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Yuki Hayashi (林ゆうき) (composer)
Yuki Hayashi (林ゆうき), born 1980 in Kyoto, is a Japanese soundtrack composer for anime, drama, and film, including My Hero Academia, Haikyuu!!, and Legal High; a former men's rhythmic gymnast who taught himself composition.
Yuki Kajiura (梶浦由記)
Yuki Kajiura (梶浦由記), born 1965 in Tokyo, is a Japanese composer behind Noir, .hack//SIGN, Madoka Magica, Fate/Zero, Sword Art Online, and Demon Slayer, and founder of FictionJunction and Kalafina.
Yuki Koyanagi
Yuki Koyanagi (小柳ゆき) is a Japanese pop and R&B singer known for a powerful, gospel- and soul-rooted voice; her 2000 album EXPANSION was a million-selling No. 1.
Yuki Nakashima (中島由貴) (actress)
Yuki Nakashima (中島由貴) is a Japanese voice actress, singer, and bassist from Wakayama Prefecture, known for Lisa Imai in BanG Dream! and Aoi Zaizen in Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS.
Yūki Ono (小野 友樹)
Yūki Ono (小野 友樹, Ono Yūki) is a Japanese voice actor born 1984 in Shizuoka Prefecture; debuted 2006 in Keroro Gunsō, known as Taiga Kagami in Kuroko's Basketball, Jōsuke in JoJo Part 4, Louis in BEASTARS, and Gran in Granblue Fantasy.
Yuki Sakakihara (榊原優希)
Yuki Sakakihara is a Japanese voice actor from Ibara, Okayama Prefecture, active since 2018. He is known for lead roles in Dead Mount Death Play and Hypnosis Mic.
Yūki tsumugi
Yūki tsumugi (結城紬) is a Japanese silk kimono fabric handwoven around Yūki City, Ibaraki Prefecture, and Oyama, Tochigi Prefecture, designated an Important Intangible Cultural Property in 1956 and added to UNESCO's heritage list in 2010.
Yukie Chiri
Yukie Chiri (知里幸恵, 1903–1922) was an Ainu woman from Noboribetsu, Hokkaido, whose posthumous Ainu Shin'yōshū (1923) was the first published collection of Ainu kamui yukar by an Ainu author.
Yukie Nakama
Yukie Nakama (仲間由紀恵), born 1979 in Urasoe, Okinawa, is a Japanese actress and former idol singer who debuted in 1996 and is best known for playing Yankumi in the Gokusen series.
Yukihana Lamy
Yukihana Lamy (雪花ラミィ) is a Japanese VTuber and singer with hololive's fifth generation, who debuted in August 2020 and announced her first album, Fleur de neige, for 2027.
Yukihiro Takahashi (高橋幸宏)
Yukihiro Takahashi (高橋幸宏), 1952–2023, Japanese drummer, singer, and composer; Sadistic Mica Band drummer, Yellow Magic Orchestra co-founder with Hosono and Sakamoto, solo albums Saravah!, Murdered by the Music, Neuromantic, later SKETCH SHOW and METAFIVE.
Yukinobu Tatsu (龍幸伸)
Yukinobu Tatsu (龍幸伸) is a Japanese manga artist, creator of Dandadan on Shonen Jump+ since 2021. Former Chainsaw Man assistant; earlier works Seigi no Rokugō and Fire Ball! at Kodansha; 71st Shogakukan Manga Award winner.
Yukio (comics)
Yukio is a Marvel Comics ronin, thief, and assassin created by Chris Claremont and Frank Miller, debuting in Wolverine (1982) #1. Unlike the powered film versions, the comic Yukio has no superpowers and is an ally of Wolverine and Storm.
Yukio Mishima
Yukio Mishima (三島由紀夫), born Kimitake Hiraoka, was a Japanese novelist, playwright, and essayist known for Confessions of a Mask and The Temple of the Golden Pavilion.
