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Ya-Yerv Corona
Ya-Yerv Corona is a 275 km diameter corona on Venus at 9°S, 214°E in the Taussig quadrangle, IAU-named in 2003 for the Nenets Earth mother, with mapped late-stage volcanic flows.
Ya‐Ping Sun
Ya-Ping Sun is a materials chemist at Clemson University, where he has taught since 1992, whose research group introduced and named carbon dots, fluorescent carbon nanoparticles.
Ya'akov Moshe Toledano
Ya'akov Moshe Toledano (יעקב משה טולידאנו) was a Sephardic rabbi born in Tiberias who served as chief rabbi of Tel Aviv and Israel's minister of religious affairs.
Ya'ammu Nubwoserre
Ya'ammu Nubwoserre was a minor pharaoh of Egypt's 14th Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period, reigning c. 1780–1770 BC and known only from scarab seals bearing his two names.
Ya'an
Ya'an (雅安市) is a prefecture-level city in western Sichuan, China, between the Sichuan Basin and the Tibetan Plateau. Known for 69.42% forest cover, 340 wild giant pandas, Mengding Mountain tea, and 2025 GDP of 113.16 billion yuan.
Ya'aruba dynasty
The Ya'aruba dynasty (اليعاربة) was the ruling house of Oman, founded in 1624 when Nasir ibn Murshid was elected imam; it expelled the Portuguese and fell in 1749.
Ya'qub al-Hadrami
Ya'qub al-Hadrami (يعقوب بن إسحاق الحضرمي) was a Basran Quranic reciter and traditionist, counted as the ninth of the ten canonical readers of the Quran.
Ya'qub ibn Abd Allah al-Qummi
Ya'qub ibn Abd Allah al-Qummi (يعقوب بن عبد الله القمي) was a hadith scholar and Qur'an exegete resident in Qom, who died in 172 or 174 AH (790 CE).
Ya'qub ibn Abd Allah ibn al-Ashaj
Ya'qub ibn Abd Allah ibn al-Ashaj was a Medinan hadith transmitter graded reliable by the critics, who was killed at sea as a martyr in 122 AH.
Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar
Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar (يعقوب بن الليث الصفار) was a coppersmith who founded the Saffarid dynasty in eastern Iran, ruling 861–879 and taking Nishapur in 873.
Ya'qub ibn Killis
Ya'qub ibn Killis (يعقوب بن كلس) was a Jewish-born convert to Islam who became the first Fatimid vizier in Egypt, serving al-Mu'izz and al-Aziz until his death in 990.
Ya'qub ibn Utba
Ya'qub ibn Utba was a Medinan tabi'i, hadith narrator, and jurist of Thaqif who died in 128 AH and was graded trustworthy by the hadith critics.
Ya'qub Sanu'
Ya'qub Sanu' (يعقوب صنوع), also known as James Sanua, was an Egyptian Jewish playwright and satirical journalist exiled by Khedive Ismail in 1878 for his journal Abou Naddara Zarqa.
Yaa Asantewaa
Yaa Asantewaa was queen mother of Edweso in the Asante Union who led the 1900 war against the British and died in exile in 1921.
Yaacov Trope
Yaacov Trope is a social psychologist at New York University best known as a developer of construal-level theory, which links psychological distance to abstract thinking.
Yaadein (यादें) (2001 film)
Yaadein (यादें) is Subhash Ghai's 2001 Hindi family drama starring Jackie Shroff, Hrithik Roshan, and Kareena Kapoor, about a widowed father and his three daughters; a domestic flop that set Hindi film opening records overseas.
Yaadgar-e-Ghalib
Yaadgar-e-Ghalib (یادگارِ غالب) is an 1897 Urdu biography of the poet Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, written by his friend Khwaja Altaf Hussain Hali and the first about him.
Yaadon Ki Baaraat (यादों की बारात)
Yaadon Ki Baaraat (यादों की बारात), also Procession of Memories, is a 1973 Nasir Hussain Hindi masala musical written by Salim-Javed, starring Dharmendra, Zeenat Aman, Vijay Arora, and Tariq, with R.D. Burman's music and Aamir Khan's child debut.
Yaak Technologies
Yaak Technologies is a Berlin automotive-technology company founded in 2020 that develops driver-coaching software, data-collection hardware, and AI for driving safety; its German entity entered liquidation in January 2024.
Yaakov Aryeh Alter
Yaakov Aryeh Alter is the Grand Rabbi of the Ger Hasidic dynasty in Jerusalem, leading Israel's largest Hasidic community through its first split in 160 years in 2019.
Yaakov Benenson
Yaakov (Kobi) Benenson is a synthetic biologist known for autonomous DNA-based molecular computers and RNAi logic circuits that distinguish and destroy cancer cells; he was a professor at ETH Zurich until 2024.
Yaakov Meir
Yaakov Meir (1856–1939) was a Sephardi rabbi born in Jerusalem who served as Chief Rabbi of Salonika and then as the first Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Palestine.
Yaakov Stern
Yaakov Stern is an American neuropsychologist and Florence Irving Professor at Columbia University, known for formulating the cognitive reserve hypothesis explaining differing Alzheimer's disease outcomes.
Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky (יעקב ישראל קנייבסקי)
Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky, known as the Steipler Gaon, was a Haredi rabbi and Talmudic scholar in Bnei Brak who, though holding no official position, was consulted on every imaginable problem.
Yaam, Berlin
YAAM (Young African Art Market) is a beach club and reggae, dancehall venue on the Spree riverbank in Friedrichshain, Berlin, founded in 1994 and run by Kult e.V.
Yaan (film)
Yaan (யான்) is a 2014 Tamil action thriller, the directorial debut of cinematographer Ravi K. Chandran, starring Jiiva and Thulasi Nair. Released 2 October 2014 by RS Infotainment with music by Harris Jayaraj, it follows a man framed for drugs in fictional Basilistan; reviews were largely negative.
Yaanai (யானை)
Yaanai (யானை), a 2022 Tamil action drama directed and written by Hari, stars Arun Vijay and Priya Bhavani Shankar; released 1 July 2022 by Drumsticks Productions, music G.V. Prakash Kumar, streaming on Zee5.
Yaar Jigree Kasooti Degree
Yaar Jigree Kasooti Degree (YJKD) is a Punjabi comedy-drama web series on Troll Punjabi's YouTube channel, written and directed by Rabby Tiwana, two seasons 2018–2020, with a 2026 theatrical film sequel streaming on Chaupal.
Yaara (यारा)
Yaara (यारा) is a 2020 Hindi-language action crime film directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia, adapting the 2011 French film Les Lyonnais, following four friends in the Chaukdi Gang; it premiered on ZEE5 in July 2020.
Yaaradi Nee Mohini (யாரடி நீ மோகினி)
Yaaradi Nee Mohini (யாரடி நீ மோகினி) is a 2008 Tamil romantic family drama directed by Mithran Jawahar, starring Dhanush and Nayanthara, remade from Selvaraghavan's Telugu hit Aadavari Matalaku Ardhale Verule, with music by Yuvan Shankar Raja; distinct from the 2017 Zee Tamil serial of the same name.