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Yashwantrao Chavan (यशवंतराव बाळवंतराव चव्हाण)

Yashwantrao Chavan (यशवंतराव बाळवंतराव चव्हाण), born 12 March 1913, freedom fighter and first Chief Minister of Maharashtra from 1960; later Defence, Home, Finance, and External Affairs Minister, and Deputy Prime Minister 1979-1980; died 25 November 1984.

Yashwantrao Holkar

Yashwantrao Holkar, ruler of Indore's Holkar dynasty, defeated the Scindia and Peshwa armies in 1802 and concluded the 1805 Treaty of Rajghat with the British.

Yasiel Puig

Yasiel Puig (Yasiel Puig Valdés, "Wild Horse"), Cuban outfielder born 1990 in Cienfuegos; defected 2012, starred for the Dodgers 2013-2018 (.277, 132 HR), later played in Mexico and Korea, and was convicted in 2026 of obstruction and false statements.

Yasim-El

Yasim-El, also written Yaṣim-El or Yašim-El, was an official serving Zimri-Lim, king of Mari, known from a letter reporting events at Andarig and Ṣidqum around 1763 BC.

Yasin al-Hashimi

Yasin al-Hashimi (ياسين الهاشمي) was an Iraqi officer and nationalist politician who served as prime minister of Iraq from March 1935 until the military coup of October 1936.

Yasin Bhatkal

Yasin Bhatkal, born Mohammed Ahmed Siddibappa, co-founder and operational chief of the Indian Mujahideen; arrested at Raxaul on the India-Nepal border in August 2013 and sentenced to death in 2016 for the 2013 Dilsukhnagar Hyderabad twin blasts.

Yasin Malik (یاسین ملک)

Yasin Malik is a Kashmiri separatist who headed the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front, seeking independence from both India and Pakistan; convicted of terror financing in May 2022, sentenced to two life terms, held in Tihar Jail.

Yâsincizâde Abdülvehhâb Efendi

Yâsincizâde Abdülvehhâb Efendi (1758–1833) was an Ottoman ilmiye scholar who served twice as şeyhülislam under Mahmud II and backed the abolition of the Janissary corps in 1826.

Yasir Al-Rumayyan (ياسر بن عثمان الرميان)

Yasir Al-Rumayyan (ياسر بن عثمان الرميان) is a Saudi financier who has been Governor of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund since 2019 and chairman of Saudi Aramco.

Yasir Hussain (یاسر حسین)

Yasir Hussain (یاسر حسین), born 1984, is a Pakistani actor, screenwriter, and director known for Anwar Maqsood stage plays and the film Karachi Se Lahore.

Yasir Shah (یاسر شاہ)

Yasir Shah (یاسر شاہ), born 1986 in Swabi, is a Pakistani right-arm legbreak bowler, fastest Pakistan bowler to 50 Test wickets, 10-wicket match haul at Lord's 2016, and former top-ranked Test bowler.

Yasir Yuhan'im

Yasir Yuhan'im (Yasirum Yuhanim) was a king of Himyar in ancient South Arabia who reigned at the end of the third and beginning of the fourth century AD.

Yaska

Yaska (यास्क) was an ancient Indian Sanskrit scholar, author of the Nirukta, the foundational treatise of Indian etymology, which explains difficult Vedic words through semantic derivation.

Yaskawa

Yaskawa, also known as Yaskawa Electric Corporation or 安川電機, is a Japanese motion control and industrial robot maker founded in 1915 in Kitakyushu, one of the Big Four alongside FANUC, ABB, and KUKA.

Yaskawa Motoman GP series

The Yaskawa Motoman GP series is a family of six-axis industrial robots by Yaskawa Electric for assembly, packaging, and handling, spanning payloads from 4 to 700 kg.

Yaskawa Motoman MH series

The Yaskawa Motoman MH series is a family of six-axis industrial handling robots made by Yaskawa Electric, with payloads from a few kilograms up to 900 kg.

Yaskawa Sigma-5 servo series

The Yaskawa Sigma-5 (Σ-V Series) is a family of AC servo drives and servomotors made by Yaskawa Electric, launched in 2007 as the fourth Sigma generation for high-speed, high-precision positioning.

Yaskawa Sigma-7 servo series

The Yaskawa Sigma-7 servo series (Σ-7シリーズ) is a family of AC servo motors and SERVOPACK amplifiers made by Yaskawa Electric, launched in 2013 as successor to the Sigma-V series.

Yaskawa Solectria

Yaskawa Solectria Solar is an American manufacturer of utility-scale photovoltaic inverters, headquartered in Lawrence, Massachusetts, founded in 2005 and acquired by Japan's Yaskawa Electric in 2014, which describes itself as the largest U.S.-based inverter manufacturer.

Yasmah-Adad

Yasmah-Adad (Yasmaḫ-Addu) was a king of Mari on the middle Euphrates in the early second millennium BC, installed by his father Shamshi-Adad I and driven out by Zimri-Lim.

Yasmani Grandal

Yasmani Grandal, Cuban-born MLB catcher (Padres, Dodgers, Brewers, White Sox, Pirates), two-time All-Star, 194 career home runs, elite pitch framer, 2010 first-round pick.

Yasmeen Ghauri

Yasmeen Ghauri, Canadian supermodel of the 1990s (Pakistani-German, born 1971 in Montreal), discovered at a McDonald's, famed for her runway walk, first South Asian Vogue-cover and Victoria's Secret model per Vogue, retired 1997.

Yasmeen Tahir (یاسمین طاہر)

Yasmeen Tahir (یاسمین طاہر), 1937–2025, Pakistani Radio Pakistan broadcaster, actress, host, and writer; daughter of Imtiaz Ali Taj and Hijab Imtiaz Ali, wife of Naeem Tahir, Sitara-e-Imtiaz 2015.

Yasmin Aga Khan

Yasmin Aga Khan (born 1949, Lausanne), daughter of Rita Hayworth and Prince Aly Khan, founded the Alzheimer's Association Rita Hayworth Galas (New York 1984, Chicago 1987), which raised over $92 million; Honorary Vice Chair of the Alzheimer's Association and Honorary President of ADI.

Yasmin Al-Khudhairi

Yasmin Al-Khudhairi (born 1995) is a British actress known for Rye Lane (2023), Fizza Akhtar in Ackley Bridge (2021–2022), and Naomi Ward in A Good Girl's Guide to Murder.

Yasmin Duursma

Yasmin Duursma (born 2004) is an AFLW footballer, drafted pick 45 in 2022 by Port Adelaide, traded to Carlton in the 2023 off-season, wing player, sister of Xavier, Zane and Willem Duursma.

Yasmin Finney

Yasmin Finney (born 2003) is an English actress from Manchester known as Elle Argent in Netflix's Heartstopper and Rose Noble in BBC's Doctor Who; Black trans actress, TikTok personality, Emmy-nominated.

Yasmin Hurd

Yasmin Hurd is a neuroscientist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai who studies how developmental cannabis exposure changes the brain's reward circuitry and leads clinical trials of CBD for opioid use disorder.

Yasmin Le Bon

Yasmin Le Bon (née Parvaneh), British supermodel born 1964 in Oxford to an Iranian father and English mother; married Duran Duran's Simon Le Bon in 1985; about 300 magazine covers, Wallis and Winser London designs, still walking for Fendi in 2025.

Yasmin Lukatz (יסמין לוקץ)

Yasmin Lukatz (יסמין לוקץ) is an Israeli businesswoman who founded ICON, a Silicon Valley nonprofit connecting Israeli founders with U.S. investors, and its $21 million Continuity Fund.