All articles starting with Y

Yei

Yei: city in Central Equatoria, South Sudan, headquarters of Yei River County, about 150 km southwest of Juba. SPLA captured it in 1997; 2016 conflict displaced much of its population; UN-based 2025 city estimate 228,087.

YEIDA City

YEIDA City is a planned greenfield industrial and urban development by the Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority on ~25,000 hectares along the Yamuna Expressway, Uttar Pradesh, anchored by Noida International Airport at Jewar, Film City, and industrial sectors.

Yeison Jiménez

Yeison Jiménez (Yeison Orlando Jiménez Galeano, 1991-2026), Colombian música popular singer-songwriter from Manzanares, Caldas; breakthrough "¿Por qué la envidia?" (2014); first genre artist to sell out Bogotá's El Campín stadium; died in a 2026 plane crash near Paipa.

Oct 10, 2026

Yejin Choi

Yejin Choi is a computer scientist and 2022 MacArthur Fellow known for ATOMIC, Social Chemistry 101, and Ask Delphi, who joined Stanford in January 2025 after working at the University of Washington and NVIDIA.

Yejju Oromo dynasty

The Yejju Oromo dynasty was a lineage of Christianized, Amharic-speaking Oromo regents who ruled Ethiopia from Gondar from 1786 to 1855, enthroning Solomonic emperors as ceremonial figureheads until their fall in 1855.

Yejong of Goryeo

Yejong of Goryeo (예종), personal name Wang U, was a king of Goryeo who reigned from 1105 and led a large campaign against the Jurchen in 1107.

Sep 23, 2026

Yek Kaleme

Yek Kaleme (یک کلمه, "One Word") is a Persian treatise by Mirza Yusuf Khan Mustashar al-Dawla, written in Paris around 1870, arguing that Islam is compatible with codified law.

Yekaterina Bobrova

Yekaterina Bobrova (Екатерина Александровна Боброва), Russian ice dancer with Dmitri Soloviev: 2014 Olympic team gold, 2018 team silver, 2013 European champion, 2013 World bronze, seven Russian titles, retired 2019.

Yekaterina Dyachenko

Yekaterina Dyachenko (Екатерина Дьяченко) is a Russian retired sabre fencer, born in 1987 in St. Petersburg, who won team gold at the 2016 Rio Olympics and three World Championship team golds.

Yekaterina Ilyina

Yekaterina Ilyina (Екатерина Фёдоровна Ильина, born 1991, Togliatti) is a retired Russian handball centre back, Olympic gold medalist Rio 2016 and silver medalist Tokyo 2020, who played for Lada, Kuban, Rostov-Don, and CSKA Moscow and retired in June 2025 at 34.

Oct 20, 2026

Yekaterina Kalinchuk

Yekaterina Kalinchuk (Екатерина Калинчук), Soviet artistic gymnast (1922-1997), double Olympic champion at Helsinki 1952 in women's vault and team all-around, with silver in team portable apparatus.

Yekaterina Kondratyeva

Yekaterina Kondratyeva (Екатерина Сергеевна Кондратьева), Russian sprinter born 1982 in Nizhny Novgorod; 2004 Olympic 200 m competitor, 2006 European 4×100 m relay champion, and holder of the indoor 4×200 m relay world record 1:32.41 (2005).

Yekaterina Kuryshko

Yekaterina Kuryshko (born 1949) is a retired Soviet sprint kayaker of Ukrainian origin who won gold in the K-2 500 meters at the 1972 Munich Olympics, paddling with Lyudmila Pinayeva.

Yekaterina Marennikova

Yekaterina Marennikova (Екатерина Маренникова), born 1982 in Leningrad, is a Russian handball player, 2016 Olympic champion and 2008 silver medalist, 2005 world champion, later a Lada Togliatti coach.

Yekaterina Mizulina (Екатерина Михайловна Мизулина)

Yekaterina Mikhailovna Mizulina, head of Russia's Safe Internet League since 2017 and Civic Chamber member, leads censorship denunciations against artists and bloggers; sanctioned by the EU in 2024.

Yekaterina Shikhova

Yekaterina Shikhova (Екатерина Шихова, born 1985 in Kirov) is a Russian speed skater who won team pursuit bronze at the 2014 Sochi Olympics and skated at Vancouver 2010.

Yekaterinburg (Екатеринбург)

Yekaterinburg (Екатеринбург), formerly Sverdlovsk, is Russia's fourth-largest city, founded 1723 and named for Catherine I. Ural industrial, transport, and cultural hub on the Iset River with about 1.5 million residents, constructivist architecture, and top Russian quality-of-life rankings.

Yekatit 12

Yekatit 12 (የካቲት ፲፪), 19 February in the Ethiopian calendar, was the 1937 massacre of thousands of Ethiopians in Addis Ababa by Italian Fascist forces.

Oct 22, 2026

Yeke Kingdom

The Yeke Kingdom, also called the Garanganze or Garenganze kingdom, was a precolonial state in Katanga, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, founded by the trader-warlord Msiri.

Yekuno Amlak

Yekuno Amlak (ይኩኖ አምላክ) was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1270 to 1285, an Amhara noble who overthrew the Zagwe dynasty and founded the Solomonic dynasty.

Oct 10, 2026

Yekutiel Yehuda Teitelbaum (Yetev Lev), rebbe of Sighet

Yekutiel Yehuda Teitelbaum (1808–1883), known as the Yitav Lev after his Torah commentary, was a Hungarian Hasidic rabbi of Sighet from 1858 and founder of the first Hasidic yeshiva in Hungary, ancestor of the Satmar dynasty.

Oct 10, 2026

Yekutiel Yehuda Teitelbaum II, rebbe of Sighet

Yekutiel Yehuda Teitelbaum II (יקותיאל יהודה טייטלבוים) was the last rebbe of the hasidic dynasty of Sighet, Romania, from 1926 until his death in Auschwitz in 1944.

Yelagiri (ஏலகிரி)

Yelagiri (ஏலகிரி), also spelled Elagiri, is a hill station in Tirupattur district, Tamil Nadu, in the Eastern Ghats at about 1,110 m, with 14 hamlets, Punganur Lake, Swamimalai trekking, paragliding, and a 14-hairpin ghat road.

Sep 23, 2026

Yelang

Yelang (夜郎) was the largest of the settled farming polities of Han China's southwest, on the Zangke River, whose kings were invested by the Han before the last was executed.

Yelawolf

Yelawolf, born Michael Wayne Atha (1979, Gadsden, Alabama), is a Southern rapper blending hip hop, rock, and country; broke out with Trunk Muzik (2010), signed to Eminem's Shady Records 2011-2019, then independent on Slumerican.

Yeldos Smetov

Yeldos Smetov is a Kazakh judoka, born 1992 in Taraz, who competes up to 60 kg and holds Olympic gold (2024), silver (2016), and bronze (2020).

Yelena Akhaminova

Yelena Akhaminova (Елена Рабиговна Ахаминова, later Sokolovskaya), born 1961, Soviet volleyball player; 1980 Moscow Olympic gold medalist, 1979 European champion, later coach of Dynamo-Zhinestra Odessa in Ukraine.

Oct 20, 2026

Yelena Andreyuk

Yelena Andreyuk (Елена Андреюк, later Chesnokova), born 1958 in Tula, Soviet volleyball player; 1980 Moscow Olympic champion with the USSR and 1979 European champion with Uralochka Sverdlovsk.