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Yacine Louati
Yacine Louati, French volleyball outside hitter (born 1992, Tourcoing), two-time Olympic gold medalist with France at Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024; son of Tunisian international Moutaa Louati; clubs include Jastrzebski Wegiel, Fenerbahce, and Asseco Resovia.
Yacón
Yacon (Smallanthus sonchifolius, yacón) is an Andean Asteraceae root crop storing sweet fructooligosaccharides instead of starch; low-GI syrup source, prebiotic FOS, grown from Colombia to Argentina and beyond.
Yacuíba-Río Grande Gas Pipeline
The Yacuíba-Río Grande Gas Pipeline (Gasoducto Yacuiba-Río Grande, GASYRG) is a 432-kilometer natural gas pipeline in Bolivia, operated by YPFB Transierra, carrying over 85% of the country's gas exports.
Yacyretá Dam
The Yacyretá Dam is a binational Argentina–Paraguay hydroelectric complex on the Paraná River, jointly governed under a 1973 treaty, with 20 Kaplan turbines and 3,200 MW of installed capacity.
Yacyretá hydroelectric plant
Yacyretá is a binational hydroelectric dam and power station on the upper Paraná River, built and operated jointly by Argentina and Paraguay with 3,200 MW of installed capacity.
Yad Vashem (יד ושם)
Yad Vashem (יד ושם), Israel's Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority in Jerusalem, established by Knesset law in 1953; documents the six million victims, runs the Shoah Victims' Names database, and awards the Righteous Among the Nations title.
YADA Moeka
YADA Moeka (矢田萌華), also romanized Moeka Yada, is a Japanese idol and sixth-generation member of Nogizaka46, announced in February 2025 as a 17-year-old from Akita Prefecture.
Yada'ab Ghaylan
Yada'ab Ghaylan was a king of Hadramawt in ancient South Arabia, dated to the mid-1st century BCE through a synchronism with the Qatabanian king Yada'ab Dhubyain Yuhan'im.
Yada'ib Dhubyan Yuhan'im
Yada'ib Dhubyan Yuhan'im, son of Shahr, was a king of Qataban in ancient South Arabia who reigned around 80–50 BCE, ruled in coregency with his son Shahr Hilal Yuhan'im, and left inscriptions at Timna.
Yada'il Dharih I
Yada'il Dharih I (Yada'il Zarih I) was a mukarrib of Saba in the mid-7th century BC, known from a temple inscription at Sirwah and for reorganizing the Awam temple at Ma'rib.
Yadadri power station
Yadadri power station, also called Yadadri Thermal Power Station or YTPS, is a 4,000 MW supercritical coal-fired power station in Nalgonda district, Telangana, India, built as five 800 MW units by TSGENCO.
Yadam
Yadam (야담) is a genre of short, miscellaneous stories written in classical Chinese during the late Joseon period in Korea, first collected in Yu Mong-in's Eou Yadam.
Yadana Gas Field
The Yadana gas field is a natural gas field about 60 kilometers off Myanmar's coast, discovered in 1982 and developed by a consortium led by Total.
Yadang: The Snitch
Yadang: The Snitch (야당) is a 2025 South Korean crime action film by Hwang Byeong-gug starring Kang Ha-neul, Yoo Hae-jin, and Park Hae-joon as a drug-informant broker, an ambitious prosecutor, and a detective; it sold 3,378,276 tickets, ranking second among 2025 Korean films.
Yadav
Yadav: umbrella caste identity for Ahir, Golla, Idaiyar, Kunbi and related pastoral-farming communities of India and Nepal's Terai, consolidated via the All India Yadav Mahasabha and the 1931 census; OBC-listed, 14.26% of Bihar, 4.21% of Nepal.
Yadava
Yadava means descendant of Yadu, a Rigvedic tribe paired with the Turvasas and later the lineage of Krishna, whose clans Andhaka and Vrishni moved from Mathura to Dvaraka; distinct from the Devagiri dynasty and modern Yadav castes.
Yadava tribe
The Yadava tribe (यादव) was, in epic and Puranic tradition, a lineage descended from Yadu, based at Mathura and later Dvaraka and most closely tied to Krishna's kinsmen.
Yādavaprakāśa
Yādavaprakāśa (यादवप्रकाश) was an 11th-century Vedanta philosopher, traditionally Rāmānuja's teacher at Kanchipuram before their falling out; his commentary on the Vedānta-sūtras is lost, and the ascetic manual Yatidharmasamuccaya is attributed to him.
Yadavaran Oil Field
Yadavaran Oil Field (میدان نفتی یادآوران) is a large onshore oil field in Khuzestan, southwestern Iran, about 70 km southwest of Ahvaz near the Iraqi border.
Yadavaraya chiefs
The Yadavaraya chiefs (யாதவராயர்) were a chieftain lineage ruling parts of northern and eastern Tondamandalam from the twelfth to the fourteenth century, first under the Cholas and later the Pandyas.
Yadavindra Singh (ਯਾਦਵਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ)
Yadavindra Singh (ਯਾਦਵਿੰਦਰ ਸਿੰਘ), also Yadvindra/Yadavinder Singh, last ruling Maharaja of Patiala (1938–1974); led 22 rulers into accession to India in 1947, first Rajpramukh of PEPSU, Indian Olympic Association president, ambassador to Italy and the Netherlands.
Yaddo
Yaddo is a nonprofit artists' retreat in Saratoga Springs, New York, founded by Spencer and Katrina Trask (corporation 1900, first guests 1926) on a 400-acre estate. It offers two-week to two-month residencies in five disciplines, judged on work quality, with alumni holding 90 Pulitzer Prizes.
Yadier Molina
Yadier Molina, nicknamed Yadi, is a Puerto Rican former catcher who played his entire career with the St. Louis Cardinals, winning nine Gold Gloves and two World Series.
Yadih-Abu
Yadih-Abu was the third king of the kingdom of Hana on the middle Euphrates, reigning around 1725 BC and named as an adversary in a Babylonian year-name of Samsu-iluna.
Yadin Dudai
Yadin Dudai, born 1944 in Tel Aviv, is an Israeli neuroscientist of learning and memory, emeritus professor at the Weizmann Institute and distinguished professor at New York University.
Yading Biosphere Reserve
Yading Biosphere Reserve (Tibetan Nyiden, ཉི་དེན་) is a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere site in Ganzi, Sichuan, China, designated 2003; 145,750 ha of Tibetan Plateau mountains with three sacred peaks, Kangba-Tibetan residents, and matsutake and caterpillar fungus livelihoods.
Yadong Huang
Yadong Huang (黄亚东) is a neuroscientist at the Gladstone Institutes and UCSF whose lab showed that stressed neurons cleave apoE4, Alzheimer's strongest genetic risk factor, into toxic fragments.
Yadong Wang
Yadong Wang is an American biomaterials researcher and McAdam Family Foundation Professor at Cornell University, known for inventing poly(glycerol sebacate) and cell-free vascular grafts that remodel into living arteries.
Yadong Yin
Yadong Yin is a materials chemist and professor of chemistry at the University of California, Riverside, known for hollow nanocrystals via the Kirkendall effect and magnetically tunable photonic crystals.
Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar
Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar is an Indian BJP politician and member of the erstwhile Mysuru royal family, elected to the Lok Sabha from Mysore in 2024.