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Yacine, Kateb (Algerian-French writer)
Yahya Khan, Agha Muhammad (Pakistani military leader & president)
Yakovlev, Aleksandr Nikolayevich (Russian statesman/stateswoman)
Yakub I (Moroccan-Spanish-Almohad statesman/stateswoman)
Yale, Elihu (English-American businessman/businesswoman & financier)
Yalow, Rosalyn Sussman (American physician & physicist)
Yamagata, Aritomo (Japanese military leader & statesman/stateswoman)
Yamamoto, Gombei (Japanese military leader)
Yamamoto, Isoroku (Sailor / Military Leader / World War II Figure)
Yamasaki, Minoru (Architect)
Yamashita, Tomoyuki (Japanese military leader)
Yancey, William Lowndes (American politician & statesman/stateswoman)
Yáñez, Agustín (Mexican-Literary critic novelist)
Yang Kuei-fei (Chinese legendary hero & royalty)
Yang, Chen-ning (American physicist)
Yanukovych, Viktor Fedorovych (Ukrainian politician)
Yaqut al-Hamawi (Arab-Mideastern geographer)
Yar'Adua, Umaru Musa (Nigerian president)
Yaroslav (Russian statesman/stateswoman)
Yashin, Lev Ivanovich (Russian soccer player)
Yastrzemski, Carl Michael (American baseball player)
Yates, Richard (American political leader)
Yates, Richard (American fiction writer)
Yayi Boni, Thomas (Beninese president)
Yeager, Chuck (Aviator)
Yeardley, Sir George (English-American statesman/stateswoman)
Yeats, Jack Butler (Irish painter)
Yeats, W. B. (Poet / Playwright)
Yehoshua, A. B. (Israeli writer)
Yellow Emperor (Chinese emperor)
Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich (Political Leader / President of Russia)
Yen Li-pen (Chinese painter)
Yen, James Y. C. (Chinese educator)
Yerkes, Charles Tyson (American financier)
Yerkes, Robert Mearns (American psychologist)
Yermak (Russian conquerer)
Yersin, Alexandre Émile Jean (French-Swiss microbiologist)
Yingluck Shinawatra (Thai politician)
Yogananda (Indian mystic)
Yonath, Ada E. (Israeli biochemist)
Yonge, Charlotte Mary (English novelist)
Yorck von Wartenburg, Ludwig, Graf (Prussian military leader)
Yoritomo (Japanese military leader & statesman/stateswoman)
York, Alvin Cullum (American military leader)
York, Edward, duke of (English royalty)
York, house of (English royalties)