| Yablochkov, Pavel Nikolayevich (Russian electrical engineer) |
1847-1894 |
| Yale, Caroline Ardelia (American educator) |
1848-1933 |
| Yale, George Elihu (American-born English colonial admin.) |
1649-1721 |
| Yale, Linus (American locksmith, inventor, lock manufacturer) |
1821-1868 |
| Yalow, Rosalyn Sussman (American medical physicist) |
b.1921 |
| Yamaga Soko (Japanese military strategist, philosopher) |
1622-1685 |
| Yamagata Aritomo (Japanese army commander, politician) |
1838-1922 |
| Yamamoto Isoroku (Japanese adm.; planned Pearl Harbor attack) |
1884-1943 |
| Yamanoue Okura (Japanese poet) |
c.600-c.733 |
| Yamashita Tomoyuki (Japanese general) |
1885-1946 |
| Yamazaki Ansai (Japanese philosopher) |
1618-1682 |
| Yamazaki Sokan (Japanese poet, monk) |
c.1465-c.1552 |
| Yancey, William Lowndes (American politician) |
1814-1863 |
| Yanez, Agustin (Mexican writer, government administrator) |
1904-1980 |
| Yang Chen Ning (Chinese physicist) |
b.1922 |
| Yang Chu (Chinese philosopher) |
440-360? BC |
| Yang Guifei (or Yang Kuei-fei) (Chinese beauty, concubine) |
d.756 |
| Yang Hsiu-ch'ing (Chinese rebel) |
d.1856 |
| Yang Hsiung (Chinese poet, philosopher) |
53 BC-AD 18 |
| Yankovic, Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" (Am. musician, parodist) |
b.1959 |
| Yankovic, Frank (American musician) |
1915-1998 |
| Ya'qubi, al- (Arab historian, geographer) |
d.897 |
| Yaroslav the Wise (Grand prince of Kiev 1019-1054) |
980-1054 |
| Yasuda Zenjiro (Japanese businessman, philanthropist) |
1838-1921 |
| Yasui Sotaro (Japanese painter) |
1888-1959 |
| Yaziji, Nasif (Lebanese scholar) |
1800-1871 |
| Yearsley, James (English surgeon) |
1805-1869 |
| Yeats, William Butler (Irish poet, dramatist) |
1865-1939 |
| Yeats-Brown, Francis (British army officer, writer) |
1886-1944 |
| Yehoshua, Avraham B. (Israeli writer, playwright) |
b.1936 |
| Yeltsin, Boris Nikolayevich (Russian politician) |
1931-2007 |
| Yen Fu (Chinese scholar) |
1853-1921 |
| Yen Hsi-shan (Chinese general) |
1883-1960 |
| Yen Jo-chu (Chinese scholar) |
1636-1704 |
| Yen Li-pen (Chinese painter) |
c.600-673 |
| Yensen, Richard (American psychologist) |
b.1947 |
| Yen Yuan (Yen Hsi-chai) (Chinese scholar) |
1635-1704 |
| Yerby, Frank Garvin (American writer) |
1916-1991 |
| Yerkes, Charles Tyson (American financier) |
1837-1905 |
| Yerkes, Robert Mearns (American psychologist) |
1876-1956 |
| Yersin, Alexandre-Emile-John (Swiss bacteriologist) |
1863-1943 |
| Yesenin, Sergey Aleksandrovich (also Esenin) (Russian poet) |
1895-1925 |
| Ye Shengtao (pseud. of Ye Shaojun) (Chinese writer) |
1894-1988 |
| Yevstushenko, Yevgeny Aleksandrovich (Russian author, poet) |
b.1933 |
| Yezierska, Anzia (Russian-born American writer, essayist) |
1885-1970 |
| Yi Chong (aka Naeong or Sorak) (Korean painter) |
1578-1607 |
| Yi Chong (aka Tanum, i.e. Ocean Hermit) (Korean artist) |
b.1541 |
| Yi In-mun (aka Yu-ch'un; i.e. Exist Spring) (Korean painter) |
1745-1821 |
| Yogi Bhajan (Harbhajan Singh Khalsa Yogiji)(Am. religious ldr.) |
1929-2004 |
| Yoka Daishi (aka Yung-chia Ta-Shih; Gengaku) (Chinese sage) |
665-713 |
| Yokomitsu Riichi (aka Yokomitsu Toshikazu) (Japanese writer) |
1898-1947 |
| Yokoyama Taikan (orig. Sakai Hidemaro) (Japanese painter) |
1868-1958 |
| Yonai Mitsumasa (Japanese naval officer, politician) |
1880-1948 |
| Yonge, Charlotte Mary (English novelist, editor) |
1823-1901 |
| Yorck von Wartenburg, Johann Hans David (Prus. field marshal) |
1759-1830 |
| York, Alvin Cullum (Sergeant York) (American soldier) |
1887-1964 |
| Yorke, Henry Vincent (pseud. Henry Green) (English novelist) |
1905-1973 |
| Yosano Akiko née Otori Akiko (known as Ho Sho) (Japanese poet) |
1878-1942 |
| Yoshida Isoya (Japanese architect) |
1894-1974 |
| Yoshida Kenko (orig. Urabe Kaneyoshi)(Japanese poet, essayist) |
1283-1350 |
