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1,666 profilesYasujirō Ozu
12 December 1903 – 12 December 1963
Yasujirō Ozu was a Japanese film director and screenwriter regarded as one of the masters of world cinema. His films, ch...
Yasunari Kawabata
14 June 1899 – 16 April 1972
Yasunari Kawabata was a Japanese novelist and short-story writer whose spare, lyrical prose earned him the Nobel Prize i...
Yayoi Kusama
22 March 1929 – 14 August 2026
Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese contemporary artist working across painting, sculpture, performance, and installation. Best k...
Yehuda Amichai
3 May 1924 – 22 September 2000
Yehuda Amichai was an Israeli poet, born in Germany, who emigrated with his family to Mandatory Palestine in the 1930s....
Yehudi Menuhin
22 April 1916 – 12 March 1999
Yehudi Menuhin was an American-born violinist and conductor who became one of the great virtuosos of the twentieth centu...
Yi Hwang
1501 – 1570
Yi Hwang (1501-1570), known by his pen name Toegye, was one of the two most eminent Neo-Confucian scholars of Joseon Kor...
Yi Sun-sin
28 April 1545 – 16 December 1598
Yi Sun-sin (1545-1598) was a Korean admiral of the Joseon dynasty famed for his naval victories against the Japanese dur...
Yitzhak Rabin
1 March 1922 – 4 November 1995
Yitzhak Rabin was an Israeli military leader and statesman who served twice as prime minister of Israel. A former army c...
Yılmaz Güney
1 April 1937 – 9 September 1984
Yılmaz Güney was a Turkish film director, screenwriter, novelist and actor of Kurdish descent. A popular leading man in...
Yongle Emperor
2 May 1360 – 12 August 1424
The Yongle Emperor (1360-1424), born Zhu Di, was the third emperor of the Ming dynasty, seizing the throne from his neph...
Yoshinori Ohsumi
9 February 1945 – present
Yoshinori Ohsumi is a Japanese cell biologist who used baker's yeast to identify the genes and mechanisms behind autopha...
Younis Mahmoud
3 February 1983 – present
Younis Mahmoud is an Iraqi former footballer who played as a striker and captained the Iraq national team. He scored the...
Youssef Chahine
25 January 1926 – 27 July 2008
Youssef Chahine was an Egyptian film director whose career spanned nearly six decades and more than 40 features. Working...
Youssou N'Dour
1 October 1959 – present
Youssou N'Dour is a Senegalese singer, songwriter and businessman who helped popularise mbalax, a fusion of Wolof percus...
Yoweri Museveni
15 September 1944 – present
Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is a Ugandan politician who has served as President of Uganda since 1986. He led guerrilla moveme...
Yuan Longping
7 September 1930 – 22 May 2021
Yuan Longping was a Chinese agronomist known for developing the first commercial hybrid rice varieties. Working from an...
Yuan T. Lee
19 November 1936 – present
Yuan T. Lee is a Taiwanese chemist who shared the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work on the dynamics of chemical ele...
Yue Fei
24 March 1103 – 28 January 1142
Yue Fei (1103-1142) was a Southern Song general renowned for his campaigns against the Jurchen Jin dynasty during the Ji...
Yukio Mishima
14 January 1925 – 25 November 1970
Yukio Mishima was a Japanese author, poet, and playwright, considered one of the most important Japanese writers of the...
Yuri Gagarin
9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968
Yuri Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space, completing one orb...
Yves Saint Laurent
1 August 1936 – 1 June 2008
Yves Saint Laurent was a French fashion designer widely regarded as one of the most influential couturiers of the 20th c...
Zaha Hadid
31 October 1950 – 31 March 2016
Zaha Hadid was an Iraqi-British architect celebrated for her radical deconstructivist and parametric designs characteriz...
Zao Wou-Ki
13 February 1920 – 9 April 2013
Zao Wou-Ki was a Chinese-French painter who combined training in Chinese ink painting with the language of postwar Europ...
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan
c. 1918 – 2 November 2004
Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan was the ruler of Abu Dhabi from 1966 until his death in 2004 and the first president of the U...
Zeami Motokiyo
c. 1363 – c. 1443
Zeami Motokiyo (c. 1363 - c. 1443) was a Japanese actor, playwright, and theorist who, with his father Kan'ami, perfecte...
Zeki Müren
6 December 1931 – 24 September 1996
Zeki Müren was a Turkish singer, composer and film actor who became one of the central figures of Turkish classical and...
Zeresenay Alemseged
1969 – present
Zeresenay Alemseged is an Ethiopian paleoanthropologist known for leading the Dikika Research Project in Ethiopia's Afar...
Zhang Yimou
2 April 1950 – present
Zhang Yimou is a Chinese film director, producer, and former cinematographer, a leading figure of the Fifth Generation o...
Zheng He
1371 – c. 1433
Chinese mariner and admiral of the Ming dynasty who commanded seven expeditionary treasure voyages across the Indian Oce...
Zhou Enlai
5 March 1898 – 8 January 1976
Zhou Enlai was a Chinese statesman who served as the first Premier of the People's Republic of China from 1949 until his...
Zhu Xi
18 October 1130 – 23 April 1200
Zhu Xi (1130-1200) was a Song dynasty philosopher, historian, and official who became the most influential Neo-Confucian...
Zinedine Zidane
23 June 1972 – present
Zinedine Zidane is a French former footballer and football manager born in Marseille to Algerian parents. An attacking m...
Zora Neale Hurston
7 January 1891 – 28 January 1960
Zora Neale Hurston was an American author, anthropologist, and folklorist prominent in the Harlem Renaissance. Best know...
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
5 January 1928 – 4 April 1979
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was a Pakistani politician who served as President of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973 and as Prime Minist...