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Yootha Joyce
Yootha Joyce (1927–1980), English actress, born Yootha Joyce Needham; RADA-trained, Joan Littlewood Theatre Workshop alumnus, best known as Mildred Roper in Man About the House and George and Mildred with Brian Murphy; died of liver failure in 1980.
YOOX Net-a-Porter Group
YOOX Net-a-Porter Group (YNAP) was an Italian online luxury fashion retail group headquartered in Milan, formed in 2015 by the merger of YOOX and Net-A-Porter.
Yooyoung (music)
Yooyoung (이유영), born Lee Yoo-young, is a South Korean singer and actress who debuted in 2012 as an original member of the girl group Hello Venus.
YopJ
YopJ (Yersinia outer protein J, YopP in Y. enterocolitica) is a type III secreted effector whose family spans animal and plant pathogens. It uses acetyl-CoA to acetylate serine/threonine residues in MAPKK and IKK activation loops, blocking phosphorylation, and is activated by host IP6.
Yor Forger (ヨル・フォージャー)
Yor Forger (ヨル・フォージャー), also Yor Briar, is the Spy x Family character who is a Berlint City Hall clerk by day and the Garden assassin Thorn Princess by night, wife of Loid Forger, voiced by Saori Hayami.
Yor, the Hunter from the Future
Yor, the Hunter from the Future (Il mondo di Yor) is a 1983 Italian science fiction fantasy film directed by Antonio Margheriti, starring Reb Brown as a prehistoric warrior.
Yoram Groner
Yoram Groner is an Israeli molecular geneticist and emeritus professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science, known for proving gene-dosage effects in Down syndrome and studying RUNX transcription factors.
Yoram J. Kaufman
Yoram J. Kaufman, also published as Y. J. Kaufman, was an atmospheric physicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center who extended satellite aerosol measurement from oceans to land.
Yoram Moses
Yoram Moses is an Israeli computer scientist and Technion professor emeritus, known for the 1984 Halpern–Moses common knowledge paper, the 2009 Dijkstra Prize, and Reasoning About Knowledge.
Yoram Rudy (יורם רודי)
Yoram Rudy (יורם רודי) is an Israeli-born biomedical engineer, Professor Emeritus at Washington University in St. Louis, elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2003.
Yoram Yovell
Yoram Yovell is an Israeli psychiatrist and neuroscientist at Hadassah and Hebrew University, known for research on mental pain, grief, and suicide, and for hosting Israeli television.
Yoram Zague
Yoram Zague (born 2006) is a French right-back and PSG academy product; Ligue 1 and Coupe de France winner, 2023 U-17 World Cup finalist, later loaned to Copenhagen, Eupen, and Pafos.
Yorba Linda, California
Yorba Linda is a city in north Orange County, California, population 68,336 (2020), incorporated November 2, 1967, birthplace of Richard Nixon and home to his presidential library and museum.
Yordan Bikov
Yordan Bikov (Йордан Биков), Bulgarian middleweight weightlifter born 1952 in Pazardzhik; won 1972 Munich Olympic gold with a 485 kg three-lift world record total, plus 1972 European and 1971 World clean & jerk titles.
Yordan Mitkov
Yordan Mitkov (Йордан Манолов Митков), Bulgarian weightlifter born 1956 in Asenovgrad; 1976 Montreal Olympic middleweight gold at 335.0 kg, 1976 world champion, 1979 European champion, four world records 1976-80.
Yordan Yovkov
Yordan Yovkov (Йордан Йовков, 1880–1937) was a Bulgarian writer considered a master of the short story, known for war tales and the 1927 cycle Staroplaninski legendi.
Yordanka Blagoeva
Yordanka Blagoeva (Йорданка Благоева-Иванова), Bulgarian high jumper born 1947 in Gorno Tserovene; 1972 Olympic silver and 1976 bronze, world record 1.94 m set in Zagreb on 24 September 1972, four-time Olympian.
Yordanka Donkova
Yordanka Donkova (Йорданка Донкова), Bulgarian hurdler born 1961, 1988 Seoul Olympic 100 m hurdles champion; set world record 12.21 in 1988 that stood until 2016.
Yordano Ventura
Yordano Ventura, Dominican MLB right-handed pitcher for the Kansas City Royals (2013-2016), 2015 World Series champion, 38-31 with 3.89 ERA, died January 22, 2017, in a car crash in the Dominican Republic at age 25.
Yordenis Ugás
Yordenis Ugás (54 Milagros), Cuban boxer born 1986 in Santiago de Cuba; 2005 amateur world and 2008 Olympic bronze medalist; WBA welterweight champion 2020-2022 who beat Manny Pacquiao in 2021.
YorE
YorE (UniProt O31909, BSU_20410) is a 123-amino-acid protein of unknown function encoded by a gene from the SPβ prophage of Bacillus subtilis; unrelated to the Arabidopsis wax gene YORE-YORE (WAX2/CER3).
Yorelvis Charles
Yorelvis Charles Martínez (born 1978) is a Cuban former infielder who spent 21 seasons with Ciego de Ávila in the Serie Nacional, won the 1999-2000 batting title, and took baseball gold at the 2004 Olympics.
YorF
YorF (YORF) designates an open reading frame of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, disrupted by HIS3-marked homologous recombination and used to test the human MORF4 senescence gene; yorB, yorC, and YorP are bacterial namesakes.
Yorgos Lanthimos (Γιώργος Λάνθιμος)
Yorgos Lanthimos (Γιώργος Λάνθιμος), Greek filmmaker born in Athens in 1973, director of Dogtooth, The Lobster, The Favourite, Poor Things, Kinds of Kindness, and Bugonia; Golden Lion and Cannes Jury Prize winner, also an exhibited photographer.
Yorick
Yorick: the dead jester whose skull Hamlet holds in Hamlet's graveyard scene, and Sterne's Parson Yorick of Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey, Sterne's pseudonymous alter ego and author name of his sermons.
Yoris Grandjean
Yoris Grandjean (born 1989, Liège) is a Belgian former sprint swimmer, 2008 Olympian, junior world champion, and European relay bronze medalist, now Florent Manaudou's physical trainer at CN Antibes.
Yoritomo's entry to Kyoto and meeting with Go-Shirakawa
Yoritomo's entry to Kyoto and meeting with Go-Shirakawa was Minamoto no Yoritomo's ceremonial 1190 journey from Kamakura to Kyoto, where he met the retired emperor and received high court offices.
Yoritomo's government
Yoritomo's government (頼朝政権) was the military regime Minamoto no Yoritomo built at Kamakura from his 1180 uprising, organizing eastern warriors as vassals and founding Japan's first warrior government, which lasted until 1333.
Yoriyos Adamos
Yoriyos Adamos, born 1985, is the professional name of Muhammad Yusuf Islam, British musician and manager, son of Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam); holds 12 UK directorships and design credits on Yusuf's albums.
York
York (Eboracum, Eoforwic, Jorvik) is a cathedral city in North Yorkshire, England, founded by Rome in AD 71, Viking capital until 954, home of York Minster, and now a major heritage tourist economy.