| Yoshida Kanetomo (Japanese religious) |
1435-1511 |
| Yoshida Tetsuro (Japanese architect) |
1894-1956 |
| Yoshihito (Japanese emperor 1912-1926; father of Hirohito) |
1879-1926 |
| Yoshikawa Hidetsugu (pseud. Yoshikawa Eiji) (Japanese novelist) |
1892-1962 |
| Yoshino Sakuzo (Japanese politician, educator) |
1878-1933 |
| Yoshitsune (Minamoto Yoshitsune) (Japanese soldier) |
1159-1189 |
| Yoshizawa Akira (Japanese origami artist) |
1911-2005 |
| Ypulou, Fulbert (Congolese politician; premier & pres. 1959-63) |
1917-1972 |
| Youmans, Vincent Millie (American composer) |
1898-1946 |
| Young, Al (American writer, poet, screenwriter, editor) |
b.1939 |
| Young, Arthur (English agriculturist, writer) |
1741-1820 |
| Young, Arthur Henry "Art" (American cartoonist) |
1866-1943 |
| Young, Andrew Jackson Jr. (American diplomat, politician) |
b.1932 |
| Young, Brigham (American Mormon religious leader) |
1801-1877 |
| Young, Charles Augustus (American solar astronomer) |
1834-1908 |
| Young, Edward (English poet, dramatist, literary critic) |
1683-1765 |
| Young, Edward (English explorer) |
1831-1896 |
| Young, Ella née Flagg (American educator) |
1845-1918 |
| Young, Francis Brett (English physician, writer, poet) |
1884-1954 |
| Young, John Russell (Irish-born American journalist) |
1840-1899 |
| Young, John Wesley (American mathematician) |
1879-1932 |
| Young, Lester Willis "Prez" (American musician) |
1909-1959 |
| Young, Mahonri Mackintosh (American sculptor, painter, etcher) |
1877-1957 |
| Young, Marguerite Vivian (American writer, poet) |
b.1909 |
| Young, Murat Bernard "Chic" (American cartoonist: Blondie 1930) |
1901-1973 |
| Young, Neil Percival (Canadian-born American musician) |
b.1945 |
| Young, Owen D. (American lawyer, corporate executive) |
1874-1962 |
| Young, S. David (Rule of Experts, 1987) |
b.1955 |
| Young, Stark (American writer, critic) |
1881-1963 |
| Young, Thomas (Scottish clergyman) |
1587-1655 |
| Young, Thomas (English physician, physicist, Egyptologist) |
1773-1829 |
| Young, Whitney Moore Jr. (American civil rights leader) |
1921-1971 |
| Younger, Thomas Coleman "Cole" (American desperado) |
1844-1916 |
| Younghusband, Sir Francis Edward (Indian-born British explorer) |
1863-1942 |
| Youngman, Henny (Henry) (English-born American comedian) |
1906-1998 |
| Yourcenar, Marguerite (Belgian-born French writer, essayist) |
1903-1987 |
| Yovkov, Yordan Stefanovich (Bulgarian writer, dramatist) |
1880-1937 |
| Ypsilantis, Alexandros (Greek revolutionary; son of K.) |
1792-1828 |
| Ypsilantis, Demetrios (Greek revolutionary; son of K.) |
1793-1832 |
| Ypsilantis, Konstantinos (Greek revolutionary) |
1760-1816 |
| Yrjo-Koskinen, Sakari (Finnish historian, politician) |
1830-1903 |
| Ysaye, Eugene-Auguste (Belgian violinist, conductor, composer) |
1858-1931 |
| Yuan Chen (or Yuan Zhen) (Chinese poet) |
779-831 |
| Yuan Chi (Yuan Ji) (Chinese poet) |
210-263 |
| Yuan Mei (Chinese poet, essayist) |
1716-1798 |
| Yuan Shih-k'ai (Chinese soldier, politician; president 1913-16) |
1859-1916 |
| Yu Dafu (or Yu Ta-fu) (Chinese writer; co-fd. Creation Society) |
1896-1945 |
| Yudenich, Nikolay Nikolayevich (Russian soldier) |
1862-1933 |
| Yui Shosetsu (Japanese military teacher, rebel) |
d.1651 |
| Yukawa Hideki (Japanese physicist) |
1907-1981 |
| Yung-lo (orig. Chu Ti) (Chinese emperor 1402-1424) |
1360-1424 |
| Yung-yen (Chia-ch'ing) (Chinese emperor 1796-1820) |
1760-1820 |
| Yung Shou-p'ing (known as Yun Nan-t'ien) (Chinese painter) |
1633-1690 |
| Yunus Emre (Turkish poet, Sufi mystic) |
d. c.1321 |
| Yushkevich, Semyon Solomonovich (Russian novelist, playwright) |
1868-1927 |
| Yust, Walter (American editor) |
1894-1960 |
| Yu Wen (Yu Ta-fu) (Chinese writer) |
1896-1945 |
| Yves de Chartres (French prelate) |
c.1040-1116 |
| Yvon, Adolphe (French painter) |
1817-1893 |