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Yasmeen Ghauri
Yasmeen Ghauri, Canadian supermodel of the 1990s (Pakistani-German, born 1971 in Montreal), discovered at a McDonald's, famed for her runway walk, first South Asian Vogue-cover and Victoria's Secret model per Vogue, retired 1997.
Yasmeen Tahir (یاسمین طاہر)
Yasmeen Tahir (یاسمین طاہر), 1937–2025, Pakistani Radio Pakistan broadcaster, actress, host, and writer; daughter of Imtiaz Ali Taj and Hijab Imtiaz Ali, wife of Naeem Tahir, Sitara-e-Imtiaz 2015.
Yasmin Al-Khudhairi
Yasmin Al-Khudhairi (born 1995) is a British actress known for Rye Lane (2023), Fizza Akhtar in Ackley Bridge (2021–2022), and Naomi Ward in A Good Girl's Guide to Murder.
Yasmin Finney
Yasmin Finney (born 2003) is an English actress from Manchester known as Elle Argent in Netflix's Heartstopper and Rose Noble in BBC's Doctor Who; Black trans actress, TikTok personality, Emmy-nominated.
Yasmin Le Bon
Yasmin Le Bon (née Parvaneh), British supermodel born 1964 in Oxford to an Iranian father and English mother; married Duran Duran's Simon Le Bon in 1985; about 300 magazine covers, Wallis and Winser London designs, still walking for Fendi in 2025.
Yasmin Santos
Yasmin Santos, born in 1998 in Guarujá, São Paulo, is a Brazilian feminejo singer-songwriter whose 2018 hit "Saudade Nível Hard" brought national fame on Sony Music.
Yasmin Seky
Yasmin Seky (born 1998) is an Irish actress from Dublin, best known as Nikita Murphy in RTÉ's crime drama Kin, winner of the RTS Ireland Best Newcomer award, later a Dancing with the Stars contestant and Becky Baidwan in Channel 5's The Puzzle Lady.
Yasmina El-Abd
Yasmina El-Abd, Egyptian-Swiss actress and singer born 2006 in Geneva, works in English, French, and Arabic across Egyptian and pan-Arab screen industries; known for Theodosia (Safiya) and Netflix's Finding Ola (Zeina).
Yasmine Akram
Yasmine Akram (born 1982, Sharjah) is an Irish-Pakistani actress, writer and comedian, known as Janine in Sherlock, Jonesy in Lovesick, Nora Garvey in Bad Sisters, and co-writer of Irish Micks and Legends.
Yasmine Bleeth
Yasmine Bleeth, full name Yasmine Amanda Bleeth, American actress and model born 1968 in New York City, known for Caroline Holden on Baywatch (1994–1997), Ryan Fenelli on Ryan's Hope, Caitlin Cross on Nash Bridges, and the film BASEketball.
Yasnaya Polyana Prize
The Yasnaya Polyana Prize (Литературная премия «Ясная Поляна») is a Russian literary prize for fiction founded in 2003 by the Leo Tolstoy Estate Museum and Samsung Electronics.
Yassi Pressman
Yassi Pressman (Yasmin Isabel Yasto Pressman), Filipina-British actress, dancer, singer and host born 1995 in Hong Kong; known as Alyana in FPJ's Ang Probinsyano, Awit Award winner, and since 2026 a producer of Tubig to Handle and Little Hope.
YASUHIRO
YASUHIRO (康寛) is a Japanese Vocaloid producer, lyricist, and composer affiliated with the agency TOKYO LOGIC, who debuted in 2013 and is known for the million-view song "Nee, Dorodoro-san".
Yasuhiro Ishimoto
Yasuhiro Ishimoto (石元泰博, 1921–2012) was a Japanese-American photographer trained at Chicago's Institute of Design, the New Bauhaus, whose images of Chicago, Tokyo, and Katsura Imperial Villa shaped postwar Japanese photography.
Yasuhisa Hara (原 泰久)
Yasuhisa Hara (原泰久, born 1975, Kiyama, Saga Prefecture) is a Japanese manga artist and former systems engineer, creator of the historical manga Kingdom (2006, Weekly Young Jump), based on the Shiji, with over 110 million copies sold and the 2013 Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.
