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Yohannes Haile‐Selassie
Yohannes Haile-Selassie Ambaye is an Ethiopian paleoanthropologist who directs the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University, known for discovering the first complete Australopithecus anamensis cranium in 2019.
Yohannes I
Yohannes I, throne name Aelaf Sagad, was emperor of Ethiopia from 1667 to 1682, the son and successor of Fasilides, known for church councils and expelling the Portuguese descendants.
Yohannes IV (ዮሓንስ ፬ይ)
Yohannes IV (ዮሓንስ ፬ይ), born Kassa Märcha, emperor of Ethiopia 1872–1889; ruled as a federation of subordinate kings, defeated Egypt at Gundet and Gura, died at Metemma against the Mahdists, opening the throne to Menelik II.
Yohanns Bellaïche
Yohanns Bellaïche is a French cell and developmental biologist at the Institut Curie in Paris, known for work on planar polarity, asymmetric cell division, and tissue mechanics.
Yohen Tenmoku Tea Bowl
The Yohen Tenmoku tea bowl (曜変天目茶碗) is a black-glazed Jian kiln tea bowl from 12th to 13th century China, marked by blue-lustered spots; three survive, all in Japan.
Yohendrick Piñango
Yohendrick Piñango (Yohendrick Alexander Piñango), Venezuelan leftfielder born 2002 in Carora; signed by the Cubs in 2018, traded to Toronto for Nate Pearson, MLB debut April 26, 2026 with the Blue Jays.
Yohimbine
Yohimbine, an indole alkaloid (C21H26N2O3), is an alpha-2 adrenergic antagonist used to reverse xylazine and medetomidine sedation in animals and historically for erectile dysfunction in humans; FDA-approved in US deer and elk.
Yohji Yamamoto (山本耀司)
Yohji Yamamoto (山本耀司), Japanese designer born 1943 in Tokyo; founded Y's in 1972 and debuted his eponymous black, oversized, asymmetric ready-to-wear label in Paris in 1981; also creative director of the Y-3 Adidas collaboration since 2002.
Yohkoh
Yohkoh (ようこう, "Sunbeam"), also known as SOLAR-A, was a Japanese X-ray solar observation satellite launched in 1991 by ISAS with US and UK cooperation, observing solar flares until 2001.
Yohl Ikʼnal
Yohl Ikʼnal, also rendered Ix Yohl Ikʼnal, was a queen of the Classic Maya city of Palenque in Chiapas, Mexico, ruling in her own right from 583 to 604.
Yoho National Park
Yoho National Park: 1,313 km² national park in southeast British Columbia, established 1886, part of the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site, home to the Burgess Shale fossils, Kicking Horse River, and Takakkaw Falls.
Yoho oil field
Yoho is a shallow-water oil field about 19 nautical miles offshore Akwa Ibom State in Nigeria's eastern Niger Delta, producing since late 2002 under the NNPC/ExxonMobil joint venture.
Yohualichan
Yohualichan, "House of the Night" in Nahuatl, is a Totonac archaeological site and ceremonial center in Cuetzalan del Progreso, Puebla, Mexico, known for niche-crowned pyramids like El Tajín and a roughly 90-meter ball court.
Yoichi Ando
Yoichi Ando, born 1964 in Tokyo, is a Japanese condensed matter physicist and professor at the University of Cologne, known for pioneering work on topological insulators and superconductors.
Yōichi Kaya
Yōichi Kaya (茅陽一) is a Japanese energy systems engineer, a University of Tokyo professor, best known for the Kaya identity decomposing CO2 emissions into population, GDP, and intensity factors.
Yoichi Miyaoka
Yoichi Miyaoka (宮岡洋一, born 1949) is a Japanese algebraic geometer who proved the Bogomolov–Miyaoka–Yau inequality in 1977 and extended it to higher dimensions, a key step in classifying threefolds.
Yoichiro Iwakura
Yoichiro Iwakura (岩倉洋一郎) is a Japanese immunologist at Tokyo University of Science known for creating mouse models of rheumatoid arthritis and for work on cytokines including IL-1 and IL-17.
Yoichiro Nambu
Yoichiro Nambu (南部陽一郎, 1921–2015) was a Japanese-born American theoretical physicist at the University of Chicago who won half of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics.
Yōichirō Suzuki
Yōichirō Suzuki (鈴木洋一郎) is a Japanese experimental particle physicist who led the solar-neutrino measurements at Super-Kamiokande, served as its spokesperson during the 1998 discovery of neutrino oscillations, and is now a University of Tokyo professor emeritus.
Yoido Full Gospel Church
Yoido Full Gospel Church (여의도순복음교회) is a Pentecostal megachurch on Yeouido island in Seoul, founded in 1958 by David Yonggi Cho and known as the world's largest church.
Yoin
Yoin: drawless 2021 abstract board game by Luis Bolaños Mures for two players on a hexagonal grid; place stones, then the player with fewer groups bigger than n stones wins; pie rule balances play. Also an unrelated social app, YOIN CLUB.
Yoji Andrew Minamishima
Yoji Andrew Minamishima is a Japanese physician-scientist and Professor of Biochemistry at Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine since 2018, known for research on cell-cycle control and oxygen sensing.
Yoji Totsuka
Yoji Totsuka was a Japanese experimental particle physicist who led the Kamiokande and Super-Kamiokande experiments, directed the 1998 discovery of neutrino oscillations, and died in 2008.
Yojimbo (用心棒)
Yojimbo (用心棒) is Akira Kurosawa's 1961 black-and-white Toho samurai film starring Toshiro Mifune as ronin Sanjuro, adapted from Hammett's Red Harvest; it inspired Leone's A Fistful of Dollars and a Toho lawsuit.
Yojiro Uetake
Yojiro Uetake (上武洋次郎, later Obata), born 1943, Japanese freestyle wrestler; won Olympic bantamweight gold at Tokyo 1964 and Mexico City 1968, first Japanese wrestler with two Olympic golds, and went 58-0 with three NCAA titles at Oklahoma State.
Yōjō
Yōjō (余情), also read yosei, is a Japanese literary ideal translated as lingering feeling or overtones: mood that floats beyond a poem's words, prized in waka, renga, and haikai.
Yoka Lokole
Yoka Lokole was a short-lived Kinshasa orchestra formed in November 1975 by Papa Wemba, Mavuela Somo, and Bozi Boziana after leaving Isifi Lokole, named for the lokole drum.
Yōkai (妖怪)
Yōkai (妖怪) are Japanese supernatural creatures and inexplicable phenomena such as tengu and kappa, studied since Meiji-era Inoue Enryō's yōkai-gaku, visually celebrated in Edo Hyakki Yagyō scrolls, and preserved today in a 35,307-case folklore database.
Yoke
A yoke, in mechanical power transmission, is the U-shaped fork at the end of a shaft that grips a universal joint's cross-shaped spider through bearing cups.
Yokkaichi LNG Center
Yokkaichi LNG Center is an onshore liquefied natural gas import terminal in Yokkaichi City, Mie Prefecture, Japan, opened in the late 1980s and owned by JERA, with a send-out capacity of 6.4 million tonnes per annum.