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Yusheng (鱼生)
Yusheng (鱼生), also called yee sang, is a raw fish salad tossed communally (lo hei, 捞起) during Chinese New Year in Singapore and Malaysia; the colorful seven-ingredient version was created by four Singapore chefs in the 1960s.
Yusheng Zhao
Yusheng Zhao (赵予生) is a Chinese high-pressure physicist and materials scientist who led Los Alamos' high-pressure team and became Chair Professor at the Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo, in 2023.
Yushi (jade)
玉石 (jade): Chinese term for jade and related ornamental stones such as jadeite, agate, and crystal. Known through Xinjiang's Hetian "World Jade Capital" brand, jade tourism festivals since 2004, and jade trade exhibitions.
Yushi Mingyan
Yushi Mingyan (喻世明言), first published in 1620 under the title Gujin xiaoshuo, is a collection of 40 vernacular Chinese stories compiled by Feng Menglong, the first of the three Sanyan collections.
Yushi Space (宇石空间)
Yushi Space (宇石空间) is a Chinese commercial launch startup founded in 2024 in Beijing, developing reusable stainless-steel liquid oxygen/methane rockets; its AS-1 rocket is targeted to fly in 2027.
Yushin Okami (岡見勇信)
Yushin Okami (岡見勇信), "Thunder", Japanese MMA middleweight born 1981, judo black belt, 39-15 record, 14-7 in UFC, challenged Anderson Silva at UFC 134, later ONE and Shooto.
Yushin Precision Equipment
Yushin Precision Equipment (ユーシン精機), named Yushin Company since 2025, is a Japanese maker of take-out robots for plastic injection molding machines, founded in Kyoto in 1971.
Yushu Matsushita
Yushu Matsushita (松下 裕秀) is a Japanese polymer chemist known for creating the first quasicrystalline tiling in soft materials, a dodecagonal quasicrystal from block terpolymers.
Yushulin Oil Field
The Yushulin Oil Field (榆树林油田) is an oil field within the Daqing oilfield in the Songliao Basin of Heilongjiang Province, China, in ultra-low permeability Fuyang and Putaohua reservoirs.
Yushun Himba (優駿牝馬)
Yushun Himba (優駿牝馬), the Japanese Oaks, is a JRA Grade 1 turf race for three-year-old fillies over 2,400 m at Tokyo Racecourse, second leg of the fillies' Triple Tiara, founded 1938, record 2:22.8 by Loves Only You (2019).
Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli
Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli (Yusif Vəzir Çəmənzəminli), born Yusif Vazirov, was an Azerbaijani writer and the first ambassador of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic to Ottoman Turkey.
Yusof Ishak
Yusof bin Ishak (1910–1970) was a Singaporean journalist and statesman, co-founder of Utusan Melayu, first Yang di-Pertuan Negara from 1959, and first President of independent Singapore from 1965 until his death; his portrait appears on Singapore's Portrait Series banknotes.
Yusra Mardini (يسرى مرديني)
Yusra Mardini (يسرى مرديني), born 1998 in Damascus, is a Syrian swimmer who pushed a sinking refugee dinghy across the Aegean in 2015, then competed for the Refugee Olympic Team at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 and became UNHCR's youngest Goodwill Ambassador.
Yusra Warsama
Yusra Warsama (born 1985, Abu Dhabi) is a British Somali playwright, director, and screen actress raised in Manchester. Known for Rites, Of All the Beautiful Things in the World, Castle Rock series 2, Brides (2025), and Steal (2026).
Yusril Ihza Mahendra
Yusril Ihza Mahendra is an Indonesian politician and constitutional law professor serving as Coordinating Minister for Law, Human Rights, Immigration, and Correction Affairs under President Prabowo Subianto.
Yussuf Poulsen
Yussuf Yurary Poulsen (born 1994, Copenhagen) is a Danish centre-forward, RB Leipzig's record appearance holder (424 matches, 95 goals, 2013-2025), now at Hamburger SV; 87 caps, 14 goals for Denmark. Not the namesake Christian Poulsen.
Yusuf Adil Shah
Yusuf Adil Shah (یوسف عادل شاہ), originally titled Yusuf Adil Khan, founded the Adil Shahi dynasty of Bijapur, declaring independence from the Bahmani sultanate in 1489.
Yusuf Akçiçek
Yusuf Akçiçek (born 2006, Bakırköy, Istanbul) is a Turkish left-footed centre-back for Al Hilal and Turkey. Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe academy product; sold to Al Hilal in 2025 for €22 million plus 15% sell-on; won the 2025/26 King's Cup.
Yusuf Akhamrich
Yusuf Akhamrich, born in London in 2005, is an English-born Moroccan footballer who plays as a right winger, on loan at Leyton Orient from Tottenham Hotspur and capped by Morocco at Under-20 level.
Yusuf al-Azma
Yusuf al-Azma (يوسف العظمة), 1884 to 1920, was a Syrian soldier and minister of war under King Faisal I, killed at the Battle of Maysalun.
Yusuf al-Hamadani
Yusuf al-Hamadani (يوسف الهمداني) was a Sufi master and jurist of Iran and Central Asia, 1048 to 1140, and the first of the Khwajagan masters.
Yusuf al-Kalbi
Yusuf al-Kalbi (يوسف الكلبي), also known as Thiqat al-Dawla, was a Kalbid emir of Sicily whose reign was the island's political and cultural peak, when Palermo became an intellectual center.
Yusuf al-Khal
Yusuf al-Khal (يوسف الخال, 1917–1987) was a Syrian-born Lebanese poet, critic, and publisher who founded the Beirut poetry magazine Shi'r in 1957 and pioneered Arabic free verse.
Yusuf al-Mu'tamin
Yusuf al-Mu'tamin (يوسف المؤتمن) was the third king of the Banu Hud dynasty of Zaragoza in al-Andalus, reigning from 1081 to 1085 and succeeding his father al-Muqtadir.
Yusuf al-Qa'id
Yusuf al-Qa'id (يوسف القعيد), born 1944, is an Egyptian novelist and journalist whose novel War in the Land of Egypt ranked fourth among the best Arabic novels.
Yusuf al-Qaradawi (يوسف القرضاوي)
Yusuf al-Qaradawi (يوسف القرضاوي), also known as Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, was an Egyptian Sunni jurist who reached millions through Al Jazeera and founded the International Union of Muslim Scholars.
Yusuf Ali Kenadid
Yusuf Ali Kenadid (Yuusuf Cali Keenadiid) was the founder and first sultan of the Sultanate of Hobyo in Somalia, ruling from the 1880s until his deposition in 1903.
Yusuf and Zulaikha
Yusuf and Zulaikha (یوسف و زلیخا, Yusuf o Zulaykha) is Jami's 1483 Persian mathnawi of 4,032 couplets in the Haft Awrang, retelling Joseph and Potiphar's wife as a Sufi romance ending in her redemption and marriage.
Yusuf Atılgan
Yusuf Atılgan (1921–1989) was a Turkish novelist and short-story writer, a pioneer of the modernist Turkish novel known for Aylak Adam (1959) and Anayurt Oteli (1973).
Yusuf Bey Karam
Yusuf Bey Karam (يوسف بك كرم) was a Maronite leader from Ehden in northern Lebanon who opposed the Mutasarrifate system and is remembered as a Lebanese national hero.