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- Yan FuChinese translator and scholar (1854–1921)
- Yang Xiong (author)Chinese scholar and poet (53 BCE – 18 CE)
- Yanis VaroufakisGreek economist and politician (born 1961)
- Yaqut al-HamawiArab bibliographer and geographer (1179–1229)
- Ye ShengtaoChinese writer and politician (1894–1988)
- Yi-Fu TuanChinese-American geographer (1930–2022)
- Yu Ying-shihChinese-born American historian (1930–2021)
- Yuen Ren ChaoChinese-American linguist and educator (1892–1982)
- Yuri LevadaRussian academic (1930–2006)