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- Yaa AsantewaaAshanti queen mother and military leader
- YaganAustralian Noongar warrior (c. 1795 – 1833)
- Ye JianyingChinese communist leader and politician (1897–1986)
- Yermak TimofeyevichRussian cossack explorer and pirate
- Yoshida-Kōriyama CastleYoshida-Kōriyama Castle (吉田郡山城, Yoshida-Kōriyama-jō) was a Japanese castle located in Akit
- Yu Gwan-sunKorean independence activist (1902–1920)
- Yuan ChonghuanMing Chinese military commander (1584–1630)
- Yunnan cliqueThe Yunnan clique (Chinese: 滇系; pinyin: Diān Xì) was one of several mutually hostile cliqu
- Yusuf Ma DexinYusuf Ma Dexin (also Ma Tesing; 1794–1874) was a Hui Chinese Hanafi-Maturidi scholar from

