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Yolanda Hadid
Yolanda Hadid (née van den Herik, born 1964, Papendrecht) is a Dutch-American model and TV personality from The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills seasons 3-6, ex-wife of Mohamed and David Foster, mother of Gigi, Bella, and Anwar, and Lyme disease advocate.
Yolanda Oreamuno
Yolanda Oreamuno (1916–1956) was a Costa Rican novelist, essayist, and short-story writer whose only novel, La ruta de su evasión, won a Central American prize in 1948.
Yolandi Visser
Yolandi Visser, stage name of Anri du Toit, is the South African rapper and vocalist of Cape Town rap-rave group Die Antwoord, known for zef style, the 2010 viral hit "Enter the Ninja", blackface controversy, and 2022 abuse allegations.
Yolina Lindquist
Yolina Serafina Lindquist, American beauty queen from Metropolis, Illinois, won Miss Cosmo 2025 in Ho Chi Minh City on 20 December 2025, the pageant's second titleholder and first American winner, succeeding Ketut Permata Juliastrid.
YOLO (热辣滚烫) (film)
YOLO (热辣滚烫) is Jia Ling's 2024 Chinese comedy-drama, a remake of 100 Yen Love, about a woman rebuilding her life through boxing; it topped the 2024 Spring Festival and annual Chinese box office at RMB 3.46 billion.
Yom Sang-seop
Yom Sang-seop (염상섭, 1897–1963) was a Korean novelist and critic who helped establish the realist modern novel in colonial Korea; his masterwork is Three Generations (1931).
Yomihon
Yomihon (読本), literally "reading books", are woodblock-printed Edo-period prose novels that arose in Kamigata around 1748 and flourished in Edo, including Ueda Akinari's Ugetsu monogatari and Kyokutei Bakin's Nansō Satomi hakkenden.
Yomiuri Prize
The Yomiuri Prize (Yomiuri Bungaku Shō), formally the Yomiuri Prize for Literature, is a Japanese literary prize founded in 1949 by the Yomiuri Shimbun to revive postwar literary culture.
Yon González
Yon González Luna, Spanish actor born 1986 in Bergara, Gipuzkoa, brother of Aitor Luna. Rose to fame as Iván Noiret in El internado; led Gran Hotel, Bajo sospecha, Las chicas del cable; twice Fotogramas de Plata winner.
Yon-Rogg
Yon-Rogg, also called Magnitron, is a Marvel Comics Kree villain created by Stan Lee and Gene Colan, first appearing in Marvel Super-Heroes #12 (1967) as Mar-Vell's foe, and the Jude Law-played antagonist of the 2019 Captain Marvel film.
Yona of the Dawn (暁のヨナ)
Yona of the Dawn (暁のヨナ) is Mizuho Kusanagi's shōjo fantasy manga in Hana to Yume, serialized 2009–2025 in 48 volumes; Princess Yona of Kouka flees with Hak after Su-won's coup and seeks the four dragons; a 24-episode 2014 Studio Pierrot anime and a PIERROT FILMS sequel follow.
Yona Speidel
Yona Speidel (born 1978), formerly Our Lady J, is an American TV writer, producer, and pianist known for Transparent, Pose, American Horror Story, and Netflix's The Boroughs; she converted to Judaism in March 2026.
Yona Wallach
Yona Wallach (יונה וולך; 1944–1985) was an Israeli poet of the Tel Aviv poets circle whose openly sexual, experimental verse made her a legend of modern Hebrew poetry.
Yona Yona Penguin (よなよなペンギン)
Yona Yona Penguin (よなよなペンギン) is a 2009 Japanese-French full-CG animated fantasy film directed by Rintaro, produced by Madhouse and Denis Friedman Productions, premiered at Venice 2009, released in Japan December 23, 2009 by Shochiku.
Yonca Evcimik
Yonca Evcimik is a Turkish pop singer and dancer, born in Istanbul in 1963, whose 1991 debut album Abone broke 1990s sales records and pioneered dance choreography in Turkish pop.
Yonderland
Yonderland: British fantasy sitcom, Sky One 2013–2016, 25 episodes in 3 series, created by and starring the Horrible Histories six; mum Debbie Maddox saves a puppet-filled world via a kitchen-cupboard portal.
Yong Jun-hyung (용준형)
Yong Jun-hyung (용준형) is a South Korean singer and rapper who was the main rapper of the group Beast. He later left Highlight in 2019.
Yong Yea
Yong Yea (용 예), American voice actor and gaming YouTuber with about 1.2 million subscribers; English voice of Kazuma Kiryu in Like a Dragon and Lance Slashblade in Inside Out 2.
Yong-pal (용팔이)
Yong-pal (용팔이), also known as The Gang Doctor, is a 2015 South Korean medical drama starring Joo Won as a surgeon making illegal house calls and Kim Tae-hee as a comatose chaebol heiress.
Yonghuai
Yonghuai (咏怀, "singing of inner feelings") is a Chinese poetic genre named for the 82 five-character poems Wei-dynasty poet Ruan Ji (210–263) wrote in veiled protest under Sima rule.
Yongle gilt bronze Vajrasattva
A Yongle gilt bronze Vajrasattva is a gilt-bronze image of the bodhisattva Vajrasattva made under the Ming Yongle emperor, bearing the six-character mark Da Ming Yongle nian shi.
Yongle gilt bronzes
Yongle gilt bronzes are gilt Buddhist sculptures, mostly brass, made in the imperial workshops of the Ming dynasty Yongle emperor (r. 1403–1424) as gifts for Tibetan lamas.
Yongle Palace murals
The Yongle Palace murals (永乐宫壁画) are Yuan-dynasty Daoist wall paintings covering about 1,000 square meters in Yongle Palace, Ruicheng County, Shanxi, built between 1247 and 1368 and moved to escape flooding in 1959.
Yongyule: Lantern Festival
Yongyule: Lantern Festival (永遇乐·元宵), known by its first line "Luori rong jin," is a ci poem by Li Qingzhao contrasting Lantern Festivals before and after the Northern Song's fall.
Yongyule: Recalling the Past at Beigu Pavilion
Yongyule: Recalling the Past at Beigu Pavilion (永遇乐·京口北固亭怀古) is a 1205 ci poem by the Southern Song poet Xin Qiji, written at Beigu Pavilion in Zhenjiang.
Yongzhou Ba Ji
Yongzhou Ba Ji (永州八记, "Eight Records of Yongzhou") is a set of eight landscape essays written by Tang dynasty writer Liu Zongyuan during his exile in Yongzhou, Hunan.
Yoo Ah-in
Yoo Ah-in (유아인), birth name Uhm Hong-sik, born 1986 in Daegu, is a South Korean actor famous for Sungkyunkwan Scandal, Burning, The Throne, and Voice of Silence, later investigated in a 2023 propofol and marijuana drug case.
Yoo Hae-jin (유해진)
Yoo Hae-jin (유해진) is a South Korean actor, born in 1970, who moved from thuggish supporting roles to leads in four films that each passed 10 million admissions.
Yoo Hwe-seung
Yoo Hwe-seung (유회승; born 1995) is a South Korean singer and musical theater actor, the main vocalist of the rock band N.Flying since 2017.
Yoo In-na (유인나)
Yoo In-na (유인나), born 1982 in Seongnam, is a South Korean actress and former radio DJ. After an 11-year trainee period, she broke out in Secret Garden (2010), won a Baeksang Best New Actress award, and played Sunny in Goblin (2016).