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Yuk-Ming Dennis Lo (卢煜明)
Yuk-Ming Dennis Lo (卢煜明), also known as Dennis Lo, is a Hong Kong chemical pathologist whose 1997 discovery of fetal DNA in maternal blood created noninvasive prenatal testing.
Yuka Chujo
Yuka Chujo (中條夢叶, full name Yumeka Chujo), Japanese ice hockey defenseman born 2005 in Hokkaido; Youth Olympic gold 2020, World U18 2023, Universiade bronze 2025 with Japan.
Yuka Honda
Yuka Honda (本田ゆか), born 1960 in Tokyo, is a Japanese keyboardist, producer, and composer in New York, co-founder of Cibo Matto, Tzadik solo artist as eucademix, and wife of Nels Cline.
Yuka Ichiguchi
Yuka Ichiguchi (市口侑果), born 1992 in Osaka, is a Japanese softball infielder, number 4, who won gold in women's softball at Tokyo 2020, beating the United States 2-0 in the final, after Asian Games titles at Incheon and Jakarta-Palembang.
Yuka Iguchi
Yuka Iguchi (井口裕香) is a Japanese voice actress and singer from Tokyo, best known as the voice of Index in A Certain Magical Index and Myne in Ascendance of a Bookworm.
Yuka Iwasaki (YOUTRUST)
Yuka Iwasaki (岩崎由夏) is a Japanese entrepreneur, founder and president of YOUTRUST, a Tokyo career SNS she started in 2017 after working in recruitment at DeNA.
Yuka Kagami
Yuka Kagami (鏡 優翔), Japanese freestyle wrestler born 2001 in Yamagata; Paris 2024 Olympic champion at women's 76 kg, Japan's first in the heaviest class, plus 2023 world title and 2026 Asian Games gold.
Yuka Sato
Yuka Sato (佐藤) refers to several Japanese athletes: figure skater Yuka Sato (佐藤有香, born 1973, 1994 World champion), triathlete Yuka Sato (佐藤優香, born 1992, first Youth Olympic gold medallist), and javelin thrower Yuka Sato (佐藤友佳, born 1992).
Yukako Kawai
Yukako Kawai (川井友香子), Japanese women's freestyle wrestler, born 1997 in Ishikawa; won 62kg gold at Tokyo 2020 beating Tynybekova 4-3; sister of Olympic champion Risako Kawai; 2018 world silver, 2019 world bronze.
Yukar
Yukar (Ainu: ユカㇻ) is the chanted oral epic literature of the Ainu people, the indigenous inhabitants of Hokkaido, comprising heroic epics and mythic epics narrated by gods.
Yukari Tamura (田村 ゆかり)
Yukari Tamura (田村ゆかり), born 1976 in Fukuoka, is a Japanese voice actress and singer at Amuleto. Known for Nanoha, Suzuha Amane in Steins;Gate, Rika Furude, Qiqi and Nahida in Genshin Impact; music debut 2001, Budokan 2008, label Cana aria.
Yukarı Anzaf Fortress
Yukarı Anzaf (Upper Anzaf) Fortress, an Urartian hilltop fortress built by King Minua (r. 810-780 BC) about 10-13 km northeast of Van, Turkey; 6-hectare bastioned citadel with the earliest known Haldi temple, excavated 1991-2006 by Oktay Belli.
Yukata (浴衣)
Yukata (浴衣), from yukatabira, is Japan's unlined cotton summer kimono, worn skin-to-skin with geta and a hanhaba or heko obi. Originating as Heian bathing wear, it spread via Edo bathhouses and Meiji chusen dyeing to become festival and ryokan wear.
Yukawa coupling
A Yukawa coupling is a symmetric trilinear form on the moduli space of a Calabi–Yau threefold, central to mirror symmetry and named after particle physics.
Yukawa potential
The Yukawa potential is a screened Coulomb interaction of the form −αe^(−μr)/r, proposed by Hideki Yukawa in 1935 to describe the short-range strong force between nucleons.
