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Yacine, Kateb (Algerian-French writer)
Yahya Khan, Agha Muhammad (Pakistani military leader & president)
Yakub I (Moroccan-Spanish-Almohad statesman)
Yale, Elihu (English-American businessman & financier)
Yalow, Rosalyn Sussman (American physician & physicist)
Yamagata, Aritomo (Japanese military leader & statesman)
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)
Yáñez, Agustín (Mexican-Literary critic novelist)
Yang Kuei-fei (Chinese legendary hero & royalty)
Yang, Chen-ning (American physicist)
Yaqut al-Hamawi (Arabian geographer)
Yaroslav (Russian statesman)
Yashin, Lev Ivanovich (Russian soccer player)
Yates, Richard (American politician)
Yeager, Chuck (Aviator)
Yeardley, Sir George (English-American statesman)
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)
Yogananda (Indian mystic)
Yonge, Charlotte Mary (English novelist)
Yorck von Wartenburg, Ludwig, Graf (Prussian military leader)
Yoritomo (Japanese military leader & statesman)
York, Alvin Cullum (American military leader)
York, Edward, duke of (English royalty)
York, Richard, duke of (English royalty)
Yosai (Japanese painter)
Yosano, Akiko (Japanese-Literary critic poet & politician)
Yoshida, Shigeru (Japanese statesman)
Youlou, Fulbert (Congolese president)
Youmans, Vincent (Jazz Artist)
Young, Andrew Jackson, Jr. (American statesman & theologian)
Young, Arthur (English agriculturalist)