Yūko Mizutani (水谷 優子)
Yūko Mizutani (水谷 優子, 1964–2016) was a Japanese voice actress from Aichi, the voice of Maruko's sister in Chibi Maruko-chan, Pinoko in Black Jack, Sora in Digimon, and Disney's Minnie Mouse in Japan.
Yuko Nakazawa
Yuko Nakazawa (中澤裕子) is a Japanese singer and television personality, a founding member and first leader of Morning Musume who graduated in 2001 for a solo enka career.
Yukon (song)
YUKON, a 2025 R&B song by Justin Bieber from SWAG; also a Brett Young single sharing its credits. Bieber track: Eminem "Untitled" interpolation, 2 Chainz vocals, Hot 100 No. 17, Hot R&B Songs No. 1, Grammy-nominated.
Yuksek
Yuksek, the working name of Pierre-Alexandre Busson, a French electronic producer and DJ born in Reims in 1977, has released five studio albums and founded the label Partyfine.
Yukta Mookhey
Yukta Mookhey (युक्ता मुखी), also Yukta Inderlal Mookhey, is an Indian activist and actress who won Miss World 1999 at Olympia, London, the fourth Indian Miss World, later acting in Pyaasa and working as a prenatal educator.
Yukti Kapoor (युक्ति कपूर)
Yukti Kapoor (युक्ति कपूर), born 1992 in Jaipur, is an Indian Hindi television actress known as Urmila in Siya Ke Ram, Ragini Singh in Agniphera, and S.I. Karishma Singh in Sony SAB's Maddam Sir; debut Nanhi Si Kali Meri Laadli (2010).
Yukti Thareja
Yukti Thareja is an Indian model and actress from Haryana, known for the music video "Lut Gaye," the Telugu debut Rangabali (2023), the Malayalam hit Marco (2024), K-Ramp, Delhi Crime Season 3, KJQ, and Farzi Season 2.
Yul Brynner (Юлий Борисович Бринер)
Yul Brynner (Юлий Борисович Бринер), born 1920 in Vladivostok, died 1985 in New York, Russian-American actor; Oscar and Tony winner as King Mongkut in The King and I, which he played 4,625 times, also The Ten Commandments and The Magnificent Seven.
Yul Kwon
Yul Kwon (born 1975) is an American lawyer and television host, winner of Survivor: Cook Islands (2006) in a 5-4 vote over Ozzy Lusth, the first Asian American Survivor winner, later FCC deputy chief, PBS host, and Winners at War contestant.
Yul Vazquez
Yul Vazquez (born 1965, Havana) is a Cuban-American character actor and former rock guitarist for Urgent and Diving For Pearls, known for Seinfeld's Bob, a Tony-nominated Cousin Julio, Traffic's SAG-winning cast, and Severance.
Yule
Yule (Old English geol, Old Norse jol): Germanic midwinter season recorded in Bede and Gothic calendars, later an English word for Christmas, and a modern Pagan solstice festival on December 21; etymology ultimately unknown.
Yule log
Yule log: Christmas tradition of burning a large log in the hearth from Christmas Eve; also the French bûche de Noël cake and the televised WPIX fireplace loop first aired in 1966.
Yule log (cake)
Bûche de Noël (Yule log cake, log cake): French rolled génoise sponge with cream filling, frosted as a wooden log, replacing the burned Christmas Eve Yule log; first recipe printed by Pierre Lacam in 1890.
Yulianna Karaulova
Yulianna Karaulova (Юлианна Караулова), born 1988 in Moscow, is a Russian pop singer who fronted 5sta Family from 2011 to 2015 before a solo career with the hit «Ты не такой».
Yum cha (饮茶)
Yum cha (飲茶, jam2 caa4), Cantonese for "drink tea", is the teahouse custom of eating dim sum with Chinese tea, originating in Qing Guangzhou, transformed in postwar Hong Kong, and spread to Japan and overseas Chinatowns.
Yum yum sauce
Yum yum sauce, also called white sauce or shrimp sauce, is an American mayonnaise-based pink condiment served at Japanese hibachi steakhouses since the 1960s; it is not Japanese in origin. Terry Ho bottled it commercially.