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Yangzhou Eccentrics
The Yangzhou Eccentrics (扬州八怪), also called the Yangzhou school, were a group of painters in Qing dynasty Yangzhou who rejected orthodox conventions for expressive, individualist ink freehand work.
Yani Gellman
Yani Gellman, Canadian actor born in Miami, Florida, known as Paolo Valisari in The Lizzie McGuire Movie (2003) and Officer Garrett Reynolds in Pretty Little Liars; also Jason X, 47 Meters Down.
Yanick Lahens
Yanick Lahens, born in 1953 in Port-au-Prince, is a Haitian novelist and essayist who won the 2014 Prix Femina for her novel Bain de lune.
Yanka Bryl
Yanka Bryl (Янка Брыль), born Ivan Antonavich Bryl (1917–2006), was a Belarusian prose writer and translator who co-authored I Am from the Fiery Village (1975), a foundation of Belarusian documentary literature.
Yanka Kupala
Yanka Kupala, pen name of Ivan Daminikavich Lutsevich (1882–1942), was a Belarusian poet and playwright, a founder of modern Belarusian literature whose collections include Zhaleyka and Guslyar.
Yanka Sipakou
Yanka Sipakou (Янка Сіпакоў), pen name of Ivan Danilavich Sipakou (1936–2011), was a Belarusian poet, prose writer, and translator known for village prose and a Belarusian Divine Comedy.
Yanka Zhurba
Yanka Zhurba (Янка Журба) was the pen name of Belarusian poet, teacher, and translator Ivan Yakavlevich Ivashyn (1881–1964), an older-generation Nasha Niva writer who translated Dostoevsky's Poor Folk in 1930.
Yankee (2019 TV series)
Yankee (2019 TV series), also known as El Yankee, is a Mexican Netflix crime drama by Argos: 25 episodes, premiered June 14, 2019, starring Pablo Lyle as an Arizona fugitive who becomes a tech-savvy drug lord in Mexico.
Yankee Doodle
Yankee Doodle is an 18th-century marching song, originally a British mockery of colonial troops attributed to surgeon Richard Shuckburgh (c. 1755), adopted by Americans during the Revolution and now Connecticut's state anthem.
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Yankee Doodle Dandy is a 1942 Warner Bros. musical biopic of George M. Cohan, directed by Michael Curtiz and starring James Cagney, who won the Best Actor Oscar.
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco's fourth album (2002, Nonesuch; also dated April 16/23), rejected by Reprise, streamed free online from September 18, 2001, debuted at Billboard #13, and remains Wilco's best-selling record.
Yann Gael
Yann Gael (born 1986, Garoua, Cameroon) is a French-Cameroonian actor, CNSAD-trained, lead of Sakho & Mangane, Saloum, 1899, Gladiator II, and Hot Milk.
Yann Martel
Yann Martel, Canadian novelist born 1963 in Salamanca, Spain, author of Life of Pi (2001 Man Booker Prize, 15 million copies, Ang Lee film with four Oscars) and Son of Nobody (2026).
Yann Pissenem
Yann Pissenem (born 1974, Nancy, France) is founder and CEO of The Night League, creator of Ibiza clubs Ushuaïa, Hï Ibiza and [UNVRS], repeatedly ranked world number one by DJ Mag.
Yann Tiersen
Yann Tiersen, French minimalist composer and multi-instrumentalist born 1970 in Brest, known for the Amélie (2001) and Good Bye, Lenin! soundtracks, albums Le Phare and Rathlin from a Distance | The Liquid Hour, and sustainable sailboat touring.
Yanni (Γιάννης Χρυσομάλλης)
Yanni (Γιάννης Χρυσομάλλης, born 1954, Kalamata) is a Greek-American composer and keyboardist of contemporary instrumental music; his 1993 Live at the Acropolis video is the second highest-selling music video ever, with 25 million-plus albums sold.
Yannick Bisson
Yannick Bisson (born 1969 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian actor, director, and producer best known for playing Detective William Murdoch on Murdoch Mysteries since 2008.
Yannis Philippakis
Yannis Philippakis, Greek-born British musician, lead singer and guitarist of Foals and of Yannis & The Yaw; formed Foals at Oxford in 2005, seven albums, three Mercury Prize nominations, Tony Allen collaboration Lagos Paris London (2024).
Yano-kun's Ordinary Days
Yano-kun's Ordinary Days (矢野くんの普通の日々, Yano-kun no Futsū no Hibi) is an ongoing school romantic-comedy manga by Yui Tamura, serialized on Kodansha's Comic Days since June 2021, with 13 volumes, a 2024 live-action film, and a 2025 TV anime.
Yanomami oral literature
Yanomami oral literature is the body of myths, origin narratives, songs, and shamanic chants transmitted by speech among the Yanomami, some 30,000 Indigenous people in the Amazon rainforest on both sides of the Brazil–Venezuela border.
Yanos
Yanos is South African township slang for amapiano, the electronic dance music that emerged in the country's Black townships around 2012 and broke out commercially in 2019.
Yanshan Night Talks
Yanshan Night Talks (燕山夜话) is a 1961–1962 essay column by Deng Tuo, pen name Ma Nancun, in the Beijing Evening News; 153 knowledge essays, collected 1963, denounced in 1966's Three Village case, rehabilitated and republished 1979.
Yanta Sacred Teaching Preface
The Yanta Sacred Teaching Preface (雁塔聖教序), also called the Cien Temple Sacred Teaching Preface, is a pair of 653 steles at the Great Wild Goose Pagoda in Xi'an, written by the Tang calligrapher Chu Suiliang.
Yanuni
Yanuni (aka Yanuni – Die Stimme des Amazonas) is a 2025 documentary by Richard Ladkani about Indigenous chief Juma Xipaia's fight for the Brazilian Amazon, produced with Leonardo DiCaprio, premiered at Tribeca 2025, and Oscar-shortlisted.
Yanxi Palace: Princess Adventures (金枝玉叶)
Yanxi Palace: Princess Adventures (金枝玉叶) is a 2019 six-episode Netflix spin-off of The Story of Yanxi Palace, produced by Huanyu Film, following Princess Zhaohua through palace intrigue, a family vendetta, and romance.
Yao Xiaotang (姚晓棠)
Yao Xiaotang (姚晓棠), mainland Chinese Mandopop singer and actress born 1998 in Haifeng, Guangdong; fourth place on Sing! China 2021, Baimu Entertainment artist, EP 独处症, debut album 破晓 (2026).
Yao Xueyin
Yao Xueyin (姚雪垠, born Yao Guansan, 1910–1999) was a Chinese novelist from Dengzhou, Henan, whose historical novel Li Zicheng won the first Mao Dun Literary Prize in 1982.
Yao-Chinese Folktales (中国奇谭)
Yao-Chinese Folktales (中国奇谭) is an 8-episode Chinese animated anthology by Shanghai Animation Film Studio and Bilibili, premiered January 1, 2023, general-directed by Chen Liaoyu, with Douban ratings near 9.5 and over 240 million Bilibili plays; a second season followed in 2026.
Yaozhou ware
Yaozhou ware (耀州窑) is a Chinese celadon produced from the Tang dynasty at kilns in Tongchuan, Shaanxi, reaching its peak in the Northern Song (960–1127).
Yaphet Kotto
Yaphet Kotto (Yaphet Frederick Kotto, 1939-2021), American actor known as Bond villain Kananga/Mr. Big in Live and Let Die, Parker in Alien, and Lt. Al Giardello on Homicide: Life on the Street; Emmy-nominated for Raid on Entebbe.