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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.
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.
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.
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 Mystery Plays
The York Mystery Plays are a cycle of 48 medieval plays on Christian history, staged by York's craft guilds on Corpus Christi until their suppression in 1569.
York Peppermint Pattie
York Peppermint Pattie: dark-chocolate-covered peppermint candy created in 1940 by Henry Kessler at the York Cone Company, York, Pennsylvania; bought by Peter Paul in 1972 and by Hershey in 1988; about 1.5 billion made yearly.
Yorkie (chocolate bar)
Yorkie is a chunky solid milk chocolate bar launched in 1976 by Rowntree Mackintosh (now Nestlé) and made in York, England. Known for its lorry-driver adverts and the 2002 "It's not for girls" campaign.
Yorkshire pudding
Yorkshire pudding: British savoury baked batter of flour, eggs, and milk cooked in hot beef drippings; named in Hannah Glasse's 1747 cookbook; served with the Sunday roast; related to American popovers and Dutch babies.
Yoroi-Shinden Samurai Troopers (鎧伝サムライトルーパー)
Yoroi-Shinden Samurai Troopers (鎧真伝サムライトルーパー) is the 2026 Sunrise Studios TV anime sequel to Yoroiden Samurai Troopers (鎧伝サムライトルーパー, 1988–89), set 35 years after the demon invasion, directed by Fujita Yoichi.
Yoru ni Kakeru (夜に駆ける)
Yoru ni Kakeru (夜に駆ける, "Racing into the Night"), also known as Into the Night, is the 2019 debut single by Japanese duo YOASOBI, adapted from Mayo Hoshino's Thanatos no Yuwaku; it topped Billboard Japan's 2020 year-end chart and became Japan's first billion-stream song.
Yoru no Honki Dance
Yoru no Honki Dance (夜の本気ダンス) is a Japanese rock band formed in 2008 in Uji, Kyoto, known for its dance-rock style and theme songs for anime, drama, and film.
Yoruba aláròyé newspaper verse
Yoruba aláròyé newspaper verse is the proverb-rich oral written style of Aláròyé, a Yoruba-language Nigerian newspaper founded in 1985 by Alao Adedayo, blending oral tradition into print.
Yoruba beadwork
Yoruba beadwork is the bead-embroidered royal art of the Yoruba peoples of Nigeria and Benin, best known for the veiled beaded crowns worn by sacred kings.
Yoruba lost-wax casting
Yoruba lost-wax casting is the metalcasting tradition of the Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria, best known for the naturalistic brass heads of the kingdom of Ife.
Yoruba novel
The Yoruba novel is a tradition of full-length prose fiction in the Yoruba language, begun by D. O. Fágúnwà's 1938 Ògbójú Ọdẹ Nínú Igbó Irúnmọlẹ̀.
Yoruba palace carving
Yoruba palace carving is the sculpted wooden doors, veranda posts, and columns made for the palaces of Yoruba rulers, known as ọba, in southwestern Nigeria.
Yoruba proverbs
Yoruba proverbs, called òwe in Yoruba, are the short metaphorical sayings of the Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria, Benin, and Togo, regarded as a repository of wisdom.
Yoruba riddles
Yoruba riddles (Àlọ́ Àpamọ̀) are a genre of Yoruba oral literature in which a veiled description of an object is posed for listeners to name.
Yoruba shrine sculpture
Yoruba shrine sculpture is the art made for the shrines and altars of the Yoruba peoples of southwestern Nigeria and Benin, emphasizing enlarged heads as the seat of spiritual power.
Yoruba travelling theatre
The Yoruba travelling theatre was a professional itinerant theater tradition in southwestern Nigeria, whose touring companies performed Yoruba musical folk operas from the 1940s until the early 1990s.
Yosegi-zukuri
Yosegi-zukuri (寄木造) is a Japanese wood-sculpting method that builds statues from multiple joined blocks, perfected by Jōchō and standard for large Buddhist images by the late Heian period.
Yosemite Sam
Yosemite Sam, also known as Samuel Rosenbaum and Aloysius Barthomelew Sam, is a Warner Bros. Looney Tunes gunslinger created by Friz Freleng, debuting in Hare Trigger (1945), voiced by Mel Blanc, and designed as a tougher Bugs Bunny antagonist than Elmer Fudd.
Yoshi (Kim Ji-hoon)
Yoshi (요시), born Kanemoto Yoshinori in Kobe, Japan in 2000, is a fourth-generation Korean-Japanese rapper in YG Entertainment's boy group TREASURE, which debuted in August 2020.
Yoshida Hiroshi
Yoshida Hiroshi (吉田博, 1876–1950) was a Japanese painter and woodblock print artist, a leading figure of the shin-hanga movement known for luminous landscape prints such as the Taj Mahal.
Yoshida Kenkō
Yoshida Kenkō (吉田兼好), more correctly Urabe Kenkō, was a Japanese poet and Buddhist priest, c. 1283–1350, author of the 243-section essay collection Tsurezuregusa, Essays in Idleness, one of classical Japanese literature's three great essay collections.
Yoshie Hotta
Yoshie Hotta (堀田善衞, 1918–1998) was a Japanese novelist and critic who won the 1952 Akutagawa Prize for Hiroba no Kodoku, drawing on his wartime experience in Shanghai.
Yoshie Kashiwabara
Yoshie Kashiwabara (柏原芳恵) is a Japanese pop singer born in Osaka in 1965 who debuted in 1980 and became one of the representative idol singers of the 1980s.
Yoshie Nakano
Yoshie Nakano (中納良恵) is a Japanese vocalist, lyricist, and composer, one half of the Osaka duo EGO-WRAPPIN', which she founded with guitarist Masaki Mori in 1996.