- Yuri
Yuri (born Yuridia Valenzuela Canseco on January 6, 1964) is a famous Mexican actress and singer born in the state of Veracruz. At a very young age, Yuri showed artistic interest and she was accepted to a famous Russian ballet. However, she wasn't allowed to join because her parents were afraid of the prospect of little Yuri living in a foreign country. When Yuri was 12, she participated in two famous Mexican television children's shows for Televisa, …
- Yuri
Yuri has also received recognition for her appearances on many Korean variety shows, portraying a very cute image. Because she calls many other Korean male celebrities 오빠 ("older brother"), she has been criticized for not acting her age (as most of the other celebrities are in their early 20s). Once the Girl Friends' promotional schedule ended, she has taken a break.
- Yuri
Yuri (born January 6, 1964) is a famous Mexican singer, actress, and TV host.
- Udo Kier
Udo Kier (born Udo Kierspe on October 14, 1944) is a German actor.
- Ebine Yamaji
is a Japanese manga artist who has created several works with a lesbian theme. These include "Indigo Blue", the story of a young author discovering her sexuality, "Free Soul", and "Love My Life". Several of her works were serialized in the josei magazines "Feel Young" and the now defunct "Young You". Although some of her works have been published in France, none of them has been translated into English.
- Raúl Velasco
Raúl Velasco was born in Celaya, Guanajuato, Mexico. For 30 years, he was the Mexican host/producer of "Siempre en Domingo" ("Always on Sunday") which is his hallmark contribution to the Latin American world and eventually to other parts of the world where Spanish entertainment programs are broadcast. While IMDB incorrectly lists "Siempre en Domingo" as originating in 1984, …
- Yuri Of Goguryeo
Yuri (? - 18 CE, r. 19 BCE - 18 CE) was the second ruler of Goguryeo, the northernmost of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. He was the eldest son of the kingdom's founder King Dongmyeongseong. As with many other early Korean rulers, the events of his life are known largely from the "Samguk Sagi".
- Cepillín
Ricardo González Gutiérrez known as Cepillín is a Mexican clown ("payaso") as well as a singer, TV host and actor. Ricardo was a dentist who started to paint his face so that kids would not be afraid of him as he worked on their teeth. He became famous when a local TV channel interviewed him. The name "Cepillín" means little (tooth) brush, "cepillo" ("de dientes") in Spanish.
- Yoo Chae-Yeong
Yoo Chae-yeong (born September 22, 1977) is a South Korean singer and actress. She debuted at the age of 17 and was a former member K-Pop group Cool. Because she sported a shaved head, the group received much attention from the media. After the 1st album, Yoo Chae-yeong was replaced by Yuri as the vocalist.
- Yury Vlasov
Yury Petrovich Vlasov (Also commonly spelled Yuri, ; born December 5 1935 in Makiivka, Ukraine) is a former Olympic heavyweight weightlifter for the Soviet Union, a writer and a politician.
- Yaroslav II of Russia
Yaroslav II, Christian name "Theodor" (February 8, 1191-September 30, 1246), was the Grand Prince of Vladimir (1238-1246) who helped to restore his country and capital after the Mongol invasion of Russia. Yaroslav was the fourth son of Vsevolod the Big Nest. In 1200, he was sent by his father to rule the town of Pereyaslav near the Kypchak steppes. Six years later, he was summoned by Halychian boyars to rule their city but could not effectively claim the throne.
- Yuri Andropov
Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov (February 9, 1984) was a Soviet politician and General Secretary of the CPSU from November 12, 1982 until his death just fifteen months later.
- Yurye Of Silla
Yurye of Silla (284-298, d. 298), also known as Yuri or by his official title Yurye Isageum, was the fourteenth ruler of the Korean state of Silla. He was a Seok and the son of King Jobun, but his mother was a Park and a descendant of Bak Hyeokgeose. The "Samguk Sagi" relates that Yurye's mother conceived from starlight. It also records repoeated invasions from Wa during his reign, and relatively cordial relations with Baekje.
- Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, Hero of the Soviet Union, was a Soviet cosmonaut. On 12 April 1961, he became the first man in space and the first to orbit the Earth. He also received many medals from his home country for his pioneering tour in space.
- Mobon Of Goguryeo
King Mobon of Goguryeo (? - 53, r. 48-53) was the fifth king of Goguryeo, the northernmost of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. According to the "Samguk Sagi", a 12th century Korean history of the Three Kingdoms, Mobon was the eldest son of Goguryeo's third king Daemusin. Although Mobon was the crown prince at the time of Daemusin's death, because of Mobon's youth, Daemusin's younger brother Minjung ascended to the throne.
