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Yuliya Pakhalina
Yuliya Pakhalina (Юлия Пахалина), Russian springboard diver born 1977 in Penza; Olympic 2000 synchro gold with Vera Ilyina, five Olympic medals, three world titles, 2024 ISHOF inductee.
Yuliya Ryabchinskaya
Yuliya Ryabchinskaya (Юлія Петрівна Рябчинська, née Babak), Soviet Ukrainian kayak sprint canoeist, 1972 Munich Olympic K1 500 m champion (2:03.17) and 1971 K4 world champion, who drowned in January 1973 during a training camp in Poti, Georgia.
Yuliya Safina
Yuliya Safina (Юлия Васильевна Сафина), born 1950, Soviet handball left back; 1980 Olympic gold and 1982 world champion; took up handball at 26 after an 800 m athletics career; distinct from tennis player Giulia Safina Popa.
Yuliya Vasilyeva
Yuliya Vasilyeva (Юлия Олеговна Васильева), Russian synchronized swimmer born 1978 in Moscow; Olympic team gold at Sydney 2000 (99.146), European champion 1999 and 2000; distinct from the 1987-born runner of the same name.
Yulong copper mine
The Yulong copper mine (玉龙铜矿) is a large porphyry copper mine in Jiangda County, Changdu, Tibet, holding China's largest proven copper reserve at 6.5 million tonnes of copper metal.
Yulun Wang
Yulun Wang is an engineer and entrepreneur in medical robotics and telemedicine who founded Computer Motion, maker of the first FDA-cleared surgical robot, and InTouch Health, sold to Teladoc for $1.1 billion in 2020.
Yum cha (饮茶)
Yum cha (飲茶, jam2 caa4), Cantonese for "drink tea", is the teahouse custom of eating dim sum with Chinese tea, originating in Qing Guangzhou, transformed in postwar Hong Kong, and spread to Japan and overseas Chinatowns.
Yum China Holdings
Yum China Holdings is the largest restaurant company in China, operating KFC, Pizza Hut, Little Sheep, and Huang Ji Huang restaurants, with 18,101 stores at the end of 2025.
Yum yum sauce
Yum yum sauce, also called white sauce or shrimp sauce, is an American mayonnaise-based pink condiment served at Japanese hibachi steakhouses since the 1960s; it is not Japanese in origin. Terry Ho bottled it commercially.
Yum-Tong Siu
Yum-Tong Siu (萧荫堂), born 1943 in Guangdong, is the William Elwood Byerly Professor of Mathematics at Harvard, known for proving the deformational invariance of plurigenera.
Yum! Brands
Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM), formerly Tricon Global Restaurants, is a Louisville, Kentucky-based fast-food franchisor spun off from PepsiCo in 1997. It owns KFC, Taco Bell, and Habit Burger & Grill, operates over 63,000 restaurants in 155 countries, is over 98% franchised, spun off Yum China in 2016, and sold Pizza Hut for $2.7 billion in 2026.
Yuma Asami (麻美ゆま)
Yuma Asami (麻美ゆま, born 1987, Takasaki, Gunma) is a Japanese entertainer, former AV actress, and second leader of Ebisu Muscats who survived ovarian cancer in 2013 and rebuilt her career as a singer and cancer advocate.
Yuma County, Arizona, United States
Yuma County, Arizona: southwestern Arizona county on the Colorado River, county seat Yuma, one of four original 1864 counties; 224,449 residents (2025 est.), winter-vegetable agriculture, MCAS Yuma, Yuma Proving Ground, Mexico border ports.
Yuma Proving Ground
Yuma Proving Ground is a United States Army test installation in southwestern Arizona, founded in 1943, where military equipment is tested under harsh desert conditions.
Yuma Uchida (内田 雄馬)
Yuma Uchida (内田 雄馬), born 1992 in Tokyo, is a Japanese voice actor and singer with I'm Enterprise, known for Megumi Fushiguro in Jujutsu Kaisen, Ash Lynx in Banana Fish, and Kyo Sohma in Fruits Basket; 13th Seiyu Awards Best Lead Actor (2019).
Yuma War
The Yuma War was an 1850 to 1852 conflict between the Quechan people and the United States over control of the Yuma Crossing of the Colorado River.
Yuma, Arizona
Yuma, Arizona: desert city of about 105,000 (2025 est.) at the Colorado River crossing near California and Mexico; winter lettuce capital producing about 90% of North America's leafy greens, with Yuma Crossing heritage sites and extreme sunshine.
Yuman Fong
Yuman Fong is a surgical oncologist and gene therapy researcher who became Chairman of Surgery at City of Hope in 2014, known for the Fong score and oncolytic viruses.
Yumanity Therapeutics
Yumanity Therapeutics was a biotechnology company founded in 2014 by Tony Coles and Susan Lindquist that developed neurodegenerative disease therapies using a yeast-based drug discovery platform.
Yumdda
Yumdda (염따), born Yeom Hyun-soo, is a South Korean rapper who debuted in 2006 and broke through with his first full album Breathe in 2016.
Yume Nikki (ゆめにっき)
Yume Nikki (ゆめにっき, Dream Diary) is a 2004 freeware surreal exploration game by anonymous developer Kikiyama, made in RPG Maker 2003; Madotsuki collects Effects in dream worlds with no dialogue or goals. Steam release 2018; reimagined as Dream Diary.
YuMi
YuMi (IRB 14000) is a dual-arm collaborative industrial robot made by ABB, introduced in 2015 for small-parts assembly where robots work beside people without safety fencing.
Yumi (弓)
Yumi (弓, wakyū, daikyū): the traditional asymmetric Japanese longbow over 2 m long with a grip below center, laminated bamboo and wood, used by samurai and today in kyudo; sizes 212–233 cm, draw weights 7–25 kg.
Yumi Matsutoya
Yumi Matsutoya (松任谷由実), born 1954 in Tokyo, is a Japanese singer-songwriter who debuted in 1972 as Yumi Arai and set the template for city pop and J-pop.
Yumi Nu
Yumi Nu (born 1996, Englewood, New Jersey) is an American plus-size model, singer-songwriter on Dim Mak, and founder of Blueki; first Asian curve model in Vogue and the 2022 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit cover.
Yumi's Cells (유미의 세포들)
Yumi's Cells (유미의 세포들) is a Korean webtoon by Lee Dong-gun (Naver, 2015–2020, 512 episodes) and its TVING drama, the first Korean series combining live action and 3D animation, starring Kim Go-eun across three seasons (2021–2026).
Yumia Fujisaki (藤﨑ゆみあ)
Yumia Fujisaki (藤﨑ゆみあ), born 2008 in Hiroshima, is a Japanese actress with METEORA. She debuted in the 2023 drama The Greatest Teacher, was the 102nd National High School Soccer Championship's 19th cheer manager, and played heroine Katsuki Futaba in Netflix's Ikusagami (2025).
Yumiko Kurahashi
Yumiko Kurahashi (倉橋由美子) was a Japanese novelist of anti-realist, allegorical fiction whose debut story "Partai" (1960) launched a career of fables and satires mocking postwar ideology.
Yumiko Saga
Yumiko Saga (相賀 裕美子) is a Japanese developmental geneticist at the National Institute of Genetics in Mishima, known for her work on somitogenesis and germ-cell development in mice.
Yumilka Ruiz
Yumilka Ruiz (Yumilka Daysi Ruíz Luaces), Cuban volleyball player born 1978 in Camagüey; two-time Olympic champion (1996, 2000), 2004 bronze, national captain from 2001, and IOC athlete member 2008-2016.