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  • Yadav, Laloo Prasad (born 1948), Indian politician
  • Yagoda, Genrikh Grigor'evich (1891-1938)
  • Yakovlev, Alexander Nikolaevich (born 1923)
  • Yakovlev, Alexander Sergeyevich (1906-1989)
  • Yakovlev, Anatoli A.
  • Yakub of Alexandria (819-830), Coptic Pope
  • Yakubu Gowon (born 1934), military leader of Nigeria
  • Yale, Elihu (1649-1721), Yale University benefactor
  • Yale, Linus Jr. (1821-1868), innovator of locks
  • Yalom, Irvin, psychologist
  • Yamagata Hiro (born 1964), author
  • Yamamoto Isoroku (1884-1943), Japanese admiral
  • Yamamoto Tsunetomo (1659-1719), Japanese Author of Hagakure
  • Yamaoka, Akira (born 1968), Japanese composer
  • Yamasaki, Minoru (1912-1986), US architect
  • Yamashita, Tomoyuki (1885-1946), Japanese lieutenant general in Malaya, Singapore and the Philippines
  • Yaméogo, Maurice (1921-1993)
  • Yan Chia-kan (1905-1993), ROC politician
  • Yancey, James Edwards "Jimmy" (c. 1898-1951), US boogie-woogie musician
  • Yang Ch'eng-fu (楊澄甫, 1883-1936), famous T'ai Chi Ch'uan teacher
  • Yankovich, Bosa
  • Yankovic, Weird Al (born 1959), US parody musician
  • Yanovsky, Zal (1945-2002), of Lovin' Spoonful
  • Yeager,Chuck- pilot