- David Yuri
- Shingo Yuri
- Toru Yuri
- Chikako Yuri
- Yuri Gidzenko
Yuri Pavlovich Gidzenko (Russian: Гидзенко, Юрий Павлович; born March 26, 1962 in the village of Elanets, Mykolaiv Oblast) is a Russian cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent. He is the Colonel of the Russian Air Force, and test cosmonaut of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. He is married to Olga Vladimirovna Shapovalova, born in 1961. They have two sons, Sergei and Alexei.
- Yuri Feodorovich Orlov
Yuri Feodorovich Orlov (born August 13,1924) is a prominent nuclear physicist, a former Soviet dissident, and a human rights activist. During his childhood, in the 1930s, Orlov witnessed the destruction of his home village by Stalinist collectivisation in the USSR. After World War II he worked at the Moscow Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, from which he was fired in 1956 for his human rights activism. He was sent into "soft exile" in Armenia, …
- Yuri I. Manin
Yuri Ivanovitch Manin is a Russian mathematician, known for work in algebraic geometry and diophantine geometry, and many expository works ranging from mathematical logic to theoretical physics. Manin was born in Simferopol. He gained a doctorate in 1960 at the Steklov Mathematics Institute as a student of Igor Shafarevich. He is now a Professor and Director of the Max-Planck-Institut für Mathematik in Bonn, and a professor at Northwestern University.
- Yuri Shchekochikhin
Yuri Petrovich Shchekochikhin was a Russian journalist, writer, and liberal lawmaker. Shchekochikhin made his name writing about and campaigning against the influence of organized crime and corruption in the Russian government. He died suddenly in 2003 after a mysterious illness later linked to thallium poisoning, in what was believed by many to be a politically-motivated assassination.
- Yuri Razuvayev
Yuri Razuvayev (sometimes written Yuri Razuvaev) (born 10 October 1945), is a Soviet chess player. He became International Grandmaster in 1976. Razuvayev shared first prize at Keszthely in 1981.
- Yuri Lyubimov
Yuri Petrovich Lyubimov (born September 17, 1917 in Yaroslavl) is a Russian stage actor and director associated with the Taganka Theatre which he founded. After service in the Soviet Army during the World War II, Lyubimov joined the Vakhtangov Theatre (founded by Yevgeny Vakhtangov). In 1953, he received the USSR State Prize. Lyubimov started teaching in 1963 and formed the Taganka Theatre the following year.
- Yuri Onufrienko
Col. Yuri Ivanovich Onufriyenko is a Soviet/Russian cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent. He is a veteran of two extended spaceflights, aboard the space station Mir in 1996 and aboard the International Space Station in 2001-2002. Born in Ryasne, Zolochiv Raion of Kharkiv Oblast, Ukrainian SSR. Graduated from the V.M. Komarov Eisk Higher Military Aviation School for Pilots in 1982 with a pilot-engineer's diploma and served as a pilot in the Soviet (later Russian) Air Force, …
- Yuri Averbakh
Yuri Lvovich Averbakh (born February 8, 1922, in Kaluga, Russia) is a Russian chess player and author. His father was German Jewish, and his ancestors came from Germany and were named Auerbach, meaning "meadow brook." His mother was Russian. Both sets of grandparents disapproved of their marriage because his father was a likely atheist and his mother was Eastern Orthodox, …
- Yuri Nikulin
Yuri Vladimirovich Nikulin (18 December 1921 - 21 August 1997) was a well-known Russian clown and actor who played in many popular films. Nikulin served in the Soviet Army during the Great Patriotic War and the Winter War with Finland. Once the war ended, he applied to several acting schools and theatres but was rejected due to "lacking artistic talent". Then he got accepted into the Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard and worked there for more than 50 years, …
- Yuri Malenchenko
Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko (born December 22, 1961 in Svitlovodsk, Kirovohrad Oblast of Ukrainian SSR) is a Russian cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent. He flew on the following missions: #Soyuz TM-19 Commander 04.11.1994 - 125d 22h 53m #STS-106 Mission Specialist 20.09.2000 - 11d 19h 12m #Soyuz TMA-2 / ISS Expedition 7 Commander 28.10.2003 - 184d 22h 46m He became the first person to marry in space, on 10 August, 2003, when he married Ekaterina Dmitrieva, …
- Yuri Kholopov
Yuri Nikolaevich Kholopov (Yury Holopov, Russian: was a famous Russian musicologist, music theorist, doctor of arts, and professor of the Moscow Conservatoire.
