People

Scotland Yard

Security

Scotland Yard is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police, the territorial police force responsible for policing Greater London's 32 boroughs. Its name derives from th

Sun Yat-sen

Born: November 12, 1866 Choyhung, Kwangtung, China Died: March 12, 1925 Peking, China Chinese president and politician ...

William Butler Yeats

Born: June 13, 1865 Dublin, Ireland Died: January 28, 1939 Roquebrune, France Irish poet and dramatist William Butler...

Yeezy

Consumer goods

Yeezy is an American media company, fashion brand, and record label founded by rapper, designer, and entrepreneur Kanye West (legally known as Ye as of 2021) on August 6, 2013. Most famous for its ass

Boris Yeltsin

Born: February 1, 1931 Butko, Siberia, Russia Russian president, politician, and government official Boris Yeltsin, who became president of Russia in 1...

Wu Yi

Vice-Premier of the State Council and Minister of Public Health for China Born in November of 1938, in Wuhan, in the Hubei Province, China. Education: ...

Zhang Yimou

Perhaps the most critically acclaimed filmmaker to emerge from mainland China in modern times, Zhang Yimou (born 1950) came to critical attention in the 1990s for his tense films t...

YouGov

Communication and Internet

YouGov is a British international Internet-based market research and data analytics firm, headquartered in the UK, with operations in Europe, North America, the Middle Ea

YouTube

Communication and Internet

YouTube is a global online video sharing and social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, 

Ernst & Young

Audit and Consulting

Ernst & Young Global Limited, trade name EY, is a multinational professional services partnership headquartered in London, England. EY is one of the largest&nbsp

Young's

Industry and Production

Young's (Young & Co.'s Brewery Plc) is a British pub chain operating nearly 220 pubs. The company was founded as a brewery in 1831 by Charles Young and Anthony Bainbridge when they

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (born 1949) won election as president of the Republic of Indonesia in October of 2004, thus becoming his country's first directly elected president. ...

Viktor Yushchenko

February 23, 1954 • Khoruzhivka, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko was Prime Minister of Ukraine from December 1999 to April 2001. After being...

Viktor Yushchenko

President of Ukraine Born Viktor Andriyovich Yushchenko, February 23, 1954, in Khoruzhivka, Sums'ka Oblast, Ukraine; son of Andriy Andriyovych (a teacher) and Varvara Tymofi...