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Y. Austin Chang
Y. Austin Chang (張永山) was a Chinese-born American materials scientist and Wisconsin Distinguished Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1996.
Y. B. Mangunwijaya
Y. B. Mangunwijaya (1929–1999), widely known as Romo Mangun, was an Indonesian Catholic priest, architect, and writer, author of the novel Burung-Burung Manyar and winner of the 1992 Aga Khan Award.
Y. G. Mahendran
Y. G. Mahendran, full name Yecha Gunja Mahendran, is an Indian Tamil actor, playwright, and comedian active in theater and cinema since the early 1970s.
Y. Joseph Woo
Y. Joseph Woo is an American cardiothoracic surgeon and researcher who chairs Stanford's Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, known for a 2017 heart-valve study and beating-heart transplants.
Y. L. Cahan
Y. L. Cahan (Yehuda Leyb Cahan, 1881–1937) was a Yiddish folklorist from Vilna who compiled classic collections of Yiddish folksongs and folktales and headed YIVO's folklore committee.
Y. S. Avinash Reddy
Y. S. Avinash Reddy, born in 1984, is an Indian YSR Congress Party politician who has represented the Kadapa constituency in Andhra Pradesh in the Lok Sabha since 2014.
Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy
Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, founder of the YSR Congress Party, was Andhra Pradesh's 17th chief minister (2019–2024), known for Navaratnalu welfare schemes and DBT transfers, defeated in 2024 when his party fell from 151 to 11 assembly seats.
Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy (వై. ఎస్. రాజశేఖర్ రెడ్డి)
Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy (YSR), Indian National Congress leader and 2004–2009 Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh; physician by training; known for Arogyasri, Jalayagnam, fee reimbursement, free power, and his 2003 padayatra; died in a 2009 helicopter crash.
Y. S. Sharmila
Y. S. Sharmila (Yeduguri Sandinti Sharmila Reddy), daughter of YSR and sister of Jagan Mohan Reddy, is an Indian politician, APCC president since January 2024, founder of the merged YSR Telangana Party, and 2024 Kadapa Lok Sabha candidate.
Y. S. Vivekananda Reddy
Y. S. Vivekananda Reddy (Yeduguri Sandinti Vivekananda Reddy) was an Indian politician from Kadapa district, Andhra Pradesh, and YSR's brother, murdered at Pulivendula in March 2019.
Y. Tony Ip
Y. Tony Ip (Yicktung T Ip) is an American immunologist who studies innate immunity and intestinal stem cells in the fruit fly at UMass Chan Medical School.
Y. V. Chandrachud (यशवंत विष्णू चंद्रचूड)
Y. V. Chandrachud (यशवंत विष्णू चंद्रचूड), Chief Justice of India 1978–1985 and longest-serving CJI at 7 years 4 months; ADM Jabalpur majority judge, author of the Shah Bano judgment; father of CJI D.Y. Chandrachud.
Y. V. Subba Reddy
Y. V. Subba Reddy is an Indian YSR Congress Party politician, a Rajya Sabha member from Andhra Pradesh since 2024 who earlier represented Ongole in the Lok Sabha.
Y.K. Almoayyed & Sons
Y.K. Almoayyed & Sons is a diversified Bahraini family business group founded in 1940, employing over 8,000 people and representing more than 300 international brands.
Y.M.C.A. (song)
Y.M.C.A. is a 1978 disco single by Village People, written by Jacques Morali and lyricist Victor Willis, from the album Cruisin'. It peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, sold over ten million copies, spawned the arm-spelling dance, and entered the National Recording Registry.
Y'all
Y'all is the fused second-person plural pronoun of Southern American and African American English, a shortened "you all" first attested between 1631 and 1879, with possessive y'all's, spreading nationally since the 1990s.
Y&T
Y&T is an American hard rock band formed in Oakland, California, in 1974, originally named after the Beatles album Yesterday and Today and fronted throughout by Dave Meniketti.
Y2K aesthetic
Y2K aesthetic, also called Y2K futurism or millennium aesthetic, is the techno-optimist visual style of roughly 1997-2004, coined by Evan Collins after the Year 2000 bug; revived by Gen Z on TikTok from about 2020.
Y2K!
Y2K! is the debut studio album by American rapper Ice Spice, released through 10K Projects and Capitol Records on July 26, 2024, with guests Travis Scott, Gunna, and Central Cee.
Y6 non-fullerene acceptor
Y6, also known as BTP-4F or BTPTT-4F, is a small-molecule nonfullerene acceptor used as the electron acceptor in organic solar cells; its 2019 report reached 15.7% efficiency, a record that derivatives later pushed past 19%.
Ya Ali (یا علی) (phrase)
Ya Ali (یا علی), also known as Ya Ali Madad, is an Arabic invocation to Ali ibn Abi Talib used in Shia liturgy, Ismaili greetings, and everyday Iranian speech.
Ya ba (ยาบ้า)
Ya ba (ยาบ้า), literally "crazy medicine," is a tablet form of methamphetamine mixed with caffeine, produced and consumed mainly in Southeast and East Asia and widely abused in Thailand.
Ya Boy Kongming! (パリピ孔明)
Ya Boy Kongming! (パリピ孔明, Paripi Koumei) is a Japanese manga in which strategist Zhuge Liang is reborn in Shibuya and masterminds a young singer's rise.
Ya Kid K
Ya Kid K (Manuela Barbara Kamosi Moaso Djogi) is a Congolese-Belgian rapper, born in Kinshasa, who wrote and sang Technotronic's 1989 hit "Pump Up the Jam" while model Felly Kilingi lip-synced it on video; she later released the solo album One World Nation (1992).
Ya Levis
Ya Levis, real name Prince Nemiala, is a Congolese singer-songwriter from Kinshasa who fuses rumba with R&B and afro-pop, breaking through in 2018 with the hit "Libala".
Ya Xian
Ya Xian (痖弦), born Wang Qing-lin, was a Taiwanese modern poet and editor who co-founded the Epoch Poetry Society in 1954 and died in Vancouver in 2024.
Ya Ya (Beyoncé song)
YA YA is a 2024 Beyoncé song, track 20 on Cowboy Carter, sampling Nancy Sinatra's These Boots Are Made for Walkin' and interpolating the Beach Boys' Good Vibrations; a Tina Turner-inspired country-R&B-rock fusion that peaked at number 39 on the Hot 100.
Ya-Chieh Hsu
Ya-Chieh Hsu is a Taiwanese-born stem cell biologist who is Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard, known for showing how stress causes hair greying and loss.
Ya-Qin Zhang
Ya-Qin Zhang, also known as Zhang Yaqin or 张亚勤, is a Chinese AI scientist and executive who served as president of Baidu from 2014 to 2019.
Ya-Sin
Ya-Sin, also known as Surat Ya Sin, is the 36th sura of the Quran, a Meccan chapter of 82 or 83 verses known as the heart of the Quran.