- Yuri Ahronovich
Georgy (Yuri) Mikhaylovich Ahronovitch (13 May, 1932-31 October 2002) was a Soviet-born Israeli conductor. Born in Leningrad, he studied music and the violin from the age of 4. In 1954 he graduated as conductor from the Leningrad Conservatory. He studied with Nathan Rachlin and Kurt Sanderling. Invitations to conduct leading Russian orchestras followed, including the Leningrad Philharmonic and the Bolshoi Theatre.
- Yuri Romanenko
Yuri Victorovitch Romanenko (born August 1, 1944, Koltoubanovski USSR) is a former Soviet cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union (March 16, 1978 and September 26, 1980). Had been Commander of: * Soyuz 26 * Soyuz 27 * Soyuz 38 * Soyuz TM-2 * Soyuz TM-3 Yuri Romanenko has spent a total of 430 days 20 hours 21 minutes 30 seconds in space.
- Yuri Shargin
Yuri Georgiyevich Shargin is a cosmonaut in the Russian Space Forces. He was born March 20, 1960 in Engels, Saratov Oblast, Russian SFSR. He is divorced and has two children. Shargin graduated from the Military Engineering Academy for Aeronautics and Astronautics located in Leningrad. He is a Lieutenant Colonel in the Russian Space Forces. He was selected as a cosmonaut on February 9, 1996.
- Yuri Rubinsky
Yuri Ivan Rubinsky was a writer, software executive, and well known promoter of the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), which was the basis for the now-ubiquitous XML. In Canada, he is probably best known as founding co-director of the influential Banff Publishing Workshop and for his work in applying technology to help visually impaired people. He died on January 21, 1996 after suffering a massive and unexpected heart attack.
- Yuri Ruley
Yuri Zane Ruley (b. June 3 1976) is an American drummer, playing in the pop punk band MxPx. Ruley was born in Tacoma, Washington. In 1992, while still in high school, he started MxPx with Mike Herrera and Andy Husted; Husted was replaced by Tom Wisniewski two years later. The band played their first concert in Herrera's back yard, but slowly the band became more popular and is now known throughout the U.S. Ruley married his wife Katie in 2001 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
- Yuri Ozerov
Yuri Viktorovich Ozerov (Russian:Юрий Викторович Озеров; born July 9, 1928 - died 2004) was a Russian basketball player who competed for the Soviet Union in the 1952 Summer Olympics and in the 1956 Summer Olympics. He trained at Dynamo in Moscow. He was a member of the Soviet team, which won the silver medal. He played all eight matches. Four years later he won his second silver medal as part of the Soviet team.
- Yuri Artsutanov
Yuri N. Artsutanov (1929-) is an Russian engineer born in Leningrad. He is known for being one of the pioneers of the idea of space elevator (type of skyhook). In 1960 he wrote an article "V Kosmos na Electrovoze (en. "Into space with the help of an electric locomotive")", where he discussed the concept of the space elevator as an economic, safe and convenient way to access orbit and facilitate space exploration.
- Yuri Shvets
Yuri B. Shvets (b. 1952) was a Major in the KGB during the years 1980-1990. From April 1985 to 1987 he worked in the Washington Rezidentura of the KGB. He graduated in International Law from the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia when it was still named the Patrice Lumumba People's Friendship University Shvets recruited two key sources of political intelligence whom he referred to as Sputnitsa and Socrates. Sputnisa is identified as a journalist working in Washington, …
- Yuri Artyukhin
Yuri Petrovich Artyukhin was a Soviet cosmonaut who made a single flight into space. Artjukhin graduated from the Soviet Air Force Institute with a doctorate in engineering, specialising in military communication systems. He was selected for the space programme in 1963 and was to have flown on the Voskhod 3 mission if it had not been cancelled. He made his single flight on Soyuz 14 in 1974, where his area of expertise was presumably put to good use.
- Yuri Budanov
Former Colonel Yuri Dmitrievich Budanov (born 1963, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine) is the first Russian military officer convicted by a Russian court as a guilty of war crimes in Chechnya. Budanov is highly controversional in Russia: despite the conviction, Budanov enjoys the widespread support of the Russian public opinion. At the same time, he is broadly hated in Chechnya, even by the pro-Russian Chechens.