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Yozuca*

yozuca (よずか) is a Japanese anison singer from Kumamoto Prefecture who debuted in 2002 and is best known for the opening theme of the anime D.C. ~Da Capo.

Yoʼnal Ahk I

Yoʼnal Ahk I was a Maya king who ruled Piedras Negras in Guatemala from 603 to 639 CE, the first ruler of its Late Classic dynasty.

YPbPr

YPbPr is the analog component video signal set carrying a picture on three wires: luma Y′ plus color-difference signals Pb and Pr, and the standard connection before HDMI displaced it.

Ypee

Ypee, born Andy Agyemang in 1996 in Kumasi, is a Ghanaian hip hop artist and CEO of PeeNation Records who raps mainly in Twi and broke out nationally with 'Wonkonono'.

YPF

YPF (Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales) is Argentina's state-controlled energy company, founded in 1922. Privatized in the 1990s and acquired by Spain's Repsol, it was renationalized in 2012.

YPFB

YPFB (Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos) is Bolivia's state-owned hydrocarbons company, founded in 1936 and headquartered in La Paz. It explores for and produces oil and gas.

YPFB Transporte

YPFB Transporte is a Bolivian state-owned pipeline company, a YPFB subsidiary created as Transredes in 1997 and renamed after nationalization in 2008, headquartered in Santa Cruz.

Ypiranga futebol clube

Ypiranga Futebol Clube (Canarinho), football club of Erechim, Rio Grande do Sul, founded 18 August 1924 after a brawl in a match against Ítalo-Brasileiro; green and yellow independence-themed colors, Colosso da Lagoa stadium (1970), Série C since 2015. Distinct from Clube Atlético Ypiranga of São Paulo.

Yponomeutidae

Yponomeutidae, the ermine moths (type genus Yponomeuta), a family of small moths in Yponomeutoidea with about 360 named species; specialist caterpillars, often communal webbers, including fruit-tree pests like the apple ermine moth.

Ypres

Ypres (Dutch: Ieper) is a West Flanders municipality in Belgium, a medieval cloth city, destroyed in World War I and rebuilt, now the unofficial capital of Flanders Fields with the Menin Gate Last Post and UNESCO-listed belfry.

Ypres Rally

Ypres Rally (Ieper), Belgium's leading asphalt rally, first held 1965; long an ERC round, WRC event 2021 and 2022; narrow Flanders farmland stages, Kemmelberg cobbles; winners include Neuville, Breen, Loix.

Ypsilanti, Michigan

Ypsilanti, Michigan: a Washtenaw County city on the Huron River, founded 1825 and named for Demetrius Ypsilanti; home of Eastern Michigan University, 20,648 residents in 2020.

Ypsomed

Ypsomed is a Swiss medical technology group based in Burgdorf, Switzerland, that develops pen injectors and autoinjectors and sold its diabetes care business in 2025.

Yreka, California

Yreka is the county seat and largest city of Siskiyou County, Northern California, founded in the 1851 Gold Rush, incorporated April 21, 1857, and once named capital of the proposed State of Jefferson.

YRF Spy Universe

YRF Spy Universe: Yash Raj Films' interconnected Hindi spy-action franchise of fictional RAW agents, from Ek Tha Tiger (2012) through Pathaan (2023), War 2 (2025), and Alpha (2026), peaking with Pathaan and later overtaken by Dhurandhar.

Yrigoyenism

Yrigoyenism was the political movement and leadership style built around Hipólito Yrigoyen in Argentina's Unión Cívica Radical, which governed from 1916 until the military coup of 1930.

Yrjo Hietanen

Yrjö Hietanen (Yrjö Jalmari Hietanen, 1927–2011), Finnish sprint canoeist; with Kurt Wires won K2 1,000 m and K2 10,000 m gold at Helsinki 1952, seventh at Melbourne 1956.

Yrjö Hirn

Yrjö Hirn (1870–1952) was a Finnish philosopher and aesthetician who held the chair of aesthetics at the University of Helsinki from 1910 to 1937, best known for The Origins of Art (1900).

Yrjo Nikkanen

Yrjö Nikkanen (Jouko Yrjö Nikkanen, 1914–1985), Finnish javelin thrower: 1936 Berlin Olympic silver (70.77 m), European silvers 1938 and 1946, and world records of 77.87 m and 78.70 m in 1938, the latter standing until 1953.

Yrjo Saarela

Yrjö Saarela (1882 or 1884-1951), Finnish Greco-Roman wrestler; Olympic heavyweight gold 1912 Stockholm, light-heavyweight silver 1908 London, world champion 1911 Helsinki; later farmer and coach.

Ys

Ys (Ker-Is, Kêr-Is) is the legendary drowned city of Breton folklore, built below sea level in the Bay of Douarnenez, ruled by King Gradlon and sunk when his daughter Dahut opened the sea-gate; famous through Barzaz Breiz and Lalo's 1888 opera.

Ys (music)

Ys is a 1972 concept album by the Italian progressive rock band Il Balletto di Bronzo, a five-movement work now regarded as a classic of Italian symphonic prog.

Ys (イース) (series)

Ys (イース) is Nihon Falcom's action RPG series starring Adol Christin, begun on PC-8801 in 1987; 11 mainline games from bump-attack combat to Ys X: Nordics' Cross Action, famed for Falcom Sound Team jdk music and Ys VIII's 700,000+ sales.

Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim

Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim (イースVI) is Nihon Falcom's 2003 action RPG, the sixth Ys game and the first in 3D, starring Adol Christin on the Canaan islands with three elemental swords; XSEED re-released it on PC in 2015.

Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana (イースVIII -Lacrimosa of DANA-)

Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana (イースVIII -Lacrimosa of DANA-) is Nihon Falcom's eighth Ys action RPG, set on the cursed Isle of Seiren; Vita 2016, PS4 2017, over 700,000 sold, and a reworked NIS America localization after a 2017 apology.

Ys X: Nordics (イースX -NORDICS-)

Ys X: Nordics (イースX -NORDICS-) is a Falcom action RPG released in Japan September 28, 2023 and in the West October 25, 2024, following Adol Christin and Karja Balta, bound by Mana Cuffs, fighting the Grieger in Obelia Gulf with the two-character Cross Action system.

YS2302018

YS2302018 is CSPC Pharmaceutical's preclinical oral small-molecule lipoprotein(a) inhibitor, discovered by its AI drug design platform and exclusively licensed to AstraZeneca in October 2024 for $100 million upfront plus up to $1.92 billion in milestones.

Ysabel Jurado

Ysabel Jurado, tenants rights attorney and DSA-LA member, has represented Los Angeles City Council District 14 since December 2024 after unseating Kevin de León 57.17% to 42.83%, becoming the council's first Filipino heritage member and CD14's first woman and LGBTQ+ representative.

Ysengrimus

Ysengrimus is a Latin beast epic of more than 6,500 lines written at Ghent around 1148 to 1152, the earliest complete medieval beast epic and the debut of Reynard the Fox.

Yser Front

Yser Front (IJzerfront): the Belgian-held section of the Western Front along the river Yser and Yser Canal near Diksmuide and Nieuwpoort, 1914-1918, where the Battle of the Yser, the inundation of the Yser plain, and the Trench of Death halted the German advance.