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Yu Ling
Yu Ling (于伶), born Ren Xigui, was a Chinese playwright and theater organizer who led left-wing spoken drama in isolated Shanghai during the War of Resistance.
Yu Liu
Yu Liu (刘禹) is a Chinese internet entrepreneur who founded the translation platform 365翻译, sold it to Alibaba in 2015, and served as Mobike's president and then CEO from 2018 to 2019.
Yu Meiren: Listening to the Rain
Yu Meiren: Listening to the Rain (虞美人·听雨) is a Chinese art song for voice and piano by composer Bai Dongliang, set to Jiang Jie's famous Song ci poem.
Yu Minhong
Yu Minhong, known internationally as Michael Yu, is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded New Oriental in 1993 and led its 2006 New York Stock Exchange listing.
Yu Minzhong
Yu Minzhong (于敏中, 1714–1780) was a Qing dynasty official who spent nearly twenty years in the Grand Council under the Qianlong Emperor and rose to Grand Secretariat rank.
Yu Mong-in
Yu Mong-in (유몽인, 1559–1623) was a mid-Joseon civil official and writer who directed diplomacy toward Ming China during the Imjin War and was executed in 1623.
Yu Mu
Yu Mu is a Chinese systems and computational neuroscientist who studies how zebrafish brains convert sensory input into movement, and co-developed open-source tools like CaImAn.
Yu Nam Gyu
Yu Nam Gyu (유남규, Yoo Nam-Kyu), South Korean table tennis player born 1968; won the first Olympic men's singles gold at Seoul 1988, plus three Olympic doubles bronzes (1988, 1992, 1996), and the first Korean male career grand slam in 1989.
Yu Nan (余男)
Yu Nan (余男) is a Chinese actress, a Beijing Film Academy graduate known as the "Queen of Art Films," Best Actress winner for Tuya's Marriage, and star of The Expendables 2 and the Wolf Warriors films.
Yu Nyanodayo (สมเด็จพระสังฆราช (อยู่ ญาโณทโย))
Yu Nyanodayo (อยู่ ญาโณทโย) was a monk of Wat Saket who served as the 15th Supreme Patriarch of Thailand from 1963 until his death in office in 1965.
Yu Qian
Yu Qian (于谦) was a Ming dynasty statesman and Minister of War who organized the defense of Beijing after the emperor was captured at Tumu in 1449.
Yu Qian's military reforms
Yu Qian's military reforms (于谦军制改革) were the reorganization of the Ming dynasty's capital army into the tuanying grouped-battalion system, carried out by Minister of War Yu Qian after the 1449 Tumu crisis.
Yu Qiao
Yu Qiao (乔羽) is a Chinese electrochemist and professor at Xiamen University since 2021, known for an anode-free lithium battery with a Li2O sacrificial agent published in Nature Energy in 2021.
Yu Qingze
Yu Qingze (虞庆则, died 597) was a leading statesman and general of the Sui dynasty who served Emperor Wen as minister of personnel and envoy to the Turks.
Yu Que
Yu Que (余阙, 1303–1358), courtesy name Tingxin, was a Yuan dynasty official, writer, and Tangut-descended commander remembered for defending Anqing until the city fell in 1358.
Yu Rang
Yu Rang (豫让) was an assassin of the state of Jin, remembered for two attempts on the life of Zhao Xiangzi to avenge his murdered lord Zhi Bo.
Yu Renrong
Yu Renrong (虞仁荣), born in 1966, is a Chinese semiconductor entrepreneur who founded Will Semiconductor in Shanghai in 2007 and built it into one of the world's largest CMOS image sensor makers.
Yu Rong
Yu Rong (俞熔), born in 1971, is a Chinese entrepreneur who founded Meinian Onehealth in Shanghai in 2006 and chairs China's largest private health-checkup chain.
Yu Seong-nyong
Yu Seong-nyong (유성룡, 1542–1607) was a Korean scholar-official who served as chief state councillor of Joseon through most of the Imjin War of 1592–1598, and wrote the Jingbi-rok, a central memoir of that war.
Yu Seong-won
Yu Seong-won (유성원) was a Joseon scholar-official and Hall of Worthies member who died in 1456 as one of the Sayuksin martyrs for the deposed king Danjong.
Yu Seung Kim
Yu Seung Kim is a chemical engineer and staff scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory known for ion-pair membranes that hold charge-carrying acid inside fuel cells.
Yu Seung Min
Yu Seung Min (유승민, Ryu Seung-Min, 柳承敏), born 1982, South Korean table tennis player; Athens 2004 men's singles Olympic champion, 2008 team bronze and 2012 team silver; penhold grip; later IOC Athletes' Commission member and Korean Sport and Olympic Committee president from 2025.
Yu Shan Juyuan Juejiao Shu
Yu Shan Juyuan Juejiao Shu (与山巨源绝交书), "Letter Breaking Off Relations with Shan Juyuan," is a famous prose letter by Wei-dynasty writer Ji Kang refusing his friend Shan Tao's recommendation.
Yu Shenxing
Yu Shenxing (于慎行), 1545 to 1607, was a Ming official, historian, and poet from Dong'e, Shandong, who served the Wanli Emperor as Minister of Rites and briefly as Grand Secretary.
Yu Shi (于适) (actor)
Yu Shi (于适, Yosh Yu), Chinese mainland actor born 1996 in Liaoning. Cast as Ji Fa in Creation of the Gods I (2023) from about 15,000 hopefuls, won Best Newcomer at the 37th Hundred Flowers Awards; later Batay in To the Wonder and a Best Supporting Actor nominee for Blades of the Guardians.
Yu Shiji
Yu Shiji (虞世基) was a Chinese civil official who served the Chen and Sui dynasties, controlling Emperor Yang's confidential correspondence before dying in the Jiangdu coup.
Yu Shinan
Yu Shinan (虞世南, 558–638) was a Tang dynasty scholar and calligrapher who served Emperor Taizong as Director of the Palace Library and was ranked among the Four Great Masters of early Tang calligraphy.
Yu Shrike Zhang
Yu Shrike Zhang is a biomedical engineer who works on 3D bioprinting and organs-on-chips, directing the Laboratory of Engineered Living Systems at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Yu So Jeong
Yu So Jeong (유소정, born 1996) is a South Korean handball right back for SK Sugar Gliders; 2014 Youth Olympic gold, 2016 Olympian, and 2018 Asian Games champion.
Yu Sun
Yu Sun is a Canadian-based mechanical engineer and professor at the University of Toronto, known for robotic nanomanipulation and robotic surgery on single living cells.