Arts and culture

Yabby You

Yabby You, born Vivian Jackson, was a Jamaican roots reggae singer and producer known as the "Jesus Dread"; his 1972 single "Conquering Lion" made him a cult figure in Europe.

Yabujin (Rokas Tarulis per unconfirmed reports; also DJ GYROTTA ZAO) is an anonymous Lithuanian rapper and producer of cloud rap, hexD, bitcrushed ambient and jumpstyle, active since 2016, inspiration for the yabujincore TikTok trend.

Yabuki Nako

Yabuki Nako (矢吹奈子, Korean 나코) is a Japanese singer and actress born in 2001, a member of HKT48 and, from 2018 to 2021, the girl group IZ*ONE.

Yacht rock

Yacht rock: retrospective name for smooth, jazz- and R&B-inflected late-1970s/early-1980s Southern California soft rock (Steely Dan, Toto, Michael McDonald, Christopher Cross). Term coined in 2005 by the Channel 101 comedy web series; not about boats; peaked 1981-82, faded by 1985.

Oct 3, 2026

Yacht Rock (2005 TV series)

Yacht Rock is a 2005-2010 American comedy web series by J.D. Ryznar, Hunter Stair, and Steve Huey on Channel 101 that coined the term "yacht rock" through mockumentary parodies of Michael McDonald, Kenny Loggins, and Steely Dan.

Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary

Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary (Music Box: Yacht Rock: A DOCKumentary) is Garret Price's 2024 HBO Music Box documentary on the late-1970s West Coast soft rock dubbed yacht rock in 2005, featuring McDonald, Cross, Loggins, Toto, and Questlove; it premiered November 29, 2024.

YADA Moeka

YADA Moeka (矢田萌華), also romanized Moeka Yada, is a Japanese idol and sixth-generation member of Nogizaka46, announced in February 2025 as a 17-year-old from Akita Prefecture.

Yadam

Yadam (야담) is a genre of short, miscellaneous stories written in classical Chinese during the late Joseon period in Korea, first collected in Yu Mong-in's Eou Yadam.

Yadang: The Snitch

Yadang: The Snitch (야당) is a 2025 South Korean crime action film by Hwang Byeong-gug starring Kang Ha-neul, Yoo Hae-jin, and Park Hae-joon as a drug-informant broker, an ambitious prosecutor, and a detective; it sold 3,378,276 tickets, ranking second among 2025 Korean films.

Yaddo

Yaddo is a nonprofit artists' retreat in Saratoga Springs, New York, founded by Spencer and Katrina Trask (corporation 1900, first guests 1926) on a 400-acre estate. It offers two-week to two-month residencies in five disciplines, judged on work quality, with alumni holding 90 Pulitzer Prizes.

Yae Miko

Yae Miko (八重神子) is a 5-star Electro Catalyst sub-DPS in Genshin Impact, released in Version 2.5. Known for Sesshou Sakura turrets, a 90-energy Burst, Kagura's Verity, and Shrine Guuji lore.

Yael Grobglas (יעל גרובגלס)

Yael Grobglas (יעל גרובגלס), born in Paris in 1984, is a French-Israeli actress known for playing Petra Solano and her twin Anezka in Jane the Virgin (2014–2019).

Yael Stone

Yael Stone (born 1985) is an Australian actress, NIDA-trained, known for Lorna Morello in Orange Is the New Black (2013–2019, three SAG ensemble Awards), Australian theatre work, Geoffrey Rush allegations, and climate advocacy.

Yaelokre

Yaelokre, also known as Keath Ósk, is the Filipino-Icelandic artist's folk storytelling project set in the fictional world of Meadowlark, featuring the masked quartet The Lark; debut song Harpy Hare went viral in 2024, leading to an Atlantic Records deal.

Yaga (TV series)

Yaga is a Canadian eight-episode half-hour mystery thriller on Crave, adapted by Kat Sandler from her 2019 play, reimagining the Baba Yaga myth; it stars Carrie-Anne Moss, Noah Reid, Clark Backo, and Hudson Williams and premiered October 23, 2026.

Yagavarayinum Naa Kaakka

Yagavarayinum Naa Kaakka (யாகாவாராயினும் நா காக்க), also released in Telugu as Malupu, is a 2015 Tamil action thriller directed by Sathya Prabhas Pinisetty, starring Aadhi and Nikki Galrani, based on a real 2000 Chennai New Year's Eve incident.

Yaghma

Yaghma (یغما) was a Persian-language monthly journal of literature, history, and research published in Tehran from 1948 to 1978, founded and edited by Habib Yaghma'i.

Yaghma Jandaghi

Yaghma Jandaghi (یغمای جندقی), born Mirza Rahim, was a Persian satirist and calligrapher of the Qajar era, known for obscene invective against the powerful and for Ashura elegies.

Yagi Kazuo

Yagi Kazuo (八木一夫, 1918–1979) was a Japanese ceramist from Kyoto who led the postwar avant-garde group Sōdeisha, establishing nonfunctional ceramic sculpture, or objet-yaki, in Japan.

Yagyū Muneyoshi

Yagyū Muneyoshi (柳生宗厳, 1527 or 1529 to 1606), known in his later years as Sekishūsai, was a Japanese swordsman from Yamato Province who founded the Yagyū branch of Shinkage-ryū swordsmanship.

Yah Ribon

Yah Ribon, also known as Yah Ribon Olam (יה ריבון), is an Aramaic Jewish Sabbath table hymn written in the sixteenth century by Rabbi Israel Najara of Safed.

Yahoo Serious

Yahoo Serious (Gregory Gomez Pead, born 1953) is an Australian filmmaker who wrote, directed, produced and starred in Young Einstein (1988), Reckless Kelly (1993) and Mr Accident (2000), then left public life.

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, American actor born July 15 in New Orleans; Emmy winner as Dr. Manhattan in Watchmen, Black Manta in Aquaman, Bobby Seale in The Trial of the Chicago 7, and Marvel's Wonder Man; former city planner and Yale Drama graduate.

Yahya Haqqi

Yahya Haqqi (يحيى حقي; 1905–1992) was an Egyptian writer and diplomat, a pioneer of the modern Arabic short story best known for the novella Qandil Umm Hashim.

Yahya Kemal Beyatlı

Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, born Ahmed Âgâh (1884–1958), was a Turkish poet, prose writer, diplomat, and politician, regarded with Ahmet Haşim as a founder of pure poetry in Turkish literature.

Yailin La Más Viral

Yailin La Más Viral, born Jorgina Lulú Guillermo Díaz in 2002, is a Dominican rapper and urbano performer whose hit "Bing Bong" reached hundreds of millions of streams.

Yajamana (ಯಜಮಾನ) (2019 film)

Yajamana (ಯಜಮಾನ) is a 2019 Kannada action drama, the directorial debut of composer V. Harikrishna co-directed with Pon Kumaran, starring Darshan as village oil-maker Krishna fighting tycoon Devi Shetty; released 1 March 2019, 164 minutes, a super hit.

Yajnavalkya Smriti

The Yajnavalkya Smriti (याज्ञवल्क्यस्मृति), also called the Yajnavalkya Samhita, is a Sanskrit dharmashastra of Hindu law attributed to the sage Yajnavalkya, covering conduct, judicial procedure, and expiation.