Yukawa–Tsuno equation
The Yukawa–Tsuno equation is a multiparameter extension of the Hammett equation, proposed by Yukawa and Tsuno in 1959, that quantifies enhanced resonance effects on the reactivity of substituted benzenes.
Yukbuwi
Yukbuwi, or Yukwi (육위, Six Guards), was the central army organization of early Goryeo Korea, established in 995 under King Seongjong and dissolved after the 1170 military coup.
Yuke (rapper)
Yuke (stylized yuke), real name Yandel Sosa, is an American underground rapper and producer from New York's Bronx, active since 2020, known for plugg and jerk hip hop, the Cheetah World mixtape series, and collaborations with jaydes in the finesse cult collective.
Yuki Chiba
Yuki Chiba (千葉雄喜), born 1990 in Tokyo, is a Japanese rapper formerly known as KOHH, debut mixtape YELLOW T△PE (2012), album MONOCHROME (2014), Hot 100 hit "Mamushi" with Megan Thee Stallion, and Warner Music Japan deal (2025).
Yuki Hayashi (林ゆうき) (composer)
Yuki Hayashi (林ゆうき), born 1980 in Kyoto, is a Japanese soundtrack composer for anime, drama, and film, including My Hero Academia, Haikyuu!!, and Legal High; a former men's rhythmic gymnast who taught himself composition.
Yūki Ishikawa (石川祐希)
Yuki Ishikawa (石川祐希) is a Japanese volleyball outside hitter, born 1995, captain of Japan's men's national team and a Perugia player in Italy's SuperLega; 2019 World Cup Best Outside Hitter and 2023 VNL bronze leader.
Yuki Kajiura (梶浦由記)
Yuki Kajiura (梶浦由記), born 1965 in Tokyo, is a Japanese composer behind Noir, .hack//SIGN, Madoka Magica, Fate/Zero, Sword Art Online, and Demon Slayer, and founder of FictionJunction and Kalafina.
Yuki Koyanagi
Yuki Koyanagi (小柳ゆき) is a Japanese pop and R&B singer known for a powerful, gospel- and soul-rooted voice; her 2000 album EXPANSION was a million-selling No. 1.
Yuki Nakashima (中島由貴) (actress)
Yuki Nakashima (中島由貴) is a Japanese voice actress, singer, and bassist from Wakayama Prefecture, known for Lisa Imai in BanG Dream! and Aoi Zaizen in Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS.
Yuki Oka
Yuki Oka is a neuroscientist and professor of biology at Caltech who studies how the brain generates and switches off thirst, sodium appetite, and hunger.
Yūki Ono (小野 友樹)
Yūki Ono (小野 友樹, Ono Yūki) is a Japanese voice actor born 1984 in Shizuoka Prefecture; debuted 2006 in Keroro Gunsō, known as Taiga Kagami in Kuroko's Basketball, Jōsuke in JoJo Part 4, Louis in BEASTARS, and Gran in Granblue Fantasy.
Yuki Sakakihara (榊原優希)
Yuki Sakakihara is a Japanese voice actor from Ibara, Okayama Prefecture, active since 2018. He is known for lead roles in Dead Mount Death Play and Hypnosis Mic.
Yūki tsumugi
Yūki tsumugi (結城紬) is a Japanese silk kimono fabric handwoven around Yūki City, Ibaraki Prefecture, and Oyama, Tochigi Prefecture, designated an Important Intangible Cultural Property in 1956 and added to UNESCO's heritage list in 2010.
Yuki Tsunoda (角田裕毅)
Yuki Tsunoda (角田裕毅), born 2000, Japanese F1 driver 2021-2025 with AlphaTauri/Racing Bulls and Red Bull; 111 starts, most by a Japanese driver; Red Bull reserve driver 2026.
Yuki Yanagita
Yuki Yanagita (柳田悠岐), born 1988 in Hiroshima, is a Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks outfielder, two-time Pacific League MVP (2015, 2020), eight-time Best Nine winner, and Tokyo 2020 Olympic baseball gold medalist.