Arts and culture

Yuri Trifonov

Yuri Trifonov (Юрий Трифонов; full name Yuri Valentinovich Trifonov, 1925–1981) was a Soviet Russian writer, the best-known author of "urban prose," whose Moscow novellas include The House on the Embankment.

Yuri Tsunematsu (恒松祐里)

Yuri Tsunematsu (恒松祐里) is a Japanese actress from Tokyo with the agency Amuse. A child actor from 2005 (Ruri no Shima), her film lead debut was Kisaragi Station (2022); she won the Osaka Cinema Festival 2020 New Actress Award for Nagi Machi.

Yuria

Yuria is a 1967 poetry collection by the Mexican poet Jaime Sabines, published by Joaquín Mortiz in Mexico City, notable for political poems new to his work.

Yuridia

Yuridia, born Yuridia Francisca Gaxiola Flores in 1986, is a Mexican singer who finished second on La Academia in 2005 and became one of Mexico's best-selling artists.

Yurii Lytvyn

Yurii Lytvyn (Юрій Литвин) was a Ukrainian poet and human rights activist who spent about 20 years as a Soviet political prisoner and died in custody in 1984.

Yurii Vynnychuk

Yurii Vynnychuk (Юрій Винничук; born 1952) is a Ukrainian prose writer, poet, and editor known as the "father of black humor" in Ukrainian literature, whose fiction centers on Lviv.

Yurii Yanovsky

Yurii Yanovsky (Юрій Яновський), born Hryhorii Ivanovych Yanovsky, was a Ukrainian writer, 1902 to 1954, whose civil war novel Horsemen earned him the nickname the Ukrainian Homer.

Yuriko Yoshitaka

Yuriko Yoshitaka (吉高由里子) is a Japanese actress born in Tokyo in 1988, known for Hanako to Anne and the 2024 taiga drama Hikaru Kimi e.

Yuriy Andrukhovych

Yuriy Andrukhovych (Юрій Андрухович), born 1960 in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, is a Ukrainian poet, novelist, essayist, and translator, a founder of Ukrainian postmodernism known for the novels Recreations, Moskoviada, and Twelve Rings.

Yurizan Beltran

Yurizan Beltran (Yurizan Beltrán Lebanue, Yuri Luv, Sweet Yurizan), 1986–2017, American adult film actress and model of Mexican descent from Long Beach; multi-nominated AVN performer who also acted in two mainstream films and died accidentally of hydrocodone overdose in December 2017.

Yurry Canon

Yurry Canon (ユリイ・カノン) is a Japanese Vocaloid producer who debuted on NicoNico Douga in November 2015, known for fast, rock-driven songs and for commissions in the game Project SEKAI.

Yurufuwa Gang

Yurufuwa Gang (ゆるふわギャング) is a Japanese hip hop unit formed in Tokyo in 2016, consisting of rappers Ryugo Ishida and NENE and producer Automatic, with six albums released since 2017.

YuruYuri (ゆるゆり)

YuruYuri (ゆるゆり) is a Japanese slice-of-life comedy manga by Namori, running since 2008, about four middle school girls of the Amusement Club; it spawned TV anime seasons, an OVA, and spin-off films.

Yusaku Kamekura

Yusaku Kamekura (亀倉雄策, 1915–1997) was a Japanese graphic designer whose emblem and official posters for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics became defining images of postwar Japanese design.

Yusef Komunyakaa

Yusef Komunyakaa, born 1947 in Bogalusa, Louisiana, is an American poet whose Vietnam War poems and jazz rhythms won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Yushan school

The Yushan school (虞山派) was a school of Chinese landscape painting that formed around the early Qing painter Wang Hui (1632–1717) and his many disciples.

Yusheng (鱼生)

Yusheng (鱼生), also called yee sang, is a raw fish salad tossed communally (lo hei, 捞起) during Chinese New Year in Singapore and Malaysia; the colorful seven-ingredient version was created by four Singapore chefs in the 1960s.

Yushi Mingyan

Yushi Mingyan (喻世明言), first published in 1620 under the title Gujin xiaoshuo, is a collection of 40 vernacular Chinese stories compiled by Feng Menglong, the first of the three Sanyan collections.

Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli

Yusif Vazir Chamanzaminli (Yusif Vəzir Çəmənzəminli), born Yusif Vazirov, was an Azerbaijani writer and the first ambassador of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic to Ottoman Turkey.

Yusra Warsama

Yusra Warsama (born 1985, Abu Dhabi) is a British Somali playwright, director, and screen actress raised in Manchester. Known for Rites, Of All the Beautiful Things in the World, Castle Rock series 2, Brides (2025), and Steal (2026).

Yusuf al-Khal

Yusuf al-Khal (يوسف الخال, 1917–1987) was a Syrian-born Lebanese poet, critic, and publisher who founded the Beirut poetry magazine Shi'r in 1957 and pioneered Arabic free verse.

Yusuf al-Qa'id

Yusuf al-Qa'id (يوسف القعيد), born 1944, is an Egyptian novelist and journalist whose novel War in the Land of Egypt ranked fourth among the best Arabic novels.

Yusuf and Zulaikha

Yusuf and Zulaikha (یوسف و زلیخا, Yusuf o Zulaykha) is Jami's 1483 Persian mathnawi of 4,032 couplets in the Haft Awrang, retelling Joseph and Potiphar's wife as a Sufi romance ending in her redemption and marriage.

Yusuf Atılgan

Yusuf Atılgan (1921–1989) was a Turkish novelist and short-story writer, a pioneer of the modernist Turkish novel known for Aylak Adam (1959) and Anayurt Oteli (1973).

Yusuf Idris

Yusuf Idris (يوسف إدريس, 1927–1991) was an Egyptian writer and physician whose stories of ordinary Egyptians made him a founder of the modern Arabic short story.

Yusuf Khass Hajib

Yusuf Khass Hajib (c. 1019–1085) was a Karakhanid poet, philosopher, and statesman from Balasagun, author of the Kutadgu Bilig, the oldest surviving monument of Islamic Turkic literature.

Yûsuf u Züleyhâ

Yûsuf u Züleyhâ (يوسف و زليخا) is the title shared by mesnevis on the love of the prophet Yusuf and Züleyhâ, written across Persian, Turkish, and Urdu literatures.

Yūsuke Kobayashi (小林裕介) (voice actor)

Yūsuke Kobayashi (小林裕介), born 1985 in Tokyo, is a Japanese voice actor with Yu-Rin Pro, known for Subaru Natsuki in Re:Zero, Senku in Dr. Stone, and the 11th Seiyu Awards New Actor Award.

Yusuke Murata (村田雄介)

Yusuke Murata (村田雄介), born 1978 in Kumamoto Prefecture, is a Japanese manga artist, debut 1995, known as artist of Eyeshield 21 and the One-Punch Man remake with ONE, plus anime design work.