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Yuknoom Yichʼaak Kʼakʼ
Yuknoom Yichʼaak Kʼakʼ, born 649, was a Maya king of the Kaan dynasty at Calakmul, Mexico, who ruled from 686 and lost a war to Tikal in 695.
Yuko Arakida
Yuko Arakida (荒木田裕子, 1954–2024), Japanese volleyball attacker and Olympic champion, won gold at Montreal 1976, the 1974 World Championship and Asian Games, and the 1977 World Cup, then led Japanese sports administration including the Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee.
Yuko Emoto
Yuko Emoto (惠本裕子), born 1972 in Asahikawa, is a Japanese judoka who won gold in women's half-middleweight −61 kg at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, took 1994 Asian Games silver, and later authored the manga JJM: Women's Judo Club Story.
Yūko Mizutani (水谷 優子)
Yūko Mizutani (水谷 優子, 1964–2016) was a Japanese voice actress from Aichi, the voice of Maruko's sister in Chibi Maruko-chan, Pinoko in Black Jack, Sora in Digimon, and Disney's Minnie Mouse in Japan.
Yuko Munakata
Yuko Munakata is a developmental cognitive neuroscientist, professor at UC Davis since 2019, known for a representational account of how executive functions develop from childhood through adulthood.
Yuko Nakanishi
Yuko Nakanishi (中西 悠子), born 1981 in Ikeda, Osaka, is a Japanese swimmer specializing in the 200 m butterfly: 2004 Athens Olympic bronze, three Olympics, and a short-course 200 fly world record of 2:03.12 (2008-2009).
Yuko Nakazawa
Yuko Nakazawa (中澤裕子) is a Japanese singer and television personality, a founding member and first leader of Morning Musume who graduated in 2001 for a solo enka career.
Yukon
Yukon, also called Yukon Territory, is Canada's westernmost and smallest federal territory, created June 13, 1898 during the Klondike Gold Rush; capital Whitehorse, population about 47,000, area 483,450 km2.
Yukon (song)
YUKON, a 2025 R&B song by Justin Bieber from SWAG; also a Brett Young single sharing its credits. Bieber track: Eminem "Untitled" interpolation, 2 Chainz vocals, Hot 100 No. 17, Hot R&B Songs No. 1, Grammy-nominated.
Yukon Energy
Yukon Energy Corporation is a publicly owned utility founded in 1987 that generates and transmits electricity across the Yukon, Canada, selling wholesale to ATCO Electric Yukon.
Yukon Flats
Yukon Flats, Alaska: vast lowland wetland region at the Yukon, Porcupine, and Chandalar river confluence, mostly within Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge; 40,000 lakes, waterfowl breeding grounds, drying wetlands, and oil and gas exploration.
Yukon Gold potato
Yukon Gold is a yellow-fleshed Canadian potato cultivar bred at the University of Guelph by Gary Johnston from Norgleam x W5279-4, selected 1966, registered 1980; known for pink eyes, buttery yellow flesh, and decline since the 2000s.
Yukon Plateau
Yukon Plateau: dissected upland physiographic region of central Yukon and east-central Alaska (Yukon-Tanana upland), defined by Bostock (1948), between Selwyn and Coast mountains, partly glaciated by Cordilleran ice, with a Late Cretaceous erosion surface.
Yukon River
Yukon River (Gwich'in Yu-kun-ah, "great river"): 3,200 km river flowing from British Columbia through Yukon and Alaska to the Bering Sea; fourth-longest in North America, gold rush sternwheeler highway, now under Chinook salmon fishing moratorium to 2031.
Yukon Telegraph Trail
The Yukon Telegraph Trail is the route of an overland telegraph line built by Canada between Ashcroft, British Columbia, and Dawson City, completed in 1901 to link the Klondike gold fields.
Yukos
Yukos (ОАО Нефтяная компания ЮКОС) was a Russian oil company led by Mikhail Khodorkovsky that became Russia's largest oil producer before its 2004 dismantling by the state.
Yuksek
Yuksek, the working name of Pierre-Alexandre Busson, a French electronic producer and DJ born in Reims in 1977, has released five studio albums and founded the label Partyfine.
Yukta Mookhey
Yukta Mookhey (युक्ता मुखी), also Yukta Inderlal Mookhey, is an Indian activist and actress who won Miss World 1999 at Olympia, London, the fourth Indian Miss World, later acting in Pyaasa and working as a prenatal educator.
Yukti Kapoor (युक्ति कपूर)
Yukti Kapoor (युक्ति कपूर), born 1992 in Jaipur, is an Indian Hindi television actress known as Urmila in Siya Ke Ram, Ragini Singh in Agniphera, and S.I. Karishma Singh in Sony SAB's Maddam Sir; debut Nanhi Si Kali Meri Laadli (2010).
Yukti Thareja
Yukti Thareja is an Indian model and actress from Haryana, known for the music video "Lut Gaye," the Telugu debut Rangabali (2023), the Malayalam hit Marco (2024), K-Ramp, Delhi Crime Season 3, KJQ, and Farzi Season 2.
Yuktibhasa
Yuktibhasa (യുക്തിഭാഷ), also called Ganitanyayasamgraha, is a 16th-century Malayalam mathematical and astronomical treatise by Jyeshthadeva, a seminal Kerala school text giving rationales for Nilakantha's Tantrasangraha.
Yukuk Shad
Yukuk Shad (Ashina Yukuk, 欲谷設) was an Eastern Turkic prince who reigned as Yipi Duolu Khagan of the Western Turkic Khaganate from 638 to 642.
Yukyeong Gongwon
Yukyeong Gongwon (육영공원, 育英公院) was a government English-language school opened by the Joseon government in Jeongdong, Seoul, in 1886, Korea's first state-run modern educational institution.
Yukyuzan Mini-Zoo
Yukyuzan Mini-Zoo (悠久山小動物園) is a free small municipal zoo in Yukyuzan Park, Nagaoka, Niigata, opened 1951 as the Science Museum's live-animal exhibit, keeping about 30 species centered on Japanese macaques.
Yul Brynner (Юлий Борисович Бринер)
Yul Brynner (Юлий Борисович Бринер), born 1920 in Vladivostok, died 1985 in New York, Russian-American actor; Oscar and Tony winner as King Mongkut in The King and I, which he played 4,625 times, also The Ten Commandments and The Magnificent Seven.
Yul Kwon
Yul Kwon (born 1975) is an American lawyer and television host, winner of Survivor: Cook Islands (2006) in a 5-4 vote over Ozzy Lusth, the first Asian American Survivor winner, later FCC deputy chief, PBS host, and Winners at War contestant.
Yul Vazquez
Yul Vazquez (born 1965, Havana) is a Cuban-American character actor and former rock guitarist for Urgent and Diving For Pearls, known for Seinfeld's Bob, a Tony-nominated Cousin Julio, Traffic's SAG-winning cast, and Severance.
Yulara, Northern Territory
Yulara is a purpose-built tourist town in the Northern Territory near Uluru, named from Pitjantjatjara for "howling dingo"; gazetted 1975, resort opened 1984, now the Ayers Rock Resort base for Uluru-Kata Tjuta visitors.
Yulchon power station
Yulchon power station (율촌복합화력발전소) is a gas-fired combined cycle power station at the Yulchon Industrial Complex in Jeollanam-do, South Korea, owned and operated by CGN Yulchon Generation.
Yule
Yule (Old English geol, Old Norse jol): Germanic midwinter season recorded in Bede and Gothic calendars, later an English word for Christmas, and a modern Pagan solstice festival on December 21; etymology ultimately unknown.