Yasui Sōtarō
Yasui Sōtarō (安井曾太郎, 1888–1955) was a Japanese painter of yōga, Western-style oil painting, whose portrait manner, the Yasui style, dominated the early Shōwa era with Umehara Ryūzaburō.
Yasujirō Ozu
Yasujirō Ozu (小津安二郎, 1903–1963), Japanese film director at Shochiku, maker of 54 films including Tokyo Story and Late Spring; known for tatami-height static camera, pillow shots, and family dissolution dramas.
Yasuke (弥助) (TV series)
Yasuke (YASUKE －ヤスケ－) is a 2021 six-episode Netflix anime by LeSean Thomas and studio MAPPA, starring LaKeith Stanfield with a Flying Lotus score, reimagining the historical African retainer of Oda Nobunaga in a fantasy Sengoku Japan with mechs and magic.
Yasunari Kawabata (川端康成)
Yasunari Kawabata (川端康成, 1899–1972), Japanese novelist, first Japanese Nobel Literature laureate (1968), New Sensation school founder, author of Snow Country, The Sound of the Mountain, and The Old Capital; died by gas suicide in 1972.
Yasuo Kuniyoshi
Yasuo Kuniyoshi (国吉康雄, 1889 to 1953) was a Japanese-born painter who spent his career in New York and became a leading figure of American modernism.
Yasushi Inoue
Yasushi Inoue (1907–1991) was a Japanese novelist and poet who debuted at 42 and became known for The Hunting Gun, The Roof Tile of Tempyō, and Silk Road novels.
Yasuzō Nojima
Yasuzō Nojima (野島康三, 1889–1964) was a Japanese photographer, also read Hiromasa, known for portraits and nudes who moved from pictorialism to straight photography and co-founded the magazine Kōga in 1932.
Yataghan
The yataghan (Turkish: yatağan) is an Ottoman sidearm with a single-edged, double-curved blade and an eared, guardless hilt, carried widely in Anatolia and the Balkans by the Janissaries.
Yatai (屋台) (food cart)
Yatai (屋台) are Japanese mobile food stalls with a roof and counter, no fixed shop. Best known from Fukuoka's postwar street stalls, regulated by the 2013 Yatai Basic Ordinance and operator recruitment; distinct from kitchen cars.
Yatchan
Yatchan (யட்சன்), 2015 Tamil action comedy directed and co-produced by Vishnuvardhan with UTV Motion Pictures, starring Arya, Kreshna, Swati Reddy, and Deepa Sannidhi; adapted from a Subha story, released 11 September 2015 to mixed reviews.
Yatra (యాత్ర) (2019 film)
Yatra (యాత్ర) is a 2019 Telugu biographical drama by Mahi V Raghav on YS Rajasekhara Reddy's 2003 padayatra, starring Mammootty as YSR, released 8 February 2019 by 70MM Entertainments.
Yatra 2
Yatra 2 (యాత్ర 2), a 2024 Telugu political biographical drama by Mahi V Raghav, sequel to Yatra; Mammootty as YSR, Jiiva as YS Jagan Mohan Reddy; released February 8, 2024, covering 2009–2019.
Yavarum Nalam (யாவரும் நலம்)
Yavarum Nalam (யாவரும் நலம்), aka 13B: Fear Has a New Address, is a 2009 Tamil-Hindi bilingual horror thriller by Vikram K. Kumar starring R. Madhavan, about a TV serial mirroring a family's life.
Yavin 4
Yavin 4 is the fictional jungle moon of the gas giant Yavin Prime in Star Wars, in the Outer Rim's Gordian Reach. Home to Massassi temples and the Rebel base that launched the Death Star attack, it anchors the BBY/ABY calendar and was filmed at Tikal, Guatemala.
Yawar Fiesta
Yawar Fiesta is the first novel of the Peruvian writer José María Arguedas, published in Lima in 1941 and set in the highland town of Puquio.