictionalizing the 1858 Duff Armstrong almanac murder trial and later the subject of a landmark 1970 Cahiers du Cinéma analysis.

Young Nudy

Young Nudy (Quantavious Thomas, born 1992, Atlanta) is an East Atlanta rapper known for the Slimeball mixtapes, his Pi'erre Bourne collaborations Sli'merre and Sli'merre 2, and the 2023 album Gumbo with the Hot 100 hit Peaches & Eggplants featuring his cousin 21 Savage.

Young offender institution

Young offender institutions (YOIs) are prison-estate custodial establishments in England and Wales for boys aged 15-17 and young adults 18-21, successors to borstals (1902-1982), created by the Criminal Justice Act 1988; girls ceased to be placed there in March 2025.

Young Ottoman Society

The Young Ottoman Society (جمعیت جدید عثمانیان) was a secret Ottoman opposition organization founded in 1865, whose members, including Namik Kemal and Ziya Pasha, sought constitutional government.

Young Pappy

Young Pappy (Shaquon Thomas, 1995-2015) was a Chicago drill rapper from the North Side known for "Killa" and "2 Cups," a fast, lyrical style atypical of drill, killed at 20 in 2015.

Young People Fucking

Young People Fucking (YPF) is a 2007 Canadian sex comedy directed by Martin Gero and co-written with Aaron Abrams: five bedroom storylines in six chapters, $1.5 million budget, TIFF 2007 Best First Feature winner.

Young People's Socialist League (1907)

Young People's Socialist League (YPSL), founded 1907 in New York as the Young People's Socialist Federation, youth section of the Socialist Party of America; members called Yipsels; first national convention 1919; Militant and Trotskyist stronghold in the 1930s.

Young People's Socialist League (Socialist Party USA)

Young People's Socialist League (YPSL), founded 1907, is the youth wing of the Socialist Party of America and later Socialist Party USA; dissolved by its left-led 1963 convention, now rebuilt for members under 36.

Young Pioneers

The Young Pioneers (Всесоюзная пионерская организация) was the Soviet Union's mass children's communist organization, founded in 1922 and directed by the Komsomol until 1990, with over 210 million members.

Young Plan

The Young Plan (1929-1930), chaired by Owen D. Young, was the final-settlement restructuring of German reparations, cutting the debt to about 121 billion gold marks over 58 years and creating the Bank for International Settlements; it collapsed in the Depression.

Young Poland

Young Poland (Młoda Polska) was the cultural period of Polish literature, art, and music from roughly 1890 to 1918, shaped by symbolism, decadence, and a Romantic revival.

Young Republican group chat leaks

Young Republican group chat leaks: October 2025 Politico publication of 28,000+ Telegram messages (RESTOREYR WAR ROOM) among Young Republican leaders in New York, Kansas, Arizona, and Vermont, containing racist and antisemitic remarks, leading to resignations including Vermont Senator Samuel Douglass and chapter disbandments.

Young rider classification in the Tour de France

Young rider classification, Tour de France white jersey (maillot blanc): best GC rider under 26 on 1 January, run since 1975, first won by Francesco Moser; Krys-sponsored, Sanofi from 2027; six riders doubled it with yellow.

Young Rock

Young Rock is an American NBC single-camera sitcom created by Nahnatchka Khan and Jeff Chiang, telling Dwayne Johnson's early life through flashbacks from a fictional 2032 presidential campaign.

Young Royals

Young Royals is a Swedish Netflix teen drama (2021–2024, three six-episode seasons) created by Lisa Ambjörn, Lars Beckung, and Camilla Holter, following Prince Wilhelm's romance with Simon at the Hillerska boarding school.

Young Scooter

Young Scooter (Kenneth Edward Bailey, 1986-2025) was an Atlanta trap rapper from Walterboro, South Carolina, founder of Black Migo Gang, known for "Colombia," Trippple Cross, and the "Jet Lag" Hot 100 entry; he died fleeing police on his 39th birthday.

Young Sheldon

Young Sheldon is a CBS single-camera comedy (2017-2024, seven seasons) created by Chuck Lorre and Steven Molaro as a prequel to The Big Bang Theory, following 9-year-old Sheldon Cooper (Iain Armitage) in fictional Medford, East Texas, narrated by Jim Parsons, ending May 16, 2024, and continuing in Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage.

Young Sherlock (British TV series)

Young Sherlock is a British Prime Video series (premiered March 4, 2026) developed by Guy Ritchie and created by Matthew Parkhill, starring Hero Fiennes Tiffin as a 19-year-old Sherlock Holmes at Oxford and Dónal Finn as a friendly James Moriarty; inspired by, not adapted from, Andrew Lane's novels, renewed for a second season in April 2026.

Young Sherlock Holmes

Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), also released as Young Sherlock Holmes and the Pyramid of Fear, is a Barry Levinson film written by Chris Columbus, produced by Amblin for Paramount, starring Nicholas Rowe and Alan Cox, and featuring the first fully CGI photorealistic movie character, the stained glass knight.

Young Slo-Be

Young Slo-Be, born Disean Jaquae Victor (1993), Stockton, California rapper of the EBK Hotboiiz crew, known for his whisper flow, the viral TikTok hit "I Love You," the Slo-Be Bryant series and Southeast (2022); shot dead in Manteca on 5 August 2022, aged 29, with Slo-Be Bryant 4 released posthumously in 2024.

Young Socialists in the SPD

Jusos in der SPD (Young Socialists in the SPD) are the SPD's youth wing for members up to 35, founded 1914, dissolved 1931, refounded 1946, turned socialist tendency organization in the 1969 Linkswende.

Young Soul Rebels

Young Soul Rebels is Isaac Julien's 1991 feature debut, a thriller and gay love story about pirate radio DJs Chris and Caz in 1977 Jubilee London, made by the BFI for £1.2 million and winner of the Cannes Critics' Week prize.

Young Stalin

Young Stalin is a 2007 biography of Joseph Stalin's early years by Simon Sebag Montefiore, adapted into a 2026 film directed by Géla Babluani starring Cosmo Jarvis, centered on the 1907 Tiflis Imperial Bank robbery before the Russian Revolution.

Young stellar object

A young stellar object (YSO) is a star in an early stage of formation, encompassing protostars and pre-main-sequence stars that have not yet begun fusing hydrogen.