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Yuriko Backes
Yuriko Backes, born 1970 in Kobe, Japan, is a Luxembourgish Democratic Party politician and former diplomat who served as Finance Minister from 2022 before becoming Defence Minister in 2023.
Yuriko Handa
Yuriko Handa (半田百合子), Japanese volleyball player born 31 March 1940; won gold with Japan in the women's team event at Tokyo 1964, beating the USSR 3-0 in the final.
Yuriko Koike (小池百合子)
Yuriko Koike (小池百合子), Japanese politician, first female Governor of Tokyo since 2016, re-elected to a third term in 2024 with 2.91 million votes; former Environment and Defense minister, ex-Party of Hope leader.
Yuriko Yoshitaka
Yuriko Yoshitaka (吉高 由里子) is a Japanese actress born in Tokyo in 1988, known for Hanako to Anne and the 2024 taiga drama Hikaru Kimi e.
Yuriorkis Gamboa
Yuriorkis Gamboa (El Ciclón de Guantánamo), Cuban boxer born 1981, 2004 Olympic flyweight gold medalist, defected 2006, unified WBA and IBF featherweight titles 2010, later lost to Crawford, Davis, Haney, and Cruz.
Yuriy Aleksandrovich Pashkin
Yuriy Aleksandrovich Pashkin (Пашкин Юрий Александрович) is a Russian-born condensed matter physicist at Lancaster University, co-performer of the first solid-state qubit oscillation experiment in 1999.
Yuriy Andrukhovych
Yuriy Andrukhovych (Юрій Андрухович), born 1960 in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, is a Ukrainian poet, novelist, essayist, and translator, a founder of Ukrainian postmodernism known for the novels Recreations, Moskoviada, and Twelve Rings.
Yuriy Drohobych
Yuriy Drohobych (Юрій Дрогобич), born Yurii Kotermak, was a 15th-century Ukrainian physician, astronomer, and humanist, rector of Bologna and author of the first printed book by a Ukrainian writer.
Yuriy Gorodnichenko
Yuriy Gorodnichenko is a Ukrainian-born macroeconomist, the Quantedge Presidential Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley since 2018, known for work on information rigidities and fiscal multipliers.
Yuriy Kirichok
Yuriy Kirichok is a physiologist known for developing patch-clamp recording of the mitochondrial inner membrane and sperm plasma membrane, and is a professor at Washington University School of Medicine.
Yuriy Nikitin
Yuriy Viktorovych Nikitin (Юрій Вікторович Нікітін), born 1978 in Kherson, is a Ukrainian trampoline gymnast, 2004 Athens Olympic champion (41.50), and the only Ukrainian Olympic trampoline champion; also competed at Beijing 2008 and London 2012.
Yuriy Román-Leshkov
Yuriy Román-Leshkov, also published as Yuriy Roman-Leshkov, is a Mexican-born American chemical engineer who holds the Robert T. Haslam Chair at MIT and works on converting plant biomass into fuels.
Yuriy Sharvin
Yuriy Sharvin (Юрий Васильевич Шарвин) was a Soviet low-temperature physicist at the Kapitza Institute in Moscow, best known for founding point-contact electron focusing and the Sharvin conductance in metals.
Yuriy Stepanov
Yuriy Stepanov (Юрий Степанов; 1932–1963) was a Soviet high jumper who in 1957 became the first European to hold the men's high jump world record, at 2.16 m.
Yurizan Beltran
Yurizan Beltran (Yurizan Beltrán Lebanue, Yuri Luv, Sweet Yurizan), 1986–2017, American adult film actress and model of Mexican descent from Long Beach; multi-nominated AVN performer who also acted in two mainstream films and died accidentally of hydrocodone overdose in December 2017.
Yurkharovskoye Oil and Gas Field
The Yurkharovskoye Oil and Gas Field (Юрхаровское месторождение) is a gas condensate field on the Tazovsky Peninsula in northern West Siberia, owned by NOVATEK and producing since 2003.
Yurry Canon
Yurry Canon (ユリイ・カノン) is a Japanese Vocaloid producer who debuted on NicoNico Douga in November 2015, known for fast, rock-driven songs and for commissions in the game Project SEKAI.
Yursa
Yursa, also spelled Yurza, was a Late Bronze Age Canaanite town in the southern coastal plain near Gaza, whose ruler Pu-Ba'lu sent three letters to the pharaoh.
Yurt
A yurt, called a ger (гэр) in Mongolian, is a portable circular dwelling with a latticed wooden frame covered in felt, used by nomads across Central Asia since antiquity.
Yurubcheno-Tokhomskoye field
The Yurubcheno-Tokhomskoye field is a giant oil and gas field in Krasnoyarsk Krai, East Siberia, operated by Rosneft and ranked the largest in East Siberia.
Yurufuwa Gang
Yurufuwa Gang (ゆるふわギャング) is a Japanese hip hop unit formed in Tokyo in 2016, consisting of rappers Ryugo Ishida and NENE and producer Automatic, with six albums released since 2017.
Yuruparí
Yuruparí, also spelled Yurupary or Jurupari, is a mythic hero, sacred flute and trumpet tradition, and male initiation ritual of Indigenous peoples of the Vaupés region of southeastern Colombia and adjacent Brazil.
YuruYuri (ゆるゆり)
YuruYuri (ゆるゆり) is a Japanese slice-of-life comedy manga by Namori, running since 2008, about four middle school girls of the Amusement Club; it spawned TV anime seasons, an OVA, and spin-off films.
Yury Berezhko
Yury Berezhko (Юрий Викторович Бережко), Russian outside hitter born 1984 in Komsomolsk-na-Amure; Olympic volleyball gold London 2012, bronze Beijing 2008, European champion 2017; clubs Dynamo Moscow, Zenit Kazan, Modena, Belogorie.
Yury Blinov
Yury Blinov (Юрий Иванович Блинов), born 1949 in Moscow, Soviet ice hockey left wing; 1972 Sapporo Olympic gold medalist, CSKA Moskva forward 1967–1975, five-time USSR champion, later SKA MVO and Kristall Saratov; distinct from defenseman Viktor Blinov.
Yury Borzakovsky
Yury Borzakovsky (Юрий Борзаковский), born 1981, Russian 800m runner, 2004 Athens Olympic champion in 1:44.45, Russian record holder 1:42.47, later head coach of Russia's national athletics team.
Yury Chebotar
Yury Chebotar (Yuri Adamovich Chebotar) is a Belarusian politician serving as Minister of Economy of Belarus since 2024, appointed by President Alexander Lukashenko on January 4, 2024.
Yury Chesnokov
Yury Chesnokov (Юрий Борисович Чесноков) was a Soviet volleyball player, coach, and administrator who won Olympic gold in 1964 and served thirty years as an FIVB vice president.
Yury Chirva
Yury Chirva (Юрий Александрович Чирва, born 2002) is a Russian luger from Bratsk who won gold in the mixed team relay and bronze in boys' doubles with Mikhail Karnaukhov at the 2020 Lausanne Winter Youth Olympics.
Yury Dmitrievich of Zvenigorod
Yury Dmitrievich (Юрий Дмитриевич), son of Dmitry Donskoy, was prince of Zvenigorod and Galich from 1389 and grand prince of Moscow in 1433 and 1434, dying on the throne.