All articles starting with Y

Yo Yo Honey Singh

Yo Yo Honey Singh, stage name of Hirdesh Singh, is an Indian rapper, singer, and music producer from Hoshiarpur, Punjab, whose 2011 album International Villager and 2012 hit Brown Rang made Punjabi party rap mainstream in Bollywood.

Oct 21, 2026

Yo Yo's

Yo Yo's is a Japanese takeout counter at 318 Pacific Ave in San Francisco's Financial District, opened 1988, run by a couple, known for sub-$15 chicken teriyaki, udon, and soba weekday lunches.

Yo-Chi

Yo-Chi is an Australian self-serve frozen yogurt chain founded in Melbourne in 2012, where customers fill a cup from flavor taps and pay by weight, with 80 Australian stores plus locations in Singapore, London, and Dallas.

Yo-kai Watch (妖怪ウォッチ)

Yo-kai Watch (妖怪ウォッチ) is a Level-5 media franchise about a boy who befriends invisible spirits called Yo-kai. It broke out in Japan in 2014 via its anime and toy line, sold 6.5 million 3DS games by 2015, and returned in 2026 with a Yo-kai Watch 2 remake.

Yo-kai Watch (妖怪ウォッチ) (video game)

Yo-kai Watch (妖怪ウォッチ) is Level-5's first Yo-kai Watch RPG for Nintendo 3DS, released Japan 2013, West 2015-2016. Players befriend invisible Yo-kai in Springdale; semi-automatic 3v3 battles, eight tribes, 1.58 million Western sales, Metacritic 76.

Yo-kai Watch 2 (妖怪ウォッチ2)

Yo-kai Watch 2 (妖怪ウォッチ2) is a Level-5 Nintendo 3DS RPG released in Japan July 10, 2014 as Bony Spirits/Fleshy Souls (元祖/本家), with Psychic Specters (真打) as the third version; 350+ Yo-kai, time travel, Blasters co-op.

Yo-kai Watch: The Movie

Yo-kai Watch: The Movie (映画妖怪ウォッチ誕生の秘密だニャン！) is the 2014 first theatrical Yo-kai Watch anime film by Level-5 and OLM, directed by Takahashi and Ushiro, released by Toho December 20, 2014, 97 minutes.

Yo-yo

Yo-yo: spinning string skill toy with an axle between two disks; sleeps at full string extension and returns by tug or bind. Origins disputed (China, Greece, Philippines); commercialized by Flores (1928) and Duncan; divisions 1A–5A.

Yo-Yo (rapper)

Yo-Yo (Yolanda Whitaker, born 1971) is a Los Angeles hardcore/West Coast rapper who debuted on Ice Cube's "It's a Man's World" (1990), released five EastWest albums 1991-1998, founded the Intelligent Black Women's Coalition, and runs the Yo-Yo School of Hip Hop.

Yo-Yo Ma (马友友)

Yo-Yo Ma (马友友), born 1955 in Paris, is a Chinese-American cellist with 20 Grammy Awards, over 120 albums, and founder of the Silkroad collective; also known for Bach suites and the Bach Project.

Oct 21, 2026

Yoandri Urgelles

Yoandri Urgellés, nicknamed Takata, is a Cuban former baseball outfielder who won Olympic gold at the 2004 Olympics and silver in 2008, playing mainly for Industriales of Havana.

Yoane Wissa

Yoane Wissa, DR Congo forward born 1996 in France; Lorient, Brentford (record PL scorer, 19 goals in 2024/25), then Newcastle United from September 2025 for a reported £55m.

Yoann Angibaud

Yoann Angibaud is a French-trained financial engineer and Senior Trader at Five Rings Capital, a quantitative proprietary trading firm, where he has worked in London since 2016.

Yoann Gourcuff

Yoann Gourcuff, born 1986 in Ploemeur, French attacking midfielder dubbed the new Zidane; Ligue 1 champion and Player of the Year 2009 with Bordeaux, 31 France caps, career ended by injuries at Dijon in January 2019.

Yoann Lemoine

Yoann Lemoine, known as Woodkid, is a French musician, video director and graphic designer born in 1983; creator of the albums The Golden Age (2013) and S16 (2020), director of videos for Katy Perry, Lana Del Rey and others, and a Grammy-nominated music video maker.

Yoasobi

YOASOBI (from Japanese for nightlife) is a J-pop duo formed October 1, 2019, composer Ayase plus vocalist ikura, turning monogatary.com novels into songs; debut "Yoru ni Kakeru" and "Idol" set Japanese chart records.

Yoav Ben‐Shlomo

Yoav Ben-Shlomo is a clinical epidemiologist and physician, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Bristol Medical School, known for life-course epidemiology and Parkinson's disease research.

Yoav Benjamini

Yoav Benjamini, born 1949, is an Israeli statistician at Tel Aviv University who co-introduced the false discovery rate in 1995, reshaping large-scale hypothesis testing; his honors include the Israel Prize and the 2024 Rousseeuw Prize.

Oct 10, 2026

Yoav Freund

Yoav Freund is a computer scientist and professor at UC San Diego who co-developed AdaBoost with Robert Schapire in 1995, winning the 2003 Gödel Prize.

Yoav Gallant (יואב גלנט)

Yoav Gallant (יואב גלנט), born 1958 in Jaffa, is a retired IDF major general and Israeli politician, defense minister December 2022 to November 2024, twice dismissed by Netanyahu, subject of a 2024 ICC arrest warrant.

Yoav Gilad

Yoav Gilad is a human geneticist who studies gene regulation and its evolution, and is Professor of Medicine and Chief of Genetic Medicine at the University of Chicago.

Yoav Goldberg

Yoav Goldberg (יואב גולדברג) is an Israeli computer scientist in natural language processing, a professor at Bar-Ilan University and author of a 2017 neural NLP textbook.

Yoav Leitersdorf

Yoav Leitersdorf is an Israeli-American venture capitalist who founded YL Ventures in 2007, investing at the earliest stages in Israeli cybersecurity startups from Mill Valley, California.

Yobe State

Yobe State, northeastern Nigeria state created from Borno State on 27 August 1991, capital Damaturu, 47,153 km², 17 LGAs, agrarian Sahelian economy, high poverty, Boko Haram-affected.

Yocto Project

The Yocto Project is an open source collaboration project founded in 2010 that provides tools and methods for building custom Linux systems for embedded devices, servers, and virtual environments.

Yod Abyssinia

Yod Abyssinia is a large cultural restaurant in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, founded in 2003, that pairs traditional Ethiopian cuisine with live traditional music and dance performances nightly.

Yoda

Yoda is the fictional Jedi Master of the Star Wars franchise, debuting in The Empire Strikes Back (1980), performed by Frank Oz, 0.66 m tall, species unknown, Grand Master who trained Jedi for over 800 years and taught Luke Skywalker on Dagobah.

Yodchanan Wongsawat

Yodchanan Wongsawat (ยศชนัน วงศ์สวัสดิ์), Thai biomedical engineering professor at Mahidol University and EEG/brain-computer interface researcher, son of former PM Somchai Wongsawat and nephew of Thaksin; Pheu Thai's 2026 PM candidate, now Deputy Prime Minister and MHESI Minister.

Yodeling

Yodeling, or Jodel, is singing with rapid register shifts between chest and head voice on wordless syllables, rooted in the Alps since at least 1545, inscribed by UNESCO in 2025, and distinct from ordinary register breaks in popular singing.