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Yunus al-Shaybani al-Makharraqi
Yunus al-Shaybani al-Makharraqi (يونس الشيباني) was a Sunni Sufi ascetic of the Jazira who founded the small Yunusiyya order, dying at al-Qunayya near Mardin in 1222–3.
Yunus Emre
Yunus Emre (يونس امره) was an Anatolian Turkish Sufi poet and dervish, c. 1240 to 1321, among the first to write poetry in spoken Turkish.
Yunus Emre Divanı
Yunus Emre Divanı (Yûnus Emre Dîvânı) is the collected lyric poetry of the Turkish Sufi poet Yunus Emre, written in Old Anatolian Turkish at the foundation of Turkish Sufi poetry.
Yunus ibn Abd al-A'la
Yunus ibn Abd al-A'la al-Sadafi (يونس بن عبد الأعلى الصدفي) was an Egyptian scholar of Quranic reading, hadith, and Shafi'i law, born in 787 and died in 878.
Yunus ibn Badran al-Dimyati
Yunus ibn Badran al-Dimyati (c. 1160–1226) was an Egyptian-born Shafi'i jurist who rose through treasury stewardship in Damascus to become chief judge of Syria in 1222, abridging al-Shafi'i's al-Umm and writing on inheritance law.
Yunus ibn Maysara al-Jabali
Yunus ibn Maysara al-Jabali (يونس بن ميسرة الجبلاني) was a blind Damascene hadith narrator known as the scholar of Damascus, killed when troops entered the city in 132 AH (750 CE).
Yunus ministry
Yunus ministry: the Bangladesh interim government led by Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus, sworn in 8 August 2024 after Sheikh Hasina's fall, running reforms, International Crimes Tribunal trials, and the February 2026 elections.
Yunus Musah
Yunus Dimoara Musah, born 2002 in New York, American midfielder from Arsenal's academy via Valencia; joined AC Milan in 2023 for €20m, USMNT regular with 2022 World Cup and two Concacaf Nations League titles.
Yunus Nadi Prize
The Yunus Nadi Prize (Yunus Nadi Ödülleri) is an annual set of Turkish cultural awards given by the newspaper Cumhuriyet since 1946 in memory of its founder, journalist Yunus Nadi Abalıoğlu.
Yunus Pasha
Yunus Pasha (یونس پاشا) was an Ottoman statesman of Albanian origin who served as grand vizier under Selim I in 1517 and then as first beylerbeyi of Ottoman Egypt.
Yunwang Wandian (云网万店)
Yunwang Wandian (云网万店) is a Chinese e-commerce and retail-cloud company founded by Suning.com in November 2020, which raised a 6 billion yuan Series A led by Shenzhen Capital Group.
Yunxi Botanical Garden
Yunxi Botanical Garden (云溪植物园), Guangzhou's first municipal botanical garden at Baiyun Mountain's west foot, opened 8 August 2024; 83 ha, 35 ha core, 1,300+ conserved species, national ex-situ conservation demonstration area.
Yunxian Man
Yunxian Man (郧县人): three ~1-million-year-old fossil human crania from the Han River, Yunxian, Hubei, China, once called Homo erectus; a 2025 reconstruction reclassifies Yunxian 2 as an early Homo longi/Denisovan-lineage member, while new dating argues 1.77 Ma.
Yunxuetang (云学堂)
Yunxuetang (云学堂), legally YXT.com Group Holding Limited, is a Chinese corporate-learning SaaS company founded in 2011 that sells subscription training platforms to large enterprises and has been listed on Nasdaq under ticker YXT since August 2024.
Yuny (19th Dynasty official)
Yuny was a chief royal scribe of Egypt's 19th Dynasty under Seti I, known from limestone statues of him and his wife Renenutet in the Metropolitan Museum.
Yunya-mana Mons
Yunya-mana Mons is a large shield volcano on Venus, about 500 km across in southern Phoebe Regio, whose radiating graben suggest volcanic activity younger than 250,000 years.
Yunyang UNESCO Global Geopark
Yunyang UNESCO Global Geopark (云阳) in Chongqing, China, designated April 2025; 1,124 square kilometers with an 18 km Middle Jurassic dinosaur fossil wall, a 335 m sinkhole, and Tujia heritage.
Yunyao
Yunyao (云遥) is a Chinese commercial meteorological satellite constellation operated by Tianjin Yunyao Aerospace Technology, whose 12 Yunyao-1 satellites entered operational use by the China Meteorological Administration in December 2024.
Yunzhangfang (云帐房)
Yunzhangfang (云帐房) is a Nanjing-based fiscal-tax SaaS company founded in 2015 by Xue Xinghua, selling cloud bookkeeping and tax-filing software to accounting agencies and enterprises across China.
Yunzhi Hui (云智慧（北京）科技有限公司) (云智慧)
Yunzhi Hui (云智慧), known as Cloudwise, is a Beijing company founded in 2009 that sells intelligent IT operations (AIOps) software to large Chinese enterprises and government bodies.
Yup'ik and Iñupiat mask carving
Yup'ik and Iñupiat mask carving is a wooden ceremonial tradition of two Alaska Native peoples, where carved masks embody spirits, animals, and visions for dance.
Yup'ik clothing
Yup'ik clothing: traditional dress of western Alaska, including fur atkuk parkas of muskrat, squirrel, and caribou, waterproof gut-skin rain parkas, and the cotton qaspeq (kuspuk).
Yupa (Viceroy of Kush)
Yupa, also vocalized Iupa, was a scribe and superintendent at the court of Ramesses II, known from a black granite statue held by the Krannert Art Museum.
Yupian (Jade Chapters)
Yupian (玉篇, Jade Chapters) is a Chinese character dictionary in thirty juan compiled by the Southern Liang scholar Gu Yewang, the earliest surviving dictionary of the regular kai script.
Yupik peoples
Yupik peoples (Yupiit, "real people") are Indigenous peoples of western and southwestern Alaska and the Russian Far East, speaking Yupik languages of the Inuit-Yupik family. About 27,000 strong, centered on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, they maintain subsistence, sharing networks, and the most widely spoken Alaska Native language.
Yuppie
Yuppie, from "young urban professional": 1980s label for affluent young city professionals with a consumerist lifestyle; coined about 1980-1982, peaked with Newsweek's 1984 "Year of the Yuppie", declined by 1991.
Yura (South Korean singer)
Yura (유라), real name Kim Ah-young (김아영), born 1992 in Ulsan, is a South Korean singer and actress who joined Girl's Day as a second-generation member in 2010, acted in Radio Romance and Forecasting Love and Weather, and is distinct from the indie soloist Youra.
Yura Borisov
Yura Borisov, full name Yuri Alexandrovich Borisov, is a Russian stage and film actor born in 1992, nominated for an Academy Award for his role in Anora.
Yūrei (幽霊)
Yūrei (幽霊) are the ghosts of Japanese folklore and stage tradition, spirits of dead people who appear among the living because funeral rites were incomplete or a grudge binds them.
Yuri (Doki Doki Literature Club!)
Yuri (ユリ) is the shy, purple-haired bookworm and vice president of the Literature Club in Team Salvato's 2017 visual novel Doki Doki Literature Club!, whose Act 2 obsession and self-harm distinguish her from other fictional characters named Yuri.